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Wish lists
6 July 2012 | by I freely admit that I am more of an operatin’ kind of guy and not a techno-wizzy type Ham. I got my KX3, put it together, marvel at its abilities and am on the air with it, a lot. And excuse my language, but I am enjoying the hell out of it.
I look at the KX3 e-mail reflector and I’m seeing all these “wish list” posts, with guys wanting this and that added to the next firmware edition. I shake my head, cause obviously these guys are all light years ahead of me as Amateur Radio operators. I’m pretty content with the radio as it is. About the only thing that I would like to see changed, if I could, is how the power level changes. When I twist the power level knob, I see the output power change in 0.2V steps. In other words we go from 5.0V to 4.8V, completely skipping 4.9V. I guess I would like to see that curve smooth out to be a tad more linear.
But that’s it. No requests for the sun, moon and stars. Heck, half the things these guys are asking for, I can’t even figure out! As advanced as this radio is, I remain a humble dial twiddler. I actually managed to hook the radio up to my netbook and got rig control software to do its thing.
I remained unimpressed.
Perhaps, if I was a contester or big gun DXer, I would appreciate that kind of thing more. Me, I’m just a ham and egger. I appreciate the radio, it’s features and the genius behind it – courtesy of Eric, Wayne and the KX3 development team. And no doubt, I’ll keep downloading future versions of firmware and will keep the radio as up to date as possible. But the more esoteric stuff, I will leave to those light years ahead of me. I’ll be content to go along for the ride.
72 de Larry W2LJ
QRP – When you care to send the very least!
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I got into electronics back in the mid 70’s. These radio’s just have too many features for me. Yes, I can run all the menu’s and push all the buttons but, wouldn’t it be nice to see a Quality,Basic Radio where all these un-needed Bells and Whistles were forgotten about and the money spent on better components,stronger cases, higher quality displays and controls and just basically a Radio which is Built like a Tank…. You know….. The way they were built in the 1950-60’s.