[Elecraft] [OT] Hilberling PT-8000 cancelled.

[Simon Brown (HB9DRV)]

This PT-8000 must have cost Hilberling a few million euro at least. Three 
stands at the big Friedrichshafen show (I am sure they were there in 2006), 
development and salaries and... I am sure Hilberling's company can afford 
this, it has a very high reputation and he holds some very fine patents.

I was always skeptical as the price was so very high - 11,990 euro for a 
100W single RX radio (no panoramic display) is a lot, even if it does come 
with a nice microphone. I see all docs have been pulled from the website, 
fortunately I made copies which I will keep.

For those who never saw the beast look at 
http://gallery.ham-radio.ch/main.php?g2_itemId=15914&g2_page=2 specifically 
images 0513 to 0520.

Real engineers deliver products, the rest end up working in McDonalds.

Simon Brown, HB9DRV

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From: "David Woolley (E.L)" <forums at david-woolley.me.uk>
>
> That's a different problem.  The design wasn't reproducible and could not 
> be rescued by production engineering.
>