[Lowfer] Ultimate LOWFER Transmitter?

[Ed Phillips]

W2MXW wrote:
> 
> Ed,
> 
> Some people may not want to build their own, even if they can, for various
> reasons. Others may not feel they are capable, but want a decent Lowfer
> station. That is why commercially made products like the Curry
> Communications and LW-MAX units exist even in such a small market. You can
> hardly say they have contributed to making Lowfers 'appliance operators'.
> How many people on this reflector have purchased something like for example
> the LW-MAX even though they may have been able to build one substantially
> similar? How many people did because they couldn't (or felt they couldn't)
> build their own but wanted to get on the air?
> We're offering an opportunity for the Lowfer community to take part in
> designing a rig, not taking away from their ability to make their own if
> they so desire.
> 
> Jon W2MXW

	That wasn't intended to criticize the product, but to just to lament
what seems to be the passing of the experimenter culture as we used to
know it thirty years ago.  (Guess I'm showing my age.)  I for one, feel
guilty buying even a modern transceiver because I know, in theory at
least, I could design and build it myself.  As you say, though, in
practice "life's too short".

	I have observed that, over the years, there seem to be more and more
guys buying and using stuff that they don't understand, and THAT is what
I mean by appliance operating.  To me that's wrong as is the passing of
a real requirement for code.  .

Ed