I guess they'd have to avoid such as the names as
those of the seven dwarfs -- and these days even
"Grumpy, Snotty and Snort" might be problematic re
copyrights and such.
Phil W7OX
On 5/24/16 5:23 PM, Guy Olinger K2AV wrote:
It's their business, lock, stock and barrel. They could call their models
Grumpy, Snotty and Snort if they wanted to. Ain't no laws and nuthin in the
bible about it, except maybe can't name something with a cuss word or
something on the FCC banned word list. No IEEE standards. Just so long as
the copyright on the names ain't owned by someone else.
I'm just glad they came out with a technology leap beyond FT1000MP et al. I
sure have enjoyed the improvements. And they pushed Yakencom so hard they
all had to deal with it to compete so aficionados of other brands are
finally reaping the benefits of Elecraft progress.
I'm at least a bit of a curmudgeon, maybe more than a bit, and they treat
me nice anyway. So why should I complain about what combination they pull
out of the letter/number soup to name their babies?
SXG4 R2.3 Q
Twiddy 5
3 Slock 75
Names could be a LOT worse than KAT500.
Me thinks some people will complain no matter what Elecraft does. They hate
Elecraft so bad they can't stay off the Elecraft reflector.
73 Guy K2AV
On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 7:18 PM, Mike Morrow <[email protected]> wrote:
Phil wrote:
Interesting analysis, Mike -- though relating the various *AT* acronyms
to rigs is a bit mind bending :-)
Don't I know it, Phil! K1AT, K2AT, K3AT, KX1AT, KX2AT, KX3AT, etc. would
be clearer and cleaner. Then, there's KAT100, KAT500, KXAT100...perhaps
K2AT100, K3AT500, KX3AT100 would be more obvious, or just K2AT1, K3AT5,
KX3AT1.
This is only good-nature'd nitpicking...but after 17 years I still wonder
why a simple consistent nomenclature system is not used. :-)
73,
Mike / KK5F
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