[Elecraft] K3 on motorboat.

[Barry]

Don,
     Yep. You do understand what I was trying to say. What a lot of folks 
don't understand is that the compromises I make may or may not be those 
that you would make, and if there were more engineers involved, there 
could be that many reflections of what needs to be done. All I can say 
is life sometimes was challenging.

     Ham radio reflects a lot of the things you and I faced. For 
instance, what antenna should be used. All the answers may be 
technically correct, but try and fit a 80 meter antenna into a 20 meter 
antenna. I know there will be a host of ideas on what should go in. Each 
will be a compromise. Look to this reflector to see what I mean. Each 
ham has his own idea of what needs to be done; it gets down to how you 
interpret the requirement set.

73,
Barry
K3NDM

------ Original Message ------
From: "Don Wilhelm" <donwilh at embarqmail.com>
To: "Barry" <k3ndm at comcast.net>; elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Sent: 6/10/2020 9:46:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 on motorboat.

>Barry,
>
>Sometimes we have to put on the Scientists hat, but when the rubber meets the road and we have to come up with a product, we have to put on the design engineers hat and say that how much compromise is required to meet 1) customer demands, 2) budget constraints, 3) speed to first customer shipment, 4) adherence to the initial specifications that have been published.
>If you can meet 2 of the 4 above, you have done OK, 3 is better, but takes more effort.
>
>I worked both as a design engineer and as a Product Assurance Test Team Leader whose efforts were to test the product to conform to the specifications or fix it - an alternative was to change the specifications, which usually did not sit well with me, but was reality.
>
>73,
>W3FPR
>
>On 6/10/2020 7:55 PM, Barry wrote:
>>Don,
>>     I worked as a design engineer and then transitioned to system engineering/project management. In those latter days, I would receive a requirement set from which I needed to make sense. I also had budgetary issues that were built in, more requirements than money.  And, there might have been other conflicts. So, I know what e had to do, maximize the number of requirements satisfied with in the set.
>>
>>     Yes. We engineers were pretty well trained, but when making decisions on what had to go or be included it wasn't always a 2+2 = 4 which is precise. Mathematicians are precise and there may be only answer to the equation, but that wasn't the world I was living in; I could have many different solutions based on the requirements. This is the point I was trying to make.
>>
>


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