During the online event some weeks ago, Eric said he expected to finish Group 1 by May.
73, John WA1EAZ > On Mar 30, 2021, at 2:51 PM, Steven Kline via Elecraft > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Paid in full here since last year and ordered June 2019, try rationalizing > that with spouse. Down to my last TT Orion of two, barely keeping it on the > air. Almost at point of needing to cancel and ask money be returned so I can > get something else and keep operating. Seeing nothing, hearing nothing (not > even from anyone receiving a K-4 - assuming some are shipping). Latter I > don’t understand how anyone would allow themselves to be bound in secrecy. > If occurring must be significant benefit for observing code of silence. I > see no light at all inside the tunnel. > > Steve - W5JK > >> On Mar 30, 2021, at 10:55 AM, Lyn Norstad <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I can’t imagine how it would feel to know that I had laid out $4k two years >> ago, and still be waiting for fulfillment. NO, actually I can. >> >> >> >> Several years ago, an up-and-coming system integration business I had been >> associated with for several years (as a VAR) was going thru many of the same >> types of growing pains in bringing a wonderful new product to market. The >> CEO vowed he would run the business as if they were broke, which they very >> nearly were. But the employees were faithful believers in the company and >> the product, and worked very hard to make it a success. >> >> >> >> Early one Monday morning, I had a call from that CEO advising me that they >> had sold the company to another industry player (a non-competitor) and that >> they wanted me to join them for lunch to discuss the deal. My fear and >> trepidation slowly disappeared that day as I met the new management “team” >> (with all the old R&D team still hard at work), got viable answers to all >> the hard questions and quickly recognized how an immediate cash infusion >> ($10 Million) had an amazing ability to totally turn things around, grease >> the wheels, and create an industry shakeup that precipitated a wave of >> further consolidation and rapid development. >> >> >> >> It was a win-win situation born out of the impending potential disaster we >> had all feared. >> >> >> >> Hang in there. Times might seem tough, but there are some very smart people >> at work here. >> >> >> >> 73 >> >> Lyn, W0LEN >> >> >> >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ted >> Roycraft >> Sent: Monday, March 29, 2021 4:44 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [Elecraft-K4] Where are the K4 reviews? >> >> >> >> The natives are getting restless and it would be good to hear something >> official from Elecraft. It's been too long since we've heard much of >> anything. I would like to know if I can expect my Group 1 order, submitted >> on August 8, 2019, has any chance of getting to me before summer, 2021 >> begins or is it likely that I will have to wait another year. I could have >> asked much the same question a year ago never expecting that a year from >> then, there would still be no K4 sitting on my table by now. By the way, >> when I submitted my order the expected shipping date was estimated to be >> November or December, 2019. That's pre-pandemic. >> >> 73, Ted, W2ZK >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> 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]
