Hi Carl,
A reminder about this thread, its not about the performance of the K3, its about the preferences of highly competitive contesters who have many excellent choices in the marketplace. Arguably more choices than ever before. Rather than getting into detailed discussions about specific performance parameters, let me just suggest that you do what we do at W3LPL during every SSB contest. Set up a K3 for SSB using the best parameter settings you're aware of. Then set up any other top-of-the-line radio next to it. The comparison in received SSB audio quality is stark. When digging weak -- often distorted -- signals out of noise and extreme adjacent channel interference, overall receiver audio is extremely important. Do the same test with SSB transmitted audio quality by setting up a "blind test." Use the best K3 parameter settings you're aware of. Then set up any other top-of-the-line radio next to it. Ask several very competitive SSB contesters to listen to transmissions from both radios. Don't tell them advance which radio is which, just tell them Radio A and Radio B. I guarantee you that no competitive contester will prefer K3 transmitted SSB audio over any of the other top-of-the-line radios in a blind test. It won't be long before we can have some run running the same tests with the K4. 73 Frank W3LPL ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carl Yaffey" <cyaf...@gmail.com> To: donov...@starpower.net, Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2020 5:35:15 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] The Big Three... Frank, I’d like to know why a K3 is not great on SSB. Is it the receiver audio? Transmitter EQ? On Mar 29, 2020, at 1:09 PM, donov...@starpower.net wrote: Charles, The most competitive contesters -- the subject of this thread -- will always gravitate to the highest performing radios, not to their favorite brand. The K3 design is dated, all of the other top manufacturers have introduced much higher performing SSB radios in recent years. The K3 was a revolutionary design when it was introduced many years ago, but no more. Hopefully the new K4 will change the game in Elecraft's favor once again, especially for the most competitive SSB operators. 73 Frank W3LPL Carl Yaffey K8NU ______________________________________________________________ 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
