[Elecraft] New Elecraft Product: K-Pod Control Panel for K3S and K3 Transceivers

[Gary Smith]

Wayne & Eric,

Here's the way it is, according to me: 

I really like the radios and equipment you 
make. Flash is pretty but I crave an 
eloquent solution for what I want to do 
and I don't honestly give too much of a 
flip as to how somebody else wants their 
radio to be. 

One thing is for sure, I don't want a 
"one-time radio is all it is, take it or 
leave it", you buy it & that's what it is 
forever more. I want a radio that I can 
configure to what I want to do with it, 
get it right for me, and leave it 
configured that way. 

I'm a creature of habit and once it works 
right for me, I'll know how to use it the 
next time and for as long as I wish, it 
will perform just how I want it to; no 
mysteries. I want a radio that is updated 
such that hardware and software are made 
available to improve what I had earlier 
bought. Elecraft does this and none of the 
others do. Made here in the USA too. Put 
that on the wish list for Icom.

Would I like a big knob here & there? Not 
if I'm not going to use it. Do I need a 
better contesting rig? With my K3 and wire 
antennas I keep on winning state and 
division contests in my class, I don't 
think more knobs would give me better 
scores. Faster typing might help and maybe 
better ears but that's organic deficits, 
not electronic. 

Would I like a big rig that is a cross 
between a computer and a microwave? No, 
not unless it also cooks for me like a 
microwave in the middle of one of those 
contests. I'll take a BrontoBurger with 
cheese & Chippotle sauce from the 
replicator, please.

You two are a whole lot younger than I am 
and with that, the odds being what they 
are, you'll likely be designing and making 
radios well after I'm gone from this coil. 
So with that little bit of reality I can 
say that there is nobody who makes a radio 
I want more than my K3s at this time. You 
keep innovating and I'll have a company to 
support and in the process, I'll spruce up 
my shack in these here Golden years with 
the finest upcoming radios money can buy.

I don't need the newest and greatest 
immediately, I can wait. But when I do 
want that, I know exactly where to get it; 
on Westridge Drive in Watsonville, 
California.

73,

Gary
KA1J