Steve Katz wrote:
>I have told it to both of them, and explained this is why I'm not a customer.
>
>Well, I did build a K2 a couple of years ago but it was in stock at that time
>and I had it a couple days after ordering it. I won't buy a K3 unless the
>same conditions prevail.
>
>It's unfortunate that small companies are often heavy on engineering and light
>on operations/planning. A professional Ops person with decades experience in
>startups arranges financing, vendor parts stocking for JIT and kanban,
>production workflow against forecast and so forth so that a small company can
>become a big company. Without such talent, the small company usually remains
>small.
>
>WB2WIK/6
>
A company that services just the ham radio market like Elecraft will by
definition remain small (the ham radio market is not a big market). If
they grew production capacity to service the initial rush to a new and
exciting product like the K3 with JIT turnaround, they might find
themselves with excess capcity after the initial "pulse" of demand of
dies out. Switching power supplies OTOH are a commodity item. They are
expected to be available in large quantities with a relatively short
turnaround time. Its a much bigger and more competitive market.
Kenyaesucom have the advantage of sharing production facilties with
commercial product lines (marine/land mobile).
73, Mike W4EF............................
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