I have one and it's fantastic! Wayne, why add an amp when it's a perfect QRPp xsmtr? Just sayin'
Bill K9YEQ Scottsdale, AZ ________________________________ From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Wayne Burdick <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 28, 2025 12:14:47 PM To: elecraft <[email protected]> Subject: [Elecraft] Reintroducing the Elecraft XG3: That gadget your shack keeps asking for [Breaking News: Eric will interrupt his Hamvention prep to autograph your XG3 manual if you order this week. Just sayin'....] Remember the XG3? It's our deck-of-cards-sized, versatile and highly stable all-band signal source. I tried to compare its weight to my HP8647A and nearly broke my postal scale. (The XG3 weighs 4 oz. -- 9 V battery included. The HP sig gen warps nearby spacetime.) "I need one! (why?)" Because the XG3 puts out a clean, synthesized carrier that simplifies all sorts of receiver work, like filter alignment, MDS testing, and signal tracing. And because it has four different calibrated output levels (into 50 ohms): -107 dBm (1 uV) -73 dBm (50 uV / S9) -33 dBm (40 over 9) 0 dBm (0.23 V RMS, i.e. Humongous) There are + and - buttons to allow you quickly get to the target ham band (160 - 2 meters). Harmonics out to 1400 MHz can be used to cover UHF bands as well. But that's just the start of what you can do with this little oscillator. Via the included USB cable, you can control and configure the XG3 remotely, do wide-range frequency sweeps, and download new firmware. It even includes built-in CW and FSK modulation. ("You mean it's a QRPpp CW/RTTY transmit driver for homebrew QRP projects?" Yes. With an all-band tunable VFO. "Can you work all states with a barefoot XG3?" TBD. Let me know.) For more information including the downloadable manual, see our XG3 web page: https://elecraft.com/products/xg3 If we've left anything to your imagination, feel free to email me directly. You can also see what other XG3 owners are saying on the eHam review page: https://www.eham.net/reviews/view-product/9807 73, Wayne N6KR -- Elecraft, Inc. ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
