Hi,
It makes me remember when Honda came to Motorbike competition in the sixties
with a copy of British engine design, but with better steels... and win the
Championship.
Certainly Yaesu engineers bought K3's and worked on it but I do not think they
can compete with the Elecraft prices.
Considering the size of the Yaesu company, they have huge sunk costs and
payroll...unless they will open factories in China, taking the risk to destroy
their image.
73's
Philippe A65BI (F5LTB)
K3#3616
>>> juergen piezo <plebia...@yahoo.com> 23-11-2009 11:22 >>>
Hi
It looks like Yaesus new FT5000 has copied the K3's architecture
The K3 will be getting a serious run for its money in the next few months.
Yaesu looks like it has done some serious competition analysis.
Features...
9 mhz IF
Not up conversion
Narrow roofing filters
99 db 3rd dynamic range +25dbm 3rd order intercept point @ 1khz
200 watts, 75 Class A
300 hz roofing filter.
MP and FT5KD version
Bandscope and many other features
It looks like Yaesu have taken the K3's performance ideals and put it
into a bigger box. The brochure is on the yahoo groups web page for those
interested.
This radio is going to be very popular because it seems that a lot of the
criticism of the K3's apparent failings seem to have been corrected in the
new Yaesu FT5K design
All very interesting
...
John
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