Kev, I can't agree more with you, excellent response. I'm also amazed with some of the responses under this thread. I wonder what their reaction would have been if back in the day Yaesu or Kenwood had sold them an hermetically sealed radio to keep them from experimenting with their radio as they see fit or stealing their trade secret. I would argue that's actually a little against the spirit of ham radio. BTW, since the new generation of SDRs perform all main functions, such as modulation, mixing,filtering, etc. numerically within a chip, experimenting with their firmware/software will be pretty much the main way to tinker with these radios. However, I totally understand the decision to use open source is a business prerogative of Elecraft, which is the reason why I also have an Apache Labs radio to experiment with. That platform has many volunteer developing firmware and software and, after frequent updates, nothing has gotten broken beyond repair thus far. đŸ˜‰
73, Robert-KP4Y/W4 Sent from my iPhone > On May 12, 2017, at 4:46 PM, Kevin - K4VD <ke...@k4vd.net> wrote: > > ​And we certainly don't want science experiments in ham radio. Oh no.​ > Someone might get hurt. > > ​Someone asked about open source code for Elecraft. Answering him with, > no... you might break something, is a lousy answer. > > Companies can choose one way or the other. I'm not arguing that point. It > really is a decision for CEOs and CFOs and owners and bored directors. > While I'm aware of one open source Elecraft project (scary, isn't it) I'm > not expecting them open up their code for all to see. But as a community of > hams I am amazed at how we are shooting this guy's idea down dead. Then > kicking it. Then maybe shooting it again instead of commiserating with him > about all the cool things that might be missed because things are closed. > > 73, > Kev, K4VD > Reforming Curmudgeon > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to k...@yahoo.com ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
