I AGREE! If I can't have a radio that does not rely on some external computer of various questionable hardware integrity, some other company's flaky operating system and all put together by a 3rd party vendor..........I won't buy that radio.
A fully stand-a-lone radio is highly preferred. All I want is to connect power, antenna, mike, key and I'm on the air. 73 Bob, K4TAX ----- Original Message ----- From: "lstavenhagen" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2010 2:38 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] P3 > > 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 > ______________________________________________________________ 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
