The synthesizer upgrade makes a huge improvement in any medium CW speed operation and gets rid of a slight irregularity in CW formation when keying slower tx/rx transition amps. That's in addition to the superb lowering and narrowing of phase noise.
I have this half notion to get a single rx K3 without tuner as "other RX" offband and rebuild platform in case other K3 has to go to Aptos, to keep me on the air. Move tuner from existing K3 to single rx one which becomes the field day rig. Never needed diversity at fd. Keeps me from having to undo all the home K3 wiring for fd. Point is that single rx K3 would have to have syn mod, or reduction in price. Moving forward for market value it has to have mods. Especially syns, D DSP and gold pins if early version. Since I have existing Microham stuff, serial cards in PC, etc, USB in K3S doesn't help me with anything. Still would like to have the K3S upgraded audio board for K3. When's that coming out? Been waiting. 73, Guy K2AV On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 1:56 PM James Walker <jimmy.wal...@outlook.com> wrote: > When faced with the upgrade question, my choice for spending the money was > to try out the IC-7300. I wouldn’t contend that the IC-7300 is equal to the > K3S/P3, but the K3 and the IC-7300 combination may be more fun than the > upgraded K3S for the same money. > > Jimmy Walker > WA4ILO > Macon, GA > > On Mar 12, 2017, at 1:41 PM, Jim Brown <j...@audiosystemsgroup.com<mailto: > j...@audiosystemsgroup.com>> wrote: > > I consider that a real bargain for upgrading a 2008 vintage radio (when > the K3 was introduced) to a 2015 vintage radio. Compare that with the cost > of upgrading a YaKenCOM rig -- buy a new one. > > 73, Jim K9YC > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to k2av....@gmail.com -- Sent via Gmail Mobile on my iPhone ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
