[Elecraft] Firmware development

[Buddy Brannan]

They also released a whole new radio, the ‘590SG not long after the original ‘590S. The K3 didn’t have a replacement upgrade like that, meaning the K3 to theK3s, for something like 10 years, and they even gave an upgrade path to make the K3 very close in performance to the K3s. No such for the ‘590S to ‘590SG. 


Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
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> On Nov 25, 2020, at 12:39 PM, Neil Zampella <neilz at techie.com> wrote:
> 
> Of course, as mentioned previously in this thread, large companies have
> funds that they can invest in personnel to do the development, so I
> would expect that Kenwood would be able to assign personnel quickly to
> handle such issues.
> 
> Neil, KN3ILZ
> 
> On 11/25/2020 10:25 AM, Andy Durbin wrote:
>> "Name any other company that gives you FREE firmware updates in real time (not months later like Icom or never like most others) until the issues are resolved to the user satisfaction; or that ADD features previously unavailable."
>> 
>> Kenwood!
>> 
>> Kenwood has released firmware updates for TS-590S defects that I reported and made product improvements that I suggested.   My experience is that Kenwood has fixed problems far more quickly than Elecraft.
>> 
>> 73,
>> Andy, k3wyc
>> 
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