[Elecraft] Elecraft's source code

[Matt Maguire]

If you want to play around with and learn about SDR, I suggest you build a soft rock kit. Keep your Electaft rig for listening on the bands while you work in the kit :-)

73 de Matt VK2RQ

> On 12 May 2017, at 1:30 pm, Ken G Kopp <kengkopp at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Mike!
> 
> Your question has been asked before in several forms.  AFAIK, the answer is
> "No", and I hope it remains so.
> 
> If you were able to change your Elecraft's "personality" in some way to
> make it unique ... regardless of the merit of your change ... it would no
> longer really be an Elecraft would it?
> 
> If you were to sell your unit ... or need to send it somewhere for repair
> ... what / who would know what had been altered in the radio's "brains"?
> 
> In my view, it would be akin to putting an engine from a Ford under the
> hood of a Buick.  The result might well result in an improvement, but the
> resulting vehicle would always be an oddity that few would want to deal
> with.
> 
> Some who own / buy animals pay close attention to the genetics of their
> critters, and sometimes someone's idea goes wrong.
> 
> Then there's the added staff at Elecraft needed to deal with the code
> alterations gone wrong in units sent in for "psychiatric" repair.
> 
> We place a tremendous amount of confidence in Elecraft based on the
> reputation of the company's products, and a major portion of that comes
> down to the integrity of "the code".
> 
> 73!
> 
> Ken Kopp - K0PP
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> On May 11, 2017 20:38, "Mike Parkes" <mspmail2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello Elecraft group,
> I don't own anything made by Elecraft yet however I have been shopping for
> an HF rig to get active again (I have been off the air for a number of
> years for personal reasons). I really like Elecraft's products, and I am
> intrigued by the 'software definable radio' possibilities in this new breed
> of amateur radio equipment design.
> 
> I have a question though, related to what can or can't be done with an
> Elecraft SDR transceiver*. Is the source "code" able to be modified by the
> End User?* Or is it proprietary in some way so that only those at Elecraft
> can touch the code? I have been monitoring this list for while now and have
> yet to read anything like, "hey check out this cool change I made on the
> Elecraft KX3 code! Before the radio only did this - now it does this!" and
> next thing you know there are some very cool user modified code being made
> available. Like, the ham being able to add their call into the code? (see
> this
> example
> <https://spacemodels.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/customized-display-kx3.jpg>
> )
> 
> 73's
> Mike AB7RU
> 
> PS I tried to send this with the image attached and it got kicked back with
> an error message so apologies if is a duplicate email list submission from
> me.
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