Good stuff. Makes sense. The piece that keeps getting me, is that
people, much more experienced than I, are selling $10,000 rigs, to buy
a $2,000->$3,000 rig. Makes me go....hmmmmmmmmm ;)
Dave Wilburn
K4DGW
K2/100 - S/N 5982
Phil & Debbie Salas wrote:
"Myself I don't consider this a debacle at all - what we are seeing is a
small high-tech company bringing out a product that is already surpassing
the competition in terms of performance and putting the release of a
flagship radio from one of the major Japanese manufacturers to shame."
I completely agree. Should Elecraft have waited until everything was
ready before announcing the K3? If they had, there wouldn't be 200+ K3s
out there and more shipping every day. I'd rather have a K3 now without
all the options, rather than wait until everything was ready.
I spent 33 years in new product development (most of the time at
Rockwell/Collins). I averaged a 20% development time overrun on new
products. When you do innovative things for the first time, you really
cannot anticipate all the issues you will run into. But it is best to
be optimistic on your schedules. If you put out a pessimistic schedule
(trying to take everything into consideration), you will not have the
sense of urgency during the development, and you will still run into
things that you didn't anticipate. I used to always say that it is MUCH
better to miss an optimistic schedule than to miss a pessimistic schedule.
I'm looking forward to receiving my K3. Hopefully it will be here
shortly. And while I do want (and have ordered) the second receiver, I
am willing to wait for the optimally designed seconmd receiver.
Phil - AD5X
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