[Elecraft] IndeIdefinate support for K3s?

[Skip Davis]

Dave you wrote: 
Parts are obviously still available for the modules and accessories for which they accepted last time buy orders ... they just decided not to make any more after that.
Well maybe you need to re-read the post from Elecraft regarding not being able to obtain some of the parts for the modules. As has been pointed out by many manufacturers there is a worldwide parts procurement problem going on and many parts are now unobtainable which it isn’t exclusive to Elecraft.
Elecraft doesn’t have the depth of resources that ICOM, Yaesu, and Kenwood who are in multiple markets and can produce maybe 10K plus board units of a product at a time. I recently repaired an FT1200 for a friend that had two self-biased transistors fail and I ordered the two different parts and increased my order to two of each. Well my package didn’t make it here so I went to reorder from Yaesu and it turns out I ordered the last ones they had in stock. The lead time for one of the parts was projected to be 24 months and I went to the worldwide market place and no one had stock with the same lead time, in other words unobtainable. The sad part of this is that this circuit is the power on circuit and this part is used in all there current rigs that I could find schematics for including my two month old FT891 mobile rig. There is no known cross reference for this device, I’ve checked with all manufacturers.
Oh by the way after filing a lost mail claim my package finally moved out of the Anaheim postal facility and found its way here after 8 weeks so I got my less than 30 cents worth of parts and $6 shipping after all and my friend got his rig back.

Skip Davis, NC9O