[Elecraft] K4

Mike nf4l at nf4l.com
Wed Jul 27 08:25:20 EDT 2011


Is it legal to ship a tethered human across state lines? What if I didn't like the 
one I got?

73, Mike NF4l

On 7/27/2011 12:53 AM, george fritkin wrote:
> 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
>
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