Bill, It's not just a matter of deciding to sell the thing without a few parts. Manufacturing and distributing hardware, whether pre-assembled or in kit form, takes a LOT of work. Check out this video from Dave Jones at the EEVBlog on the economics of manufacturing your own hardware: https://youtu.be/UwrkfHadeQQ There's also a long thread on his forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-887-the-economics-of-selling-hardware/
I strongly recommend Dave's Youtube channel and his forum for information about electronics. If you're in the industry, maybe you've already run into it. I hope the video I linked helps clarify why it's not just a matter of putting out a kit or product "without the 60m parts". (I wouldn't even want to know the product liability side of distributing a product missing some parts because they're no longer available. That sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen.) 73, Gwen, NG3P (who in no way works for Elecraft, and is just putting in her 2 cents worth) On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 6:21 PM Bill Coleman <[email protected]> wrote: > Here’s a radical idea. Why not just sell the K60XV, minus the 60m parts? > > That way, no one has to design a new board. > > You could call it the K—XV, where the 60 part has been subtracted. > > > On Aug 27, 2019, at 1:32 PM, Wayne Burdick <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > The high-value, low-temperature-coefficient trimmer capacitors leveraged > in the design are no longer available. Unfortunately we don't have staff > available to redesign the board to do it in another way, and demand is low. > > > > The transverter interface by itself could live on a smaller board. > Schematics are available if someone would like to home-roll a replacement. > We could supply small quantities of the programmed PIC16C621 that runs the > module (cost TBD). > > > > 73, > > Wayne > > N6KR > > > > > >> On Aug 27, 2019, at 9:13 AM, Neil Zampella <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> FWIW .. this question is for Wayne or Eric, could the K60XV be > >> redesigned using currently available components, or perhaps something > >> that would allow easy use of the transverters? > >> > >> Neil, KN3ILZ > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > > 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] > > Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL Mail: [email protected] > Web: http://boringhamradiopart.blogspot.com > Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!" > -- Wilbur Wright, 1901 > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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] -- -+-+-+-+- Jenny Everywhere's Infinite: Quark Time http://quarktime.net ______________________________________________________________ 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]
