[Elecraft] Shipping Status Page

[Alan Bloom]

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