[Elecraft] P3

[Bob McGraw - K4TAX]

I AGREE!

If I can't have a radio that does not rely on some external computer of 
various questionable hardware integrity, some other company's flaky 
operating system and all put together by a 3rd party vendor..........I 
won't buy that radio.

A fully stand-a-lone radio is highly preferred.  All I want is to connect 
power, antenna, mike, key and I'm on the air.

73
Bob, K4TAX


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "lstavenhagen" <lstavenhagen at hotmail.com>
To: <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2010 2:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] P3


>
> 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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