[Elecraft] [K4] Shipping??

[Ted Roycraft]

Wayne and Eric,
I'm very sorry for all the problems you guys in California are having 
dealing with multiple problems beyond your control and it is completely 
understandable why the K4 has been delayed.  I'm sure that no one wants 
them shipping more than you do..

Anyway, I am writing you to ask you if you could do something like you 
did when the K2 had many orders that you had to fill on a first 
come/first served basis.  Back then, every day you shipped, you posted 
the order date of the last K2 to go out the door that day. Could you do 
something similar with the K4?  In this case, initially for Group 1, 
publish the "deposit date" made by the buyer of the last K4 to go out 
the door that day.  I'm sure with the K2, that policy eliminated a lot 
of emails asking "how close am I to getting my K2".  And, contrary to 
the opinion of some of us, I think this policy would cut way down on the 
unnecessary emails coming to this mailing list asking "when am I getting 
my K4".

Best regards,
Ted Roycraft, W2ZK

On 9/1/2020 12:47, Wayne Burdick wrote:
> Hi Björn,
>
> The programmer's reference is mostly complete, but I still have to separate out internal vs. public commands. That was the plan, right up until the the fires :-/
>
> Are you already on our developer's list? We'll be posting the programmer's reference to this list as soon as it's ready.
>
> 73,
> Wayne
> N6KR
>
>
>> On Sep 1, 2020, at 9:29 AM, Björn Ekelund <bjorn at ekelund.nu> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Wayne,
>>
>> Since you are now shipping; When can we expect the K4 programmer's manual to be available for download?
>>
>> We want to make sure the DXLog (www.dxlog.net) contest logger supports K4 as soon as possible.
>>
>> I emailed you a few months ago but I guess that was too early.
>>
>> Björn SM7IUN
>>
>> Den tis 1 sep. 2020 kl 18:20 skrev Wayne Burdick <n6kr at elecraft.com>:
>> A small batch is in process to go out this week, and I'm sure Eric will post an update.
>>
>> So how about a weather report?
>>
>> This past few weeks has been very difficult for California and the Bay Area in particular. No one could have anticipated this at the beginning of the month (remember the Ham Expo?), since fire season is usually in October. But worst-case conditions have been brewing for some time. Thanks to drought and record temperatures everything has become tinder-dry (10 years ago we'd get a few winter days in the 30F range, now the lowest we ever see is 40F). Bark beetle larvae are no longer culled during winter, turning trees into an insect smörgåsbord. This has left forests all over the West vulnerable.
>>
>> We had employees evacuated due to fires burning in or near the factory, and many of us elsewhere were on official alert status, thinking about what to pack. During this time the air quality has been horrendous (AQI over 200 some days). This has temporarily upended our strategy of keeping all the doors open to provide safe working conditions in the midst of the ongoing pandemic (remember that?) meaning virtually everyone is working from home. My family had to buy N95 masks just to be able to run errands. We still need them about 50% of the time, though the firefighters are making progress.
>>
>> In related news, one of our local field testers lost pretty much everything he owned, including his K4, due to one fire's unprecedented rampage through our coastal forests.
>>
>> And still we persist.
>>
>> All I can say, in the humbling face of nature, is...QRX.
>>
>> 73,
>> Wayne
>> N6KR
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Sep 1, 2020, at 4:29 AM, Nr4c <nr4c at widomaker.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> But well after closing for any of their regular shippers!
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>> ...nr4c. bill
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Sep 1, 2020, at 12:55 AM, Macy monkeys <macymonkeys at charter.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 
>>>> It's not midnight yet on the west coast :)
>>>>
>>>> John K7FD
>>
>>
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