Dear OMs and YLs,
To me this is harsh indeed. Who provides better service for the Ham
Radio community? Do we think that we are the directors of Elecraft? For
a moment it sounded like the K-Pod was being criticised - well this is worth
a lot to me and I have one on each of my K3 radios. Elecraft, I am still a
very happy camper when it comes to your product line, service and
accessibility. Clearly it is hard to please us all and I imagine these
critical e-mails stimulate further design ideas.
I am thankful not to be tied to a PC!!! It will become obsolete. Not
many such radios will make it into the Steam Radio Category still being used
after twenty let alone fifty years.
Well that is my 2 cents. It just surprises me to hear such virulence
directed towards an amazing group of engineers with a first class company.
73 Doug EI2CN
-----Original Message-----
From: Elecraft [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joe
Stone (KF5WBO)
Sent: 16 February 2017 17:26
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Mouse-n-Click QSY
When I see Elecraft dodge a trivial firmware change like this year after
year, I can't help but wonder if they have ulterior motives. Maybe Elecraft
plans to introduce a $250 wired remote control knob. Maybe they hope
someday the knob will control the P3 / PX3. Maybe they feel adding a few
lines of firmware to enable a $5 wireless mouse will impact the sales of
their $250 knob. Maybe they're just busy. When they don't respond to a
feature request, it leaves us guessing.
This brings me back to my previous thread. We need a more structured
approach to tracking Elecraft feature requests (and bugs). We need a record
of when Mouse-n-Click QSY was first proposed. Elecraft can come back and
say, "The P3 / PX3 is out of firmware memory space." Or, "The P3 / PX3
doesn't have the MIPS to sample IQ, process the 1024-point FFT, update the
displays (spectrum and waterfall), field remote-control commands, . AND
position a marker based on the delta-X field in a mouse HID descriptor".
This disposition will be captured along with the feature request in a
central repository for everyone to see, now and forever. In another month
or two when someone requests Mouse-n-Click QSY, we can simply refer them to
the (now closed) feature request. Ideally, they'd search the feature / bug
list first.
Clearly, Elecraft isn't interested in maintaining / exposing a list of
features and defects raised by their user community. I've received several
offers from members willing to host this list. We should have something up
and running in a few weeks.
Joe
KF5WBO
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