Ian Stirling wrote:
This is the problem with proprietary firmware.
Does Elecraft think that someone could make a rival
product if the source code were released?
Any determined capable person could write the firmware
for the K2, or a rival product.
You would have to be *very* determined and *very* capable. The firmware
for the K2 is complicated, and lots of things are highly interdependent
in any real-time application.
No I haven't seen the source code, but I'm a programmer and do know what
functions it performs. I think I can safely make the above statement.
The main problem is this: How would Elecraft support the K2 if the
firmware could be changed? Could anyone guarantee that his change to,
for example, the frequency control, didn't impact the t/r switching?
Note that slowing down the code in one place might make it impossible to
perform another function in time.
--
73,
Vic, K2VCO
Fresno CA
http://www.qsl.net/k2vco
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