[Elecraft] K1 boards open source?

[Walter Underwood]

> On Jun 10, 2019, at 8:57 AM, Douglas Hagerman via Elecraft <elecraft at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
> 
> 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.

The actual problem is that the parts are no longer available. Wayne sent this to the list four days ago.

> On Jun 6, 2019, at 10:56 AM, Wayne Burdick <n6kr at elecraft.com> wrote:
> 
> Correct on both counts. 
> 
> Trust me, as the designer of both the K1 and KX1 I have a soft spot for them and would love to bring them back. But several of the critical parts became impossible to source, and a substantial redesign would be required to work around them.
> 
> The good news: the KX2 is soooo much more radio, in a smaller package. We had to go through the K1 and KX1 to get to the KX2, and we're not looking back :)
> 
> 73,
> Wayne
> N6KR


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