>From the looks of this rig, it seems to be from the same source as the Chinese KX1 "competitor" that is now also being sold and imported by TenTec.
Look for more Chinese sourced HF gear in the future as their ham population ramps up. I was in Singapore in 2010 and saw a Chinese made rig at one of the backwater stores there that was a twin brother to the Yaesu FT450 at the Singapore Electronics "Tower" downtown. A dead ringer except for the color of the cabinet (gray instead of black), the knobs and the display layout. Loved the cardboard box it came in, too! Had that Far Eastern cardboard feel to it :). They wanted $875 USD for it. The panel labels were in English, but in that serif font that Far East people are so fond of. I didnt have a camera with me (my phone didnt have a camera in those days), would have loved to have a photo of it. The store looked like one of those droid stores you see in the Mos Eisley spaceport on Tatooine from Star Wars, complete with a pot of some kind of exotic smelling soup simmering behind the counter in the back. -lu-w4lt- K3-P3-K1 Using the AL-K-Line ------------------------------ Message: 12 Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:50:15 +0100 From: Thomas Horsten <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] [QRP-L] The Chinese KX3 To: James Rodenkirch <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected], QRP-L <[email protected]>, [email protected] Message-ID: <CAPaRxgQouRvmd7xry3uuew99uG4KG5jE0vo=vt+_fnworny...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 The only way they will come anywhere close to the KX3 performance is by pirating large portions of the KX3 hardware design and firmware. If that's the case I hope they don't succeed. Besides, if they try to add all the same kinds of features that the KX3 has it will probably be full of bugs and I am sure you won't get the same kind of support that you do from Elecraft, where the developers actually listen to the users. At best, it will be a pale imitation of the real thing and at worst it will be an epic nightmare of bugs and trying to deal with sporadic support announcements in Chinese with Google Translate as your only friend when trying to figure out what's going on. But to be honest, looks like a spoof to me. A well made spoof, but still a spoof. 73, Thomas M0TRN ______________________________________________________________ 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
