[Elecraft] SideKar vs PX3

[Wayne Burdick]

Hi Steve,

The built-in decode functions in the KX3 (etc.) were never meant to replace fire-breathing PC-based implementations running thousands of lines of code on multi-GHz processors. 

Our customers like the decode/encode capability for its convenient, casual operation. Examples:

- Field Day, when you get burned out on CW and SSB (I myself made a few dozen RTTY and PSK31 contacts in this year's FD, just using the paddle and message buffers -- no PC)

- quickly pouncing on a new RTTY DX entity before long everyone else gets past thier Windows boot-up

- showing non-hams what CW and other modes "look like" -- they can see both halves of a QSO since both RX and TX streams are shown

We do have a long-term goal to continue improving the decoders, within resource limits. Any such improvement would come in the form of a free firmware upgrade.

73,
Wayne
N6KR



On Sep 8, 2015, at 6:46 PM, Stephen Shearer <sm.shearer.01 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you for the info.
> 
> I am still thinking about SideKar….