[Elecraft] K2 Firmware request

[w6jd at comcast.net]

I can only agree 100% with Vic! As one who spent most of his professional career trying to force the most code into the least amount of memory and make every nano-second count (I became king of the self-modifying instruction) I can say without hesitation that you DO NOT want the source code. And, if God forbid you get it, and modify it, please don't release it to the world. Good grief, mutant K2s!

73,
Doug
W6JD

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From: Vic K2VCO <vic at rakefet.com> 

> 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 
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