[Elecraft] good earphones

[ussv dharma]

finally found a good set of phones for K3....Kenwood HS-5.  Audio now at 9 oclock and volume is great...with the Heil it had to be 3 oclock and then volume was poor.

susan

If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm  AFA9SM                         USSV DHARMA 


--- On Tue, 10/19/10, Terry Schieler <terry.schieler at wirelessusa.com> wrote:

> From: Terry Schieler <terry.schieler at wirelessusa.com>
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KPA 500
> To: "'Guy Olinger K2AV'" <olinger at bellsouth.net>, "'Joe Subich, W4TV'" <lists at subich.com>
> Cc: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 10:53 AM
> Guy, K2AV wrote:  " I want them
> PROFITABLE so I get to keep them."  
> 
> That's a message I've used in our business for many
> years.  "You NEED me to
> be profitable so that I am around to continue to serve your
> needs" is a
> statement that I've ingrained in my sales reps.  When
> you are not the "low
> priced spread" in an industry you are constantly faced with
> customers who
> admit that they really prefer your level of quality,
> service and attention,
> but keep on reminding you that somebody else is doing it
> "cheaper".  
> 
> I had a customer tell me that "I used to buy this model
> from XX for much
> less than you are charging me".  When I told him that
> I then would recommend
> that he go back to that supplier and continue to purchase
> from him, the
> customer's response was "I can't....he's no longer in
> business!"
> 
> Hmmmm.  Wonder why he's out of business. Many hams
> don't understand that.
> Guy gets it!  
> 
> 73,
> 
> Terry, W0FM
> K3 #474
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guy Olinger K2AV [mailto:olinger at bellsouth.net]
> 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 10:34 AM
> To: Joe Subich, W4TV
> Cc: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KPA 500
> 
> There are a bunch of guys on this reflector, however decent
> and
> technically competent, that I would never want to run a
> business I had
> stock in.  Decent folks, probably be great neighbors,
> and favored ham
> buddies, would trust my kids with them, but they would do
> what 85% of
> all startup businesses do, go bankrupt.
> 
> There is a concept they are edging toward in their K3
> nit-picking, and
> it's called mil-spec.  They just don't want to admit
> it.
> 
> A company that makes mil-spec MUST charge for it.  A
> company that
> allows construction options MUST charge for it.  The
> screws themselves
> either add bucks to ALL of the products, OR options
> increase
> production complexity and therefore cost for the option.
> 
> However embedded, LABOR is the major cost of a radio. 
> Even the cost
> of a screw has labor embedded in it.
> 
> There ARE mil-spec radios that exceed K3 specs.  You
> can buy them.
> You can get a LOT of that mil-spec in a K3, but not
> all.  Exactly what
> part of that "lot of a mil-spec" was a business decision.
> 
> If Elecraft were to go bankrupt, I'm fairly convinced that
> would make
> some posters happy.  But bankrupt would bring further
> development and
> features to a crashing halt.  And who repairs K3's
> then?  Who will
> line up a source for your stainless screws and make them
> available
> then.
> 
> There's a real easy answer for the malcontents.  Are
> you peeved?  Put
> it up for sale right here.  I've noticed that they
> sell REALLY fast,
> usually in a couple hours for most of the retail
> price.  Then you can
> go to another reflector and complain about Yakencom. 
> They'll be happy
> to have you back.  They might even put you in an ad
> about how you
> switched back to Yakencom because you didn't like the
> screws.
> 
> OR, you could go out and buy 4000 K3's worth of stainless
> steel
> screws, drop your day job, spend several thousand dollars
> on
> advertisements for your new stainless steel screw
> replacement service,
> charge four times the minimum wage for your assembly time
> plus screw
> cost, and then wait for the business and profits to roll in
> to pay
> your mortgage and grocery bill.
> 
> Myself, I hope Elecraft keeps making SOUND BUSINESS
> DECISIONS.  I
> already know they have the technical moxy and the most
> customer-centric policies in this business niche. At this
> point, for
> me personally, their greatest worth is that they stay in
> business and
> keep developing.  I want them PROFITABLE so I get to
> keep them. I feel
> good about that because Elecraft was developing products
> and making a
> profit right through the worst recession since the great
> depression on
> a product line that is completely optional to everyday
> life.
> 
> They must be doing SOMETHING right smack on dead center to
> have half
> of all the transceivers at WRTC and made it through these
> financial
> conditions.
> 
> 73, Guy.
> 
> 
> 
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