KXPA100 Shipping Status Update
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Hi Wayne and Eric,
The KPA100 shipping status appears not to have been updated since around mid November 2013. What is the current status, please? ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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I was wondering the same thing up until yesterday. I'm a nobody, just a
customer, not a field tester or manual writer. If it's any help, I placed my kit order about 30min after pre-orders started. I received my order confirmation e-mail last night and it should be shipping in the next couple of days. 73, Tighe On 1/8/2014 2:01 AM, Kevin Luxford wrote: > Hi Wayne and Eric, > > The KPA100 shipping status appears not to have been updated since around > mid November 2013. What is the current status, please? > ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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I ordered a KPXA100 kit on June 17th with expectations, at that time, of an October delivery. I was beginning to think maybe it was October 2014. I love the Elecraft products and know that they want to get it right the first time. That seems to happen most of the time, or at least it's close to being right. However, the standard operating procedure seems to be to announce a product, generate a huge amount of interest, start taking orders and then expecting everyone to wait and wait some more. At any rate, many of you waiting for the kit will move up one notch as I cancelled my order today after finally receiving an invoice. After waiting and waiting, I found other ham radio things to spend the money on. I will not be purchasing a KXPA100 ever. To keep this on topic a bit, the "Shipping Status" and its "updates ??" is a joke. For as well as it isn't maintained, no one should waste their time on it. 73, Dave N8AG ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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That's why I keep insisting that my KX3 will have almost three years by the time I'm finally able to use it on 2m with the so much anticipated 2m module.
I love Elecraft....I really do, but that part of their bussiness really sucks! 73, Robert-KP4Y Sent from my mobile phone. ----- Reply message ----- From: [hidden email] To: <[hidden email]> Subject: [Elecraft] KXPA100 Shipping Status Update Date: Thu, Jan 9, 2014 12:00 AM I ordered a KPXA100 kit on June 17th with expectations, at that time, of an October delivery. I was beginning to think maybe it was October 2014. I love the Elecraft products and know that they want to get it right the first time. That seems to happen most of the time, or at least it's close to being right. However, the standard operating procedure seems to be to announce a product, generate a huge amount of interest, start taking orders and then expecting everyone to wait and wait some more. At any rate, many of you waiting for the kit will move up one notch as I cancelled my order today after finally receiving an invoice. After waiting and waiting, I found other ham radio things to spend the money on. I will not be purchasing a KXPA100 ever. To keep this on topic a bit, the "Shipping Status" and its "updates ??" is a joke. For as well as it isn't maintained, no one should waste their time on it. 73, Dave N8AG ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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In reply to this post by Kevin Luxford
Another perspective is that this part of Elecraft's business is excellent (instead of "sucks") because we get advance visibility of products. At the same time we should realize the risk of advance notice is that factors out of Elecraft's control, e.g. parts availability, may slip the actual ship date.
Ed W0YK/4 Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID Robert Vargas - KP4Y <[hidden email]> wrote: That's why I keep insisting that my KX3 will have almost three years by the time I'm finally able to use it on 2m with the so much anticipated 2m module. I love Elecraft....I really do, but that part of their bussiness really sucks! 73, Robert-KP4Y Sent from my mobile phone. ----- Reply message ----- From: [hidden email] To: <[hidden email]> Subject: [Elecraft] KXPA100 Shipping Status Update Date: Thu, Jan 9, 2014 12:00 AM I ordered a KPXA100 kit on June 17th with expectations, at that time, of an October delivery. I was beginning to think maybe it was October 2014. I love the Elecraft products and know that they want to get it right the first time. That seems to happen most of the time, or at least it's close to being right. However, the standard operating procedure seems to be to announce a product, generate a huge amount of interest, start taking orders and then expecting everyone to wait and wait some more. At any rate, many of you waiting for the kit will move up one notch as I cancelled my order today after finally receiving an invoice. After waiting and waiting, I found other ham radio things to spend the money on. I will not be purchasing a KXPA100 ever. To keep this on topic a bit, the "Shipping Status" and its "updates ??" is a joke. For as well as it isn't maintained, no one should waste their time on it. 73, Dave N8AG ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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IMHO the amp was way ahead of the 2m module as far as demand goes, good
business decision on their part. If 2m was a big deal to me I would have kept my FT-817 just for that. I might add I plan on not adding either at present to my station. 73, Fred/N0AZZ K3 Ser # 6730--KX3 # 5210--K2/100 # 6470-KAT100 P3/SVGA--KAT500--W2 Amps Elecraft KPA500 HF/6m--Alpha's 9500 HF--87A HF--Mirage B-5030-G 300+w--(2) B-5016-G's 165w 2m -----Original Message----- From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Robert Vargas - KP4Y Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 6:07 AM To: Elecraft Mailing List Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KXPA100 Shipping Status Update That's why I keep insisting that my KX3 will have almost three years by the time I'm finally able to use it on 2m with the so much anticipated 2m module. I love Elecraft....I really do, but that part of their bussiness really sucks! 73, Robert-KP4Y Sent from my mobile phone. ----- Reply message ----- From: [hidden email] To: <[hidden email]> Subject: [Elecraft] KXPA100 Shipping Status Update Date: Thu, Jan 9, 2014 12:00 AM I ordered a KPXA100 kit on June 17th with expectations, at that time, of an October delivery. I was beginning to think maybe it was October 2014. I love the Elecraft products and know that they want to get it right the first time. That seems to happen most of the time, or at least it's close to being right. However, the standard operating procedure seems to be to announce a product, generate a huge amount of interest, start taking orders and then expecting everyone to wait and wait some more. At any rate, many of you waiting for the kit will move up one notch as I cancelled my order today after finally receiving an invoice. After waiting and waiting, I found other ham radio things to spend the money on. I will not be purchasing a KXPA100 ever. To keep this on topic a bit, the "Shipping Status" and its "updates ??" is a joke. For as well as it isn't maintained, no one should waste their time on it. 73, Dave N8AG ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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----- Forwarded Message ----- Another perspective is that this part of Elecraft's business is excellent (instead of "sucks") because we get advance visibility of products. At the same time we should realize the risk of advance notice is that factors out of Elecraft's control, e.g. parts availability, may slip the actual ship date. Ed W0YK/4 Excellent observations. The typical consumer electronic device product development cycle (not including market analysis and requirements development) is about three years, so Elecraft is completely within norms in this respect. You don't know, despite all of the modern analysis and modeling tools available, how something is going to perform until you build production-intent prototypes and start putting pressure on your supply chain. I think that this is another case where Elecraft's transparency has a down-side, and that down-side is that some of us have unrealistic expectations based on knowing when development started and the forecast start of production. I think that we need to remember that Elecraft is doing the best that they can to meet their forecasts and they give us a chance to participate in the specification of the product. This is, to me, greatly preferred to being forced to accept what a handful of detached, insulated engineers think that we need. Mike - N8MSA ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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Let's pass the koolaid around :-)
73 Jeff KB2M ----- Original Message ----- From: [hidden email] To: [hidden email] Sent: Thu, 09 Jan 2014 14:10:16 -0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KXPA100 Shipping Status Update ----- Forwarded Message ----- Another perspective is that this part of Elecraft's business is excellent (instead of "sucks") because we get advance visibility of products. At the same time we should realize the risk of advance notice is that factors out of Elecraft's control, e.g. parts availability, may slip the actual ship date. Ed W0YK/4 Excellent observations. The typical consumer electronic device product development cycle (not including market analysis and requirements development) is about three years, so Elecraft is completely within norms in this respect. You don't know, despite all of the modern analysis and modeling tools available, how something is going to perform until you build production-intent prototypes and start putting pressure on your supply chain. I think that this is another case where Elecraft's transparency has a down-side, and that down-side is that some of us have unrealistic expectations based on knowing when development started and the forecast start of production. I think that we need to remember that Elecraft is doing the best that they can to meet their forecasts and they give us a chance to participate in the specification of the product. This is, to me, greatly preferred to being forced to accept what a handful of detached, insulated engineers think that we need. Mike - N8MSA ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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Right. :-)
Sent from mobile device. I apologize for the brevity and any grammatical errors. On Jan 9, 2014 11:21 AM, [hidden email] wrote: > > Let's pass the koolaid around :-) > > 73 Jeff KB2M > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: [hidden email] > To: [hidden email] > Sent: Thu, 09 Jan 2014 14:10:16 -0000 (UTC) > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KXPA100 Shipping Status Update > > > > > > > > ----- Forwarded Message ----- > Another perspective is that this part of Elecraft's business is excellent (instead of "sucks") because we get advance visibility of products. At the same time we should realize the risk of advance notice is that factors out of Elecraft's control, e.g. parts availability, may slip the actual ship date. > > Ed W0YK/4 > > Excellent observations. The typical consumer electronic device product development cycle (not including market analysis and requirements development) is about three years, so Elecraft is completely within norms in this respect. You don't know, despite all of the modern analysis and modeling tools available, how something is going to perform until you build production-intent prototypes and start putting pressure on your supply chain. > > I think that this is another case where Elecraft's transparency has a down-side, and that down-side is that some of us have unrealistic expectations based on knowing when development started and the forecast start of production. I think that we need to remember that Elecraft is doing the best that they can to meet their forecasts and they give us a chance to participate in the specification of the product. This is, to me, greatly preferred to being forced to accept what a handful of detached, insulated engineers think that we need. > > Mike - N8MSA > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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I would support this perspective as it's mine. I appreciate Elecraft
giving us advance notice of products and being able to pre-order along with giving input to product direction by open discussion with the people making those choices. Tighe NK4I On 1/9/2014 7:45 AM, Ed Muns wrote: > Another perspective is that this part of Elecraft's business is excellent (instead of "sucks") because we get advance visibility of products. At the same time we should realize the risk of advance notice is that factors out of Elecraft's control, e.g. parts availability, may slip the actual ship date. > > Ed W0YK/4 > > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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We will be updating the shipping status page with the following info today.
Unfortunately we've been battling the Flu here with 20% or more of our staff out over the past several weeks. Combined with the holidays that's put a squeeze on everything. We're running (limping..) as fast as we can to get product out to everyone quickly. :-) --- The following dates reflect California PDT (GMT-7) times: We are shipping both KXPA100-F assembled units and KXPA100-K kits at a good rate daily. With hundreds of KXPA100s out in the field now we have been getting great feedback on its performance. Assembled KXPA100-F orders received up through the end of September 30th have been notified that they are ready to ship in 1-5 days. Kit KXPA100-K orders received through the end of June 17th have been notified that they are ready to ship in 1-5 days. We are shipping kits at a higher rate than assembled units to get order dates in sync. Once we are past the big first week of kit orders we will catch up very quickly. We notify all KXPA100 back-orders via email prior to shipment for confirmation of shipping and billing information. As always, if you have ordered within the dates (GMT-7) above and have not been contacted by us, please email [hidden email] and they will take care of you. 73, Eric elecraft.com ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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