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Re: QDX batch #2 availability, Friday 17-Dec-2021 1800Z


 

Hi all?

I don't have a technical way to enforce one per customer. Checking each order to make sure they hadn't ordered in batch 1, and contacting them if they had to ask why, would be an excessively time-consuming task that I nowhere near have resources for.

We will have to rely generally on good nature,?

However, don't overestimate the size of the problem. This isn't a QCX which is a single band radio available in 7 different band versions. QDX is one radio, one version. Why would anyone in general, want to buy more than one? They might want to build two together with a friend. Which really is the same anyway as one per customer except we don't know who the other customer is. Similarly if someone already has a working QDX, in general they don't need another one.?

I should focus on the REAL problem. Which is: in our difficult world today, how to get the parts to be able to produce enough QDX kits so that, like QCX, everyone who wants one can have one.?

The current difficulty is the AK5386 (ADC chip) which isn't just marked as out of stock, but following the fire at the AK factory in Japan, is now also marked obsolete. Like most other electronic parts dating back to the 807 and further... There's always going to be a few somewhere, but that isn't the same as being able to buy thousands at a reasonable price to make a batch of kits. I've identified a possible alternative ADC chip and procured samples for testing. If I can get that to work then I can make more QDX.?

73 Hans G0UPL
http://qrp-labs.com


-------- Original message --------
From: "Jonathan Webber via groups.io" <jonathanjwebber@...>
Date: Thu, Dec 16, 2021, 8:06 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [QRPLabs] QDX batch #2 availability, Friday 17-Dec-2021 1800Z
Fairness on limited batch would be 1 per customer and no reordering from batch 1 unless they return a smoked rev 1 unit.?

Best Regards,
Jonathan Webber
+61473755965




On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 13:08, Dave AE9Q via groups.io <dsdzen-AE9Q@...> wrote:
I think it would be a good idea to limit ordering to one per customer with this small batch.? It would be nice if those who did receive one of the first batch QDX's would hold off ordering from this batch......

73 Dave AE9Q

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