I got the K3/100 together in about 9 hours after it arrived at noon yesterday. I guess the options added more time than I thought it would, but everything went perfectly. Even if this rig never got powered up, it is truly a work of art. When I powered it up, everything tested out perfectly. It took me a couple of reads through the manual to figure out how to activate the KPA3, but that came up perfectly after I chose the correct menu setting. I love the sound of the side tone and the variable pass band is fantastic even with 1.0 kHz being my narrowest filter until the backordered 500 Hz arrives. The most startling thing though was when I hit the AFX button just to see what that meant...WOW, truly awesome. I was in the middle of my first QSO (40M CW) and the guy was very weak, but after I narrowed the bandwidth and hit the AFX button, he jumped out of the noise. What a pleasure. This rig may make a rag chewer out of a contester. (Naw, probably not ;-) ) I have only scratched 1% of what this rig will do so far, but it will be a pleasure to read the manual with an actual K3 in front of me as I learn this radio. I tried reading the manual before the rig arrived and it just didn't sink in very well, but now I can put the word, feel, look and sound together. Thanks Elecraft!!! Bob K5WA _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft
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