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QCX 40, still waiting for parts before shipping? #qcx

Jose Denoyer
 

Hi,

just wondering if the QCX 40m shipping delay is due to long backlist or if it is still waiting for out of stock parts before shipping??

Thanks
73
Jose F4WAR-KB2YEO
 

Hello Jose

All LPFs are in stock. The only thing we are currently waiting for is the 6'th/7th batches (1000 kits) of kits, which are currently in transit from the kit packers to the kit shippers.?

As you can see from the chart on the QCX page the strict sequence of serial numbers was not the same as the sequence of shipping; this was due to?
1) Running out of 40m LPF for about a week
2) Running out of 20m LPF for about a week
3) Three blocks of orders (709 orders) that were moved to another person who is helping with the shipments

73 Hans G0UPL

On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 3:18 PM, Jose Denoyer <jose.denoyer@...> wrote:
Hi,

just wondering if the QCX 40m shipping delay is due to long backlist or if it is still waiting for out of stock parts before shipping??

Thanks
73
Jose F4WAR-KB2YEO


Jose Denoyer
 

Thank you Hans!

73
Jose F4WAR-KB2YEO
 

My 40M QCX 2376 shows as pending shipment, what does that mean exactly?? Is it ready to go and just waiting to be shipped?

73, Bill NZ0T
 

Bill

Perhaps best left as a mystery. Watch the website to see when your number actually ships out. As this is low cost shipping,? from the far east, much variation in how long it takes. But it will be a cool looking box when it arrives in your mail box, or post as they say where Hans is.? All a huge effort to make happen, so appreciate the mystery of its journey and its surprise arrival.

Curt
 

Hi Bill

Your serial number is 2637, not 2376. At the moment we are waiting for 1000 kits (batch 6 and 7) which are in transit from kit packer to kit shipper. It's a little later than anticipated for this batch, most probably due to holidays in some countries over the Christmas and New Year periods. Generally speaking, "Pending" on the kit status page means that it is waiting for the kit shippers. It takes a lot of work to get a big box of 1000 QCX kits and separate it into 1000 little boxes, each one having different contents (maybe GPS option, Dummy Load, different bands, other QRP Labs kits etc), address the box, write out the customs label and take them to the post office. This work is where the bottleneck is! As soon as the 1000 QCX kits arrive (in the next few days) I will also arrange a block of orders to be shipped by additional help as was done in December, to speed things up a bit.?

Hi Curt

> "As this is low cost shipping,? from the far east, much variation in how long it takes. "

That may sound a little harsh! It is not a low cost drop shipment service in China or Malaysia.?The shipping is done from Japan only because I lived there for some years. When the volume of orders grew too big for me to manage myself (mid-2014) I employed two ladies part time to handle the warehousing and shipping. The kits are shipped from the regular Japanese post office, using standard air mail "small packet" shipment.?

As far as I am aware and have experienced, the Japanese post office is one of the most reliable and efficient in the world! We see shipments taking as little as 3 days to reach Europe and US. But a lot depends on the postal service in the destination country and there is indeed a lot of variation! That is why I ask for feedback on when you receive your packages, so that I have been able to meticulously collected statistics on shipping times since April 2013, see .?

In my experience, for any given package, postal costs from Japan are almost 3x cheaper than UK Royal Mail or USPS for basic international airmail. The fact that the Japanese postal service is very inexpensive, I think, does not indicate a low quality service - it is really outstanding! Sadly I think that in UK and US (and elsewhere) many services, including post, are considerably more expensive than they need to me. Prices increase every year at rates much higher than inflation, the result after many decades of this is the relatively high-priced services we see today.?

Anyway enough rambling :-)

73 Hans G0UPL

On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 5:49 AM, wb8yyy via Groups.Io <wb8yyy@...> wrote:
Bill

Perhaps best left as a mystery. Watch the website to see when your number actually ships out. As this is low cost shipping,? from the far east, much variation in how long it takes. But it will be a cool looking box when it arrives in your mail box, or post as they say where Hans is.? All a huge effort to make happen, so appreciate the mystery of its journey and its surprise arrival.

Curt


 

Hans,
Thanks for the explanation. ?I knew my SN, just can't type it I guess!
 

Hi guys,

Back in the mists of time Hans and I did 100 kits of the legendary three transistor 30 meter beacon to support his talk at FDIM. He sold out and had back orders so I took on the role of kitting and posting via Royal Mail until I had to stop owing to my own and my late father¡¯s ill health. We shipped over 1000 kits of the First and ultimate designs.?

My experience with the Royal Mail was that they were expensive, slow and one percent give or take never arrived. The packaging costs, even when we bought envelopes in bulk, were pretty high. Back then we shipped kits in bubble wrap envelopes but often had parts mangled.?

Shipping from Japan is less expensive, the packaging is much better as you get a box rather than an envelope and from all accounts is quicker with a lower loss rate than Royal Mail. Also the ladies packing the kits are way better than I was at ensuring all the parts are included.?

Regards,

Steve G0XAR
 

I kitted 29 antenna analyzer kits in my basement...never again. My hat's off to anyone who does kits. It's a thankless job and you only hear from the one percent.

Jack, W8TEE


From: Stephen Farthing G0XAR JO92ON97 <squirrox@...>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2018 11:12 AM
Subject: Re: [QRPLabs] QCX 40, still waiting for parts before shipping?

Hi guys,

Back in the mists of time Hans and I did 100 kits of the legendary three transistor 30 meter beacon to support his talk at FDIM. He sold out and had back orders so I took on the role of kitting and posting via Royal Mail until I had to stop owing to my own and my late father¡¯s ill health. We shipped over 1000 kits of the First and ultimate designs.?

My experience with the Royal Mail was that they were expensive, slow and one percent give or take never arrived. The packaging costs, even when we bought envelopes in bulk, were pretty high. Back then we shipped kits in bubble wrap envelopes but often had parts mangled.?

Shipping from Japan is less expensive, the packaging is much better as you get a box rather than an envelope and from all accounts is quicker with a lower loss rate than Royal Mail. Also the ladies packing the kits are way better than I was at ensuring all the parts are included.?

Regards,

Steve G0XAR
 

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Hat¡¯s off even more so to someone who manufactured nearly a hundred Heyphone cave radios single-handed, on a non-commercial basis ¨C John Hey, G3TDZ.

John G3PAI/F5VLF

On 11 Jan 2018, at 17:27, jjpurdum via Groups.Io <jjpurdum@...> wrote:

I kitted 29 antenna analyzer kits in my basement...never again. My hat's off to anyone who does kits. It's a thankless job and you only hear from the one percent.

Jack, W8TEE


From:?Stephen Farthing G0XAR JO92ON97 <squirrox@...>
To:?[email protected]?
Sent:?Thursday, January 11, 2018 11:12 AM
Subject:?Re: [QRPLabs] QCX 40, still waiting for parts before shipping?

Hi guys,

Back in the mists of time Hans and I did 100 kits of the legendary three transistor 30 meter beacon to support his talk at FDIM. He sold out and had back orders so I took on the role of kitting and posting via Royal Mail until I had to stop owing to my own and my late father¡¯s ill health. We shipped over 1000 kits of the First and ultimate designs.?

My experience with the Royal Mail was that they were expensive, slow and one percent give or take never arrived. The packaging costs, even when we bought envelopes in bulk, were pretty high. Back then we shipped kits in bubble wrap envelopes but often had parts mangled.?

Shipping from Japan is less expensive, the packaging is much better as you get a box rather than an envelope and from all accounts is quicker with a lower loss rate than Royal Mail. Also the ladies packing the kits are way better than I was at ensuring all the parts are included.?

Regards,

Steve G0XAR

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