Re: QCX Birthday - 20,000 sales coming up!
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Hans:
Congratulations! That is quite a feat and testimony to the quality of your designs.
Well done!!
Jack, W8TEE
On Thursday, July 20, 2023 at 09:28:47 AM EDT, Hans Summers <hans.summers@...> wrote:
Hi all
Let's not forget QCX' birthday! The original QCX was designed for the YOTA summercamp buildathon hosted by the RSGB in early August 2017, followed later in August by the public launch of QCX, I believe 21st August. QCX was replaced by QCX+ in May 2020, not everyone liked the larger size so along came tiny QCX-mini in December 2020.?
The enclosure for the QCX-mini was actually based on the same enclosure extrusion, with different CNC machining and laser etching, as QDX - though QDX development was still a secret then, QDX was not launched until the following year in October 2021. Of course the new QMX is in an almost identical enclosure to QCX-mini too, having different right panel and laser etching only.?
As of right now, QCX-series sales have reached 19,988 and will surely pass the 20k mark before it's 6th birthday, regardless of how one chooses to define it's 6th birthday (Start of YOTA summer camp? Buildathon day? Public launch?).?
QCX+ and QCX-mini remain in my opinion, an important educational tool, I think a monoband analog CW transceiver is a great introduction to kit-building and a useful learning tool, and though QCX-sales certainly took a hit, I have no plans to retire the QCX-series despite the hi-tech QMX.?
20,000 sales! Quite a landmark!?
Long live QCX!
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