Hi Mike! Your question has been asked before in several forms. AFAIK, the answer is "No", and I hope it remains so.
If you were able to change your Elecraft's "personality" in some way to make it unique ... regardless of the merit of your change ... it would no longer really be an Elecraft would it? If you were to sell your unit ... or need to send it somewhere for repair ... what / who would know what had been altered in the radio's "brains"? In my view, it would be akin to putting an engine from a Ford under the hood of a Buick. The result might well result in an improvement, but the resulting vehicle would always be an oddity that few would want to deal with. Some who own / buy animals pay close attention to the genetics​ of their critters, and sometimes someone's idea goes wrong. Then there's the added staff at Elecraft needed to deal with the code alterations gone wrong in units sent in for "psychiatric" repair. We place a tremendous amount of confidence in Elecraft based on the reputation of the company's​ products, and a major portion of that comes down to the integrity of "the code". 73! Ken Kopp - K0PP On May 11, 2017 20:38, "Mike Parkes" <[email protected]> wrote: Hello Elecraft group, I don't own anything made by Elecraft yet however I have been shopping for an HF rig to get active again (I have been off the air for a number of years for personal reasons). I really like Elecraft's products, and I am intrigued by the 'software definable radio' possibilities in this new breed of amateur radio equipment design. I have a question though, related to what can or can't be done with an Elecraft SDR transceiver*. Is the source "code" able to be modified by the End User?* Or is it proprietary in some way so that only those at Elecraft can touch the code? I have been monitoring this list for while now and have yet to read anything like, "hey check out this cool change I made on the Elecraft KX3 code! Before the radio only did this - now it does this!" and next thing you know there are some very cool user modified code being made available. Like, the ham being able to add their call into the code? (see this example <https://spacemodels.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/customized-display-kx3.jpg> ) 73's Mike AB7RU PS I tried to send this with the image attached and it got kicked back with an error message so apologies if is a duplicate email list submission from me. ______________________________________________________________ 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]
