Yup, Yup and Yup that's the reason I have Elecraft gear. Not buying new radio gear every 2 years like I did with my Yaesu and Icom gear. I for one agree with the business model and great equipment.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Wayne Burdick Sent: Friday, June 07, 2013 11:58 AM To: Keith-K5ENS Cc: Elecraft Reflector Subject: Re: [Elecraft] A Rob Sherwood's talk in Dayton Keith (K5ENS) wrote: > I'm not sure what is to gain by holding back improvements. As a early > K3 owner I would love to see a better K3 offered. > I would have a choice to keep my early K3 or replace it with a > improved unit. Radios evolve all the time. Hi Keith, It's highly desirable that changes be retrofittable since we have some 7,500 K3s in the field. But there are different levels of "mod". The mod we made to the RF choke (to reduce receive AF IMD) was simple, involving a component change. Let's call that "level 1". Nearly all of the K3's mods over the years have been of this type. We could completely redesign the AF stage if it were warranted, requiring replacement of the DSP board. Some customers might be willing to pay for such an upgrade, and we wouldn't . That would be "level 2". Now suppose we came up with something truly revolutionary, like a switch from an LCD to and OLED display. That would require replacement of the entire front panel module, and we might change the model number of the radio--a "level 3" change. (We are *not* going to do that, by the way :) Any of the above changes are retrofittable, and I can assure you that we're not holding anything back. The K3 was designed in a modular fashion so it can adapt to new requirements. 73, Wayne N6KR ______________________________________________________________ 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: 2013.0.2904 / Virus Database: 3199/6391 - Release Date: 06/07/13 ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.2904 / Virus Database: 3199/6391 - Release Date: 06/07/13 ______________________________________________________________ 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
