[Elecraft] K4

[george fritkin]

The new radio should not be a Swiss army of the frequency spectrum, but a "tour de force" of Elecraft.  It should have an on board computer with a tethered human interface.  It should have a generous sized display allowing the user to  control the radio's function with a terse set of knobs or the human interface with the screen sharing radio functions and a spectrum analyzer. 
What I have seen here in  the way of suggestions is just packaging more functions rather revolutionary radio changes.  
Radios today should be treated as a computing device  whose output happens to be an RF signal.  There have be some attempts at what I suggesting.  However, these attempts were just too pioneering.  As we say in  electronics, pioneers are those that get shot in the back. 
 But, as an outsider looking in, Elecraft seems to have in hand the ability to build a truly revolutionary radio.  And, if you guys at Elecraft do this, sign me up for S/N 1.  By the way, I think the new radio, the KX-3, is the trial balloon.
Love my two K3s
George, W6GF



--- On Tue, 7/26/11, Nate Bargmann <n0nb at n0nb.us> wrote:

From: Nate Bargmann <n0nb at n0nb.us>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K4
To: 
Date: Tuesday, July 26, 2011, 8:40 PM

* On 2011 26 Jul 21:19 -0500, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:
> 
> Lew,
> 
> Other than the fact that the FT-736R had all of the modules in the
> case, what is the difference between a K4 such as you propose and
> a K3/10 with a XV-144/XV-222/XV-432 stack?  Perhaps Elecraft could
> be persuaded to work on an XV-1290 to round out the offering ...
> 
> Of more interest would be the ability to activate two of the XVs at
> the same time and feed the second one to the K3's Aux input (sub RX)
> for monitoring two bands, working satellites, or working cross band.
> It would take some work with both the XVs and the K3 control code
> but might pay off more than a VHF/UHF only "K4."

As my interest has recently been piqued by the satellites, this was just
the solution I had in mind with my K3.  I day dreamed that with the sub
receiver the K3 might be able to do full duplex.  My reading of this
list's archives led me to the conclusion that this is not possible at
this time.  Should the K3 be developed as you suggest, Joe, I would be 
happy to go that route.

At the moment I have more pressing needs such as antenna construction
and getting familiar with various aspects of satellite operation.  For
that I will concentrate on receiving and my FT-817 needs a purpose.  :-)

73, de Nate N0NB >>

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