Here is a chronology of the radios I have owned. Preference for SSB contesting. Yaesu FT-101 EE - Solid radio, I worked lots of people with it. Inexpensive starter type rig. Icom IC-701 -First Synthesized rig. Expensive, I still have no clue how I managed to scrounge up the money to buy one as a teenager. Not very reliable. (Not sure where in the series I owned this radio) Digital display! whoopee! Kenwood TS-830 with VFO Solid rig. Kenwood TS-930- Loved this radio. No tune up, antenna tuner, looked nice. Icom IC-751- 2nd radio, never really cared for this radio. Yaesu FT-1000MP-Another one of my favorites. Two VFO knobs, inband dual receive. Solid radio. Icom 756 Pro II - Nice color display. Too many menus for my likes and no 2nd vfo knob. Worked fine. Yaesu FT-DX9000 - Huge solid radio that had lots of issues from the start. Blown finals, poor dsp, claimed to do more than it could. Expensive. Good receiver. The Microtune units really helped on the low bands in certain conditions. 2 FT-2000's-I like these radios. Look great. Maybe some issues with the roofing filters. Easy to use. Good rig. 2 2000's cheaper than a 9000 and far more flexible even with DMU and microtune units. K3- An amazing radio in small package. Great receiver. Will make an awesome DXpedition radio. The size could have been a bit bigger for my likes. Fairly easy radio to learn. Lots of flexibility. Love the built in cq decoder and rtty decoder. I really enjoyed building the radio. I wish there were more kits available. A second K3 will be ordered very soon. Support is 2nd to none. Current mobile rig- TS-480HX 200 watts in the mobile is nice. Hot receiver.
"A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over." Ben Franklin _____ From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Lee Buller Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 8:41 AM To: Elecraft Reflector Subject: Re: [Elecraft] How long until K3 is declared the greatest rig...? What fun.... I agree with a lot of you, but I was a poor kid and never had the Collins or Drake experience.... All I had is what people would give be to use.... How about the HW100/101 - put SSB and Transceivers in the hands of everyone's pocket book - cheap version of the KWM2 - and it was a kit! (also the SB series too) TS-520 - Fantastic for the time (matured to the 830 amd 850) FT-1000MP - Never liked the FT series (seem to be the FTdx transceiver of the month depending on how much power you could get out of sweep tubes) but the MP was significant rig. ICOM 765 - Still liked by contesters TenTec Triton Series - QSK for the masses. Front ends could overload, but good solid CW radio that worked on SSB as well. Cute! K2 - nuff said K3 - Just the beginning of some very fantastic radio technlogy - SDR types of radios which I think we are seeing the beginning stages of the technology. (I would put the Flex radios in here too, but I have never operated one, but the technology is ... astounding.) Lee Buller K0WA In our day and age it seems that Common Sense is in short supply. If you don't have any Common Sense - get some Common Sense and use it. If you can't find any Common Sense, ask for help from somebody who has some Common Sense. Is Common Sense divine?
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