Re: [Elecraft] K3 - APP and the network effect

2008-04-02 Thread GW0ETF
Jeff Wandling NT7R wrote: One fax machine is worthless. Two, still pretty much worthless; except you can fax the other guy you too huh? 10, getting warmer 100, hotter etc.. Billions of fax machines -- now they are very valuable appliances. Rich Hall recently claimed that the

Re: [Elecraft] K3 - APP and the network effect

2008-04-02 Thread Simon Brown (HB9DRV)
Real logs are on the fire. I also have a magnifier, am 50, colour-blind, lazy and need my lunch :-) More serious that my rotten homebrew capability is the current state of the bands and the serious prospect of a Maunder Minimum :-( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunder_Minimum Simon Brown,

Re: [Elecraft] K3 - APP and the network effect

2008-04-02 Thread David Ferrington, M0XDF
Hmmm pot kettle so real logs are on paper then? :-P Oh and at 54, I have a magnifier with a light etc. 73 de M0XDF, K3 #174 -- Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. --John Steinbeck, novelist, Nobel laureate (1902-1968) On

Re: [Elecraft] K3 - APP and the network effect

2008-04-02 Thread David Ferrington, M0XDF
That is good IF you have a strip of SMD, I don't and would like to replace with SMD rather than parrell, so the kit is most welcome (and will ship with my KRX3 when its ready). But point taken about kit if you have the components. APP - no problems here :) Just my $0.02 worth 73 de M0XDF,

Re: [Elecraft] K3 - APP and the network effect

2008-04-02 Thread Simon Brown (HB9DRV)
$ set mode/level=rant Look here youngster, not everyone can see these wretched SMT components in the first place, I have problems just finding my mobile phone! Real radios use valves and take two people to lift them off the ground, anything else is just a gadget! $ set

Re: [Elecraft] K3 - APP and the network effect

2008-04-02 Thread Bill W4ZV
GW0ETF wrote: Seems like some folk like making a problem out of a solution with the Anderson power connector thing. In addition I can understand Elecraft feeling the need to provide upgrade kits for eg the CW rise time mod but can't understand why anyone would need to actually buy a

Re: [Elecraft] K3 - APP and the network effect

2008-04-02 Thread David Ferrington, M0XDF
that's a good idea - I have some scrape boards with some SMD on them -- Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity. -Lord Acton, historian (1834-1902) On 2 Apr 2008, at 11:27, Bill W4ZV

[Elecraft] K3 - APP and the network effect

2008-04-01 Thread Jeff Wandling NT7R
One fax machine is worthless. Two, still pretty much worthless; except you can fax the other guy you too huh? 10, getting warmer 100, hotter etc.. Billions of fax machines -- now they are very valuable appliances. APP's are more popular the more that are used. Elecraft made an _engineering_