I'm only a single 'Memory", but I'm behind you and patiently waiting!!
Gary Memory, N7BRJ On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 9:35 PM Wayne Burdick <n...@elecraft.com> wrote: > Greetings from the mothership. > > Q: Are Eric and I keeping up with the K4 megathreads on the forums? > A: You bet. > > But we're not weighing in as often as we normally would. > > On the one hand, it's affirming as a small company to be at the eye of a > storm of anxious demand. On the other hand we really feel your pain. On the > third hand (we need three these days), we're both seriously overworked > trying to ramp up production. > > A radio with this many features and so much new tech -- the coolness > factor -- comes with a lot of new assembly and test procedures. A whole lot > of invention. New tricks we didn't know we had to learn. Over the past week > alone our manufacturing engineering team probably shaved 50% off the total > time per unit. > > For me, it's feast/famine. I have serial #00002 on my workbench and use it > every day. Every day there's new and improved software to be played with > and thoroughly vetted. That's the fun part. But I also spend hours daily > optimizing interaction between the K4's multiple processors, evolving > faster ways to do alignment/test, and helping our software team work > through a long wish-list of new capabilities. > > The work can be tedious. Still, every evening when the team finally knocks > off (and I do mean every evening, including most weekends), I get another > chance to be a kid in the candy store. This rig's just so much fun to > operate. And I'm confident that for every new K4 that comes off the line > ready for its first test drive, there's an operator who'll experience the > same feeling I do. > > Despite the K4's advanced circuitry, I'm always reminded of my very first > efforts at home-brew, when I was maybe 15. Discovery. Tweaking. From raw > parts with their leads twisted together to prototypes only a mother could > love to finished product to that first demo at a club meeting. It's much > the same now, though the parts are smaller, the tools more exotic, and the > stakes higher. > > What I can promise is that we're putting everything we have into the K4, > like we have with every product over the past 20 years. We can't wait to > get them into your hands, and hear the smiles behind the mics and keys. > > 73, > > Wayne > N6KR > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to radiomem...@gmail.com > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
