[Elecraft] K3: "secret" hardware changes?

[S Sacco]

Tom -

> All who agree with Steve that "Elecraft has apparently not
> been forthcoming with the changes", please ask Elecraft to hold your orders
> until there are never going to be any more improvements, so I can get my K3
> sooner and make any modifications they recommend.
>
>
> Tom, N5GE - SWOT 3537 - Grid EM12jq


Again, the point is whether changes have been communicated.  Those who
wish to postpone/cancel/whatever would then be in a position to make
that decision.

Let me provide another example:  The 1 PPM KTCXO3-1 is currently
available and offered for sale.  I included one with my order on June
18th 2007.  It was represented as available at that time, too.  As I
was assembling my K3 last weekend, I was surprised to learn that, even
after all this time, the firmware for the KTCXO3-1 is not available.

No mention is made of this at Elecraft's web site, yet they still
offer the KTCXO3-1 for sale.

Wouldn't it be more, shall we say "honest", for lack of a better term,
to NOT offer the KTCXO3-1 for sale until the software to utilize it is
actually shipping?  Barring that, perhaps a note next to the KTCXO3-1
on the ordering page, advising of the firmware status would be the
"right" thing to do, so folks aren't spending $100 for something they
can't use?

Same kind of thing.

Ben Franklin would have understood.  He's my fav Founding Father.  I
read someplace the the other Founding Fathers wouldn't let him write
the Constitution, because they were afraid he'd slip a joke or two in
there!  My kind of guy.  :-)


73,

Steve NN4X