[Elecraft] [OT] Dayton- new hf rigs?

["Carl, KØTNT"]

There is no charge from Flex for software with the original purchase. 
The $199 per year covers software upgrades AND technical support. 
Somewhat the same approach as the new owners of Ham Radio Deluxe, and 
the same program Carl Moreschi, N4PY, has been running for many years 
now with his computer software controls for many rigs including the K3.
The DDC approach isn't something that Flex just thought up last week. 
They have been doing this for quite some time in sales to commercial and 
military customers so I think a lot of initial bugs have probably been 
dealt with. Altho the "introductory price" is pretty staggering.
OTOH I am one of the "abandoned" SDR1000 crowd. When I first got one 
(used unit by a trade) many years ago, it was exciting with lots of new 
inputs, features, upgrades, bug fixes, new GUI skins, etc. Sometimes 
updates per week. But then when they brought out the 5000 series, the 
SDR1000 pioneers such as me got dumped by the side of the road.

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73.14159..., Carl, KØTNT