What I don't like about the new Kenwood is that it doesn't have an IF out. I think they shot themselves in the foot on that one.
73 Jeff kb2m -----Original Message----- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of juergen Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2010 1:47 AM To: Elecraft Reflector; n...@n5ge.com Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Provocative Kenwood Advert working link here Hi I see no advantages over the K3, so why would you even consider this new model Kenwood? If it was a 1000 dollar radio that might be a good a reason for a change. As I see it the Kenwood has less knobs and functionality on its front panel than the K3. The transmitter uses 12 volt devices so the IMD is probably going to be below acceptable standards. It does not look like the new Kenwood has remote direct internet control like the TS480. This is just a TS570S on steroids for the receiver, it aint gonna set the world on fire. All I am waiting for now is Icoms down conversion radio. I would not be surprised if they released something like the IC706 with a down conversion receiver just to be trendy. Despite what Icom says it will produce a down conversion radio. They had a good one the IC751A. It would be hard for Icom too brag about receiver performance when this cheap lowly Kenwood will kick the crap out of its $10K IC78000, not a good look in the market place! Stay tuned for the new movie, "Fiddler on the roofing filter"! It stars the 3 Samurai's 73 John --- On Fri, 7/2/10, Radio Amateur N5GE <n...@n5ge.com> wrote: > From: Radio Amateur N5GE <n...@n5ge.com> > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Provocative Kenwood Advert working link here > To: "Elecraft Reflector" <elecraft@mailman.qth.net> > Date: Friday, July 2, 2010, 9:32 PM > On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 17:33:21 -0400, > DOUGLAS ZWIEBEL <doug...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Oh! Wow! It has ten Hz display resolution! > > > > >Thanks to Lew K6LMP for posting this. Once you > get there, double > >click the icon. > > > >http://public.me.com/lewphelps > > > > > >de Doug KR2Q > >______________________________________________________________ > >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 > ______________________________________________________________ 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