[Elecraft] P3

[lstavenhagen]

My point is, even with just the laptop + computer, you, for better or worse,
already have 4 3rd parties involved before you ever get to use your rig:
- the laptop manufacturer
- the SDR/Interface software manufacturers
- the OS vendor
- elecraft

If any of these have a problem working with each other, you've got a fair
bit of work ahead of you. If it works, great, but if not....

If say the P3 + K3 were to work adequately for some application, say just
using casual PSK and that's ok for what you want to do, that list of 3rd
party vendors reduces down to one: Elecraft. Your chances of success at
getting that working and well-supported are pretty good and could be a
significant advantage.

But Chen's point is good too and I don't want to diminish your point either.
For example, I have cocoamodem running on my macbook right now scanning PSK
signals from my K3 and it's just a joy to use. It is able to decode sigs I
can hardly even hear out of the audio, QSYs to different stations is done
with just a mouse click, it's even got integration into RUMLog, etc. and yes
all with only 2 audio cords and a USB->RS232 adaptor (course the computer
being a mac helps a lot hi hi)...... 

So yes, capabilities like that available from general purpose computing are
going to be a VERY tough act to follow and elecraft has its work cut out for
them to compete on that level.  All I'm saying is a special-purpose solution
can offer (if nothing else) the single-vendor advantage and that can be
significant depending on the application. It should be counted out is what I
mean..

73,
LS
W5QD
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