I would like to comment a little about the shipment of parts. Our company is a USA company making discrete semiconductors. We are considered essential. So, we have been open throughout this pandemic. We have a packaging and test facility in the Philippines for some of our parts. Many component manufactures use Southeast Asia for packaging and testing. It is not just the Covid-19 that has had an immense effect on getting parts out of that region, but also the earthquakes, especially the one on 2/16. We have not seen any parts out of that region since the earthquake. In June Luzon opened up again. But you just don't start shipping parts right away. You first got to perform maintenance on the equipment, run quals and make a preproduction run. Even though our plant turned on in June, we don't expect any parts till the end of August, at the earliest. And don't forget about shipping. Even your Amazon Prime shipments may take longer these days. And that is especially apparent when importing parts. Things don't clear customs as quickly as they used to. So, even essential businesses are having trouble getting parts. We are all affected in some way with Covid-19. 72, N2TK, Tony
-----Original Message----- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net <elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of Jim Brown Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2020 4:18 PM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K4 in production On 7/16/2020 10:20 AM, Tox wrote: > The parts availability issue was supposed to have been resolved pre-covid. To varying degrees, the whole world is affected by COVID, including manufacturers and distributors of parts. Few are designated as essential. 73, Jim K9YC ______________________________________________________________ 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 tony....@verizon.net ______________________________________________________________ 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
