[Elecraft] USB Support - K3, K2?

[Julian G4ILO]

On 8/8/07, Vic K2VCO <vic at rakefet.com> wrote:
>
> Agreed. From the point of view of the manufacturer, there is the big
> headache of having to provide drivers for the various operating systems
> -- and versions of operating systems.

That's the key point, I think. The argument against having noisy chips
inside radios could equally be applied to serial interfaces (in fact,
ISTR the KIO2 had an option to disable it because it created a small
amount of noise.) There are people who have argued for having an
Ethernet interface and built-in web server inside the radio.
Personally I think computers and radios are getting far too
inter-dependent and there is a danger that the modern generation of
radios will become obsolete before yesterday's models simply because
the computers necessary to use them are no longer made or supported.
-- 
Julian, G4ILO K2 s/n: 392  K3 s/n: ???
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