Re: not bashing a product just a warning to future purchasers.

Posted by Arv K7HKL on May 06, 2017; 2:54am
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/not-bashing-a-product-just-a-warning-to-future-purchasers-tp7630349p7630356.html

The message is bashing a product and bashing a vendor of excellent and very popular products.  This needs to be brought to the attention of moderators for this group for their review and evaluation.  
We on the QRP Labs group do not bash Elecraft products, and would appreciate it if your subscribers would have the same consideration for us.  

I personally have assembled several of the QRP Labs U3 series products and find them well designed, well documented, and reliable for the intended purpose.  I have also purchased and use several of the QRP Labs partial kits that use an AVR controller and SI5153A synthesis chip.  These also work very well and meet all stated specifications.  Documentation is excellent, and the products are directly supported by the designer himself on the forum for those products.  His response to suggested new functions and corrections is quick and accurate.  Updated operating code is provided for each new release and for each correction.  Custom versions of these products have been designed and provided by the company and are being used very successfully in balloon launched tracking and reporting applications.

It seems natural for QRP Labs products to be mailed from Japan.  QRP Labs started as a Japanese company and uses Japanese manufacturing for the product.  The company owner has subsequently moved to another country but the product production remains in Japan as a way to maintain continuity and quality control.

Arv K7HKL