Turns out there is a way to decode the confirmation number. W7CF figured it out. See below.
73, Eric --- www.elecraft.com -------- Original Message -------- Subject: RE: [KX3] Re: Shipping status page updated Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 21:48:39 +0000 From: [email protected] <[email protected]> For those who haven't noticed, the confirmation number does indeed encode the date & time when the confirmation was issued. I plugged some confirmation numbers into a excel worksheet and started to play with it. Yeah, out of "desperation" while I wait for my KX3, I started to pattern match... :-) The first 8 numbers encode the days & minutes of the confirmation, and in good Unix tradition the "zero order time" is 1/1/1970 To convert, use the following formula (interesting how identical Excel and googleDocs formulas are...): =( VALUE(LEFT(B1,4))*10000 + VALUE(MID(B1,6,4)) ) / (60*24) + 25569 For the curious, 25569 is the number of days between 1/1/1970 and 1/1/1900, the latter is the zero date for Excel. Place confirmation numbers into a spreadsheet, e.g. into column B and add the following formula to the next column C. Now format the column C "Date time" and you'd get the readout below. A B C factory: 2208-4637-9147 12/28/2011 13:17:00 kits: 2208-4064-4730 12/28/2011 3:44:00 Confirmation numbers are from today's (5/22) status page update, column C shows the actual order times calculated with above formula. 73, Dave W7CF On 5/23/2012 4:54 PM, Dave Agsten wrote: > I have not figured out the decoding process for the KX3 as they are being > posted on the Elecraft website. I ordered the KX3 on 12/28/11 at 11:44AM EDT. > I received the confirmation order number 2208-4844-0913. I can't decode how > that correlates to the numbers being posted on the website other than a > smaller number is earlier. > > > KX3-F 2208-4685-4272 > > KX3-K 2208-4068-6852 > > I revised my order to go with the factory version on Jan. 18th, long before > any KX3s were shipped. I'm wondering how that factors in? The order number > remained the same but it was now for a KX3-F. > > Any cryptologists out there? :-) > > > 73, > Dave N8AG > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
