The K3 has great rx/tx audio. Why do you say it has poor audio, or are you
simply repeating something somebody else said and perhaps something that
Elecraft corrected 8 years ago?
73, Barry N1EU
On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Darrell Bellerive VE7IU <ve7iu@runbox.com>
wrote:
> There are so many things to consider when one chooses a radio. I went
> through this recently. In my case I wanted the brand, form factor, and
> ergonomics of the Kenwood TS-590S, the continued development and support of
> the Elecraft K3, and the quiet receiver, great noise blanker, and DSP
> filtering of the Ten-Tec Eagle.
>
> I did NOT want the complexity and poor audio of the K3, or the lack of
> support and possible ALC and power issues of the TS-590S, or the ergonomics
> of the Eagle.
>
> Yaesu and Icom have great feature sets, but did not impress me in the
> performance and audio quality department.
>
> I also preferred something with a cleaner transmitter, but that was
> secondary to receive performance and audio quality.
>
> In the end, I choose the Eagle.
>
> Now that the K3S and TS-590SG are out, I find myself following discussions
> on those radios again, but will keep the Eagle and see what Ten-Tec and
> possibly Heathkit will do in the future. OTOH, if I win the lottery, I will
> buy a number of radios that very day. :-)
>
> For me, my perception of performance won out over features, support,
> ergonomics, and brand.
>
> 73, Darrell VE7IU
>
> On 15-12-10 07:25 AM, rick@dj0ip.de wrote:
>
>> snip...
>>
>> Seems Joe Ham just didn't give a damn and continued to by the crappy Yaesu
>> transmitters, so why should Yaesu fix it?
>>
>> snip...
>>
>> 73 - Rick, DJ0IP
>> (Nr. Frankfurt, Germany)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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> Darrell Bellerive
> VE7IU
>
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