Uhh .. I'm not the one doing the whining. The guys who post here asking
when they might actually know when they will get their K4 are the ones
you should maybe be accusing. I'm just making an outsider observation
on their behalf.
Besides, this isn't a marketing issue. It's a simple communications
issue, and like I said ... if we can hear about QRP contacts and
pedestrian mobile contacts, the folks who actually invested
interest-free money for the last 20 months or so probably have a right
to equal consideration.
Dave AB7E
On 3/30/2021 4:22 PM, Eric Norris wrote:
Elecraft is unlike all other world-class mfrs of amateur radio
transceivers. They are very, very small. They have to be to keep
their margins big enough to compete with giants who mfr marine,
aviation, and consumer electronics. They can't get away with
marketing a KX4 that puts out ONE WATT more than a KX3 and call it ALL
NEW. If an engineer's house burns down, they can't easily slide
someone else over from another project. Same with COVID.
If you ran a company like Elecraft, would you publicize every setback
when every single employee is critical? No, you wouldn't. Either
give them more slack, and wait, or go somewhere else and buy something
else. But please stop the endless whining.
K4s are out there--I hear them on in contests.
Eric has stated they hope to clear the Group 1 backlog by the end of
May. He has also stated that K4 production will ramp up by an order
of magnitude and more.
Remember the K3 rollout? KPA1500? NO COVID. NO WILDFIRES. I just
passed my two-week vax period, and I am older than almost everybody
who works at Elecraft. Do the math.
73 Eric WD6DBM
Besides, I don't find "if you can't accept being in the dark ask for
your money back" to be sound business practice. It certainly
wouldn't
have been tolerated in the large business I ran for several years.
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