[Elecraft] KIO3B

[Dr. William J. Schmidt, II]

I feel a bit responsible for this thread and it needs to end. The issue for me is that my radio is at my place on J6 where my electronics lab is not. I have three options:  1. Bring the radio back and fix it, 2. Try to fix it down there (with very minimal resources), or 3. Bring a new part down with me to swap out and trouble shoot the broken part back here in the states.  Ordering a new KIO3 would be less than smart.

I decided last night i would simply order a new K3s, tell Elecraft to hot shot the KIO3B out of it and keep the radio/ send the radio with a replacement KIO3B when they become available (months from now, i don't care).  Theres more than one way to skin this cat!


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> On Dec 16, 2015, at 9:08 AM, Don Wilhelm <w3fpr at embarqmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I am certain the money is not the problem - at least for Elecraft, but perhaps for their board house.
> The boards are being populated by a board assembly house in California.
> In order to increase their production of the finished boards, they would likely have to hire more people and purchase more equipment.
> That is not a smart business move if the volume will taper off after the "crunch".
> So we have to wait until things 'even out' before those boards can be available for K3 retrofit.
> 
> If a cookie manufacturer has capability of producing 100k cookies a day, but the holiday season customers want 125k cookies per day, do you think the manufacturer would increase the production facilities - especially if the demand would fall off to only 100k per day after the holidays?  It is the same principle.
> 
> I am quite happy with the RS-232 interface for my K3 and already have the external soundcard working, so I will not be begging to get the schedule advanced.
> 
> 73,
> Don W3FPR
> 
> 
>> -------- Original message --------
>> From: Merv Schweigert <k9fd at flex.com>
>> Date: 12/15/2015 6:15 PM (GMT-08:00)
>> To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
>> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KIO3B
>> 
> <<snip>>
>> We will have boards when the K3S demand is met?  sounds like there is not
>> enough money to buy more boards than what they expect K3S sales to be?
>> Ordering another few hundred extra of the boards would solve the problem
>> of not
>> having enough on hand.
> 
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