[Elecraft] K4?

[Fred Jensen]

Twitter is being used as a transmission medium in several applications I 
know of ... one is a mechanism to spot yourself to SOTAWatch and/or 
QRPSpots from a phone.  I don't know how it works but I had to get a 
Twitter account to use it.

I've never twitted [or whatever] other than spotting myself once or 
twice, I never get twits, and so far as I know, no human being knows my 
"twitname," which includes me -- I've forgotten it, it's in my phone. :-)

Regarding the proposed K4, and with full knowledge that it is a made-up 
photo and does not propose to include social media:

1.  There are no dimensions given, but looking at my K3, the proposed K4 
would have to be quite a bit wider to look like it does.  That would 
definitely NOT be a feature for me.

2.  I sort of like the same size knobs for VFO A and B, I don't consider 
one or the other to be a "sub-VFO," I switch between them often [don't 
have the second RX].

3.  An integrated P3 might appeal to some but not me.  I look at the P3 
now way more than I look at the radio and I have it positioned where it 
is easy and non-straining to switch from the computer to the P3.  If I 
had to look over at the radio all the time to see the panadapter, I'd 
get a cramp in my neck.

It will be interesting to see what, if anything, is in the "new radio" 
pipeline at Elecraft since the company definitely does not have a 
reputation of bringing out a new product that essentially replaces [and 
thus makes obsolete] what you have now.  I have the K3, a K2, and a KX1 
... I use them in widely different situations, and together they give me 
a whole range of operating possibilities.  I think my K2 is about 12 
years old [#4398], and so far, the only product that could even remotely 
be considered as a possible replacement is the KX3, and that's really 
"remote," they are very different radios.

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2014 Cal QSO Party 4-5 Oct 2014
- www.cqp.org

On 4/24/2014 3:42 PM, Scott Manthe wrote:
> I know there are hams who tweet their rare DX contacts, so it won't be
> long before the rig or logging software will post those automatically to
> whatever social media site you prefer. Something to look forward to... ;)
>
> 73,
> Scott, N9AA