[Elecraft] An FT8 Radio- just dreaming

[SteveL]

This purpose-designed digital transceiver for FT8 (and other digital modes) has received some attention recently:
https://midnightdesignsolutions.com/phaser/ <https://midnightdesignsolutions.com/phaser/>
Not exactly revolutionary, but compact QRP design needing only a laptop - or even something like a Raspberry Pi - to use with digital modes.

And a number of years ago a fully self contained ultra portable PSK31 transceiver was shown at Hamvention:
https://www.silentsystem.jp/handypsk.htm <https://www.silentsystem.jp/handypsk.htm>
http://forum.radioamateur.ca/index.php?topic=8379.0 <http://forum.radioamateur.ca/index.php?topic=8379.0>

Steve
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> On Feb 21, 2021, at 10:36 PM, Doug Millar via Elecraft <elecraft at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
> 
> I have been wondering for some time- How will FT8 change ham radio equipment?  Right off I imagine a radio and computer in one box maybe with the display. (FT8 should vastly simplify the first interface with the radio, with menus reaching deeper into its control. Most of today's designs are not well enough integrated and I think are hampered by preconceptions. Nor do they take advantage of graphic user interfaces that are common in say cell phones.  I think it could be one box with voice and touch control with keyboard and mouse optional. How about an internal projector so that the screen can be projected onto another surface making monitors optional? If it is going to be worth it, It has to be not different but do things differently. 
>     Has anyone else had any thoughts?