[Elecraft] K2 Firmware request

[Vic K2VCO]

Ian Stirling wrote:

>   This is the problem with proprietary firmware.
> Does Elecraft think that someone could make a rival
> product if the source code were released?
> Any determined capable person could write the firmware
> for the K2, or a rival product.

You would have to be *very* determined and *very* capable.  The firmware 
for the K2 is complicated, and lots of things are highly interdependent 
in any real-time application.

No I haven't seen the source code, but I'm a programmer and do know what 
functions it performs. I think I can safely make the above statement.

The main problem is this:  How would Elecraft support the K2 if the 
firmware could be changed?  Could anyone guarantee that his change to, 
for example, the frequency control, didn't impact the t/r switching? 
Note that slowing down the code in one place might make it impossible to 
perform another function in time.
-- 
73,
Vic, K2VCO
Fresno CA
http://www.qsl.net/k2vco