[Elecraft] KX3 and P3 Adapter

[Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft]

Well there you go! Mea Culpa. :-)  The internet forgets nothing. I 
apologize for the confusion on this.

Clearly I was the source of the 'rumor' back in 2011.  It is now obvious 
to me that it  is easy in the 'fog of battle' to forget what we may have 
typed in a quick email reply several years ago. I was overly optimistic 
and ahead of our development team on this one. I honestly thought that 
in the past that we had only mentioned we were interested in doing it if 
we had time, but had not committed to it formally as a future product. 
The wide-spread availability of free PC and Apple iOS based s/w 
panadapters like HDSDR and iSDR for the KX3 pushed this further down the 
development priority list over time.

We certainly would like to do this, but have been focused on the other 
key products we have promised (the KXPA100 and KX3 2M option, among 
others). As Wayne pointed out in his email reply, this is both a h/w and 
a significant f/w project, and we do not have infinite engineering 
resources. We're already working overtime here out new products for 
everyone to enjoy.

I can't promise anything definite right now, but we will take a look at 
it again to see what is possible as we get past the product releases for 
the other products mentioned above.

73,

Eric
elecraft.com

On 5/21/2013 9:56 AM, Alton Barkley wrote:
>
>> On May 21, 2013, at 3:58 AM, "Bruce Beford" 
>> <bruce.beford at myfairpoint.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Umm... I don't know how else to put this but... Eric, -you- started the
>>> rumor. Back on 18-Dec-2011, while we were waiting on our KX3s, you 
>>> posted to
>>> this list. For brevity's sake, I have not copied out the entire 
>>> exchange
>>> that was going on at the time. I know you have a lot of irons in the 
>>> fire
>>> right now, but hopefully, this could be fit in the queue somewhere. The
>>> hardware would actually be fairly simple, upconverting the KX3 I/Q 
>>> to the
>>> same IF as the K3...
>>> Bruce
>>> N1RX
>>>
>>> Eric Swartz, WA6HHQ Elecraft eric at elecraft.com
>>> Sun Dec 18 13:25:09 EST 2011
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>>> Not so. We also plan to offer a small IQ to P3 adapter for the KX3, 
>>> which
>>> will give users full P3 operation with the KX3.
>>>
>>> Stay tuned!
>>>
>>> 73,
>>> Eric
>>> www.elecraft.com
>>>