Jim,
When I can pick up a radio and twist it, I call it cheap. Yes, even with the
material thickness being what it is on the K-Line, it looks cheap too. Having
a felt washer as a method for adjusting drag is a joke.
That being said, the big 3 put a lot more into the mechanical aspects of their
amateur radios because they are able to leverage their commercial products'
designs.
You may be enamored with Elecraft but ever since I owned a K2 and "discovering"
the feature of a 5KHz tuning thump when the band is crowded, I gave up on the
Elecraft MoJo...especially when Wayne and Eric know of the problem but haven't
offered a fix. If I ever designed a piece of hardware with a problem like
that, and told people it was OK, I'd be fired!
Interestingly enough, my research tells me that the K3 on the second hand
market fetches between 70-80% of the new price. As bad as everything else is
compared to Elecraft, the resale value of lesser radios hangs in there better.
Mike, WA1SEO
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