[Elecraft] K4 delivery is now in May

[WILLIE BABER]

 I recall the K2 in particular. I received modifications from Elecraft before I finished building it. Because I was working so hard at the University, I put K2 is a box, partially assembled. However, I kept track of every Elecraft modification and put them in the box too. Then I purchased an assembled K3. It also went through a few changes (remember the replacement of those pins?) and well before the improved synthesizer. Still, I did not use exclusive so2r K3 until 2015 (but I should have done so sooner---I was still using Orion).

I didn't finish building K2 until 2016, four years after I retired! Elecraft still had a few parts that I needed. K2 works perfectly, but nothing else I have used slices up signals in a contest like K3 with the six-pole 200 hz crystal filter. 

So while the delay is unfortunate, I wouldn't worry about Elecraft's final product if history is any kind of measure that involves the future. Of course time is a real issue, as many of us are running short of it!

I am in my 70th year, and I was one of the younger ones in the hobby, hi.

73, Will, wj9b, dit dit

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http://cwops.org/     On Wednesday, January 15, 2020, 11:28:46 PM PST, Buddy Brannan <buddy at brannan.name> wrote:  
 
 Disappointing? It’s not unusual. Same happened with the KX3—production/shipping delays—and, I gather, same happened with the K3 as well. I don’t recall if the same delays happened with the KX1 or not. But it’s one of those nature of the beast things. I ordered my KX3 just a day or so after the announcement of the preorder window came up, and the scheduled beginning of production slipped. I think it slipped a couple times. Finally got it about a week before Field Day, and it was a sub-500 serial number. Was it worth the extra wait? Absolutely, without question it was. It was everything I’d hoped for it to be and then some. 


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> On Jan 15, 2020, at 8:01 PM, mark roz via Elecraft <elecraft at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
> 
> Wow. K4- perhaps first delivery in May now.
> Very disappointing.
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