[Elecraft] K3: prices - I'm adding to the noise.

2008-03-03 Thread DOUGLAS ZWIEBEL
This price increase should not have been a surprise to anyone. When the K3 first came out, there were numerous posts about gosh, how inexpensive is that!. It was even compared to a loaded K2 and boy..they sure were close. Did this make sense to us? Not really (marketing aside). We were all

Re: [Elecraft] K3: prices - I'm adding to the noise.

2008-03-03 Thread Joseph M. Durnal
My 2ยข - the cost of materials is going up and the value of the dollar is falling. You may have noticed that some other lesser expensive ham rigs have increased in price too, the Yaesu FT-857 and the Icom IC-706 are up at some stores. The price has probably went down several euros since it was