[Elecraft] RE: Can Elecraft take over the global HF ham radiobusiness ?

[S55M]

For me, it is not question about competition and taking of global market. It
is a question of RIG specs.
K2 (UFB like kit) has some great characteristics but there is plenty room
for improovments, wich are almost impossible to do on XXXX-$$$ RIG's.

The only way to have the superb rig nowadays is to build it! Funny but true.
There is no kit and no RIG on the market, wich would have superb
characteristics, which are quiet easy to obtain with current available
parts.But there are plenty of functions wich You will never use.
JA's have built monsters with TFT's thousands of buttons and a lot of
excessive and unneeded weight (some of them with 100's of buttons with third
function and 10 hidden menus ecc) to sell to average operators, wich are
only worried by the look and number of memories.
But after 20 or even 30 years of development they almost forgot the main: RX
and TX. LO's in modern moderate cost rigs are not so good like they where
two decades ago.
At that time, there were few stations with LL power (Legal Limit) now every
3rd stn is running at least 1KW.
And with dirty transmission , there we have a problem, if we do not not talk
about wide range front ends ecc.
But we are endangered part of HAM's.The part wich still has a lot of will to
explore and solder.
The part which will not run to buy 10000 USD RIG regardles of having monney
or not.
But this is like p....ing directly to the wind. The ratio i suppose is
1:1000, but not in our advantage :(


73's and CU

S55M-Adi


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <N2EY at aol.com>
To: <aa4lr at arrl.net>; <sv9dru at hotmail.com>
Cc: <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>; <Michael.Stricker at gd-ais.com>
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 1:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] RE: Can Elecraft take over the global HF ham
radiobusiness ?


> In a message dated 5/19/05 9:13:11 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
aa4lr at arrl.net
> writes:
>
>
> > in their heyday, Heathkit didn't "take over"
> > the ham radio market. Certainly they were wildly popular -- but there
> > were plenty of companies that sold built equipment.
>
> There were also other companies selling serious kits, like EF Johnson.
>
> Heath's line of ham gear, particularly receivers, at any given time was
very
> limited compared to other companies. Heathkits were pretty good but not in
the
> same class
> as, say, Collins or Drake.
>
>
> And that was in
> >
> > an age when completely homebrew stations were the norm.
> >
>
> I've been a ham since 1967 and completely homebrew stations were rare even
> then. Of course today a few still homebrew:
>
> http://hometown.aol.com/n2ey/myhomepage/index.html
>
>
> > Today, things are different. Appliance operators rule, and the kit-
> > built rig is an exception. It would be difficult to overcome that
> > bias in order to "take over".
> >
>
> I'd say that "appliance" stations have been most numerous since at least
the
> mid-60s if not longer.
>
> Elecraft's success shows that not everyone wants to go that way, though.
> That's a good thing.
>
> 73 de Jim, N2EY
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