[Elecraft] New products

[Rick WA6NHC]

But if it's truly quantum, which reality YOU would be working whom?


On 6/5/2016 11:48 AM, Phil Wheeler wrote:
> 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
>
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