Glen 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 <glen.t...@gmail.com> 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 <indi...@xsmail.com> 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 Most of parts is obsolete (PA, driver, T/R, relays, IOs etc.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: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 glen.t...@gmail.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 w6...@yahoo.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
