This year was a busy year, for this retired ham. I had a IC-706MKIIG for a while, I got one of the first IC-7000's back in Dec., and then this spring I built my K2 # 5422. It is a great sounding, and very rich HF transceiver! I am proud, both of the K2, and of my being able to build it myself successfully.
I'm also a "build-a-better-mousetrap" retired Engineer, as my wife will sometimes bemoan. After our recent "new Elecraft Product Ideas" stint, someone came up with a K2-B idea - where we saved the best of the K2, right down to the RF Board - but tweaked the Control Board and Front Panel systems. What with all the successful K2's out there - I wonder if Elecraft couldn't offer us - an "upgrade path", for our K2's, rather than some elusive K3 some day. How about a new Front Panel, and new or modified Control Board, with a more powerful Processing Chip(s) and memory - but give us an upgrade 2.5 color TFT display - something along the lines of the IC-7000. This new display, fed from data in the upgraded Processor(s) and K2 memory - would give us a much expanded view of the K2's state and data, both for receiver and for transmit & transceiver setup state. >From multiple TFT displays - we could see the state of our filter(s) selections, S-meter, Power-meter, swr?, a glimpse of how the NB and other options - are configured. Temperature, current drain, ... And a rapid summary view of what state our K2 transceiver is set up for, at any given momement. Maybe the new "Front Panel" could have a slightly new updated button layout and possibilities. But, underneath it all - would be our rock-steady K2 HF Transceiver. All 5600 of us K2 owners - would have a natural upgrade path. Something to write home about :) Possible? Fred N3CSY 5/29 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
