I am consummately pleased with my K3. I am astounded with the raw performance and dazzled with the features. I look forward to remaining stunned with the product as more features are implemented. Considering the breadth of uses the K3 is applied towards by the large diversity of users with widely varying technical expertise and focus, Elecraft succeeds surpassing expectations masterfully. The fact they have incorporated in their development strategy a transparent and responsive forum easily accessible to the unqualified and very well qualified is revolutionary but sometimes reading this reflector is a little like getting my news at the pub.
Expectedly, just as in the pub, there is a wide diversity here of informed, misinformed, and those wishing to be informed but there is often too much conflicting misinformation containing personal views of second hand "facts" obscuring the successes with unfounded doubts which raise spurious issues. One recurring theme concerns the perception of software failures and as yet unimplemented features. Frequently, operational flexibility or designer prerogative is misconstrued as a failure or a bug and unimplemented features thus far have a history of being implemented. Earlier technology adopters have little problem sorting through these issues. They are usually the folks in the pub smiling and enjoying a pint before returning to the shack and playing radio. Latter technology adopters tend to be the animated somewhat noisy nervous crew spilling their ale and prone to moan at every retelling of the latest "disasterous" development. When walking by the pub many folks, usually the last adopters, write off the whole pub as too unstable to consider viable. All of us could benefit from the simple facts from the source. An Official List both of features to be enabled and recognized bugs might go a long way towards reducing the spurious responses and allaying the fear of features yet to be enabled. Such a list likely already exists among the developers. Or did I miss finding it? I love a good pint and a smile but sometimes I am the last to know. Jim Benson NS5U/1 My K3 Mojo is working My two cents and worth just what you paid for it. -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Software-Development-Goals-tp783477p783477.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.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