Wayne & Eric, Here's the way it is, according to me:
I really like the radios and equipment you make. Flash is pretty but I crave an eloquent solution for what I want to do and I don't honestly give too much of a flip as to how somebody else wants their radio to be. One thing is for sure, I don't want a "one-time radio is all it is, take it or leave it", you buy it & that's what it is forever more. I want a radio that I can configure to what I want to do with it, get it right for me, and leave it configured that way. I'm a creature of habit and once it works right for me, I'll know how to use it the next time and for as long as I wish, it will perform just how I want it to; no mysteries. I want a radio that is updated such that hardware and software are made available to improve what I had earlier bought. Elecraft does this and none of the others do. Made here in the USA too. Put that on the wish list for Icom. Would I like a big knob here & there? Not if I'm not going to use it. Do I need a better contesting rig? With my K3 and wire antennas I keep on winning state and division contests in my class, I don't think more knobs would give me better scores. Faster typing might help and maybe better ears but that's organic deficits, not electronic. Would I like a big rig that is a cross between a computer and a microwave? No, not unless it also cooks for me like a microwave in the middle of one of those contests. I'll take a BrontoBurger with cheese & Chippotle sauce from the replicator, please. You two are a whole lot younger than I am and with that, the odds being what they are, you'll likely be designing and making radios well after I'm gone from this coil. So with that little bit of reality I can say that there is nobody who makes a radio I want more than my K3s at this time. You keep innovating and I'll have a company to support and in the process, I'll spruce up my shack in these here Golden years with the finest upcoming radios money can buy. I don't need the newest and greatest immediately, I can wait. But when I do want that, I know exactly where to get it; on Westridge Drive in Watsonville, California. 73, Gary KA1J ______________________________________________________________ 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
