Please don't get me in trouble. Last time I made a comment like this I
was lambasted and threatened with exile to a remote island. I happen tom
like them both, as a matter of fact I have a Apple, WIN7, and Ubuntu
machines!
73 Ross K9COX
Happy Flex 5000 owner since 2007
On 9/2/2011 3:35 PM, Brian Lloyd wrote:
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Ross Stenberg
<ross.stenb...@charter.net> wrote:
/Et tu/, /Brute?
What's next...a K3?
Nooo, I chose the 5000 over the K3 several years ago. I don't plan to
go back. The K2 was donated by the ARRL to our school. I asked for
that instead of a rice box so the kids would get an idea of how a
radio goes together. Now most of them prefer to use the school's Flex
3000 to the K2 but a few really like the K2. The boy scouts and girl
scouts who like to camp generally prefer to borrow and pack the K2
along instead of taking the 3000 plus a laptop. I don't blame them.
We tend to get wrapped up in this, "us vs. them," mentality but the
truth is, the K1, K2, and K3 are superb radios. The Flex products are
superb radios. Personally I think everyone should be competent to
operate all of them and appreciate BOTH their advantages and
disadvantages. They are all good -- just different.
But the KPA500 looks like a fantastic amplifier. I plan to get one to
replace the IC-2KL. Unfortunately I just spent my KPA500 money on a
motorcycle so I will have to wait a couple of months. (Besides, my
antenna at home is tuned with an SGC SG-231 which can barely handle
the power of the 5000 barefoot, let alone 500W. )
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