[Elecraft] New products

[John Pitz]

Thus is born the KXi


On Sun, 2016-06-05 at 11:48 -0700, 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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