Hi Wayne, A thought for you. Some of us out here aren't afraid of surface mount construction. For example I've built the DB6NT 10 GHz down-converter, and some other similar stuff too. For your amusement I love tube stuff and I'm a member of the glowbugs list. But the world is going to SMT and axial and leaded(sp?) components may become increasingly rare and more expensive in the future. Now I know that a lot of your customers are older guys that have failing eyesight and motor control, and they have problems sometimes reading the color bands on components, but they do so love to build electronic stuff and so do what's necessary to allow them their fun! As such I suggest that you go ahead and design and make available SMT kits for those of us that want and are able to build them, and prebuilt "kits" for the others. The price, I think, should reflect the degree of pre-construction too.
Another quick comment is that I'm still waiting for that 70 cm down-converter kit you promised so long ago, and which too might, need to be, partially SMT. The hamvention is over for this year and the QRO amp is basically out now. And I'd love DCs for 902 and higher frequencies in the future. Yes, I know this would involve competition with Down East but that's the way a free market is supposed to work, and really their prices are too high anyway. In summary I suspect that there are several of us SMTers out here that can do this thing, and others might grumble but will come along because they just love this hobby! Thanks for your time, and in advance for your consideration. 72, Carol Ganow, AB0SN _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
