First Shipment Tally

[JIMMY D HARRIS]

Michael,

The following has been gleaned from several sources over the last few weeks.

The initial production run was upgraded from 200 to 220 and has been sold
out several weeks ago.  That run is for July and August delivery.  The
second run was also upgraded from 200 to 220 and has been sold out with
deliveries in August and September.  I've not seen third production run
numbers but would expect them to equal or exceed each of the earlier runs.  
Deliveries are said to be in September and October.  I've seen/heard
information that indicates that run is going fast.  So an educated guess is
they have sold well over 500 radios so far.

Looks like if you want a K3 for Christmas you should order soon.  Hopefully
later production runs will be greater and Elecraft will catch up by the
years end.  Due to long lead time on some custom parts a quick ramp up of
numbers may go slow.

These numbers may be way off.  But, they are put togather from email on the
reflector and talking with Elecraft personel at Dayton.

Jim, AB0UK
K2/100 S/N 4787


On  30 May 2007 "Michael Koetje" <[hidden email]>  Wrote

<Does anyone have any idea as to how many K3's have been allotted for the>
<first shipment? Also, I am curious as to how many have been ordered total
so>
<far. >


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[Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ]

Guys - We can't release actual numbers for competitive reasons, but I
can say that the numbers quoted below are incorrect.

We increased the first July-August production run above the numbers
quoted below.

Also, we are NOT sold out of the Sept-Oct production run. :-)

73, Eric


JIMMY D HARRIS wrote:

> Michael,
>
> The following has been gleaned from several sources over the last few
> weeks.
>
> The initial production run was upgraded from 200 to 220 and has been
> sold out several weeks ago.  That run is for July and August
> delivery.  The second run was also upgraded from 200 to 220 and has
> been sold out with deliveries in August and September.  I've not seen
> third production run numbers but would expect them to equal or exceed
> each of the earlier runs.  Deliveries are said to be in September and
> October.  I've seen/heard information that indicates that run is going
> fast.  So an educated guess is they have sold well over 500 radios so
> far.
>
> Looks like if you want a K3 for Christmas you should order soon.  
> Hopefully later production runs will be greater and Elecraft will
> catch up by the years end.  Due to long lead time on some custom parts
> a quick ramp up of numbers may go slow.
>
> These numbers may be way off.  But, they are put togather from email
> on the reflector and talking with Elecraft personel at Dayton.
>
> Jim, AB0UK
> K2/100 S/N 4787
>
>

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[dj7mgq]

 > The initial production run was upgraded from 200 to 220 and has been
 > sold out several weeks ago.  That run is for July and August delivery.
 > The second run was also upgraded from 200 to 220 and has been sold out

How on earth did you come with these numbers? Did I miss something?

 From everything I've read (on various lists) I can find nothing to
really support this. Obviously the first run was for about 200 rigs, but
apart from this all other numbers do not seem to have any foundation.

Even on day one (Announcement Day), there was a bit of a conflict about
how high the serial number for pre-payers could be: 200 or 220. Seeing
as 20 Beta-Test rigs were mentioned, I can imagine that this caused a
slight mix up. The first 200 actually sold might easily have the serial
numbers 20 to 220.

I would guess, and this is off of the top of my head, that the initial
run was planned to be higher than 200 (300?) and nonetheless had to be
raised due to the response. As to the second run, I have no idea.

I would not be surprised if Elecraft has orders for 400 rigs and would
be equally unsurprised if the number was 800 rigs. More than 1000 would
be amazing.

I like Eric's answer best: It is proprietary, but its a lot

vy 73 de toby
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K3/100 #??? (< #200)
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[James C. Hall, MD-2]

Umm, does this mean we better get our Christmas orders in soon ??

73, Jamie
WB4YDL

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ,
Elecraft
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 12:13 PM
To: JIMMY D HARRIS
Cc: [hidden email]; [hidden email]
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] First Shipment Tally

Guys - We can't release actual numbers for competitive reasons, but I
can say that the numbers quoted below are incorrect.

We increased the first July-August production run above the numbers
quoted below.

Also, we are NOT sold out of the Sept-Oct production run. :-)

73, Eric


JIMMY D HARRIS wrote:

> Michael,
>
> The following has been gleaned from several sources over the last few
> weeks.
>
> The initial production run was upgraded from 200 to 220 and has been
> sold out several weeks ago.  That run is for July and August
> delivery.  The second run was also upgraded from 200 to 220 and has
> been sold out with deliveries in August and September.  I've not seen
> third production run numbers but would expect them to equal or exceed
> each of the earlier runs.  Deliveries are said to be in September and
> October.  I've seen/heard information that indicates that run is going
> fast.  So an educated guess is they have sold well over 500 radios so
> far.
>
> Looks like if you want a K3 for Christmas you should order soon.  
> Hopefully later production runs will be greater and Elecraft will
> catch up by the years end.  Due to long lead time on some custom parts
> a quick ramp up of numbers may go slow.
>
> These numbers may be way off.  But, they are put togather from email
> on the reflector and talking with Elecraft personel at Dayton.
>
> Jim, AB0UK
> K2/100 S/N 4787
>
>

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[JIMMY D HARRIS]

Hi,

Just quoting numbers I had seen on the reflector or heard from what I
thought were at least from somewhat qualified sources.  Must be some
misinformation out there.  Sorry if I mislead anyone....not intended.  I'm
sure that Eric has a much better handle on it than myself.

Jim, AB0UK

>From: "Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft" <[hidden email]>
>To: JIMMY D HARRIS <[hidden email]>
>CC: [hidden email], [hidden email]
>Subject: Re: [Elecraft] First Shipment Tally
>Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 10:13:07 -0700
>
>Guys - We can't release actual numbers for competitive reasons, but I can
>say that the numbers quoted below are incorrect.
>
>We increased the first July-August production run above the numbers quoted
>below.
>
>Also, we are NOT sold out of the Sept-Oct production run. :-)
>
>73, Eric
>
>
>JIMMY D HARRIS wrote:
>>Michael,
>>
>>The following has been gleaned from several sources over the last few
>>weeks.
>>
>>The initial production run was upgraded from 200 to 220 and has been sold
>>out several weeks ago.  That run is for July and August delivery.  The
>>second run was also upgraded from 200 to 220 and has been sold out with
>>deliveries in August and September.  I've not seen third production run
>>numbers but would expect them to equal or exceed each of the earlier runs.
>>  Deliveries are said to be in September and October.  I've seen/heard
>>information that indicates that run is going fast.  So an educated guess
>>is they have sold well over 500 radios so far.
>>
>>Looks like if you want a K3 for Christmas you should order soon.  
>>Hopefully later production runs will be greater and Elecraft will catch up
>>by the years end.  Due to long lead time on some custom parts a quick ramp
>>up of numbers may go slow.
>>
>>These numbers may be way off.  But, they are put togather from email on
>>the reflector and talking with Elecraft personel at Dayton.
>>
>>Jim, AB0UK
>>K2/100 S/N 4787
>>
>>

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