[Elecraft] Where is Elecraft Support ?

[Jeff Stai]

Continuing the OT parade, I have one.

When I first joined the ASIC team at Western Digital I was assigned to
complete a SCSI interface chip and get it into manufacturing. It was a
design that they had decided not to produce... except for the fact that one
frisky salesman sold it to an passenger jet manufacturer.

Said mfr needed, for the whole lifetime of the jet in question, something
like 30 units. But since there was a contract signed, we made it.

73 jeff wk6i


On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 1:19 PM Alan <n1al at sonic.net> wrote:

> My experience with lifetime buys was at HP/Agilent.  They would only do
> such a buy when the manufacturer announced a part discontinuance.  You
> then figure out how many parts you need for the expected product
> lifetime plus spares for future repairs and buy that many to put in stores.
>
> It's  a pain in the neck because it can be expensive to store all that
> unused inventory and it's hard to estimate product lifetime years in
> advance.  So if possible you try to find a substitute part, even if that
> may involve some re-design.  But sometimes a lifetime buy is the only
> reasonable solution.
>
> Alan N1AL
>
>
> On 3/11/20 12:10 PM, Fred Jensen wrote:
> > It is dependent on scale, David.  The USAF flies large fleets of a
> > number of different A/C and has in-place materiel warehousing and
> > distribution facilities.
> >
> > On 3/10/2020 9:49 PM, David Gilbert wrote:
> >>
> >> That makes zero sense.
> >>
> >> What are you going to make a "Lifetime Buy" on?  A synth?  A front
> >> panel?  A tuner?  You might as well buy a second (or third) rig since
> >> you don't have a clue what might fail in the future, and if you buy
> >> all those things separately (or worse yet the individual components
> >> that go into them) you better plan on working an extra year or so
> >> before retiring.
>
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