[Elecraft] Where are the K4 reviews?

Tue Mar 30 17:01:37 EDT 2021

"Group 1, done by May" ??  Would be nice.  I am not going to hold my 
breath. The few (2?), "I got a UPS package", were from orders entered 
the first day.  Group 1 was not closed until Jan 2020??

"I Think" some of the communications from Elecraft are "hung up" with 
the Ferengi print from the online event keeping Elecraft from 
re-publishing any of the online event communication until the end of the 
30 day "hold".  If I was running the online event, I would want 
exclusive "use" of any publications for the full 30 days.  So, 16? Apr...

Yes, I could pay my $10 and see all the doc.  I was unavailable during 
the actual event, so I didn't sign up at all.

The last I looked, the KX3 is back ordered, too.

I would not mind an additional 6 month delay, IF I was told it was 
because Elecraft was moving to TN so that they could save 10% over 
current cost/taxes in CA.  I don't expect a move to happen. So, 60 days 
till the end of May, can they do it?

I placed my Group 1 order a week or so before Thanksgiving 2019...

73, steve WB3LGC

On 3/30/21 3:17 PM, John Stengrevics wrote:
> During the online event some weeks ago,*Eric said he expected to finish Group 1 by May. *
>
> 73,
>
> John
> WA1EAZ
>
>> On Mar 30, 2021, at 2:51 PM, Steven Kline via Elecraft <elecraft at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
>>
>> Paid in full here since last year and ordered June 2019, try rationalizing that with spouse.  Down to my last TT Orion of two, barely keeping it on the air.  Almost at point of needing to cancel and ask money be returned so I can get something else and keep operating.  Seeing nothing, hearing nothing (not even from anyone receiving a K-4 - assuming some are shipping).  Latter I don’t understand how anyone would allow themselves to be bound in secrecy.  If occurring must be significant benefit for observing code of silence.  I see no light at all inside the tunnel.
>>
>> Steve - W5JK
>>
>>> On Mar 30, 2021, at 10:55 AM, Lyn Norstad <Lyn at LNAINC.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I can’t imagine how it would feel to know that I had laid out $4k two years ago, and still be waiting for fulfillment.  NO, actually I can.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Several years ago, an up-and-coming system integration business I had been associated with for several years (as a VAR) was going thru many of the same types of growing pains in bringing a wonderful new product to market.  The CEO vowed he would run the business as if they were broke, which they very nearly were.  But the employees were faithful believers in the company and the product, and worked very hard to make it a success.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Early one Monday morning, I had a call from that CEO advising me that they had sold the company to another industry player (a non-competitor) and that they wanted me to join them for lunch to discuss the deal.  My fear and trepidation slowly disappeared that day as I met the new management “team” (with all the old R&D team still hard at work), got viable answers to all the hard questions and quickly recognized how an immediate cash infusion ($10 Million) had an amazing ability to totally turn things around, grease the wheels, and create an industry shakeup that precipitated a wave of further consolidation and rapid development.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> It was a win-win situation born out of the impending potential disaster we had all feared.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hang in there.  Times might seem tough, but there are some very smart people at work here.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 73
>>>
>>> Lyn, W0LEN
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> From: Elecraft-K4 at groups.io [mailto:Elecraft-K4 at groups.io] On Behalf Of Ted Roycraft
>>> Sent: Monday, March 29, 2021 4:44 PM
>>> To: Elecraft-K4 at groups.io
>>> Subject: Re: [Elecraft-K4] Where are the K4 reviews?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The natives are getting restless and it would be good to hear something official from Elecraft.  It's been too long since we've heard much of anything.  I would like to know if I can expect my Group 1 order, submitted on August 8, 2019, has any chance of getting to me before summer, 2021 begins or is it likely that I will have to wait another year.  I could have asked much the same question a year ago never expecting that a year from then, there would still be no K4 sitting on my table by now.  By the way, when I submitted my order the expected shipping date was estimated to be November or December, 2019.  That's pre-pandemic.
>>>
>>> 73, Ted, W2ZK
>>>
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