[Elecraft] A Rob Sherwood's talk in Dayton

[Fred Smith]

Yup, Yup and Yup that's the reason I have Elecraft gear. Not buying new
radio gear every 2 years like I did with my Yaesu and Icom gear. I for one
agree with the business model and great equipment.



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[mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Wayne Burdick
Sent: Friday, June 07, 2013 11:58 AM
To: Keith-K5ENS
Cc: Elecraft Reflector
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] A Rob Sherwood's talk in Dayton

Keith (K5ENS) wrote:

> I'm not sure what is to gain by holding back improvements.  As a early 
> K3 owner I would love to see a better K3 offered.
> I would have a choice to keep my early K3 or replace it with a 
> improved unit.  Radios evolve all the time.


Hi Keith,

It's highly desirable that changes be retrofittable since we have some 7,500
K3s in the field. But there are different levels of "mod". 

The mod we made to the RF choke (to reduce receive AF IMD) was simple,
involving a component change. Let's call that "level 1". Nearly all of the
K3's mods over the years have been of this type.

We could completely redesign the AF stage if it were warranted, requiring
replacement of the DSP board. Some customers might be willing to pay for
such an upgrade, and we wouldn't . That would be "level 2".

Now suppose we came up with something truly revolutionary, like a switch
from an LCD to and OLED display. That would require replacement of the
entire front panel module, and we might change the model number of the
radio--a "level 3" change. (We are *not* going to do that, by the way :) 

Any of the above changes are retrofittable, and I can assure you that we're
not holding anything back. The K3 was designed in a modular fashion so it
can adapt to new requirements.

73,
Wayne
N6KR

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