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
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