I suggest you get a brand new K3 kit. Building the kit (no soldering) is a very good exercise to know how to add options or even hardware updates at a later time since you will be familiar with the internals.
Older equipment though can always be updated but from what I gather by reading this forum, I bet most K3 owners keep their rigs up to date anyway. Another thing to consider -- judging by the prices I have seen, you do not save enough on buying an older K3 to sacrifice the great advantage of putting the kit together yourself. I am not a kit builder and I was somewhat anxious when I took on the task of building my K3 but Elecraft could not have made it any easier -- indeed, building a K3 is worth the feeling of awe that you get in appreciating the engineering design that has been put into it. And, one advantage of ordering it new, you can get exactly what you want (I submit you want everything). 73, phil, K7PEH On Apr 3, 2010, at 7:27 AM, Gary Slagel wrote: > I want to get a K3 and wonder if I'm as well off buying an older K3 as > getting the latest and greatest straight from elecraft. > > If I get an older serial# and make sure all firmware updates are in place is > it essentially the same radio as the newer version? > > Thanks, > > Gary Slagel/N0SXX > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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
