[Elecraft] Something *really* new at Dayton from Elecraft

[Ken Alexander]

--- On Fri, 5/20/11, Merv Schweigert <k9fd at flex.com> wrote:

> And another subject,  no one has commented on the thread that
> was going on about improving the DSP NR etc for the K3,  and
> the fact that the KX3 will have a much improved DSP and newer
> better chip??   Leaves the K3 owners kinda out to dry dont it?

When you purchase technology you get what's available at the time.  The K3 is a snapshot of the best that was available when they designed it.  Same with the K3X.  Don't fault them for looking around and finding something better.  If the new DSP chip happens to be a pin-for-pin, drop-in replacement for the existing chip then maybe you'll get lucky.  We'll see.

> Kinda the stuff that we always criticize YeaComWood for doing
> when a new model came out and the old one could not be updated?   Or is a K4 around?

They probably don't deserve the criticism either.  If you bought a new Chevy with a 200 hp engine, and the next year they'd managed to tweak another 20 hp out of the same engine would you take your car back to the dealer and demand they replace the engine for you?

73,

Ken Alexander
VE3HLS

Contentedly working DX with the stone-age DSP in my K2.