I have to agree. You probably recall this pearl of engineering scheduling wisdom:
"The first 90% of the work takes the first 90% of the schedule; the remaining 10% of the work takes the other 90% of the schedule." When you're exploring new territory, sometimes there are surprises and you have to deal with them one at a time. Yeah, once you're into production you can do a much better job of forecasting, but this isn't production yet. They may be out of design development, but they've only started manufacturing development. What we're talking about here- and waiting for- are production prototypes that are defining the manufacturing and testing processes thru which all following producution must follow. Each of these K3s are being nurtured to life by hand. It's going to get better, but not yet. I'm willing to bet that the mfg. documents look like somebody bled on them from each days accumulated redlines! The inferred good news from all this is that we so far haven't heard that the design has changed. That says a lot for the thoroughness of the design phase and will hopefully make the passage to true production less troublesome. Bruce, NM5B Santa Fe, NM > ... I've worked in engineering too long. I know that you cannot > believe > an engineer when he gives you a schedule. Sorry, but we engineers are > not good at it. Elecraft is doing their best and fortunately for us, > their best means we get a great performing radio that is a great > price. > Personally, I've taken every schedule from Elecraft with a large grain > of salt, thus keeping my expectations rather low. _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
