On Halloween Steve Weber KD1JV has announced to the AT-Sprint Yahoogroup he’s considering planning to take orders online for the ATS-4B at 11:11:11 AM, EDT on the 11th November, 2011. Clearly a time and date not to be forgotten. Shipping would follow close behind then. One exciting aspect of this latest ATS-4B version is the planned integrated CW/PSK decoder on a daughter board, planned for a January release.
And the other hotly awaited item for the QRP and HFpack crew, the new Elecraft KX3 is now likely not to start shipping until the new year, 2012 I presume. An apparently hastily written update indicates “KX3 estimated ordering date (Winter 2001) and shipping date (January)”.
UPDATE: We’re getting closer. On 2 November this has been updated to “KX3 estimated ordering date (Nov/Dec 2011) and shipping date (Late January)” [my emphasis].
I’m dreaming of an expensive Christmas.
Good morning, I can remember is was just a short time ago when I was in England in May and the KX3 was just being talked about. It seemed at that time Christmas was sooo far away. Yes the release date kinda is a bit fluid right now but in time they will be out and about in many shacks. Does look like a great radio and with the YouTube video’s I have seen it is impressive.