The Boatanchor AM guys are going to be on the air making Qs; the rest of us will
be waiting for parts. ;-)
Wes N7WS
On 7/16/2022 8:07 AM, Geert Jan de Groot wrote:
On 15/07/2022 18:48, elecraft-requ...@mailman.qth.net wrote:
I have a K3 with the original synthesizer boards. I am looking for a pair
of the new KSYN3A boards.
I have spoken to Elecraft tech support and I am on their list in case they
decide to make a run of new synthesizer boards.
The KSYN3A design is based on microcontrollers from Microchip.
I've ordered some controllers at Microchip myself (of a type that is much more
common than the ones used in KSYN3A) and today I received the 5th "your ship
datum has changed" notice. Note, we're talking delivery in 3Q2023, but the
next notification will be 4Q2023; my first delivery notice was for June 2023.
And my order is small.
The market is still absolutely bonkers. At QRL, I know about at least a dozen
re-design efforts to change designs to make meet the semiconductors that we
still can get.
Wayne reported similar difficulties in his status report three months ago. And
it doesn't make sense to keep reporting "it is going to come..." because the
ship dates keep shifting and part delivery promises, even contractual, keep
changing.
The industry expects things to quieten down a bit next year, but we'll still
need to catch up the backlog.
I fully understand Wayne not reporting any ship dates. I would report only if
I have all parts on my desk, for all parts needed in the design. Even mundane
things like connectors (DC connectors) now yield delivery time of more than a
year out.
So it goes,
Geert Jan
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