[Elecraft] P3

[Kok Chen]

On Apr 17, 2010, at 10:54 AM, lstavenhagen wrote:

> That's because you're dramatically oversimplifying #2 hi hi. There you
> forgot, keyboard, mouse, external monitor, drivers (introduce first 3rd
> party here), searching internet for fixed drivers, installing LP-PAN (3rd
> party #2) and associated software, fighting with Windows (3rd party #3) to
> get drivers working, and so on. 

He said "small laptop." No need for extra keyboard, monitor, etc.

Also, under marginal propagation conditions with digital modes, the demodulator in the K3 is not as good as real modems that are implemented in computers.  Today's laptops (and even an iPad) has much more computing power than the embedded chips in the K3, which has to do other things too.  Modems implemented in computers are often written by specialists who can do better than the guys at Elecraft or Icom.

And that is not to mention the lack of QPSK31, PSK63, RTTY at different shifts and baud rate (there is a 75 baud RTTY contest coming up) on the K3.  Not even touching on lack of MFSK modes on the K3.

Vy 73
Chen