[Elecraft] Camping radio ops: then and now

[Phil Wheeler]

I know where you're coming from, Mike. Like you I 
built my own K2 from the ground up starting in 
1999 and "completing" it in 2003 with the KDSP2 
(and some other adds updates in 2014); I still use 
the K2 regularly even with a K3/P3/KPA500 etc. My 
favorite time in the hobby was building QRP rigs 
-- many designed by Wayne -- in the 90s. And, 
Mike, I do note with appreciation your many 
contributions to the K2 odyssey!

Alas, times have changes and short of building 
another K2 that sort of pleasure is no longer 
available to me: SMT and have not become friends.

Sure I'd like to have a KX2 schematic -- and 
haven't concluded Elecraft won't provide one in 
time. But I won't deny myself the pleasure of 
using it -- and pleasure it does provide -- for 
lack of a schematic.

73, Phil W7OX

On 10/5/16 9:08 PM, Mike Morrow wrote:
> Phil wrote:
>
>> Why "But the KX2 has no schematics for the
>> customer, so that prevents my purchase.", Mike?
>> Mine works just fine, without schematics.
> It's just a matter of principal, Phil.  I've never in almost 49 years a ham purchased HF gear that did not, at minimum, include the schematics.  I'm a retired electrical engineer for whom knowing a little about what's inside the box is actually **much more important** than knowing how to operate the box.
>
> I accept that firmware will always be shrouded and proprietary.  For the hardware, if the complete (though not wholly current) KX3 system schematics can released, it is hard to understand why the same hasn't happened for the simpler KX2 system.
>
> Mine is unpopular philosophy today, when ham gear is becoming more and more like smartphones whose internal workings are shielded from the view of the vulgar mob.  (For my phones, I get as much info as I can from the FCC OET Device Listings ... even for Bluetooth headsets!)
>
> I just did not expect Elecraft to adopt that attitude.  :-)
>
> 73,
> Mike / KK5F
>
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