Gary,
There are a good number of extremely loaded “pre-owned” K3 and K3S units available these days. I’ve seen a bare bones K3 for a little as $1300 USD and I sold my completely loaded contesting K3s for barely over $2000 so a GREAT deal can be had. It would be worth the risk of an eBay purchase to pick up one of these units and load it up with upgrades/accessories. Some of the sales on eBay are rigs of estate sales and the seller has no clue what he is selling. One guy had a description of a K3 “receiver” so I asked him if the transmitter wasn’t working…he didn’t know it could transmit. Maybe it couldn’t but it was so cheap that buying it and sending it in for repair would be very reasonable if I couldn’t have fixed it myself. I don’t know if you have kept up with all the upgrades that were available for your #679 over the years but I had #234 and #5xx something that were all brought up to current standards. You would need some pretty good test equipment to notice much of a performance difference between them and new K3S. They were VERY competitive and still are for someone else while I’m waiting on a pair of K4s to replace them. If I end up not liking my new K4s (not very likely), I always know I can sell them and revert back to “pre-owned” K3 models and probably make money. 😉. Good luck, Bob K5WA > As one who normally does not buy unwanted used equipment, I was hoping to > add a K3s to my current setup (K3 #679) but that appears to be out of the > question dammit. > > Gary > > VK1ZZ ______________________________________________________________ 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
