[Elecraft] New products

[Phil Wheeler]

Good discussion, Tony.

Re "If my fantasy radio was developed it would be 
quantum based system that would allow you call 
through other dimensions over vast distances with 
out any propagation delay." I'd settle for an 
advancement which let me work you from California 
running 5 Watts to a one meter indoor antenna and 
no counterpoise -- during the low part of the 
sunspot cycle :-)

73, Phil W7OX

On 6/5/16 11:28 AM, Tony G6GLP wrote:
> Hi All,
> I thought I might put my oar in on this; New 
> products need a market is true and trying to 
> second guess it is another story.
>
> How would I go about developing a new product? I 
> believe that we need to see a gap in the market 
> since we are not going to create a new market 
> like texting. The size of the addressable 
> customer base needs to be large enough to 
> support the development cost. One thing that 
> many people see as improvement is the touch 
> screen, while I support development in this area 
> it is not core functionality to our hobby (can I 
> see the flack coming on that?). The KX2 and 
> K-POD are good examples of pushing the new 
> product while building on current development ( 
> no I dont have an inside view of the products 
> but it stands to reason). Who was it that said 
> there are many Japanese VHF txcvrs? The latest 
> trend is into the digital coms so something in 
> that area maybe the next thing but I would 
> recommend an open source approach to the digital 
> coms to get others helping with the future 
> development of repeater type multi channel things.
> I would personally be more interested in an 
> integrated larger HF amp or even a combiner to 
> use say three KPA500 to achieve the higher output.
> If my fantasy radio was developed it would be 
> quantum based system that would allow you call 
> through other dimensions over vast distances 
> with out any propagation delay. Maybe in a few 
> thousand years :-)
>
> 73 de Tony G6GLP