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check the price of rare K1 on eBay. K1 goes still so extremely high (if some K1 is available) on the auctions that it definitely shows how K1 is wanted and valued even another radios like KX2, KX1 etc. are on the market! Try to thinking with coffee in hands "why...?" K1 is one of the most quiet receiver at all and several time it listenning better then SDR radios with modern s/w features. Believe me, I have K3, KX3, K2, SST, Wilderness Sierra and few K1s and I am using all of them intensively so I know what I am talking about... I am pretty sure that there is much more then "just" thousand of hams ready to buy it but I do not believe that someone in Elecraft will spend time with K1 resumption. Most of parts is obsolete (PA, driver, T/R, relays, IOs etc. so it must be re-worked completey with new parts (not redesigned...!) and it is time consumption with no long time business vision model. ...but just in case > I am in 997 to go. :) ----- 73 - Petr, OK1RP "Apple & Elecraft freak" B:http://ok1rp.blogspot.com MeWe: https://bit.ly/2HGPoDx MeWe: https://bit.ly/2FmwvDt -- 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 lists+1215531472858-365791@n2.nabble.com
73 - Petr, OK1RP
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Petr,
If their are lots of us interested we could do a replica. I do PCBs and PIC programming for a radio telescope (part time, I am an old fart). Is this doable? Cheers, Glen VK1FB On Fri, 7 Jun 2019 at 8:16 pm, Petr, OK1RP/M0SIS <[hidden email]> wrote: > Hi all, > > check the price of rare K1 on eBay. K1 goes still so extremely high (if > some > K1 is available) on the auctions that it definitely shows how K1 is wanted > and valued even another radios like KX2, KX1 etc. are on the market! try to > thinking with coffee in hands "why...?" > > K1 is on of the most quiet receiver at all and several time it listenning > better then SDR radios with modern s/w features. Believe me, I have K3, > KX3, > K2, SST, Wilderness Sierra and few K1s and I am using all of them > intensively so I know what I am talking about... > > I am pretty sure that there is much more then "just" thousand of hams ready > to buy it but I do not believe that someone in Elecraft will spend time > with > K1 resumption. Most of parts is obsolete (PA, driver, T/R, relays, IOs etc. > so it must be re-worked completey with new parts (not redesigned...!) > and it is time consumtion with no long time business vision model. > > ...but just in case > I am in 997 to go. :) > > > > > > ----- > 73 - Petr, OK1RP > "Apple & Elecraft freak" > B:http://ok1rp.blogspot.com > MeWe: https://bit.ly/2HGPoDx > MeWe: https://bit.ly/2FmwvDt > -- > 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:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [hidden email] > Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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Maybe but a long shot. My sense is that while Elecraft is exceptionally busy with the K4, if any real serious commercial life was left in the K1 then Elecraft understandably would want to exploit it. The but comes from Wayne granting the right for the NorCal 40 to be “copied” but only as a non profit do it yourself project that has a PCB at cost (I think). Paul W6PNG/M0SNA > On Jun 7, 2019, at 11:29 AM, Glen Torr <[hidden email]> wrote: > > Petr, > > If their are lots of us interested we could do a replica. I do PCBs and PIC > programming for a radio telescope (part time, I am an old fart). > > Is this doable? > > Cheers, > > Glen VK1FB > >> On Fri, 7 Jun 2019 at 8:16 pm, Petr, OK1RP/M0SIS <[hidden email]> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> check the price of rare K1 on eBay. K1 goes still so extremely high (if >> some >> K1 is available) on the auctions that it definitely shows how K1 is wanted >> and valued even another radios like KX2, KX1 etc. are on the market! try to >> thinking with coffee in hands "why...?" >> >> K1 is on of the most quiet receiver at all and several time it listenning >> better then SDR radios with modern s/w features. Believe me, I have K3, >> KX3, >> K2, SST, Wilderness Sierra and few K1s and I am using all of them >> intensively so I know what I am talking about... >> >> I am pretty sure that there is much more then "just" thousand of hams ready >> to buy it but I do not believe that someone in Elecraft will spend time >> with >> K1 resumption. Most of parts is obsolete (PA, driver, T/R, relays, IOs etc. >> so it must be re-worked completey with new parts (not redesigned...!) >> and it is time consumtion with no long time business vision model. >> >> ...but just in case > I am in 997 to go. :) >> >> >> >> >> >> ----- >> 73 - Petr, OK1RP >> "Apple & Elecraft freak" >> B:http://ok1rp.blogspot.com >> MeWe: https://bit.ly/2HGPoDx >> MeWe: https://bit.ly/2FmwvDt >> -- >> 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:[hidden email] >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to [hidden email] >> > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [hidden email] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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While I appreciate the sentiments, I don't think we'd want to authorize a clone of the K1. In addition to the copyrighted PCBs, there's a lot of IP in the firmware needed to run the radio, band modules, ATU, etc.
Wayne N6KR > > >> On Jun 7, 2019, at 11:29 AM, Glen Torr <[hidden email]> wrote: >> >> Petr, >> >> If their are lots of us interested we could do a replica. I do PCBs and PIC >> programming for a radio telescope (part time, I am an old fart). >> >> Is this doable? >> >> Cheers, >> >> Glen VK1FB >> >>> On Fri, 7 Jun 2019 at 8:16 pm, Petr, OK1RP/M0SIS <[hidden email]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> check the price of rare K1 on eBay. K1 goes still so extremely high (if >>> some >>> K1 is available) on the auctions that it definitely shows how K1 is wanted >>> and valued even another radios like KX2, KX1 etc. are on the market! try to >>> thinking with coffee in hands "why...?" >>> >>> K1 is on of the most quiet receiver at all and several time it listenning >>> better then SDR radios with modern s/w features. Believe me, I have K3, >>> KX3, >>> K2, SST, Wilderness Sierra and few K1s and I am using all of them >>> intensively so I know what I am talking about... >>> >>> I am pretty sure that there is much more then "just" thousand of hams ready >>> to buy it but I do not believe that someone in Elecraft will spend time >>> with >>> K1 resumption. Most of parts is obsolete (PA, driver, T/R, relays, IOs etc. >>> so it must be re-worked completey with new parts (not redesigned...!) >>> and it is time consumtion with no long time business vision model. >>> >>> ...but just in case > I am in 997 to go. :) >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ----- >>> 73 - Petr, OK1RP >>> "Apple & Elecraft freak" >>> B:http://ok1rp.blogspot.com >>> MeWe: https://bit.ly/2HGPoDx >>> MeWe: https://bit.ly/2FmwvDt >>> -- >>> 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:[hidden email] >>> >>> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >>> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >>> Message delivered to [hidden email] >>> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:[hidden email] >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to [hidden email] > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [hidden email] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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Hey, I have a dumb idea. How about a K1 box with a KX2 inside. Sort of. Actually might be nice to have some room inside.
Chuck Jack Hawley KE9UW Sent from my iPhone, cjack > On Jun 7, 2019, at 10:38 AM, Wayne Burdick <[hidden email]> wrote: > > While I appreciate the sentiments, I don't think we'd want to authorize a clone of the K1. In addition to the copyrighted PCBs, there's a lot of IP in the firmware needed to run the radio, band modules, ATU, etc. > > Wayne > N6KR > > >> >> >>> On Jun 7, 2019, at 11:29 AM, Glen Torr <[hidden email]> wrote: >>> >>> Petr, >>> >>> If their are lots of us interested we could do a replica. I do PCBs and PIC >>> programming for a radio telescope (part time, I am an old fart). >>> >>> Is this doable? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Glen VK1FB >>> >>>> On Fri, 7 Jun 2019 at 8:16 pm, Petr, OK1RP/M0SIS <[hidden email]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> check the price of rare K1 on eBay. K1 goes still so extremely high (if >>>> some >>>> K1 is available) on the auctions that it definitely shows how K1 is wanted >>>> and valued even another radios like KX2, KX1 etc. are on the market! try to >>>> thinking with coffee in hands "why...?" >>>> >>>> K1 is on of the most quiet receiver at all and several time it listenning >>>> better then SDR radios with modern s/w features. Believe me, I have K3, >>>> KX3, >>>> K2, SST, Wilderness Sierra and few K1s and I am using all of them >>>> intensively so I know what I am talking about... >>>> >>>> I am pretty sure that there is much more then "just" thousand of hams ready >>>> to buy it but I do not believe that someone in Elecraft will spend time >>>> with >>>> K1 resumption. Most of parts is obsolete (PA, driver, T/R, relays, IOs etc. >>>> so it must be re-worked completey with new parts (not redesigned...!) >>>> and it is time consumtion with no long time business vision model. >>>> >>>> ...but just in case > I am in 997 to go. :) >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ----- >>>> 73 - Petr, OK1RP >>>> "Apple & Elecraft freak" >>>> B:http://ok1rp.blogspot.com >>>> MeWe: https://bit.ly/2HGPoDx >>>> MeWe: https://bit.ly/2FmwvDt >>>> -- >>>> 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:[hidden email] >>>> >>>> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >>>> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >>>> Message delivered to [hidden email] >>>> >>> ______________________________________________________________ >>> Elecraft mailing list >>> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >>> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >>> Post: mailto:[hidden email] >>> >>> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >>> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >>> Message delivered to [hidden email] >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:[hidden email] >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to [hidden email] > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [hidden email] Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email]
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Can I humbly suggest looking at the excellent offerings from Hans Summers and qrp-labs.
The QCX and the upcoming QSX fit the bill. The QCX i dare say, is hands down the best kit, with the exemplary documentation and support both from the community and Hans himself. It bests even Heathkit of yesterday, and may match performance you would expect from a K1. http://qrp-labs.com/qcx.html <http://qrp-labs.com/qcx.html> All the kits from qrp-labs are thru-hole with the surface mounted components pre-mounted on the pcb. As the license manual says I have no "pecuniary interest” in qrp-labs, just a enthusiastic customer. 73 de kc1ccr bammi > > While I appreciate the sentiments, I don't think we'd want to authorize a clone of the K1. In addition to the copyrighted PCBs, there's a lot of IP in the firmware needed to run the radio, band modules, ATU, etc. > > Wayne > N6KR > > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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