[Elecraft] Prospective K4

Wayne Burdick n6kr at elecraft.com
Sun May 5 13:03:14 EDT 2019


Grant Youngman <ghyoungman at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
>>> 
>>> But Flex messed with the firmware to where if you were in full QSK mode and used the internal ATU a loud relay would start clicking when sending CW characters,  messing with the normally quiet QSK changeover from RX to TX.
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> 
> Lousy QSK makes it a non-starter.  

It certainly would for me :)


> Flex has always had issues with CW — QSK with too much latency to work to, now, clunky QSK?

That latency is due to processing even the demodulation channels in the frequency domain.


>  And the Sun looks nice, but I would never buy a radio hanging its hat  on Microsoft, especially on Windows 10.

Agreed. If a radio has an internal computer, it had better be transparent to the operator, including not taking forever to boot up and not being subject to problematic software upgrades.

Wayne
N6KR



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