Hi I have no more of a right to respond to your post than you have to write it. As yet I am not a licensed ham, but a prospective candidate to join the ham radio hobby. I have no vested interest in the Elecraft business, neither do I have ties to any of the management personnel. In doing my research as to what equipment to purchase, there were a number of aspects I took into consideration, price was not the most important. "Customer Service" was paramount, made in the USA was very important, supporting documentation and acceptance from the ham fraternity was a condition of my final decision. Whilst this is not an exhaustive list of criteria to purchase from Elecraft or any other supplier, no other supplier came close to meeting all of these criteria. Your personal list of criticisms in this post is totally unfortunate and uncalled for. If you are genuinely invested in your hobby in these days of extremely difficult business conditions and took the trouble to visit with the Elecraft folk at their manufacturing plant you will be amazed to see just how professional a business entity they are and just how far they do go to satisfy all the needs of their customers (and prospective customers) What is needed in these challenging economic times is overwhelming support from their customers, even if Elecraft are unable to deliver every permutation of what we the users "think" they should be delivering to us. In my opinion, having visited the manufacturing facility, they are doing more for their customers now and in the future, to stay invested for the future in facilities, personnel and product development so that we as hobbyists can remain invested in our hobby. It is about time we stopped trying to second guess and critically challenge management publicly, before we have taken the time to comprehend their role in producing a product of great quality. We, the customers, should strive to encourage and support. That is far more difficult than degradation. Working with Elecraft in 2016 and beyond is our job to ensure we have a supplier committed to the hobby for many years to come. David Glasser
Sent from my iPad > On Dec 15, 2015, at 6:16 PM, Merv Schweigert <k...@flex.com> wrote: > > Im sure they will come in some due time.. > > What is strange for some of us outsiders is the logic > > We will have boards when the K3S demand is met? sounds like there is not > enough money to buy more boards than what they expect K3S sales to be? > Ordering another few hundred extra of the boards would solve the problem of > not > having enough on hand. Or is the supplier that slow? Can they only provide > a > few boards a week? > Seems the K3 was funded partially by guys paying up front and having a 6 month > wait when this started years back, I assume a lot of those are still around > and > willing to pay up front if money is that short now. > Stretching some of this stuff out for a year or more does not help business, > only > the most dedicated go for that idea. > Perhaps its a labor shortage/paying for more labor, cant sell them yet as no > instructions written, or "testing" done? Seems there are a number of guys > willing to help out on that end. > > So all the quiet and non fulfilled talk is just that, talk, just being > honest and > frank about whats up and why its not available would put to rest the > speculation > and angst that silence brews. > > Not criticizing, just wondering, I need a couple and keep putting off > installing > KYSN3 boards in one radio, its been apart for so many mods the screws are > wearing out, had to replace them to keep it decent looking. Had chipped off > the black. > > Which reminds me on another thing, I have had lots of knobs crack on the K3 > Elecraft has been super at replacing them, the last ones I got have a metal > insert and will never crack I assume, but they are butt ugly, instead of semi > shiny black knobs, they are a dull black material that looks like something > that > came on some military piece of junk. Not even a close match to the other > knobs. > Wazzup with this deal... > > 73 Merv K9FD/KH6 > > > > > > Jerry, >> >> You are correct, I am not going to speculate other than to say "it will >> happen sometime", but that may not be the end of this year as was projected >> back at Dayton in May 2015. >> I have no idea when that 'sometime' is because I have no information about >> the production capability of the board house supplying Elecraft with the >> KIO3B vs. the number of K3S units being ordered and shipped. >> >> When there are enough in house to supply both the K3S and the expected >> deluge of orders anticipated for K3 upgrades, then you will see the KIO3B >> offered for K3 upgrades. >> >> "The best laid plans of mice and men often go astray". >> >> 73, >> Don W3FPR >> >>> On 12/15/2015 7:50 PM, Jerry wrote: >>> Nice try guys but I don't think you are going to suck Don in on this >>> one.... >>> >>> Best regards, >>> >>> Jerry >>> W1IE >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> 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 k...@flex.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 glasse...@outlook.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 arch...@mail-archive.com
