[Elecraft] Status update on the KX3

2012-03-27 Thread Wayne Burdick
Hi all, It's highly likely that we'll be shipping some KX3s by the end of this week. We have all the parts and finished assemblies, and we're putting things together and testing as we speak. With a complex new product it takes time to work out the manufacturing and test issues, but our "th

Re: [Elecraft] Status update on the KX3

2012-03-27 Thread Tony Estep
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Wayne Burdick wrote: >the first edition of the kit > assembly manual is probably out another week == Presumably that means that kit shipments won't start until a week or so after assembled KX3s. Ah well, this is still good news. Thanks to Wayne for

Re: [Elecraft] Status update on the KX3

2012-03-27 Thread Keith Heimbold
Totally stoked!!! Wish I didn't wait four days to place my order. Haha! Thanks for the update, Wayne! Keith AG6AZ Sent from my iPhone please excuse typos On Mar 27, 2012, at 11:31 AM, "Wayne Burdick" wrote: > Hi all, > > It's highly likely that we'll be shipping some KX3s by the end of this

Re: [Elecraft] Status update on the KX3

2012-03-27 Thread Eugene Balinski
Wayne, Thanks for the updates. We certainly understand and really appreciate your attention to quality. We would all rather have them right than fast... 73 Gene K1NR On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:31:45 -0700 Wayne Burdick wrote: > Hi all, > > It's highly likely that we'll be shipping some KX3s

Re: [Elecraft] Status update on the KX3

2012-03-27 Thread James kvochick
Is it worth exploring the notion of being able to opt out of a printed manual? I have plenty of resources here to print and bind my own I think I have seen some of this on an older thread. 73 Jim WB8AZP Sent from my iPad On Mar 27, 2012, at 2:31 PM, Wayne Burdick wrote: > Hi all, > >

Re: [Elecraft] Status update on the KX3

2012-03-27 Thread Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft
HI Jim, Possibly at some point in the future, but not right now. We're consumed just getting the regular KX3 production flow started. It actually costs us more to special handle leaving out a manual from standard production, due to the time for unique handling and additional work order paperwo

Re: [Elecraft] Status update on the KX3

2012-03-27 Thread W7GJ, Lance
I think I speak for all of us when I agree wholeheartedlytake the time you need!!! GL and VY 73, Lance On 3/27/2012 9:26 PM, Eugene Balinski [via Elecraft] wrote: > Wayne, > > Thanks for the updates. We certainly understand and > really appreciate your attention to quality. We would all >