One other thing I will say about this. I do personally also see what Wayne/Eric/Lyle are probably up against as far as the PC+SDR juggernaut. The fight involved in forcing square pegs like a PC running Windows into a round hole like controlling a ham rig is one that most of us are simply used to from other applications and are therefore willing to keep trying.
Frankly, many of us are simply accustomed to horrible general purpose designs like Windows/PC's for applications like this, there's a very strong perception that that's the way using a computer is supposed to be. Some solutions like PSK and software like cocoaModem are ingenious workarounds to this general problem, but ultimately there's still a lot of Rube Goldberg involved there that we're just accustomed to: A hard-to-use operating system talking to a broken driver talking to a USB port talking to USB->RS232 converter talking to an RS232 port on a rig talking to a..... you get the idea. This is an NP-hard problem for purpose-built hardware/software solutions in general these days, even when they're very well designed and work really well. Hammering some junk Dell somewhere running garbage like Windows into the problem is often still the preferred method (usually because of cost or general availability of the hardware, etc) even when a much more elegant and effective (but proprietary and purpose-built) solution is available. So to sum up, I'm hopeful about the P3 but I also realize that there're more realistic concerns that elecraft will have to deal with here....... My .02, 73, LS W5QD -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/P3-tp4914382p4917601.html Sent from the [K3] mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________ 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
