[Elecraft] P3

[lstavenhagen]

One other thing I will say about this. I do personally also see what
Wayne/Eric/Lyle are probably up against as far as the PC+SDR juggernaut. The
fight involved in forcing square pegs like a PC running Windows into a round
hole like controlling a ham rig is one that most of us are simply used to
from other applications and are therefore willing to keep trying. 

Frankly, many of us are simply accustomed to horrible general purpose
designs like Windows/PC's for applications like this, there's a very strong
perception that that's the way using a computer is supposed to be. Some
solutions like PSK and software like cocoaModem are ingenious workarounds to
this general problem, but ultimately there's still a lot of Rube Goldberg
involved there that we're just accustomed to: A hard-to-use operating system
talking to a broken driver talking to a USB port talking to USB->RS232
converter talking to an RS232 port on a rig talking to a..... you get the
idea.

This is an NP-hard problem for purpose-built hardware/software solutions in
general these days, even when they're very well designed and work really
well. Hammering some junk Dell somewhere running garbage like Windows into
the problem is often still the preferred method (usually because of cost or
general availability of the hardware, etc) even when a much more elegant and
effective (but proprietary and purpose-built) solution is available. 

So to sum up, I'm hopeful about the P3 but I also realize that there're more
realistic concerns that elecraft will have to deal with here.......

My .02,
73,
LS
W5QD 
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