[Elecraft] Common K3 failure modes???

[Jim Brown]

On 6/22/2022 10:35 AM, David Gilbert wrote:
> Some people have suggested buying a complete spare rig for parts.  I 
> think that's ridiculous.  If I'm going to put out that much money for 
> contingency purposes I'll buy a new rig from a company that didn't put 
> me in that situation.

Dave,

You are being unreasonably hard on Elecraft. They are a small, privately 
held, US company. If you are unaware of supply chain issues widespread 
across all industries, especially electronics, you have your head firmly 
buried in the sand.

A Kenwood digital talkie I bought a couple of years ago lasted slightly 
more than a year. Kenwood sent me to a third party repair company. Have 
you investigated the history of ICOM or Yaesu repairing their radios?

I'm quoting part of Wayne's response to my complaints to him (direct 
email) about the K4 manual.

 > Our tech writer took a different job in 2019 right when he was
 > supposed to start the primary K4 manual. Then the pandemic hit, and we
 > haven't been able to hire another one (try to hire anyone lately?). So
 > this fell to me.

And this that I've taught my kids -- "The other guy's job always looks 
easy."

73, Jim K9YC