[Elecraft] Ideas for an FT8 Radio

[Walter Underwood]

Two words, “WSJT-X 2.0”. :-)

With five year old software, you wouldn’t be running any kind of FT8.

I worked on software for test and measurement instruments at HP. Even twenty years ago, software was moving out of the box into general purpose computers.

wunder
K6WRU
Walter Underwood
CM87wj
http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog)

> On Dec 30, 2018, at 12:47 PM, Phil Kane <k2asp at kanafi.org> wrote:
> 
> On 12/30/2018 11:20 AM, Walter Underwood wrote:
> 
>> So after five years, the radio will still be competitive, but the computer might not even run current software.
> 
> But then again, why update the software when it's doing the job that it
> was intended for.  A close friend runs his very successful business of
> manufacturing and distributing repair parts for musical instruments
> using computers running DOS applications!
> 
> 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
> Elecraft K2/100   s/n 5402
> 
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