[Elecraft] Considering a K3
Phil Hystad
phystad at mac.com
Sat Apr 5 19:35:14 EDT 2014
The trick is to be older than either Wayne and Eric. I am older than both of them so no worries on my part. Besides, I am already retired and I am pretty sure that neither Wayne nor Eric are thinking of retiring in the next couple of years.
If that happens though, there are so many excellent resources on this forum that I am not concerned at all. In the worst case, if Elecraft disappeared tomorrow and all my Elecraft gear vaporized instantly like something from The Twilight Zone, there are always other second tier vendors out there.
73, phil, K7PEH
On Apr 5, 2014, at 4:22 PM, Oliver Dröse <droese at necg.de> wrote:
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> Don is certainly right. But what I've been wondering already is what will happen to Elecraft if Wayne & Eric will retire? I know there's a real great crew at Elecraft now but hey, they are the master minds, aren't they? ;-)
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> 73, Olli
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> Am 05.04.2014 20:40, schrieb Don Wilhelm:
>> Dave,
>>
>> Elecraft is in good financial shape and is *not* running on borrowed money.
>> Consider also that Elecraft still sells and supports every product that they have developed, and that includes their first product, the K2 first available in 1999. I am certain the K3 will be around for a very long time too.
>>
>> So other than a natural disaster that would completely wipe out the Watsonville area and much around it as well, I can forsee no reason for Elecraft to go away. Even a total natural disaster in the Watsonville area would not likely to shut things down for long - the engineering/development staff is spread out over a lot of the US and communicate via email and other internet methods, and the support staff is similar. That indicates to me that any interruption would be temporary, and more likely only result in a slowdown while Watsonville would recover quickly.
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>> 73,
>> Don W3FPR
>>
>> On 4/5/2014 1:09 PM, David Cole wrote:
>>> Hi Robers,
>>> Thanks for the nice overview, Is there any issue you might be aware of
>>> that might cause Elecraft to cease production of the K3, or go away as a
>>> company?
>>>
>>
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