On 5/26/2016 3:18 PM, Phil Wheeler wrote:
One reason I invest in Elecraft rigs, and have from the beginning, is the way they evolve over time. That magnifies the thrill of ownership for me. And, unlike the K2 where firmware upgrades meant ordering ($$) and disassembly to change out a firmware chip, now we simply download the updates and run the utility.
I can see that ... however there's always more than one chapter to the story: I love and use my K2 [#4398, getting a bit long in the tooth] often, both in the field, out in the park, on the patio, and on this desk with what passes for an antenna at home. One of the reasons is -- it never changes. Everything I've learned to do with it always works, the same way, every time.
I stopped FW semi-automatic downloads to my K3 [#642, also becoming little toothy] "just because it was available," quite awhile ago without first looking at the release notes. Updates that affected my configuration ... fairly vanilla ... have been very few in the last few years. Thus, my K3 behaves exactly as I have learned my K3 should behave. It might even do that with the latest FW, but that's one thing I don't need to do.
Kudos on a fine -- yea, irresistible -- new product, and also on the way Elecraft has evolved with the technology over the past 17 years.
Apparently with Elecraft, you can have it both ways ... Latest/Greatest and Justlikeitwasyesterday. Your choice.
73, Fred K6DGW - Northern California Contest Club - CU in the Cal QSO Party 1-2 Oct 2016 - www.cqp.org ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
