[Elecraft] Considering a K3

[Phil Wheeler]

They planned the creation and evolution of 
Elecraft over the last 15 years very well. I 
suspect they've done some succession planning, 
too. Anyway, I'm not too concerned: Wayne is a tad 
over 20 years younger than I :-)

73, Phil W7OX

On 4/5/14, 4:22 PM, Oliver Dröse wrote:
>
> 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? ;-)
>
> 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.
>>
>> 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?
>>>
>>