[Elecraft] Anderson PowePole connectors

[Charles Harpole]

I did not say the Power Poles are bad... they are likely superior in some 
ways to other connectors, but my point, which so many missed, is the same as 
the theory of "installed base" whereby one item becomes the de facto 
standard sometimes regardless of its rating as best or not.

For examples, see the computer evolution where the Divorak keyboard could 
have been adopted and increased typing input speed by 5 to 20 %.... if only 
adopted at the beginning.  Instead, we have the QWERTY which was set up on 
manual typerwriters to SLOW DOWN the typist.

As a high paid consultant, in my dreams, I can increase the speed of word 
data input by about 15% with retraining of the typists.... tell that to 
industry... they should grab it, but the rule of installed base kept the 
QWERTY and we are cursed with it.

For my K3, I will just make the Power Poles that come with the unit... they 
do come with, don't they?.... as a permanently attached item with a short 
pig tail that I then put on a more well-established connector style that 
fits my other rigs and that I can easily purchase here in Asia.

Charles Harpole, HS0ZCW
k4vud at hotmail.com

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