Brian, depends on your use case - sensitivity is not the only spec you need (in fact it could be an overkill to have -130 dBm). K3 with a better synthesizer(you can upgrade K3 to have it) performs way better with reciprocal mixing dynamic range - something which people want for contesting. It is something which will limit you being able to hear stations on the air in a contest environment. I don't see an easy way for K2 to get this synthesizer which you can have for K3. Maybe you can trade K2 for KX3 if you want better performance and being portable.
-- km6us On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 1:46 PM brianpepperdine brianpepperdine < brianpepperd...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > > > I realize there are a myriad of differences between the K2 and > K3, but today I read the specs in each owners manual and was somewhat > surprised that the each is listed at about -135 dBm sensitivity (pre-amp > on for K2...pre-amp off at - 130 dBm for K2). > I was curious since I was going thru those tests on the K2/KAT100 set I > have....in anticipation of any hamfest that might come around...whether > to retain or not. If this is basically what this rig does (K2) aside > from what more my K3 offers in other ways (variable bandwidth filter > etc) > then the K2 seems to be something to hold onto, pending a decent offer > I could live with. > Anyhow, I am just spit-balling and throwing this out there, FWIW. > > Brian VE3HI > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 kk6...@gmail.com > ______________________________________________________________ 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
