You need raw material and labor to come together at the same time to build ANYTHING.
Henry Ford proved that some years ago. It could be cash flow, marketing strategy, or other business reasons. Jim W6AIM -------- Original message -------- From: Merv Schweigert <[email protected]> Date: 12/15/2015 6:15 PM (GMT-08:00) To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KIO3B Im sure they will come in some due time.. What is strange for some of us outsiders is the logic We will have boards when the K3S demand is met? sounds like there is not enough money to buy more boards than what they expect K3S sales to be? Ordering another few hundred extra of the boards would solve the problem of not having enough on hand. Or is the supplier that slow? Can they only provide a few boards a week? Seems the K3 was funded partially by guys paying up front and having a 6 month wait when this started years back, I assume a lot of those are still around and willing to pay up front if money is that short now. Stretching some of this stuff out for a year or more does not help business, only the most dedicated go for that idea. Perhaps its a labor shortage/paying for more labor, cant sell them yet as no instructions written, or "testing" done? Seems there are a number of guys willing to help out on that end. So all the quiet and non fulfilled talk is just that, talk, just being honest and frank about whats up and why its not available would put to rest the speculation and angst that silence brews. Not criticizing, just wondering, I need a couple and keep putting off installing KYSN3 boards in one radio, its been apart for so many mods the screws are wearing out, had to replace them to keep it decent looking. Had chipped off the black. Which reminds me on another thing, I have had lots of knobs crack on the K3 Elecraft has been super at replacing them, the last ones I got have a metal insert and will never crack I assume, but they are butt ugly, instead of semi shiny black knobs, they are a dull black material that looks like something that came on some military piece of junk. Not even a close match to the other knobs. Wazzup with this deal... 73 Merv K9FD/KH6 Jerry, > > You are correct, I am not going to speculate other than to say "it > will happen sometime", but that may not be the end of this year as was > projected back at Dayton in May 2015. > I have no idea when that 'sometime' is because I have no information > about the production capability of the board house supplying Elecraft > with the KIO3B vs. the number of K3S units being ordered and shipped. > > When there are enough in house to supply both the K3S and the expected > deluge of orders anticipated for K3 upgrades, then you will see the > KIO3B offered for K3 upgrades. > > "The best laid plans of mice and men often go astray". > > 73, > Don W3FPR > > On 12/15/2015 7:50 PM, Jerry wrote: >> Nice try guys but I don't think you are going to suck Don in on this >> one.... >> >> Best regards, >> >> Jerry >> W1IE >> > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > Message delivered to [email protected] > ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
