Well-said, Doug! 😁 Ken - K0PP
On Feb 16, 2017 10:39, "Doug Turnbull" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/Mouse-n-Click-QSY- > tp7626984p7626987.htm > l > Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > ______________________________________________________________ > 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] > ______________________________________________________________ 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]
