I am in the process of building a station that will use a K4, once it is delivered. In the mean time, I'm trying to architect the control aspects of the station, with amplifier, antenna, and control signal routing. Nearly all of the public information on the K4 is marketing "brochure" info. One thing that would really help me would be any type of high level documentation of items for which final design decisions have been made. Even a preliminary high level block diagram showing RF and control signal routing and interfaces of the radio would be great. Wayne has been incredibly responsive to the specific questions that have been asked, but it's a little hard to piece together the architecture from those items.
I also have one specific question: Is there a plan to have the K4 use something like UDP broadcast on the Ethernet port to publish radio frequency and configuration data? If so, would it be in the initial release or added later? This approach, currently used by DxLab, N1MM+ and others, seems to be really effective. I know that getting the radio solid and out the door is top priority, but keeping the customers informed (many are now actually "investors") should be pretty close to that ;). Hopefully there is some useful low-hanging fruit that Elecraft wouldn't mind sharing. Happy New Year to all, Rick N1RM -- Sent from: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/ ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
