There are some thing the universe does not allow. Driving faster than
the speed of light is one, discarding angular momentum in an isolated
system is another. So is "A small cost, small design change." I lost
count of the number of customers who said, "How come so much, it's only
a few lines of code, right?"
73,
Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County
On 9/11/2019 4:43 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote:
Bill,
Before this "idea" gets too far, let's look at the practical side of it.
You are forgetting the resources required to do that - there is still
work to design the kit, test it, and write the assembly and test
instructions. Firmware would have to be re-written to remove the band
switch to 60 meters. Then when all that has happened, write the BOM
documents and the ECO. Board design is only a small part of the total
required effort.
I am certain all available Elecraft resources are being absorbed by
"putting the wrappings on the K4", and there are none available to do
those tasks.
Even though the same board could be used, it is still a design effort
to release such a kit. For those experimenters who are enterprising,
I am certain they could "roll their own" - and maybe even could use
the raw K60XV board from Elecraft as long as stock is available. The
part of the K60XV schematic to add just the transverter interface
parts is easy to extract from the K60XV schematic. If you don't know
how to follow a schematic, a bit of learning may be required.
73,
Don W3FPR
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