[Elecraft] K3S accessories availability, moving forward

[Ted Edwards W3TB]

I don't know how long accessories will be available.
I had not gotten around to the sub-receiver, but I ordered one over the
weekend and it came today.  Glad....

On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 7:06 PM hawley, charles j jr <c-hawley at illinois.edu>
wrote:

> BMW Motorcycles keeps many parts for more than 50 years. I once ordered a
> set of springs for a 1960 BMW and BMW parts in Germany sent one and ordered
> the second one from an outside vendor...which means they had it made.
> There's more value to supplying parts for obsolete products than what the
> accounts see.
>
> Jack BMW Motorcycles
> Chuck KE9UW
> c-hawley at illinois.edu
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On Dec 6, 2019, at 2:31 PM, Bob McGraw K4TAX <rmcgraw at blomand.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > Ed explained it quite well.   I would add that when a product is
> discontinued usually the options, being also considered as product, will go
> away as well.   This does not imply that repair parts are discontinued.
>  It is often confusing to users when a product is not longer available that
> service parts of the same items are available.  Usually one has a product
> model number and the other has a service part number.
> >
> > After a product is obsoleted, where I previously worked, we planned
> service parts supports for some 7 or so years.  There is no legal
> requirement for a company to do this with consumer type products.   Often
> we missed the projection and ran out early.  In some cases it was the
> customers that ordered an excessive number of service parts {so they could
> have spares} and this drew down the projected service parts inventory.
> And then too, the accountants came around asking what is all of this on the
> shelves for the last 5 years with no usage?   Get rid of the inventory as
> it is costing the company money.     The customer looses either way.
> >
> > 73
> >
> > Bob, K4TAX
> >
> >
> >> On 12/6/2019 1:00 PM, Edward R Cole wrote:
> >> Don explained it well; Elecraft support appears to continue for the K3,
> K3S.  Obtaining new options apparently has a shorter life-span.
> >>
> >>
> >
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