Time for a new rig. Thought I would go for the O7, but most of my friends are pushing me towards the K3. I tested the Omni VII extensively in Germany 3 years ago and am very familiar with it. I absol
Rick, The Omni VII has cleaner sounding audio on both transmit and receive than the K3. Unless you are going to get into diversity receive, you will enjoy the Omni VII more. If you need a sub-receive
Author: "Jim Brown K9YC" <k9yc@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 10:22:20 -0700
That's an interesting observation. I'd be interested to hear how the evaluation was done. Identical mic on both rigs? Careful setting of TXEQ and signal processing? I've never seen an Omni VII, nor h
Jim, the K3 speaker itself is actually not too bad and has a decent-sized diaphragm and magnet driver. The problem is with the way the speaker mounts to the cabinet. A simple baffle would eliminate
Author: "Jim Brown K9YC" <k9yc@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 12:02:53 -0700
Agreed. In the pro audio world, we think of one or more cone drivers and their enclosure as a loudspeaker system, and that's how I view the speaker in the K3. Yes. I've not owned or measured any of t
I do not own a K3. My experience with a K3 has been using someone else's in contests. I have found the controls to be very non-intuitive. Often I have pushed a button which did something completely
Author: "Jim Brown K9YC" <k9yc@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 13:53:22 -0700
You must be a politician -- you omitted half of my statement and changed it's meaning! :) What I said was that someone who has owned a K2 would find the K3 intuitive. On the other hand, K3NA, a very
A lot of damage has been done in the cause of peer pressure. Many guys will merely advice you to get whatever works for them, and it is difficult to find an unbiased opinion based on feature set, er
Now that was an interesting reply. The peer pressure I am talking about is from a group of peers who sometimes win major contests. I've been a ham for 48 years, owned a lot of stuff, and long since l
ALMOST EVERYTHING YOU SAY GOOD ABOUT THE K3 AND ELECRAFT CAN BE SAID ABOUT TEN-TEC AND THE OMNI II. You give good advice about asking questions about the facts and circumstances behind claims of good
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BUY THEM BOTH AND GET THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS... THEN YOU CAN USE WHATEVER YOU LIKE, AND AFTER A YEAR YOU CAN SELL OFF THE ONE YOU DON'T USE AS OFTEN. Are you married? If so... just tell the XYL the
I have owned two K2s, so I am familiar with its ergonomics, features, and short comings. I assume the K3 will be similar. = Nope! = K3 is another animal, I cannot think of much the K3 and K2 have in
I also created this program to add some missing features such as sweep, mode keys, and band stack registers which OMNI 7 has, to K3 which is missing them. I put an analog S-meter on it because I like
I worked a K3, 100 watt version, he was running a cob web antenna, on 20m and his signal was broadcast quality yesterday! I was using my Argonaut V at about 5 to 10 watts SSB and a G7FEK antenna I ha
Stuart, A lot of people have told me they prefer the Argonaut V to the K2. The problem is, the Argonaut V's RX just isn't up to snuff for European 40 band condx. Adding a preselector helps a lot, but