[Elecraft] The last of the through-hole kits

[Jim Lowman]

You might be waiting a long time, Al, since having value as an 
unassembled kit would
require that Elecraft no longer produce the kit in question.

Yet another thing that I like about the Elecraft design philosophy.  
Just because they
came up with the K3, they didn't stop selling the K2.  In fact, consider 
the following:

I started out with the basic 10w K2, and added options as needed over 
the years.
Recently I've been thinking about getting the 60m option, which includes the
transverter interface.  When the K2 was introduced, we didn't have any 
spectrum
allocated on 60m, and the concept of interfacing seamlessly with a 
transverter
was probably a distant vision at best.  But now, 10+ years later, these 
features have
been incorporated into the design of the K2 and can now be added as desired.

Try that with the Big Three.  You can bet that when 60m became available 
to hams, it
would be on their latest and greatest new radio, with no hope for 
backward compatibility
with prior models.

Elecraft and Ten-Tec are OK in my book.  With the exception of the 
FT-817 and FT-847,
every radio in the shack here is from a current or past US manufacturer.

72/73 de Jim - AD6CW

On 6/3/2011 11:56 AM, Al Lorona wrote:
> At that time I also wondered (after seeing the prices of original unopened
> Heathkits on eBay) whether it wouldn't be a great retirement investment
> to stockpile a few unopened and unbuilt Elecraft kits in the attic.
>
>
> Al  W6LX
>