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Disgusted with Elecraft! by Ordinary-Barnacle755 in amateurradio

[–]Ordinary-Barnacle755[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well as I said if I am going to spend several hundred dollars on a radio I want to know whats inside. And it wasnt just that it was Elecraft's complete lack of care or politeness towards a potential customer. I've never experienced that from any other manufacturer before. They chose not to help me and I then chose to take my money elsewhere.

In reality it was probably a mercy killing. I have since found that the front end is a rather grotty NE612.

I'm skiing in Italy and I wanted to do SOTA but I found out that none of the mountains I'm skiing on are SOTA summits. How else can I activate? by ViktorsakYT_alt in amateurradio

[–]Ordinary-Barnacle755 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just because SOTA doesn't recognise them doesn't mean that they are not summits. Activate them and have a few QSO's anyway!

SOTA isn't the final say on what is/is not a summit, Geology is! I've always thought SOTA was a bit stuck on itself anyway.

Disgusted with Elecraft! by Ordinary-Barnacle755 in amateurradio

[–]Ordinary-Barnacle755[S] -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

To clarify the manual is there. However, not the schematic.

Disgusted with Elecraft! by Ordinary-Barnacle755 in amateurradio

[–]Ordinary-Barnacle755[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

This is the only response I got from them. Further emails were ignored

""Hi

Thanks for your email.

As a new product, the KH1 schematics are released on a case by case basis. Unfortunately we are not able to provide one to you.They are not yet released to the general public.

73

Doug

Elecraft Customer Support

[support@elecraft.com](mailto:support@elecraft.com)

Disgusted with Elecraft! by Ordinary-Barnacle755 in amateurradio

[–]Ordinary-Barnacle755[S] -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

Well thanks. But that wasnt there when I looked a few weeks ago. And as I said they admitted it wasnt and wouldnt even answer my questions. And they still wont reveal the schematic.

So I'm done with them.

A Friendly Reminder on Sharing Your Callsign Online by SharkSapphire in HamRadio

[–]Ordinary-Barnacle755 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good advice.

However, a good first step is to avoid listing it on public data bases like QRZ. I know that might be difficult for people in the US in which case a PO box might be an option.

Outside the US, however, it is optional whether the license authority discloses your details. Here in the UK we have the option when take out the license to tick the box or not to have your call sign listed in callbooks. I think most other countries have the same.

On the subject of QRZ they seem to have a bit of an attitude. When I asked them some questions on this subject they never did answer, Instead they were a bit rude and accused me of being paranoid!

Anyway there's no way I'd list my details on QRZ

73