On 8/8/07, Vic K2VCO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Agreed. From the point of view of the manufacturer, there is the big > headache of having to provide drivers for the various operating systems > -- and versions of operating systems.
That's the key point, I think. The argument against having noisy chips inside radios could equally be applied to serial interfaces (in fact, ISTR the KIO2 had an option to disable it because it created a small amount of noise.) There are people who have argued for having an Ethernet interface and built-in web server inside the radio. Personally I think computers and radios are getting far too inter-dependent and there is a danger that the modern generation of radios will become obsolete before yesterday's models simply because the computers necessary to use them are no longer made or supported. -- Julian, G4ILO K2 s/n: 392 K3 s/n: ??? G4ILO's Shack: www.g4ilo.com Ham-Directory: www.ham-directory.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
