[Elecraft] Is there a K4 on the horizon? MAYBE

[Tony Estep]

On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 12:57 PM, bill <ny9h at arrl.net> wrote:

> ...their usual leapfrog technology...
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Seems to me that a new design would only be justified if it added some
missing functionality. But at least for me, the current radio does
everything I would want it to do. The only additional feature that would
help me would be if it would put Bouvet on the air.

It used to be that radios were judged on sensitivity and selectivity. Those
measures topped out decades ago, and everyone started looking at dynamic
range, and then close-in dynamic range. At this point, further improvements
in that spec probably aren't going to be noticed in most practical
situations. Maybe the next frontier is in noise reduction, I dunno.

But really, when you talk about the next Elecraft transceiver, the K4 or
whatever, you have to ask what it's gonna have that you haven't already
got. And then after you come up with something (e.g. simultaneous two-band
receive & panadaptor) you have to ask if it really justifies a new design,
or it's just gilding the lily.

73, Tony KT0NY