I picture myself walking into a ham radio shop (remember the days when we used to do that weekly?) and I go to the HF transceiver section and I see:
On the far left the are the tiny SDR boxes that you can only operate via a computer and the front panel choices are all software and essentially everyone can have their own front panel. On the far left are the enormous TS-990 type transceivers where the front panel includes every function you might ever need and several graphic displays to show anything you might ever want to look at. In between is a wide range of transceiver choices across the spectrum, from tiny QRP radios with limited front panel functionality to medium sized desktop transceivers with lots of (but not all) buttons on the front panel and some menu functionality, etc. As someone who likes to do Field Day and the occasional state QSO party from a mobile environment, and does lots of DXing and contesting from the home shack, and almost invariably uses computer logging as part of every operation, I walked to the center left of that "store" and first checked out the receivers and *then* played with the front panels - and the K3 won the bakeoff. I think that is what the Elecraft brand means - top notch receivers with clean transmitters in small packages that are designed to be used with computers an occasionally (or frequently) outside of the shack. That's where I'd like to see the Elecraft resources stay focused. There really is no shortage of good choices on the left and right of that HF section, but only a few quality choices in that "center left"... 73 John K3TN -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/K3-Ergonomics-tp7586478p7586527.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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
