There are not many choices that are actually available. And some (most) vendors provide no support. I just built a 40 meter qrp cw transceiver. It was missing parts which took 4 weeks to get; the instructions were poor and incorrect; the rx performance was marginal and tx only put out half of its specified power So, pretty much how things were before Elecraft. And, I agree. A 10 meter rig would be nice.
Doug -- K0DXV On 4/8/2011 1:51 PM, Ed - K9EW wrote: > There are several monoband choices available already, but what I > haven't found is one for 10m. With the sunspot cycle on the rise, > this would be a very desirable rig, and possibly the only source for > one on that band. And by all means, make it a 4-pole crystal filter. > > ed - k9ew > > On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Doug Person<k0...@aol.com> wrote: >> Dave is hard at work developing some new products which he won't comment >> on. The DSW was a nice little rig. Wish I hadn't sold mine. But that >> is certainly the general idea. A nice little single band at half the >> cost or less and half the size of the K1. >> >> Doug -- K0DXV >> >> On 4/8/2011 9:59 AM, Mike Morrow wrote: >>> Doug wrote: >>> >>>> One other thing: I really wish Wayne and Eric would peal off one of >>>> their talented junior engineers and design a K0. (K zero). A single >>>> band superhet with 2-3 watts out and super compact. >>> So...maybe a K0-15 for 15 meters. I like that concept. >>> >>> Before the K1 became available in 2000, I had built three of Dave Benson's >>> Small Wonder Labs DSW series of mono-band PIC- and DDS-technology QRP rigs. >>> I still have the DSW-20, -30, and -40 and they remain great and very >>> innovative QRP transceivers. Wonderful rigs! >>> >>> My only issue with those $130 (in 1999) units was that the operating system >>> allowed ONLY iambic mode B keying, which I consider an abomination. :-) >>> However, Jackson Harbor Press produced a direct plug-in replacement PIC >>> (controller) for $7 (!!) called the DSWK that offered many additional >>> features over the original SWL PIC, including selectable iambic keying >>> mode (just like Elecraft). >>> >>> The DSW (and later DSW-II) with the DSWK PIC created what is IMHO still >>> the neatest small mono-band QRP rig of all time. Unfortunately, Dave >>> discontinued the DSW series several years ago, leaving that market empty. >>> I regret not having purchased a DSW-II-80 when it was available. >>> >>> Today I almost always use the K1, but sometimes I will take one of the DSWs >>> when I just want a very small mono-band set. >>> >>> Elecraft advanced the PIC/DDS concept to the multi-band feature-rich KX1 all >>> in a small package, yet I also believe there's still something appealing >>> about >>> a smaller, simpler, mono-band rig. A new Elecraft rig that combined some >>> characteristics of the SWL DSW-II and the (don't laugh) MFJ Cub would be >>> great. >>> The DSW characteristic would mean a rig that needed NO LED or LCD display. >>> All >>> control response output would be Morse. The MFJ Cub characteristic would >>> mean >>> a rig with all the "boring drudgery" components being machine pre-assembled >>> surface-mounted to the PCB. Only a few major components that mostly >>> determine >>> the operating frequency would be required to be hand assembled by the >>> builder. >>> Such a rig could be put together in an evening while encountering much less >>> opportunity for construction error. (There'd be much less demand on >>> Elecraft >>> tech support for troubleshooting.) Choose a DDS chip that can be clocked >>> high enough to allow a 15m model, use a four-pole IF filter, and provide an >>> AGC circuit. Mono-band CW perfection! >>> >>> I'd buy a couple, maybe more. >>> >>> Mike / KK5F >>> ______________________________________________________________ >>> 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 >> ______________________________________________________________ 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
