In a message dated 6/4/07 2:18:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Wow - 98 against, 2 for. > Seems pretty clear what people want! > Industry, > and commercial orgs - DO NOT go the reflector > mail-based route. But we are amateurs. We don't *have to* do things the way industry does them. We do them the way we like to, as long as certain regulations are met. This goes far beyond message boards and email reflectors. I don't think there are any non-amateur users of PSK31, yet the K3 has the mode built-in, because we hams do use the mode. Only a handful of nonamateurs still use Morse Code/CW for communication, yet all Elecraft rigs are optimized for the mode, and it's the only mode the K1, KX1, and base-model K2 will do - because we hams use it. Big fat analog-style tuning knobs are rare outside amateur radio, but we hams still like 'em. There are lots more examples. When the K2 first appeared, I heard skeptics say that it was the wrong way to go. They said Elecraft should have looked at what the rest of the industry was doing - which certainly wasn't selling $500-plus QRP CW rigs you have to build! 6000+ K2s and I-don't-know-how-many K1s and KX1s later, it seems those skeptics missed the whole point. 73 de Jim, N2EY ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
