[Elecraft] A helpful review...

[Guy Olinger K2AV]

On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Peter Scovell <pscovell at newlyntech.com>
wrote:

>
> I have found the odd comments by some other readers of this mailing list
> somewhat parochial in outlook in that they seem to want to see and hear
> only items relating to Elecraft gear and not be informed of other new and
> exciting developments occurring in our hobby.


There are a pair of untrue assumptions in there.

1) Assumes that someone here, who doesn't want to transact discussions
about Flex products on the Elecraft reflector, cannot possibly hear about
Flex anywhere else. That if Flex information is not brought up on the
Elecraft reflector, the "good news" on Flex products will never be heard.

Personally, I've been on the Flex reflector since the very beginnings of
that product line. I can tell you an awful lot about where Flex is, what
the problems and improvements are. I have been on the cusp of a Flex
purchase for years. I just have a list that I'm waiting for them to invent
their way out of. A couple of those items need faster technology at lower
cost, which will get here, sometime. I just won't discuss it here on the
Elecraft Reflector.

It is also abundantly clear that I know more about Flex products than
trolls that have come on here hyping Flex just to see if they can get under
someone's skin. But I will not discuss issues about Flex products on the
Elecraft reflector. From where I sit, overall Elecraft reflector commentary
on Flex is fair-to-poor, sometimes outright inaccurate, but so what. It's
the *Elecraft* reflector. I expect accuracy on Flex products on the *Flex*
reflector.

Besides the Flex reflector, I get my Flex information from actual Flex
owners, and from the incessant joyful no-holds-barred all-rigs-comparison
commentary among PVRC club members, who have actually owned or do still own
the rigs under discussion. This, along with the opportunity to actually
operate other brands, beats out any other source of information hands down.

This reflector (Elecraft) ranks way up there in comparison to other
brand-centric reflectors. But it's up there because people on the Elecraft
reflector get outstanding help on Elecraft products, some from individuals
like W3FPR, who are off-scale high helpful on the
did-you-get-quick-and-accurate-information-that-helped-you-out scale.
Commentary on the world at large is not what drives up the Elecraft
reflector numbers.

2) It's not at all that I don't want to hear about "other new and exciting
developments". I'd just rather keep it to Elecraft here. I have really good
sources of everything else *elsewhere*. And I really do not trust any
information from folks that are just trying to stir up controversy to get
some yuks. You know who you are.

If I want to argue about rigs, I'll go join the long-running all-smiles
friendly rig-comparison food fight with some of my great lifetime friends
at PVRC.

73, Guy K2AV