Charles Harpole wrote:
Elecraft designers had K2-its.... thinking they were mostly evolving a
K2.... Big mistake as I said in an earler message.... The K3 has jumped
Elecraft into the areana of the ORION 2, FT-9000 and IC-7800 and great
specs are great, but the human factor... so often ignored by purist
engineers... is left out.
This is totally not true. *Your* idea of the human factor -- it should
have a tuning knob like my HRO, or whatever -- is not satisfied by the
K3. But to my mind it's quite reasonable in size, has a reasonable
number of knobs of a reasonable size, and is easy to learn to use.
Actually, I think it's correct to say that from an engineering
standpoint 'human factors' had as much or more attention paid to them
than raw performance.
I've used the IC7800 and I've used the K3 and the K3 is easier to use.
No, it doesn't have as many knobs. So what?
--
73,
Vic, K2VCO
Fresno CA
http://www.qsl.net/k2vco
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