You could say the same of me and Elecraft - I new of Elecraft's reputation and many of my club friends have K2s, but I was not happy about the looks and display of the K2 (ok, so I know better now). I was about to buy an FT-2000 when the K3 was announced - that was it for me - I put the money into the K2 on 2nd May 2007, one of the first buyers and I paid for a fully loaded K3 up front - I'm very glad I did (but it was a long wait :-) 73 de M0XDF, K3 #174, P3 #108 -- Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. -Marcus Tullius Cicero, statesman, orator and writer (106-43 BC)
On 7 Jan 2011, at 22:54, Nate Bargmann wrote: > What killed Heathkit was that the Big Three were able to bring products > to market that were cheaper and had more features due to mass production > and, in the case of Kenwood, had a contempary and stylish product. > Heath did not catch up until the early '80s and by then it was too late. > To a prospectvie ham (me) looking at a Heathkit catalog from late > 1980/early 1981 and seeing their ham offering that had (at least to me) > an early '60s styling to it caused me to look elsewhere until they > introduced an up-to-date kit in 1982 or so. That said, I did build an > HW-8. But the TS-520/820/530/830 models were certainly attractive to > me. > > Also, the Big Three owned the VHF FM market early on due to frequency > synthesis and memories in a small (for the time) attractive enclosure. > Even in performance oriented amateur radio styling plays a part. ______________________________________________________________ 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
