[Elecraft] RE: half price ordering

[Gary Hvizdak]

On Monday 31 July 2006 at 1842 Jack Lowdon (W4DT) wrote ...

I want to pre-order Rev.G products.  How to get the 50% discount on the
order page?

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Jack,

    We did two things when we announced our new rev. G PCB:

1)  We permanently lowered the prices of all of our remaining original rev.
D PCB based kits by $4.00.  This amount was equivalent to half of the
original price of our "Bare Boards Only" kit, which had been $7.95.

2)  We briefly offered a pre-production sale on our new rev. G PCB based
kits at these same prices.  That sale was only for one week, and it ended at
1159 UTC on Sunday July 23rd.

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    We had hoped that with sufficient interest during our sale, that we
would have been able to double our production volume and permanently offer
our rev. G based kits at our temporary half-off sale prices.  Unfortunately,
interest during the sale wasn't sufficient to do this.

    Now for the good news.  Our post production rev. G prices are still
lower than our original rev. D based kit prices were, by an average of about
$2.00.  We were able to keep our prices so low because our PCB vendor
offered us a generous discount off their standard one-time (Non-Recurring
Engineering) production setup fee.

    Even more good news is that our PCB vendor also offered us a two-week
turnaround at their four-week price, so we now anticipate deliveries of rev.
G beginning in early, rather than mid-September as was originally announced.

    There's even more good news.  Originally, rev. G had ground planes on
just the bottom copper layer.  However, after consulting with an RF
Engineer, a second ground plane was added to the top copper layer as well.

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    For even more details, here's the URL of a recent Reflector post
describing some of the differences between rev. G and our original board ...

http://www.ac6rm.net/mailarchive/html/elecraft-list/2006-07/msg00537.html

    Another 11th hour improvement to rev. G was making the breakaway tabs
20% smaller.  This should make it a "snap" to break apart the individual
boards after you've installed and soldered the parts.

73,
Gary, KI4GGX
K2 #4067