[Elecraft] K1 IF Amp Mod? Some history.

[Phil Wheeler]

Hmm .. so where is the KX2, Eric? :-)

73, Phil W7OX

On 10/17/14, 6:34 PM, Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, 
Elecraft wrote:
> More history - Elecraft was formally created 
> July of 1998. (We began working on the K2 design 
> well before that.)
>
> We shipped the first 100 K2 Field Test Units 
> January and Feb. of 1999.  We took orders for 
> production K2 kits at Dayton in May of 1999.
>
> We followed that with the K1, then the KX1, the 
> K3, and most recently the KX3.
>
> 73,
>
> Eric
> elecraft.com
>
> On 10/17/2014 5:40 PM, Mike Morrow wrote:
>>> ...were not available when the K1 was designed 
>>> 20 years or so ago.
>>>
>>> That's a pretty fanciful date to just pick out 
>>> of thin air! :-)
>>>
>>> There wasn't anything that was "Elecraft" 20 
>>> years ago.  The K1 was shown
>>> first at Dayton 2000, after which many of us 
>>> ordered one.  The first
>>> deliveries to the mass unwashed customer base 
>>> were made in October, 2000,
>>> after a wait of more than five months.
>>>
>>> I got No. 175 in November, 2000.  Not 1994!
>>>
>>> It's already been noted that the Sierra (also 
>>> designed by Wayne/N6KR) came
>>> out long before the K1...in fact...in 1994.  
>>> So there's your 20 years!
>>>
>>> Mike / KK5F