[Elecraft] K3 P3 SVGA - ?future firmware updates for K3/P3/SVGA?

[Sam Morgan]

for clarification, perhaps I should point out that the only "must 
supply(s)" that was even intimated in my comments...

were based on the fact that Wayne has *SAID* he/they planned to 
*attempt* to implement these further firmware enhancements for their 
already awesome hardware.

If, as you say, that has been determined to be "commercially unrealistic"

Then to that I would reply, if they can't, don't intend to, or have 
changed their minds about it's feasibility, great, no problem, so be it, 
just inform us, don't continue to string us along after command 
decisions to the contrary have been decided.

However I do *NOT* think that is what Wayne and Eric have decided, nor 
do I think that is what they are doing.

(imo) I have the idea, they have just bitten off more than they can 
chew, with the staff they now employ, so why not consider contracting 
out some of these promised or unfinished coding changes so they can 
catch up.

-- 
GB & 73
K5OAI
Sam Morgan

On 7/10/2014 5:29 PM, Guy Olinger K2AV wrote:
> Well, I would call that maybe harsh, and for sure commercially unrealistic.
>
> We do not pay for firmware changes, while Wayne's employees have to be
> paid every week, the rent paid every month, etc. ad nauseum. So, even
> though there was a lot of improvement needed from version zero of the
> K3, we are far on the other side of having the K3 quite good enough to
> sell as is. A K3 firmware change entirely for the K3 only has become
> pretty rare. Most are integration work for the entire K-Line.
>
> We have gotten as much as we have because we supplied the hard testing
> and allowed a gradual implementation. Wayne has followed a change
> regimen that provided an amazing collection of improvements. He
> certainly leveraged all that into the KX3
>
> Myself, I can't honestly think that Wayne owes me anything at all. If he
> does throw out some stuff, that's really neat. But at this point
> anything else he does for the K3 is far beyond the call of duty. No
> other ham manufacturer is even in the same order of magnitude as
> Elecraft responsiveness.
>
> I can wish and make polite, respectful requests. But IMHO to insinuate
> that Wayne has some remaining unfulfilled duty to the K3 that he *must*
> supply is unrealistic at best.
>
> 73, Guy.