Guys, I want to ring the bell to ham comunity abt new fancy radios with LED/OLED displays. In the last half year or so I've seen on FT5K forum lots of people complaining abt OLED display failure and I owne one...that scare me a lot. Being involved in R&D for over 20 years mostly in enterprise telecom I've notticed in the last year a massive invation of consumer grade components into the enterprise/professional grade equipement. Starting with near suicide initiative BYOD (bring your own "crappy" device at work) an going forward with cost reduction lifecycle- a mandatory step in any lifecycle product, the MTBF of most critical components, like displays, encoders, mechanical components, start falling down dramatically. When you spend few hundred bucks for a smartphone that anyway sooner or later in max 2 years you'll change it is not so severe but when you spend 5K+++ for a radio and after 2 years your displays are going down and guess what? that display is already obsolate part that scares me a lot. I am so happy the K3 does NOT have any tft/lcd/led display build in and I hope the next K line generation will avoid this big mistake of embedding displays in the radio and will stay like this. Just my 2 cents regarding new fancy color tv transceiver from kenwood. I have a strange feeling that we won't see aging this new transceivers generation on our desk and will become a consumer product like a coffee maker or toaster....so sad
VE3GNO Daniel ________________________________ From: Fred Smith <[email protected]> To: 'Nate Bargmann' <[email protected]>; [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, May 9, 2012 7:47:39 AM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Fw: OT: Kenwood's new rig? Your correct to this point it's still vapor ware no published findings or even FCC approval yet. I also think that QST and Sherwood's reports will make or break this radio as they have with all other high end radios. The first reports will be published in Japan well ahead of here like the Yaesu one's did with the 5000 4 mo before here. I will be compared to the FT-5000, K3, and Flex 5000 pretty much in that order in rankings as they are published and see where it falls. As we all know it has a tough row to hoe with that lineup and those who do purchase we will see if they sell them as quickly as they have the TS-590s which I have seen even cheaper than a used TS-2000. Numbers change almost daily in the radio market what was on top one day could fall the next just one of those facts will look forward to see the numbers on the 990. 73, Fred/N0AZZ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nate Bargmann Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 6:05 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Fw: OT: Kenwood's new rig? * On 2012 09 May 05:28 -0500, VE3GNO Daniel wrote: > without Rob Sherwood stamp nobody will spend big $$$ for colored displays. I beg to differ. I have seen plenty of postings that indicate a fair number are wanting a "high end" Kenwood for their shack and I think plenty will plunk down a deposit next weekend even though it is still almost sight unseen. It's almost comical reading the various forums where there seems to be a thought of "anything but a K3" amongst some. I have no doubt that Kenwood will sell plenty '990s just as they have '590s. Not to be snide, but the picture made me think I was looking at an Icom! > So far nobody knows what is ethernet port is doing...web server? > sip+codec? or just firmware upgrade. Also why 2 USB's...is one > possible to be used for a keyboard? Hopefully next week we'll have > some answers Apparently there won't be a real box to play with. From what I've read the disply will be a mock-up with no elecronics inside. Of course, that information is a few weeks old by this point. 73, de Nate, N0NB >> -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://www.n0nb.us ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.1913 / Virus Database: 2425/4987 - Release Date: 05/09/12 ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] 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:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
