>We all have a wide view of the hobby and I for one respect that, >however I believe that NO mod is required and if done by FW then >some very intense testing will need to be done as we have seen >with the latest FW Beta releases the testing period was rushed and several changes had to be done.
I appreciate your views, and certainly your situation is different from others, both those who want their radios to handle strong signals well, and those who don't care. However, again, I feel compelled to point out that your belief that "NO mod is required" is inconsistent with the "wide view of the hobby." I personally have no need for ESSB, but I appreciate the fact that Elecraft has spent time on it to satisfy the needs of others who do, thus broadening their customer base. And I fully expect that Elecraft will be able to pull off this, and other future changes, without adverse affect on other uses of their equipment. In summary, I don't believe that Elecraft needs a series of messages from hams saying not to implement optional features in the fear that it might break something. Leigh/WA5ZNU > Quote > > Sentiments like the one below make me think that quite a few people have > not yet encountered HFpack, one of the largest ham radio interest groups. > > To the contrary. > > We have studied widely on portable operations. As we live in a remote area of > Australia HF comms is not a novelty, it is absolutely vital to assist S and R > people to find you when something happens. It is not a game. We (Australia) > gave the world (the UN also) the Codan and Barrett radios and antennas. > Australia gave the US military some sophisticated communications technology > and the testing of this type of equipment is done in Outback Australia, not a > convenient few hundred square miles of *desert* and because we live in an > area such as this we do practice all types of HF mobile and portable comms. > > Backpacking around these parts can be quite difficult and dangerous, we have > had many deaths over the years because communications were either inadequate > or a lack of proper planning was not done correctly or worse, not done at all. > > I repeat, I do not expect anyone I know would be so foolish as to enter my > property talking on ssb @ 100W if they bothered to look up the tower and saw > the HF Quad (5 bands) and had any anticipation of a warm greeting at the door. > > The next multi-op operation by way of *remote* will be at Conjuboy Station > (Con_jew_boy) (Ranch) which is large enough that it is marked on the road > maps of Queensland. > > We will be running: > > K3 and FT-897D > 10/15/20m 4 element triband yagi > 80M full wave loop > 40m full wave loop > 30m full wave loop > > FT-847 > > 6m 5 element wide spaced yagi > 2m 9 element yagi > 70cm 13 element yagi > > All within a small clearing beside a creek fed by a natural spring. > > I do not think we will have any issues this time either, again due to > planning the operation. > > We all have a wide view of the hobby and I for one respect that, however I > believe that NO mod is required and if done by FW then some very intense > testing will need to be done as we have seen with the latest FW Beta releases > the testing period was rushed and several changes had to be done. > > A single FW change can be fine for the intended change but can lead to > problems for many owners who had no need for the change to be done. > > Gary > > > Sent via BlackBerry® from Telstra > ______________________________________________________________ > 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
