[Elecraft] Elecraft K4 - WiFi ability

[Grant Youngman]

There were a couple of comments by Wayne during some pre-announcement “speculation” on the K4.  If my memory serves me correctly the discussion was around the possibility of there being a Linux machine in the radio.

Presuming there is in fact s Linux machine in the K4, then it is probably tasked with managing I/O and networking, in addition to the remote connection server, and whatever else.  So there would be a standard OS type available for managing thing like a wireless adapter.

Guesswork of course, since (at least in the videos I saw) there was no explicit discussion of the network environment in the booth or exactly how the K4 was connected to the wireless network.  Wayne did comment that they were using the infrastructure installed at the hamfest facility.  But there was clearly a wireless connection to the Microsoft table computer, which was running client side remote software in a Linux virtual machine.

Eventually, there will be block diagrams of the control/processing structure in the radio .. and more will be known.

Grant NQ5T
K3 #2091 KX3 #8342

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> this is not good for K4. These products are thought to be manage by operative systems and drivers (like Windows or Mac or Linux), this is not the case of the K4 that have a custom "OS" and can't manage that kind of devices.
> Maybe you can use more complicated and expensive devices thought to be used with RJ-45 ports,