[Elecraft] missed market

Fri Dec 14 10:11:12 EST 2012

If it only put out 5 watts on 11 meters... who then cares...

Dr. William J. Schmidt - K9HZ / J68HZ/ 8P6HK/ ZF2HZ

Owner - Operator
Big Signal Ranch
Staunton, Illinois

email:  bill at wjschmidt.com

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From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Fred Smith
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2012 6:03 AM
To: 'rwm rwmr'; elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] missed market

I personally hope personally that "NO ONE" from Elecraft would ever add "11m
Bands" features to any radio they sell!!! For thing by law they can not do
so, why would even consider asking such a question?

Go buy a $29 CB HT and be done with it...and BTW I will leave a call sign
unlike "YOU"!

Fred/N0AZZ

-----Original Message-----
From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of rwm rwmr
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2012 5:18 AM
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Elecraft] missed market

You guys missed a Big Part of the Market..
You have a Great radio in the Portable K3X..

With Recent Hurricane Sandy..
Correct me if i am Wrong..

Ham Radios are supposed to offer one ability to carry on Emergency
contacts..
Both for owner of radio ( for themselves and their family) As well as
working with various local/regional emergency services..

So that within a Crisis happening..
Communications can be kept going where all other forms fail (like how home
and cell phones and power outages...that went on for at least a week and up
to still lack of power and phone service in some spots of NY and NJ as
direct result of Hurricane Sandy )

Yet even though your K3X offers no more then 10 watts output
 (with external battery pack...5 watts in using internal batteries)

Yet even though i asked..
You refused to do a firmware upgrade so not only is the K3X be usable on HF
ham bands..But also on 11 meter/cb frequencies ..

I could understand if it was a 100 watt or such radio.
Fact is though it is clearly Not..

The K3X is a Perfect radio for emergency use..
Yet you CLEARLY leave out and refuse to allow one to use it on some of the
most used local frequency's that would enable one to remain in contact with
local people ( for themselves as well as surrounding community)

This is Indeed a Very Big Over Sight.
This is Also a Very Poor attitude..

It seems you people are so Hard Core with offering High Quality Radios with
Excellent Abilities..
Then when you Design a merging of SDR radio with a regular radio and Not
requiring a PC hook up..
Offering a Huge advantage that other companies can only Hope to so offer (
but can not ) However in one of the Most Important aspects..You Also Drop
the Ball..

Will you Re consider ?
Or do i need to start a Petition on a National scale (even bringing it to
the white house if need be) In order to get this done with a simple 5 watt
portable radio ?

By the way

Yes i am a ham radio operator.

Owning a 706 MKIIG..IC-7000 .. AR-3500 .. RCI 2970 .. IC-R3 .. DR235 ..
ID800 .. ID-1 .. T90a .. ID-91AD .. THF-6a various tuners..various power
supplies .. 

until recently with hurricane Sandy..
create RC5 antenna rotor .. 2 meter,70 cm and 1.25 meter beams .. tribander
2 meter/70 cm/23cm vertical and 5/8 wave ground plane 11 meter antenna..

Thankfully i had many batteries for my HT's and plenty of antennas for
them..
For as it turned out it was my ONLY means of communication to the outside
world for 9 or 10 days (pay phones..home phones..cell phones were all
useless..power was out .. all for over a week)

I clearly would have befitted with battery operated able HF
 ( yes 11 meters as well )
Even though via UHF i got out as far as 70 miles with just my HT and HT
antennas ( i had to go to to top of walkway on the bayonne bridge to get out
beyond 10 miles during the first week to 2 weeks ) I can easily get a Buddy
Pole portable HF antenna to use with the K3X.

So as i Now am still repairing my roof
 ( it still leaks like a lot any time it rains now ) I am Now also looking
to re create my antenna farm ( i likely can salvage my 70 cm beam..all the
others are trash..also lost a good deal of LDF5-50a and LDF7-50a coax
feedline ) So while re doing my antenna farm for base operations..
I am also looking to further update my portable/backpack gear.
(seems i also have to bite the bullet and get a car again.. thus getting
needed antennas for whatever car i get as well.. i have kept away from
driving for 20 years..but hurricane sandy showed if i needed to
bail/evacuate on my own..without driving on my own.. well it turned out it
was not possible)

Bob Muller
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