[Elecraft] S: Re: Elecraft Utilities

[Dave Cole]

No one said anything about a warranty fix, in fact I mentioned a few
days ago that Elecraft might be discovering a profit center...

Please expand on just exactly what is so telling?

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On Sat, 2016-04-09 at 13:32 -0500, Kevin Stover 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
> >