[Dx4win] a clarification I'd like to make

[Steve Jackson]

Pete N4ZR wrote:

"when I read someone complaining about how a K2 or K3 isn't adequately supported, I have very little sympathy.   We have, under Files|Databases|Radios, a complete development environment for editing, creating from scratch and testing all the rig files one could want.  If there is something in the radio's command list that isn't now supported, why not add it, and share your contribution with the user community?"

Pete, I'd like to clarify my post of a few days ago, so that you understand what was being asked for.  The original conversation (at Dayton, between myself and Paul) wasn't part of the message, as posted.  So I can see why one might think what I wrote was a complaint.  

Quite the contrary.

The specific feature [which certain Kenwoods and Elecrafts have] that I'd like to see enabled in DX4WIN isn't simply a function of a new rig file.  If it was, I'd have done as you suggest above, long ago.  

Instead, it's a wholesale new feature creation, a specific-case enhancement of the CW keyboard application not unlike that added for K1EL 'winkey' product support.  This can't be created by the user, via the rig-parameter editing tools.

I ended up buying a K1EL Winkeyer USB even though my radio *already* has substantially the identical functionality, built-in.  I'd gladly have paid Rapidan Data Systems, say, $30 extra for just this one new feature in DX4WIN to be able to use this functionality.  For me, the opportunity window has now passed, but for other, perhaps new users who own these Kenwoods and Elecrafts, DX4WIN could be just what the doctor ordered.  

Software companies compete on value-added functionality, and this is one great feature that could really draw in the customers for DX4WIN.  As a user, I have a vested interest in keeping this company a viable and healthy business.

Thanks for taking the time to read this message, which I hope explains that what I was doing wasn't complaining about inadequate support.  Indeed, I'm very pleased with DX4WIN, have been for years, and intend to keep on encouraging others to use this great product. 

Go PVRC!

73  Steve KZ1X/4




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