On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 09:17, Bill W5WVO wrote: > Dave Yarnes wrote: > > > If you think about other rigs that are out there, it does seem to > > take an inordinate amount of time to get them from prototype to > > market product. The IC-7000, for example, was shown at Dayton nearly > > a year before it actually became available. > > Yeah... And they are having problems even now. A friend of mine who bought > one > a few weeks ago from HRO had it blow up on him ( literally -- it smoked > big-time) after being turned on for all of ten minutes in receive mode!
I used to be a design engineer for R. L. Drake back in the days when they still made ham gear. A few weeks after we started first shipments of the new TR-7 HF transceiver we received a padded envelope from one of our customers with a note "I think you guys may have lost this." In the envelope was a pair of side cutters he had found wedged between the motherboard and the bottom cover. :=) Al N1AL _______________________________________________ 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
