[Elecraft] Where are the K4 reviews?

[David Gilbert]

Uhh .. I'm not the one doing the whining.  The guys who post here asking 
when they might actually know when they will get their K4 are the ones 
you should maybe be accusing.  I'm just making an outsider observation 
on their behalf.

Besides, this isn't a marketing issue.  It's a simple communications 
issue, and like I said ... if we can hear about QRP contacts and 
pedestrian mobile contacts, the folks who actually invested 
interest-free money for the last 20 months or so probably have a right 
to equal consideration.

Dave   AB7E



On 3/30/2021 4:22 PM, Eric Norris wrote:
> Elecraft is unlike all other world-class mfrs of amateur radio 
> transceivers.  They are very, very small.  They have to be to keep 
> their margins big enough to compete with giants who mfr marine, 
> aviation, and consumer electronics.  They can't get away with 
> marketing a KX4 that puts out ONE WATT more than a KX3 and call it ALL 
> NEW.  If an engineer's house burns down, they can't easily slide 
> someone else over from another project.  Same with COVID.
>
> If you ran a company like Elecraft, would you publicize every setback 
> when every single employee is critical?  No, you wouldn't.  Either 
> give them more slack, and wait, or go somewhere else and buy something 
> else.  But please stop the endless whining.
>
> K4s are out there--I hear them on in contests.
>
> Eric has stated they hope to clear the Group 1 backlog by the end of 
> May.  He has also stated that K4 production will ramp up by an order 
> of magnitude and more.
>
> Remember the K3 rollout?  KPA1500?  NO COVID. NO WILDFIRES.  I just 
> passed my two-week vax period, and I am older than almost everybody 
> who works at Elecraft.  Do the math.
>
> 73 Eric WD6DBM
>
>     Besides, I don't find "if you can't accept being in the dark ask for
>     your money back" to be sound business practice.  It certainly
>     wouldn't
>     have been tolerated in the large business I ran for several years.
>