[Elecraft] S: Re: Elecraft Utilities

[Kevin Stover]

And who gets to fix the radio, under warrantee of course, when this home 
brewed command line utility bricks the radio? Through this whole 
discussion I've heard very little from proponents of open sourcing the 
utilities on this minor little point. Telling isn't it.

This could be a profit center for Elecraft now that I think about it. If 
it were me, I'd charge $1,500 to fix any Elecraft product which has had 
it's brains blown out by some home brewed and unsupported flash utility.




On 4/9/2016 1:13 PM, ei6iz.Brendan Minish wrote:
> I think that all most of us would need would be a command line utility that
> can be used to update firmware and perhaps back up settings.
> Either making this open source or just releasing the protocol spec would be
> all that's needed.
> This would not require the firmware to be open sourced, it would just mean
> that the Elecraft provided firmwares can be uploaded  to the radio.
>
> Icing on the cake would be the ability to make radio backups
>

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R. Kevin Stover
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