Good discussion, Tony.
Re "If my fantasy radio was developed it would be
quantum based system that would allow you call
through other dimensions over vast distances with
out any propagation delay." I'd settle for an
advancement which let me work you from California
running 5 Watts to a one meter indoor antenna and
no counterpoise -- during the low part of the
sunspot cycle :-)
73, Phil W7OX
On 6/5/16 11:28 AM, Tony G6GLP wrote:
Hi All,
I thought I might put my oar in on this; New
products need a market is true and trying to
second guess it is another story.
How would I go about developing a new product? I
believe that we need to see a gap in the market
since we are not going to create a new market
like texting. The size of the addressable
customer base needs to be large enough to
support the development cost. One thing that
many people see as improvement is the touch
screen, while I support development in this area
it is not core functionality to our hobby (can I
see the flack coming on that?). The KX2 and
K-POD are good examples of pushing the new
product while building on current development (
no I dont have an inside view of the products
but it stands to reason). Who was it that said
there are many Japanese VHF txcvrs? The latest
trend is into the digital coms so something in
that area maybe the next thing but I would
recommend an open source approach to the digital
coms to get others helping with the future
development of repeater type multi channel things.
I would personally be more interested in an
integrated larger HF amp or even a combiner to
use say three KPA500 to achieve the higher output.
If my fantasy radio was developed it would be
quantum based system that would allow you call
through other dimensions over vast distances
with out any propagation delay. Maybe in a few
thousand years :-)
73 de Tony G6GLP
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