I agree with Victor's comments. I am all in favor of the elimination of the all-in-one, big box rigs. No vendor in the amateur radio market can be the premiere supplier in all areas even though Elecraft is trying hard. I don't consider them the best panadapter HMI vendor or best paddle manufacturer. What I would consider ideal is a rig, computer, and other "boxes" which sit behind or below the operating desk (or at a remote site). On the desk, a keyboard, mouse and/or trackball, an advanced KPod with a few more knobs and customizable LCD keys for the major rig control and antenna functions and monitor(s) for the waterfall, frequency readouts, SWR/POWER indicators, RF waveform display and logging displays.
An enclosure to corral all the miscellaneous "boxes" and their wiring would also be nice. zeke, ab8oou On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 1:13 AM Vic Rosenthal <[email protected]> wrote: > All this talk about onboard computers (or not) and operating systems in > the K4 has me thinking. > My K3 is serial no. 0007. I have had it since the beginning, and with a > few simple upgrades, it is almost as capable as a new K3S. But the > computers I had back then are long gone. > What I would like to have in the K4 is a backplane architecture. The > entire radio except for a control head would be located on plugin boards > that could be swapped out easily for testing, customizing, or upgrading. > The ENTIRE radio. The K3 goes in this direction, but not far enough. > One of the options would be an onboard computer. You could use the rig > without it or with an external computer if you wish. Maybe it would come > with some version of Linux, but you could put another version of Linux or > Windows on it if you wanted. You could upgrade it easily when it became > obsolete. > Yes, this would cost more. But with the savings available from modern > automated surface mount construction, maybe it’s possible. > > Victor 4X6GP > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
