[Elecraft] Kit Shipping Schedule Theory

[Earlve7qj]

Im thinking your assessment is very accurate.  So it just means that it sucks to be me and anyone else waiting for kits.... Damn, would have been nice to have the kx3 before i went to dayton... Oh well, ill just have to wait like everyone else.

73 de  VE7QJ

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On 2012-04-28, at 9:06 AM, AB5N <7000mic at gmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings-
> 
> Wow, there's almost no info available on KX-3 production. If I had to
> theorize:
> 
> I imagine that the original board problem was corrected, but that there were
> several 
> other small - mostly software- problems to work out. Being that assembled
> units are being shipped, 
> the board supplier must have delivered working boards. The DSP chip was
> delayed in showing up
> but certainly adequate supplies of it are now available. Of all existing
> orders, 2/3rds are kit orders.
> 
> The questions facing Eric and Wayne must be: How many people do we add/train
> to fulfill KX-3 orders
> and what else can we use them on -when KX-3 orders taper down? When do we
> feel that enough of the
> bugs have been worked-out of the KX-3 assembly and firmware so we can start
> shipping? 
> Assembled rigs bring in $100 more (and orders for them keep coming in). The
> kits are actually
> more difficult to put together (all boards must be hand-checked and packed)
> It's hard to make it top 
> priority to ship kits out. Plus, there will be user assembly questions which
> will drain employee time once 
> they start shipping kits.
> Then there is Dayton coming up... more distractions and man-hours. 
> 
> If I was them, I'd fill ALL factory-assembled unit orders before shipping
> any kits. It's common business sense. 
> They are now 3/4 through all factory-assembled orders as-per Tom's list. At
> present rates, that puts kit shipping starting after Dayton some time. It
> /might even be/ their goal to ship the remaining assembled units before
> Dayton. Being Dayton sucks a wide-week out of the schedule, I'd look for
> kits to start shipping at the end of May. I hope so- as there will be
> another bevy of orders after Dayton!
> 
> Hows that for conjecture?!
> 
> Bob-AB5N 
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