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If I were buying multi thousand dollar radio equipment today, I would buy Elecraft. Sadly, Ten Tec may well be gone before long (acquired by yet another company in less than a year). I bought some of their first products, the PowerMite QRP rigs way back when. In the eyes of some, after leading the QRP revolution they tried to compete with bigger companies and never really managed to sustain the innovative edge. Indeed, they started lagging behind while still charging a stiff price for their rigs (the Orion 1 should never have been brought to market with a monochrome screen when the competition was already doing color). I sat in the demo room at their factory and listened to a former product development manager try to persuade me to buy one, which I didn't, based on the fact that TT didn't see the need for the color monitor and could pass the price savings on to the customer. He vowed they wouldn't go color as it added nothing to the radio's capability. Well, he was soon gone
and they did go color with the Orion 2. Elecraft needs to evaluate their market and decide if they can survive marketing K3SX,Y, or Z incremental improvements verses leading with innovative, exciting products. I suspect most of use K3 owners will sit tight with what we have. Which in a way is bad for Elecraft business. ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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We each have different perspectives and each has merit. I think the Elecraft business plan has been successful as a customer but have not seen their financial statements to evaluate their company health. I trust that their business plan will continue to keep up with available technological improvements but not adopt these in a manner that unnecessarily forces me to purchase new equipment to adopt all of the improvements. My "old" K equipment is still at the front of the market because of the Elecraft business plan and as a customer I will remember this when they do come out with an entirely new radio.
73 Jim W4MJE > On May 16, 2015, at 7:44 AM, GDR <[hidden email]> wrote: > > If I were buying multi thousand dollar radio equipment today, I would buy Elecraft. Sadly, Ten Tec may well be gone before long (acquired by yet another company in less than a year). I bought some of their first products, the PowerMite QRP rigs way back when. In the eyes of some, after leading the QRP revolution they tried to compete with bigger companies and never really managed to sustain the innovative edge. Indeed, they started lagging behind while still charging a stiff price for their rigs (the Orion 1 should never have been brought to market with a monochrome screen when the competition was already doing color). I sat in the demo room at their factory and listened to a former product development manager try to persuade me to buy one, which I didn't, based on the fact that TT didn't see the need for the color monitor and could pass the price savings on to the customer. He vowed they wouldn't go color as it added nothing to the radio's capability. Well, he was soon gon e > and they did go color with the Orion 2. > > Elecraft needs to evaluate their market and decide if they can survive marketing K3SX,Y, or Z incremental improvements verses leading with innovative, exciting products. I suspect most of use K3 owners will sit tight with what we have. Which in a way is bad for Elecraft business. > > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > Message delivered to [hidden email] 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 Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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What we need here and now is some predictable, irrational behavior. called impulse buying. This sells product.................... A LOT of product. Your WILDEST dream is but a credit card away. Jim W6AIM . -----Original Message----- From: Elecraft [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of GDR Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2015 5:44 AM To: [hidden email] Subject: [Elecraft] Missing FDIM talk If I were buying multi thousand dollar radio equipment today, I would buy Elecraft. Sadly, Ten Tec may well be gone before long (acquired by yet another company in less than a year). I bought some of their first products, the PowerMite QRP rigs way back when. In the eyes of some, after leading the QRP revolution they tried to compete with bigger companies and never really managed to sustain the innovative edge. Indeed, they started lagging behind while still charging a stiff price for their rigs (the Orion 1 should never have been brought to market with a monochrome screen when the competition was already doing color). I sat in the demo room at their factory and listened to a former product development manager try to persuade me to buy one, which I didn't, based on the fact that TT didn't see the need for the color monitor and could pass the price savings on to the customer. He vowed they wouldn't go color as it added nothing to the radio's capability. Well, he was soon gone and they did go color with the Orion 2. Elecraft needs to evaluate their market and decide if they can survive marketing K3SX,Y, or Z incremental improvements verses leading with innovative, exciting products. I suspect most of use K3 owners will sit tight with what we have. Which in a way is bad for Elecraft business. ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [hidden email] ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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That really depends on what Elecraft is trying to do.
If they're trying to be Icom, Kenwood or Yaesu, then yes, it's a bad move. If the purpose is to make the owners/investors filthy rich, it's a bad move. If their purpose is to make great radios, sell them at a decent price, and make a decent living, then maybe it's not so dumb after all. I'd rather not buy a new radio every couple of years just to have the newest, latest and greatest. I don't have a K3, I have a KX3. I like that my two year old KX3 does more now than when I bought it, that's far better than the FT-817 I almost bought. 73 -- Lynn On 5/16/2015 5:44 AM, GDR wrote: > Elecraft needs to evaluate their market and decide if they can survive marketing K3SX,Y, or Z incremental improvements verses leading with innovative, exciting products. I suspect most of use K3 owners will sit tight with what we have. Which in a way is bad for Elecraft business. ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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