Ed,
STOP your worrying right now. The K3 has PROVEN itself to be a VERY reliable
rig, and what you are seeing is the squeaky wheel going around. This is how it
works on this and other user groups... one person says something and then all
the vocal people start building a mountain out of a mole hill. This will
happen with EVERYTHING, the use of a static mat, how big it should be, what the
resistor should be on the little cord that connects to the matt, what type of
headphones to use, even why the clock in the K3 is 2 seconds off a
month/day/etc... They blow everything up to look like the rig is a complete
fail.
You have to keep in mind that people that have a reason to complain about
something want their opinions heard, and heard loudly.. where as the people
that have had good experiences generally don't speak out on these sites.
This is no different than when you go to a review sight about a Vacuum or any
other consumer good and all you read are bad reviews, yet you've had the same
very device sitting in your house working perfectly well for the last 3 years.
Yes, there are going to be some issues with the rigs from time to time, but
keep in mind over 4000 of these units have been sold... Most units go back for
Mods or updates that appliance users are too afraid to do themselves. The
President of the company has already come on this user group and explained what
the majority of work he's been seeing coming back and why... Yet the wheels
keep going around and around on here...
The backlog on repairs will always change from day to day. Today it could be
20 people wanting the P3 I/O buffer resistor replaced in prep for the P3,
tomorrow it could be 10 people wanting a new DSP replacement for the audio mods
released, and then again, 2 weeks from now there may only be one unit on the
bench waiting for a simple RF repair... It's all random.. The squeaky wheels
are just catching this at a time when the delay is longer than not due to a lot
of new mods that were implemented recently(last 2 or 3 months).
Find someone that lives near you, spend a day with the K3, play with it. If
you find that it looks and feels like you want in a rig, BUY it.. You wont
regret it. I just urge you not to use the Squeaky wheels to make your decision
for you. 73
> From: gelamb...@charter.net
> To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
> Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 11:09:09 -0400
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 Repair
>
> As a prospective K3 customer, I have been following this link with very
> great interest. I would be interested in knowing what percent of K3
> deliveries require return to Elecraft for repair and of that cohort, what is
> the percentage of K3's that were fundamentally defective upon delivery as
> opposed to damaged by customer (mis)use.
>
> For me the weakness of the K3 is the (probably necessary) departure from the
> "kit model" of the rest of the Elecraft line where self repair is the order
> of the day. The repair of a K3, it seems to me, almost certainly requires a
> factory return, which, from this thread, is somewhat unappealing.
>
> I am interested further discussion on this thread in order to help me
> determine whether my very limited funds go toward a K3 purchase or the
> purchase of a second, but "fully tricked out", K2/100.
>
> Ed Lambert, KD3Y (K2 1999, KX1 1492)
>
>
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