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[Bill W5WVO]

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! (HRO 
did send him a new one immediately.) As someone who has been involved directly 
in design engineering and indirectly in manufacturing engineering, I can tell 
you that the latter is in many ways more difficult than the former, as 
illustrated by the IC-7000 anecdote above.

So let's keep in mind what the alternatives to Elecraft are like.  :-)

Bill W5WVO