[Elecraft] K1 boards open source?

[Mike Morrow]

What you propose will very likely not be possible.

Elecraft has always been very "outside the norm" for contemporary QRP kit makers in NEVER providing PCB trace info for the kits that it sold.  It is deliberate company policy.

I could have used such info a number of times after I built an early K1 some 19 years ago.  The late great Tom/N0SS was a helpful source of physical high-quality photos of some of the PCBs that Elecraft made 15 years ago.

Mike / KK5F

>I have recently realized that I “need” a 30 + 17 meter band filter board for my 40 + 20 K1. Obviously I have had 15+ years to make this realization, but I’m slow. After the recent fire sale, it appears that no more K1 parts are available from Elecraft.
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>If they are no longer selling K1 kits, and have therefore apparently given up on the K1 as a profit-making activity, and given that the schematics and BOMs are already in the documentation, is there a source for the circuit board layouts so that third-party boards could be sourced? I suppose the board layout is copyrighted.
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>Or could Elecraft make a run of bare boards? It should not be too hard to collect the required parts if the boards were available.
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>Seems like there could be a small-volume continuing product availability stream somehow…
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>Thanks.
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>Doug, W0UHU.