[Elecraft] KX3 shipping status update

[Fred Jensen]

Just part of manufacturing and production engineering. :-)  We had 
4-layer boards [signals on the outside, pwr and gnd in the middle to cut 
down crosstalk], and in the prototypes, multiple thrus got plated to the 
inside layers.  Hey ... prototypes ... we used a couple of marine 12V 
batteries and burned the plating off so we could use them for testing. 
The board house sweated the bullets and fixed it for our customers.

I've always thought the design engineers should spend some time with the 
manufacturing engineers.  Just because you can think it up doesn't mean 
you can make it, in quantity, at a profit.  For the record, I'm retired 
from neither design nor manufacturing engineering.  I just admire my 
E-radios.

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2012 Cal QSO Party 6-7 Oct 2012
- www.cqp.org


On 3/18/2012 7:04 PM, Wayne Burdick wrote:

> Yes. And sweating bullets. Our normally very reliable PCB fabricator
> mis-drilled one of the boards and is working overtime replacing them.
> (No, we won't be posting their phone number on this list :)