You can't make up your mind you say its my opinion and not the truth but then admit they stretched the truth in the very next sentence. your a special kind of slow. Thank you for the screen shot of your stupid comment.

Good day keyboard warrior.

I think that the idea of moving to Thetis is great. Let EE focus its limited resources on hardware and firmware. Thetis already supports TCI for control. With a little help full TCI could be implemented.
At some point you have to reevaluate plans. This isn't the first or second delay.
Buying a SunSDR2 DX 2 was a major investment for me. I also have a Hermes Lite 2 QRP SDR that I run with Thetis and has become a favorite. I am reevaluating my investment and may have to join the many that are selling their EE rigs.

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Yes it is unpredictable but as for the other side, the truly effective one, casdr has predicted things months ago. It seems unpredictable vs predictable is a fight without winners.

Anyway, don't walk the open source path, there is a middle way. The open architecture one. You can have the absolute control on software, firmware and hardware and at the same time you are giving the opportunity to the tinker ham community to add extra value to your efforts. Tinkering was always a representative characteristic of ham culture.

Look for example that wonderful invention of yours the tci which I hope someday will be an industry standard. Tci provided the opportunity to other programmers to talk and flirt with eesdr in so much quantity that other software now, that you never had the intention to develop, can integrate a small part of them in eesdr. This is an extra value that surely bring more machines of yours to radio shacks around the world.

Can you imagine what will happened if there some different kinds of filters or different implementations of the same developed by other guys for an eesdr user to choose from, a totally skinable interface, sound plugins etc perhaps ? And you don't have to go open source just create and expose some api.

Maybe you can create a marketplace to lure programmers to develop and sale their stuff for some extra bucks. You can make eesdr a suite not just an application.Commissions made also Apple what it is, not just iphones.

For example I wouldn't have problem to pay some extra money to someone that can create a plugin for the band scope (witch although a great feature it is unusable at least for me the way it is implemented) in order to give the capability to slice it to multiple frequencies ranges i choose so I can monitor all the bands I want in same time in smaller separated windows.

Ok these things probably cannot be implemented, eesdr3 is already near completion, they could be food for thoughts for the eesdr4.

There is also something that I want to talk as a part of this community and a member of this forum. Eric although he become a kind of a nightmare ex from a horror movie have had a lot of contribution to this place, thing that in my opinion should be thanked about, deleting all his presence was rather a brute action. Moderating a forum is something must be done. Erasing the total existence of a contributing member is more of a revenge. Revenge is not good. kindness, relax, tolerance, open mind and looking forward is good.

A happy ham year with prosperity and good propagation to all of us I wish

I wounder why some! are complaining and whine the whole time?
My MB1 works perfect with V2 or V3 1,06 beta, if the radio was malfuntcion due to sw error i should complain.
But reading the stuff some peobles write i am judging that Santa did not bring the boys the xmas parcel they wanted so the have to be on the forum and whine all the time.
sri for my english i am a Swede. I supose you are not able to write or talk in my language

I do Swedish Hi, and agree with you .My sunsdr2 dx with all software so long, works perfect. Very happy user of ssb and VarAC Havnt tried VarAC in 1.0.6 yet biut in a few minits Happy new year. de sm6usu Svante

I almost ... almost thought we almost had lost the typical year pattern

But now I see, all is good: wankers are wanking about "you must go opensource" (which is - traditionally - must happen every year before end of calendar year); and people who was not able to read, still unable to read. Means - everything going as it should. Makes me feel I'm now at peace with Universe.

Happy New Year EE!
You are on right path, EE, please continue!

Question is can you have a long lasting business model based on the numbers of Sun SDR’s sold ( how many sofar - estimate?) in the past which basically is a one time cash flow in, versus keep developing the sw continuously (with monthly cash flow out)? Or will one pay for a new sw release 2.0 in the future?
Development of Thetis is done free of charge. The hw cost of HL2 is 25% of a SunSDR DX.
The EE team needs to be paid every month and with the current inflation and economical situation in RU (incl sanctions which limits to get the cash generated in Europe and US for the sale of EE units into RU) I see a not so positive future ahead.

The hardware is good and I would also welcome opening to other software, Thetis or SDR Console or whatever. EE competing with Anan or Flex from a financial business point of view is impossible. On the low end competition against HL/Thetis is also impossible. So the company is definitely on a cross road and has some major decisions to make in my opinion.