What really is missing here is a wireless headphone/mic that does not need cords and can be worked with line in/out. The enemy is not the smaller and smaller boxes. One day I will have a K3 AND a TV AND a browser that fits on my wrist. The "K3" will be an app that can be configured to talk to just about anything. I will be able to be in CA and run my K3 in NC.
We're close. I'll have a keyboard that only talks to my master com unit on my wrist. A video expander that gets its stuff only from my master com unit on my wrist. Permanent storage that gets its stuff and sends its stuff to/from my master com unit on my wrist. Does anyone put up with phones with cords anymore? Or remote controls with cords. Or car keys that you actually have to put in a lock? Is there some way to move FORWARD in our love/hate relationship with cords? Talk about old and dust covered analog. Listen to us, talking about solving ergonometric problems with patch panels. Quaint, and a part of me thinks that's really neat. Rest of me thinks that's really retro. Small is very useful. Right now I have my K3, a Microham u2R, a K2/10 and an EC2 BOX KPA100/KAT100 box, some speakers in the 6 1/2 inch space directly under my 32" 16x10 monitor, which is at the level picked out by SAS' ergo people years ago to fix my head/neck/back problem at work (worked brilliantly). The entire space is taken up by my MP as an alternate, and of course totally inadequate for my 75A3 and Ranger. Big hands/thumbs/fingers are not under our control. I have small fingers and thereby do not have issues that others do. But shouldn't our solutions be how to make SMALL fit WELL with BIG fingers? What will you big finger guys do when your master com unit is strapped to your wrist. How are you coping with Iphones, Ipads, and the like. Ignoring all of that and only buying "big-button" cell phones? And complaining endlessly about the key pads on Blackberries? What direction is the future from this discussion? How do we run our K3's controls from an Android touch app? There are days when the discussion here seems to be screaming to go back to the past, and learning digital is the absolute enemy. 73, and Blackberries drove me nuts with SMALL fingers... Guy. On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Brendan Minish <ei6iz.bren...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Mike > > I have always used the rear connectors, it helps with usability. > I like the flexibility of all the I/O available on the back of the K3 > but I got rather sick of reaching around the back of the radio so I > reused an old audio patch bay to take care of the routing, it also > helped fill out the Icom 7800 sized hole in my station. > > http://ei6iz.com/?p=4 > > > > On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 06:09 -0400, Mike wrote: >> I've been a lot happier since I plugged both the cans and mic into the rear >> jacks. >> >> 73, Mike NF4L > > -- > 73 > Brendan EI6IZ > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > ______________________________________________________________ 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
