[TenTec] Elecraft K3 vs Orion? - Correction

[Eric Swartz WA6HHQ - Elecraft]

Hi Duane,

A couple of corrections to your posting. Lyle, our DSP expert, is a full 
salaried member of the Elecraft engineering staff. He was also deeply 
involved in -all- of the K3 design from the start. He is also a major 
contributor to the AMSAT satellite CPUs and the hpsdr group. (Both of 
those as a volunteer.)

Almost all of the K3 was designed by our in-house engineering team. We 
certainly did use consultants for  design review and some design 
enhancements (just like on the K2) and that's why they are listed in 
specific design area's on our FAQ. Being located next to Silicon Valley 
provides us with a wide set of experts to draw from.

Also, we have a very strong s/w-f/w staff.  If you look closely at our 
products, including the K2 and K3, you will see an abundance of embedded 
microprocessors in the designs. :-) 

73, Eric   WA6HHQ
Elecraft
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From: Duane - N9DG <n9dg at yahoo.com>
Date: May 1, 2007 11:15:16 AM PDT
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Elecraft K3 vs Orion?

The person responsible for the DSP piece of the K3 is from
what I can tell an "outsourced" provider and not actually a
member of Elecraft payroll. Ditto for much of the K3's
hardware design team. 

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