[Elecraft] K4?

[Wes Stewart]

If you watch Rob's presentation here: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owaaT6u4XkY&index=10&list=PLRSwUN4qr1LpU_cjWRYvszhDggoqlEQFF
you could note the sales figures for the ICOM 7300, an SDR radio WITH knobs.

Currently available radios without knobs are sold by Flex and Apache.  But now 
Flex has the "M" series with knobs.  Maybe that says something about what the 
market prefers.

Personally, I want knobs.

Wes  N7WS

On 5/19/2018 3:36 PM, Dauer, Edward wrote:
>    Me too.  After I determined some years ago that my then-new K3 was actually working, I gave my Yaesus away - both of them.  I haven't missed them since.  My backups are now a pair of K2s at one QTH and a KX3/KXPA at another.
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> I suspect many though not all of the capability changes - as opposed to the ergonomic changes - proposed in this thread could be implemented without changing the box.  If there were one additional item on my list it would be having an internal keyer that would make external logging programs redundant.  And the NR system . . .
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> Apart from that, and apart from my own ergonomic preferences, I am willing to bet that whatever comes next isn't a bigger box but rather the other way around.  I have heard the K3/S described more than once as an SDR with knobs.  Maybe.  But my bet would be , if there is a K4 or some such, it will be an SDR without knobs.  Any takers?
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> Ted, KN1CBR
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