[Elecraft] Is the KX3 going to be sold as a kit?

[~BG~]

Do you guys do all the SMD soldering by hand?  I'd be guessing that the
current volumes shipped you guys would've been able to invest in a placement
machine.  Small ones have been becoming reasonable affordable these days
(e.g. small outfits like Adafruit have been using one some their higher
volume Arduino kits and accessories).


./Ben

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Wayne Burdick <n6kr at elecraft.com> wrote:

> The KX3 has hundreds of SMDs. Many of them are so small that I need a
> magnifying glass just to find them. Soldering them by hand is tedious
> and fraught with peril (all of us on the team do it, but we don't
> enjoy it).
>
> A full kit would be impossible to support and not profitable. Sorry
> about that.
>
> 73,
> Wayne
> N6KR
>
> On Jun 3, 2011, at 11:25 AM, Tony Estep wrote:
>
> > You guys are killing me with this gloomy talk about SMDs. Just last
> > night I
> > ordered a Softrock. From reading the assembly manual I can see that
> > this is
> > a long-tailed project, but I'm determined to remain optimistic. My
> > intention
> > is to use it as an interface for CW Skimmer, taking IF out the back
> > of my
> > P3. We shall see...
> >
> > If I ever get it to work, I'll report back here.
> >
> > Tony KT0NY
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