It seems as if Peter Hart, having pushed the K3 into second place after the
Perseus SDR (in his Radcom review a month ago) for close-in strong signal
performance (I was very surprised not to see that mentioned in this forum),
has now pushed it one further place down, following his review of the new
FT5000 in this month's Radcom. In his league table, the K3 is now in 3rd
place.
Peter is very complimentary about the FT5000's close-in ("best he's ever
measured") receive performance, but closer reading of the article reveals
criticism in other areas of the new radio's performance, for example the
frequency disparity between its dual receivers, and the resulting effect on
diversity reception. The review is not entirely positive.
One has to be real about this. The likely price of the FT5000 will, I
suspect, be several times that of the K3. It won't run off 12V, and it
certainly would not fit on my operating desk! I also would not be prepared
to spend that kind of money. I would also wager that 99.9% of users would
notice no real world difference in receive performance between it and the
K3, or indeed one or two other other top end radios. It is, however, very
pretty...!
Horses for courses....
73 Stephen G4SJP
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