Sorry, but I do not accept the answers to why there are no more ham Heathkits, at least today. Today, hams are hungry for a safe and sure building projects which 1. includes all all all the parts, 2.
Superb kits do exist... - Cheaper than commercial (by _far_) - Better performance - More advanced technically than a rice box - Significant learning experience - Compatible with entry level or kids h
There are some kits available, usually fairly simple, but there are a couple complex ones out there. But, Heath's "bread and butter" was NOT amateur radio although, for decades, amateur radio equipme
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: REPLY: One more reason not mentioned so far is the cost of customer support. When the kit is built and doesn't work, the phone calls begin, not to mention the possibility of shippin
And contrary to what some believe the demand just isn't there. Sure there are some, maybe even groups that would like to build some kits. Still...few of us want to build the same thing so the kit lin
They used to tell the story of a guy who did a beautiful job of construction on a kit. It was a work of art, but it didn't work. As I understand it had a lot of techs scratching their heads. Then som
As an attorney, I could not have said it better than Glen did (save the mine, wire & power-company thing- thr latter are "usually" immune). Money-hungry, greedy, J.D. BSTRDs are at the root of the pr
Elecraft can only stay around for two reasons, the first the owner(s) and employees must have a passion for amateur radio and the second is that there is little competition. If there were more amateu
I have a good example, I sent off for a large Heath transistor tester over 40 years ago. Upon examination one of the rotary switches (there are two rows, next to the meter and others) did not match
The Elecraft K-3 is an example of what kits have become. Ten Tec also has a selection of less complicated ones. Down East Microwave has some rather elaborate ones for the VHF and up bands. Then there
Of course I was being facetious with all of the people that would be sued. But, again, I wouldn't put it past someone attempting to sue that far down the "food chain"! A good friend of mine is listed
In a word Zenith, Heath would probably still be around if Zenith had not purchased them for the Heath computer products line, And as per usual the Zenith guys who were consumer products guys could no
I wonder if the software radios are comparable to the K-3? If so, isn't SDR the least likely to become obsolete. Has anyone discussed the performance differences between the two radios? Also, how muc
I recently became excited about the Flex-5000 but after reading a bunch of comments about it's poor performance with sending CW because of latency, I have cooled my enthusiasm. I wonder if the softwa
I know that there's huge interest in using the K2/K3 as the RF side of an SDR but know very little about it. Julian G4ILO and Ron PE8E could advise further. I think that both are experimenting with b
Jim, That's the first I've heard of latency problems. This is why I was hoping to get some discussion going, because K3 and SDR owners are invariably sold on their eqpt but haven't compared the two.
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: REPLY: Some Windows programs have the same problem. One sure cure is to use WinKey if the Flex software supports it. 73, Bill W6WRT _______________________________________________ A
Thanks Phil, K3 + LP-Pan+SDR sounds like a $5000+ transceiver. It's hard to tell how much of each is actually being used. From my perspective, I'm trying to decide which approx $2500 solution will ha
Latency with the Flex may or may not be a problem depending on the PC and the care used to configure it. I make no claim to being a CW op, so it would be better to have the discussion with someone th
Bill, I browsed the WinKey site and it didn't pop right out as to how/why WinKey solves SDR latency. Could you expand on that just a little? tx frank w0ecs ___________________________________________