My point is, even with just the laptop + computer, you, for better or worse, already have 4 3rd parties involved before you ever get to use your rig: - the laptop manufacturer - the SDR/Interface software manufacturers - the OS vendor - elecraft
If any of these have a problem working with each other, you've got a fair bit of work ahead of you. If it works, great, but if not.... If say the P3 + K3 were to work adequately for some application, say just using casual PSK and that's ok for what you want to do, that list of 3rd party vendors reduces down to one: Elecraft. Your chances of success at getting that working and well-supported are pretty good and could be a significant advantage. But Chen's point is good too and I don't want to diminish your point either. For example, I have cocoamodem running on my macbook right now scanning PSK signals from my K3 and it's just a joy to use. It is able to decode sigs I can hardly even hear out of the audio, QSYs to different stations is done with just a mouse click, it's even got integration into RUMLog, etc. and yes all with only 2 audio cords and a USB->RS232 adaptor (course the computer being a mac helps a lot hi hi)...... So yes, capabilities like that available from general purpose computing are going to be a VERY tough act to follow and elecraft has its work cut out for them to compete on that level. All I'm saying is a special-purpose solution can offer (if nothing else) the single-vendor advantage and that can be significant depending on the application. It should be counted out is what I mean.. 73, LS W5QD -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/P3-tp4914382p4918618.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
