Comments on: K3 completed to QRP stage http://www.ae5x.com/blog/?p=2482 Watts happening. Kingwood Texas Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:00:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: John Harper AE5X http://www.ae5x.com/blog/?p=2482&cpage=1#comment-1522 John Harper AE5X Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:56:33 +0000 http://www.ae5x.com/blog/?p=2482#comment-1522 Thanks Guy - nice to hear from you! I thought you'd be done with that /2 by now and back in your native land... A lot of big name DXers have sold their rigs after having the K3 & that is what finally pushed me over the edge. I still have a couple issues to sort out with it before installing the PA so way too early to start thinking about options yet but I think the next options will be external - a kilowatt and a 160m antenna by next fall. I'm in love with the QSK though and already wondering how I got along w/o it all those years. Amazingly smooth - better than the QSK on some of my monoband QRP kit rigs. 73, John Thanks Guy – nice to hear from you! I thought you’d be done with that /2 by now and back in your native land…

A lot of big name DXers have sold their rigs after having the K3 & that is what finally pushed me over the edge. I still have a couple issues to sort out with it before installing the PA so way too early to start thinking about options yet but I think the next options will be external – a kilowatt and a 160m antenna by next fall.

I’m in love with the QSK though and already wondering how I got along w/o it all those years. Amazingly smooth – better than the QSK on some of my monoband QRP kit rigs.

73, John

]]> By: Guy N7UN/2 http://www.ae5x.com/blog/?p=2482&cpage=1#comment-1521 Guy N7UN/2 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:34:49 +0000 http://www.ae5x.com/blog/?p=2482#comment-1521 Congrats John on the K3. Fabulous rig and just the right size! Sold all my Icom and Yaesu rigs...am now exclusively Elecraft. I like the modular engineering design so I can upgrade feature/functionality on my schedule and budget. Also like the ease of firmware upgrades...a lot of new performance enhancements have occurred in firmware over the past several years. Good luck, enjoy the rig, and start saving $$ for the 2nd receiver! 73, Guy Congrats John on the K3. Fabulous rig and just the right size! Sold all my Icom and Yaesu rigs…am now exclusively Elecraft. I like the modular engineering design so I can upgrade feature/functionality on my schedule and budget. Also like the ease of firmware upgrades…a lot of new performance enhancements have occurred in firmware over the past several years. Good luck, enjoy the rig, and start saving $$ for the 2nd receiver! 73, Guy

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