[Elecraft] S: Re: Elecraft Utilities

[Ken G Kopp]

Well said, Kevin!

This was my initial intent when I started this thread,
but you've done a better job of stating the obvious.

73!

Ken Kopp - K0PP


On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 12:32 PM, Kevin Stover <kevin.stover at mediacombb.net>
wrote:

> 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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