Actually, a bluetooth interface, especially for headset use, is a serious consideration.
Most states have enacted a patchwork of anti-cellphone laws that to a greater or lesser degree adversely impact amateur (and other) radio operators. The purpose of this comment is NOT to start a thread on whether or not these various laws have merit. Rather, it is to set the background for a request to support handsfree usage of frankly, any of the phone rigs that Elecraft markets. There is a 3rd party that markets a bolt-on system to use with most any rig, but it is pricey (several hundred dollars) and clumsy (it seems that NO ONE makes a decent bluetooth headset for PTT operators). And that turns out to be the real challenge. If someone could design a decent affordable bluetooth headset with a reasonable PTT mechanism, I believe the radio world would beat a path to your door. "Reasonable" DOES NOT mean having to push a button on the ear piece. My apologies if this has been hashed to death on here before. I'm about a year behind reading all the older email on this list. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KX3 netbook > From: "Leigh L. Klotz Jr WA5ZNU" <le...@wa5znu.org> > Date: Thu, June 02, 2011 6:12 pm > To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > > Byron N6NUL wrote: > > > > Ok, Eric, you asked for it. Ready? Here we go: > > > > How about adding Bluetooth stereo audio, microphone, keyboard, and serial > > profiles to the KX3? > > > > The HFPack crowd would like this to, as I opined earlier. Stick radio in > back, operate remotely from hand-held device (homebrew or commercial). > > Leigh/WA5ZNU > > -- > View this message in context: > http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/KX3-netbook-tp6428867p6433099.html > Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
