What separates a company whose product has failures (and you're right, they all can) is how that failure is remediated. NOBODY beats Elecraft!
73, Mike NF4L On 5/9/12 10:41 AM, Fred Smith wrote: > Well 26 months and still counting and not a single glitch with my FT-5000, > never know about tomorrow. But that can happen with a Rolls Royce or a > Volkswagen. I don't care what it is components fail all radios can have that > faults no one's left out in that either. > > 73, > Fred/N0AZZ > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of VE3GNO Daniel > Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 9:05 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Fw: OT: Kenwood's new rig? > > 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>> > ______________________________________________________________ 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
