Eric, It has been almost 11 weeks since your last K3 & K3S Options Update (shown below). I have several option kits on order but I haven't heard anything about them in the past 11 weeks so would you please update us?
Thank you, Gary R. ________________________________ From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net <elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net> on behalf of Eric Swartz <e...@elecraft.com> Sent: Friday, December 2, 2022 4:16 PM To: Elecraft list <Elecraft@mailman.qth.net> Subject: [Elecraft] K3 & K3S Options Last Time Buy Update (12/02/2022) I apologize for the delay getting this info out to everyone. (See my final comments below after the status section for more info on what has caused much of the delay.) First - The current K3 & K3S option status. The following boards are now in process, and should ship close to these dates ranges if there are no new parts issues or surprise manufacturing delays. P3TXMON 6-8 weeks K3EXREF 8 weeks KAT3A: 8 weeks KDVR3 8 weeks KPA3A 6-8 weeks KIO3B 8-9 weeks KSYN3A 8 weeks KBPF3A 8 weeks KXV3B 6-8 weeks K144XV and K144RFLK 7-10 days We've completed building an additional batch of K144XV 2M options and we're finishing up the matching K144RFLK lock boards, which lock the K144XV's frequency to the K3's reference oscillator. We'll be contacting the remaining customers for these two items in order to confirm shipping information (and collect the other half of the funds due for shipping and those who made a half deposit.) --- Remaining 3 Last time Buy items: P3: Still seeing long parts delays from Analog devices and Microchip. P3SVGA: Still seeing long parts delays from Intel (FPGA) and Microchip (uC). K3/0 Mini: Microchip (uC) delays plus qualifying second sources on several other parts. We are also evaluating our demo stock of K3/0 Minis to see if that can help with regular orders or our wait-list orders. We will update everyone on these last three items as we get new information. ---- General comments: We've been navigating a wide range of parts and manufacturing issues these past months. The K3 Options suffered in focus as we first had to keep our primary product lines rolling out the door to you. (K4s, KX-Line, Amps (100, 500 and 1500W) etc.) We've been successful sourcing parts for these primary products and keeping them shipping :-) , but its taken way more focus and effort that anyone expected.. We've also had to contend with one of our key circuit board assembly subcontractors becoming unavailable after being sold to another company. (All of our boards are built in the U.S.) That resulted in our other assembly subcontractors becoming overloaded. Fortunately we have now qualified and brought on-line several new U.S. circuit board assembly companies with excellent results. In addition to smoothing our regular production, this has made it possible to get our focus back on the K3 Options. We will be posting updates for these products as they each get closer to shipping. Thank you again for your patience. 73, Eric WA6HHQ *elecraft.com <http://elecraft.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 n6...@outlook.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
