Third in place ??? I will not believe it until I see the performance reports from Sherwood labs. AD4C
"For a refined ham it is compulsory to own a k3" --- On Fri, 5/21/10, Stephen Prior <s...@sjprior.fsnet.co.uk> wrote: From: Stephen Prior <s...@sjprior.fsnet.co.uk> Subject: [Elecraft] FT5000 review in Radcom To: "elecraft" <elecraft@mailman.qth.net> Date: Friday, May 21, 2010, 9:49 PM 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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