[Elecraft] KPA1500 Amplifiers are now shipping from Stock

[Jim Brown]

Thanks Carl.

To those of use who have kept current with the news over the last three 
years, it comes as no surprise that Elecraft, like the rest of world's 
manufacturers, has problems obtaining parts for existing designs. For 
years, prices for new cars have skyrocketed because mfrs couldn't buy 
chips for the multiple computers each vehicle carries. The small mfr 
located in California's Sierra, from whom my wife has purchased several 
looms, has had difficulty buying parts and materials. Often, a part goes 
extinct, requiring redesign of existing products that depended on it 
introducing further delays.

For Elecraft, it isn't a matter of priorities -- neighbor and Elecraft 
mfg engineer K6XX told me that all he's doing nowadays is chasing down 
parts for existing products.

73, Jim K9YC

On 10/7/2022 11:20 AM, Carl Yaffey wrote:

> I tried to order an MH3. I was told they are waiting for some parts for a new model of it.
> 
> Carl Yaffey  K8NU

>> On Oct 7, 2022, at 11:46 AM, Mike Smith VE9AA <ve9aa at nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:
>>
>> That's great that you're selling these expensive amps, rigs and whatnot and
>> keeping yourselves going, but how about updates on stuff we've paid for an
>> not fully rec'd?
>>
>>
>>
>> Before last Xmas I ordered a KX2 shack-in-a-box kit and rec'd it a couple
>> months later(no complaints- I knew there was a small backorder), but there
>> was no MH3 microphone included.