[Elecraft] Buying a K4 in UK

[Jim Brown]

On 8/3/2023 2:29 AM, G3WPF via Elecraft wrote:
> You are still missing the point Jim.
> 
> The choice is simple.  The customer can either go through the risk and 
> rigmarole of conducting their business direct with Elecraft, several 
> thousand miles away or driving an hour or so to buy/have 
> serviced/repaired a broadly equivalent rig from other manufacturers.

I haven't misunderstood at all -- indeed, I WOULD consider that issue. 
And I suspect that if Elecraft does not currently have a relationship 
with distributor or service in EU, it's because they don't know of a 
suitable firm.

That said, EI2CN has responded to this concern in a positive way.

And this observation from my experience: several years ago, I bought a 
Kenwood D74A VHF/UHF talkie from a US vendor, hoping it would be a 
replacement for the TH-F6As that I've used and loved for twenty years. 
The user interface was so bad that I had to refer to the manual (a pdf, 
which I printed most of) to do almost anything, so I rarely used it, 
sticking the TH-F6A instead.

When I eventually did pick it up for some reason, it was dead, and out 
of warranty. In this country of ~340 million souls, Kenwood lists only 
one service center, and it took nearly a month to get an address or 
contact info. I've long considered Kenwood as the best of the JA rigs.

73, Jim K9YC