[Elecraft] If I Were King of the World - or - Elecraft Dreaming

[David Heinsohn]

Good Afternoon All

  To toss some more fuel on the fires of ideas for Elecraft gear, a few 
of my thoughts.

  The target of our (KB4WYR and myself) current radio buildup project is 
an upper mid level VHF/UHF/microwave weak signal station.  That target 
is well down the road with probably hundreds of steps between the start 
and good enough.  To that end we decided that we'd build as much as we 
could.  Additionally, we decided that a K3 was going to be one of the 
foundation stones of that station.  The other stone at the very 
foundation was/is a K2.  As these two rigs can use the same set of 
transverters the K2 seemed like the best starting point.  To that end we 
have built up a K2/qrp with all the bells and whistles (ok I still need 
to trouble shoot the ATU).  The tower and six meter transverter look 
like the next steps.  (That tower is going to be the hard part $$ wise.)

  So with that in mind, things I'd like to see Elecraft do:
1. High end preamps for all the VHF+ bands they have transverters for.
2.  More transverters!  Just keep right on going up the ladder of 
bands.  (you can stop when you get beyond light!!!)
3.  Amps, esp high power amps to go with the preamps, sequencers and 
transverters.  Now this is an area where the market is NOT saturated!
4.  And having nothing to do with VHF+, an MF receive antenna/preamp 
intended for indoor use.  Perhaps take a highend AM broadcast receive 
antenna system and adapt it to 160 and maybe 80.
5.  As long as we're at the bottom end of the spectrum, high end receive 
converter, antenna & preamp system for the sub-550khz bands.
6.  More test equipment to go with the wide range of gear available.  
And with enclosures available for all of it.

  I think that's enough to keep the folks at Elecraft off the streets 
and out of trouble for at least one long weekend!

  It's probably a good thing I'm not King of the World, but it's fun to 
dream.

Thanks for reading,
David
KD0R