dxAce wrote:

"D. Peter Maus" wrote:

On 3/8/10 11:38 , dxAce wrote:


"D. Peter Maus" wrote:

On 3/8/10 11:23 , dxAce wrote:


bpnjensen wrote:

On Mar 8, 9:04 am, wrote:
bpnjensen wrote:
Hey, Dave, thanks for bringing up the Elecraft K3 (I'm sure my wife
will thank you as well ;-) I just read the Receiver Topics section of
the page, and I can hardly believe my eyes. It looks like a RX dream
come true, even the XMTR notwithstanding.

I just have two questions - As I understand it, once in awhile it is
desirable to download improved software and programming from
Elecraft. Does this radio need to be always connected to a PC
otherwise, or is it perfectly fucntional as a stand-alone unit?

And, as configured in basic format, will it receive and properly
filter AM, or is that an add-on?

Save your money. Buy yourself a nice used Drake receiver.

Your wife may still love you.

OK. Why?

I'm searching for the right words. Perhaps D. Peter might help.

LOL!.

Brother, if I could explain women......

I think I'm beginning to figure myself out!

At one period in my life, I was used to telling someone to do something, and I
expected it to be done. No explanations needed.

At one time if I said 'go dig a hole over there', I didn't expect to deliver a long
winded explanation of why I wanted the hole dug.

That has followed me through the rest of my life.



It's not always a bad thing.

No, at the time it all worked out pretty well! But in 'real life', some folks expect
more.

Holy crap... Rush just made mention of the last helicopter out of Saigon with regards to
the Obama health 'plan'.

What a 'rush'.

dxAce wrote:

dxAce wrote:

"D. Peter Maus" wrote:

On 3/8/10 11:38 , dxAce wrote:


"D. Peter Maus" wrote:

On 3/8/10 11:23 , dxAce wrote:


bpnjensen wrote:

On Mar 8, 9:04 am, wrote:
bpnjensen wrote:
Hey, Dave, thanks for bringing up the Elecraft K3 (I'm sure my wife
will thank you as well ;-) I just read the Receiver Topics section of
the page, and I can hardly believe my eyes. It looks like a RX dream
come true, even the XMTR notwithstanding.

I just have two questions - As I understand it, once in awhile it is
desirable to download improved software and programming from
Elecraft. Does this radio need to be always connected to a PC
otherwise, or is it perfectly fucntional as a stand-alone unit?

And, as configured in basic format, will it receive and properly
filter AM, or is that an add-on?

Save your money. Buy yourself a nice used Drake receiver.

Your wife may still love you.

OK. Why?

I'm searching for the right words. Perhaps D. Peter might help.

LOL!.

Brother, if I could explain women......

I think I'm beginning to figure myself out!

At one period in my life, I was used to telling someone to do something, and I
expected it to be done. No explanations needed.

At one time if I said 'go dig a hole over there', I didn't expect to deliver a long
winded explanation of why I wanted the hole dug.

That has followed me through the rest of my life.



It's not always a bad thing.

No, at the time it all worked out pretty well! But in 'real life', some folks expect
more.

Holy crap... Rush just made mention of the last helicopter out of Saigon with regards to
the Obama health 'plan'.

What a 'rush'.

Some might wish to Google 'operation frequent wind' to learn more about the evacuation of
Saigon.

As I recall, it may have been the largest group of naval ships since the D-Day landings, and
probably will never be seen again.

bpnjensen wrote:
Hey, Dave, thanks for bringing up the Elecraft K3 (I'm sure my wife
will thank you as well ;-) I just read the Receiver Topics section of
the page, and I can hardly believe my eyes. It looks like a RX dream
come true, even the XMTR notwithstanding.

I just have two questions - As I understand it, once in awhile it is
desirable to download improved software and programming from
Elecraft. Does this radio need to be always connected to a PC
otherwise, or is it perfectly fucntional as a stand-alone unit?

And, as configured in basic format, will it receive and properly
filter AM, or is that an add-on?

Thanks,
Bruce

It's totally self-contained if you want to use it that way. It even
decodes "Morse" and PSK31 on the front panel. The FlexRadio requires a
host computer running Windows Direct X 9, which is why I didn't consider
getting one. I like PowerSDR, but I'm not going to spend $200+ on
Windows to run one app.

bpnjensen wrote:
Hey, Dave, thanks for bringing up the Elecraft K3 (I'm sure my wife
will thank you as well ;-) I just read the Receiver Topics section of
the page, and I can hardly believe my eyes. It looks like a RX dream
come true, even the XMTR notwithstanding.

I just have two questions - As I understand it, once in awhile it is
desirable to download improved software and programming from
Elecraft. Does this radio need to be always connected to a PC
otherwise, or is it perfectly fucntional as a stand-alone unit?

And, as configured in basic format, will it receive and properly
filter AM, or is that an add-on?

Thanks,
Bruce

I'd seriously considered the K3, but another Ham who owns a couple of
them told me he doesn't like them at all for sideband. He feels the
audio is rather thin.

So he uses his K3's for CW contest work, and he has a pair of Yaesu
FT-1000mp's for sideband.

I was on the Elecraft reflector for a couple months, and I can tell you
they seem to do updates to firmware on a weekly basis (maybe even more
often) but there was also some grousing that the updates all seem to be
for folks who use CW instead of phone.

You don't need to have the radio hooked up to a computer for operation,
but if you want to install every update, it might make sense to leave it
hooked up.

The General Coverage bandpass module is a $140 option. I believe you'll
also need a $126 6khz filter.

I ended up buying a Ten-tec Jupiter. The Omni VII has a stronger front
end (helpful when someone is running 1500w a couple khz away), but the
audio on the Jupiter is quite nice, and the fish finder is pretty neat.
I think I can just about shoehorn it into a car loaded with stuff for
a star party.

dxAce wrote:


bpnjensen wrote:

Hey, Dave, thanks for bringing up the Elecraft K3 (I'm sure my wife
will thank you as well ;-) I just read the Receiver Topics section of
the page, and I can hardly believe my eyes. It looks like a RX dream
come true, even the XMTR notwithstanding.

I just have two questions - As I understand it, once in awhile it is
desirable to download improved software and programming from
Elecraft. Does this radio need to be always connected to a PC
otherwise, or is it perfectly fucntional as a stand-alone unit?

And, as configured in basic format, will it receive and properly
filter AM, or is that an add-on?

Save your money. Buy yourself a nice used Drake receiver.

Your wife may still love you.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

R8 tied with the ICOM R72

http://www.sherweng.com/table.html

In article ca58e1d1-8c1d-4355-ac8f-
, says...
On Mar 8, 9:04*am, dxAce wrote:
bpnjensen wrote:
Hey, Dave, thanks for bringing up the Elecraft K3 (I'm sure my wife
will thank you as well ;-) *I just read the Receiver Topics section of
the page, and I can hardly believe my eyes. *It looks like a RX dream
come true, even the XMTR notwithstanding.

I just have two questions - As I understand it, once in awhile it is
desirable to download improved software and programming from
Elecraft. *Does this radio need to be always connected to a PC
otherwise, or is it perfectly fucntional as a stand-alone unit?

And, as configured in basic format, will it receive and properly
filter AM, or is that an add-on?

Save your money. Buy yourself a nice used Drake receiver.

Your wife may still love you.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

OK. Why?


Cause DxAce is a Drake fanboi?

The only thing Drake ever made I really want, or want to keep is the
R7A. The R8 and R8A, I sold pretty quickly.
--

BDK..
Leader of the nonexistent paid shills.
Non Jew Jew Club founding member.
Former number one Kook Magnet, title passed to Iarnrod.

BDK wrote:

In article ca58e1d1-8c1d-4355-ac8f-
, says...
On Mar 8, 9:04 am, dxAce wrote:
bpnjensen wrote:
Hey, Dave, thanks for bringing up the Elecraft K3 (I'm sure my wife
will thank you as well ;-) I just read the Receiver Topics section of
the page, and I can hardly believe my eyes. It looks like a RX dream
come true, even the XMTR notwithstanding.

I just have two questions - As I understand it, once in awhile it is
desirable to download improved software and programming from
Elecraft. Does this radio need to be always connected to a PC
otherwise, or is it perfectly fucntional as a stand-alone unit?

And, as configured in basic format, will it receive and properly
filter AM, or is that an add-on?

Save your money. Buy yourself a nice used Drake receiver.

Your wife may still love you.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

OK. Why?


Cause DxAce is a Drake fanboi?

The only thing Drake ever made I really want, or want to keep is the
R7A.

You can get an R7 and turn it into an R7A rather quickly! They are essentially
one and the same.

dxAce wrote:

BDK wrote:

In article ca58e1d1-8c1d-4355-ac8f-
, says...
On Mar 8, 9:04 am, dxAce wrote:
bpnjensen wrote:
Hey, Dave, thanks for bringing up the Elecraft K3 (I'm sure my wife
will thank you as well ;-) I just read the Receiver Topics section of
the page, and I can hardly believe my eyes. It looks like a RX dream
come true, even the XMTR notwithstanding.

I just have two questions - As I understand it, once in awhile it is
desirable to download improved software and programming from
Elecraft. Does this radio need to be always connected to a PC
otherwise, or is it perfectly fucntional as a stand-alone unit?

And, as configured in basic format, will it receive and properly
filter AM, or is that an add-on?

Save your money. Buy yourself a nice used Drake receiver.

Your wife may still love you.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

OK. Why?


Cause DxAce is a Drake fanboi?

The only thing Drake ever made I really want, or want to keep is the
R7A.

You can get an R7 and turn it into an R7A rather quickly! They are essentially
one and the same.

Off the top of my head (pointy as it may be) as I recall, the difference between
the R7 and the R7A was that the R7A came standard with the noise blanker (NB7A, at
the time) and I think the 500 kc CW filter, AND, a jumper across the filter board
which APPROXIMATED a 6 kHz filter for AM reception.

I currently have an R7 with 8, 6, 4, 3, and 2.3 kHz filters, the NB7A noise
blanker and the AUX7 board.

On Mar 8, 12:45*pm, dxAce wrote:
dxAce wrote:
BDK wrote:

In article ca58e1d1-8c1d-4355-ac8f-
, says....
On Mar 8, 9:04 am, dxAce wrote:
bpnjensen wrote:
Hey, Dave, thanks for bringing up the Elecraft K3 (I'm sure my wife
will thank you as well ;-) *I just read the Receiver Topics section of
the page, and I can hardly believe my eyes. *It looks like a RX dream
come true, even the XMTR notwithstanding.

I just have two questions - As I understand it, once in awhile it is
desirable to download improved software and programming from
Elecraft. *Does this radio need to be always connected to a PC
otherwise, or is it perfectly fucntional as a stand-alone unit?

And, as configured in basic format, will it receive and properly
filter AM, or is that an add-on?

Save your money. Buy yourself a nice used Drake receiver.

Your wife may still love you.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

OK. *Why?

Cause DxAce is a Drake fanboi?

The only thing Drake ever made I really want, or want to keep is the
R7A.

You can get an R7 and turn it into an R7A rather quickly! They are essentially
one and the same.

Off the top of my head (pointy as it may be) as I recall, the difference between
the R7 and the R7A was that the R7A came standard with the noise blanker (NB7A, at
the time) *and I think the 500 kc CW filter, AND, a jumper across the filter board
which APPROXIMATED a 6 kHz filter for AM reception.

I currently have an R7 with 8, 6, 4, 3, and 2.3 kHz filters, the NB7A noise
blanker and the AUX7 board.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

That R7 you have sounds like the perfect outfit. No external VFO?

bpnjensen wrote:

On Mar 8, 12:45 pm, dxAce wrote:
dxAce wrote:
BDK wrote:

In article ca58e1d1-8c1d-4355-ac8f-
, says...
On Mar 8, 9:04 am, dxAce wrote:
bpnjensen wrote:
Hey, Dave, thanks for bringing up the Elecraft K3 (I'm sure my wife
will thank you as well ;-) I just read the Receiver Topics section of
the page, and I can hardly believe my eyes. It looks like a RX dream
come true, even the XMTR notwithstanding.

I just have two questions - As I understand it, once in awhile it is
desirable to download improved software and programming from
Elecraft. Does this radio need to be always connected to a PC
otherwise, or is it perfectly fucntional as a stand-alone unit?

And, as configured in basic format, will it receive and properly
filter AM, or is that an add-on?

Save your money. Buy yourself a nice used Drake receiver.

Your wife may still love you.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

OK. Why?

Cause DxAce is a Drake fanboi?

The only thing Drake ever made I really want, or want to keep is the
R7A.

You can get an R7 and turn it into an R7A rather quickly! They are essentially
one and the same.

Off the top of my head (pointy as it may be) as I recall, the difference between
the R7 and the R7A was that the R7A came standard with the noise blanker (NB7A, at
the time) and I think the 500 kc CW filter, AND, a jumper across the filter board
which APPROXIMATED a 6 kHz filter for AM reception.

I currently have an R7 with 8, 6, 4, 3, and 2.3 kHz filters, the NB7A noise
blanker and the AUX7 board.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

That R7 you have sounds like the perfect outfit. No external VFO?

No, for a long time I wanted to try the RV75 VFO with the R7 which I'm led to believe is
more stable. At one time, I did have a mint in the box RV75, however, I didn't have the
1544 adapter that went with it to hook up to the R7/A.

But, if one has an R7/A, no need for an extra VFO, turn the darn thing on, it will warm
up, and after all, that's what the tuning knob is for.