Thus is born the KXi
On Sun, 2016-06-05 at 11:48 -0700, Phil Wheeler wrote: > 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 > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > Message delivered to [email protected] > ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
