I am another of the hundred K3 users who has been using it for long periods of time like the last SSB WW Contest when I had it on my ears for about 30 hours and it was absolutely not fatiguing,it was pleasent to listen to a very quite receiver pulling weak stations from the noise and from strong ones at less than 3 Khz close in freq.I have owned more than 100 radios in the last 18 years as a ham and the K3 is the quiter of all,its even less noisy than my former TT Orion and my ProIII. I normally operate it with the minimun RF gain needed to pull the station I want to hear,sometimes its so quite that I wonder if its broke or turned off. For reference I have my DSP board modified with W9AC hardware mod for wider audio and also using the latest 3.63 FW version and I have never have had any single technical problem except the two plastic knobs cracked(VOL and RF Gain).Its been already 13 months that I own it and I I am pretty satisfied with this little machine that has become the proud of us americans. 73 and Merry Xmas to all Elecrafters hoping the new year bring us a P3 or God knows what else. AD4C K3 # 2192
"For a refined ham it is compulsory to own a k3" --- On Thu, 12/17/09, Brian Machesney <nekvts...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Brian Machesney <nekvts...@gmail.com> Subject: [Elecraft] K3: Noisy Receiver? - not here! To: "Elecraft Email" <elecraft@mailman.qth.net> Date: Thursday, December 17, 2009, 12:40 PM Gents, On the flip side, I - and, apparently, many other operators from whom we've heard on this and other reflectors - have run the K3 for 30+ hours out of a 48-hour contest and not experienced the fatigue you describe. Such fatigue would make any rig an intolerable chore to use and would detract substantially from the rave reviews the K3 has received in contesting circles. I agree with other post-ers to this reflector that I frequently find myself reaching to turn DOWN the RF gain control (I operate with factory-supplied AGC defaults). In this respect, I don't find anything WRONG with the K3, but I do find it to be DIFFERENT and I have had to modify my listening habits to accomodate that difference, just as I have had to do when changing radios in the past. We all appreciate that igs from different manufacturers have different "sounds;" I would describe the K3 as "less soft" than the TS850, "more precise" than the FT1KMP and "similar" to the Omni VII (I lack experience with Icom beyond using the 706MkIIG mobile). Now that I think of it, this appears to track the evolution of DSP from "none" to "very low IF" to "higher IF." 73 -- Brian -- K1LI On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:26 AM, James Sarte <k2qi....@gmail.com> wrote: > > "I've worked long pileups [with] the FT-1000, and I don't recall ever > having as much noise-related fatigue as I get when I use the K3... It just > seems the K3's noise characteristics seem stronger and perhaps a tad harsher > than what comes out of the Yaesu." ______________________________________________________________ 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
