The perfect quote after hearing the wonderful RSGB presentation by Hans:
"There is an influence which is getting strong and stronger day by day, which shows itself more and more in all departments of human activity, and influence most fruitful and beneficial—the influence of the artist. It was a happy day for the mass of humanity when the artist felt the desire of becoming a physician, an electrician, an engineer or mechanician or—whatnot—a mathematician or a financier; for it was he who wrought all these wonders and grandeur we are witnessing. It was he who abolished that small, pedantic, narrow-grooved school teaching which made of an aspiring student a galley-slave, and he who allowed freedom in the choice of subject of study according to one's pleasure and inclination, and so facilitated development."
- Nikola Tesla
-Steve K1RF
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Date 7/9/2024 3:41:35 AM
Subject Re: [QRPLabs] Monday 8 July: Hans Summers, G0UPL will be delivering a presentation on QMX+
Thanks Chuck, Durk
FYI all: the video is on YouTube?
Chuck, the actual stats on assembled radios was 252 in March 2024, 210 in April 2024. May and June I didn't have time to count yet. But I expect May was a bit lower because so much effort was spent by the team on packing parts for 1,000 QMX and 1,000 QMX+ kits. Attached is my chart of the waiting list size since 1-Nov-2018. Yes, coming up to 6 years of having at least 1 employee here, doing assembly! You can see the list length is falling, as of last count (yesterday) it was 774. So that's around 3-4 months. We usually make some good progress in the summer months because there is some seasonal decline in order volume over the summer, freeing up some time; and also we can often find some?local uni students in need of some temporary summer holidays work.?
The talk was interesting, though mostly stuff you might have read already from bits of the web site. Two things new came up. Hans has 12 people working at kitting and building assembled units, and they're doing about 200 of the latter per month.
The other was updates. Two were mentioned specifically:
1) SSB and multitone digital modes (weeks or months, NOT 2025)
2) a scripting language (BASIC at this time) for user customization
That is all.
