Hello Eric, it took me a long time to find this message and I'm sorry I didn't get it earlier. I bought the equipment you are talking about late last year. Since I bought the Elecraft transceiver and the ham pod, I have put my Icom 7000 away and I haven't touched it since. I am putting that up for sale because I like the Elecraft so much better. I bought the amplifier for the Elecraft a couple of weeks or months back and I haven't even opened it because the radio works so well on low-power. I find that almost every menu in the radio is accessible with the Ham pod and Elecraft provides some manuals to help us. Elecraft will also offer technical support anytime you need it and they are very patient and very very very helpful.

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> On Jun 22, 2014, at 2:52 PM, Eric Clegg <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I am considering purchasing an Elecraft KX3 and one of Rob's hampods.
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> I am wondering what accessible manuals are available for this rig?
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> Also if I need any help getting up and running can I get some coaching from
> anyone on the list.
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> If I get this rig I will probably want to sell my Icom IC-703 Plus with the
> speech board and qsyer keypad, Astron 7 amp power supply and Icom backpack
> for the rig.
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> I also have the original packing material and manual for this transceiver.
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> I've neffer really gotten to grips with this rig. Have not been able to turn
> up the volume on the speech board nor manipulate any of the menus.
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> It will probably be before the end of the summer before I'm ready to
> purchase a KX3.
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> 73,
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> Eric
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> KU3I
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