If you want to play around with and learn about SDR, I suggest you build a soft rock kit. Keep your Electaft rig for listening on the bands while you work in the kit :-)
73 de Matt VK2RQ > On 12 May 2017, at 1:30 pm, Ken G Kopp <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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] ______________________________________________________________ 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]
