HI Julian: And now that US TV broadcasting has almost all but vacated the 54-88 MHz band (Channels 2-6 here), the case can be made that a 70 MHz band would be good to have on this side of the pond.
73 de Ray K2ULR On May 24, 2011, at 5:24 PM, Julian, G4ILO wrote: > > M0XDF wrote: >> >> Yes, a good step - I really want this to be an FT-817 killer. >> I can live without 70cm, but 2m SSB is quite important to me for UKAC >> contests, FM would just be more icing on the cake. >> >> > > Yes, 2m is one of the most popular bands for SOTA activations which > I guess > the KX3 would be popular for. It would also take maximum advantage > of the > all mode capability. Whilst 70cm would be nice, I guess it would be > expecting too much for there to be space for two internal transverter > modules. > > The other thing that would be a huge selling point in Europe if it > could be > designed in is support for the 4m band. There is no radio that > covers 4m > apart from a couple of cheap Chinese FM handies. A lot of countries > have 4m > now and again it is a popular band for SOTA activations. I don't know > whether it is feasible to push the upper frequency limit from 50MHz > to 70MHz > but I am sure there are people who would buy one for that reason > alone, if > it were possible. > > ----- > Julian, G4ILO. K2 #392 K3 #222. > * G4ILO's Shack - http://www.g4ilo.com > * KComm - http://www.g4ilo.com/kcomm.html > * KTune - http://www.g4ilo.com/ktune.html > > -- > View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/ > KX3-How-much-space-inside-tp6396543p6400528.html > Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
