Hi Mike, As others have pointed out, our products’ software and firmware are generally not open-source. However, there are a few things you can do to customize them:
- Each rig (as well as accessories such as panadapters, ATUs, and amplifiers) has a very comprehensive set of remote-control commands. You can use these in your own software applications. Third party transceiver-control programs like “HRD” make extensive use of these commands. See the programmer’s reference on our website for individual products. - Remote-control commands can be combined into “macros” using the Utility software we provide. These can then be assigned to buttons within the utility itself, or sent to the radio for assignment to switches. The K3S, for example, has up to 10 user-programmable switch functions. Macros can be optionally triggered by our K-Pod controller, which many contesters place by their computer keyboard to make frequent radio control changes more efficient. - You can have the radio display a “banner” on power-up (yes, including your callsign if desired) We also take input from customers, and as time permits, incorporate new features. For example, we added PSK63 modulation/demodulation to some of our transceivers not long ago. This is the sort of extensibility that makes a transceiver an “SDR”. 73, Wayne N6KR > On May 11, 2017, at 7:38 PM, Mike Parkes <mspma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello Elecraft group, > I don't own anything made by Elecraft yet however I have been shopping for > an HF rig to get active again (I have been off the air for a number of > years for personal reasons). I really like Elecraft's products, and I am > intrigued by the 'software definable radio' possibilities in this new breed > of amateur radio equipment design. > > I have a question though, related to what can or can't be done with an > Elecraft SDR transceiver*. Is the source "code" able to be modified by the > End User?* Or is it proprietary in some way so that only those at Elecraft > can touch the code? I have been monitoring this list for while now and have > yet to read anything like, "hey check out this cool change I made on the > Elecraft KX3 code! Before the radio only did this - now it does this!" and > next thing you know there are some very cool user modified code being made > available. Like, the ham being able to add their call into the code? (see this > example > <https://spacemodels.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/customized-display-kx3.jpg> > ) > > 73's > Mike AB7RU > > PS I tried to send this with the image attached and it got kicked back with > an error message so apologies if is a duplicate email list submission from > me. > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to n...@elecraft.com ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
