{"id":45148,"date":"2020-09-02T10:22:03","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T14:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=45148"},"modified":"2020-09-02T10:22:03","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T14:22:03","slug":"elecraft-posts-photos-of-the-new-k4-transceiver-in-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/elecraft-posts-photos-of-the-new-k4-transceiver-in-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Elecraft posts photos of the new K4 transceiver in production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Elecraft-K4-4-scaled-e1590181041372.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43446\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Elecraft-K4-4-scaled-e1590181041372.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elecraft had hoped to start shipping the new K4 flagship transceiver this week and I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s been a real challenge realizing this goal in the day and age of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, Elecraft posted the following photo on their Twitter account with the caption, &#8220;<strong>New K4s in production \ud83d\ude42<\/strong>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Elecraft-K4-Production-e1599054036326.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45149\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Elecraft-K4-Production-e1599054036326.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"888\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m sure this is a welcome sight for those who have pre-ordered the K4.<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to Paul Evans for the tip!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/elecraft.com\/products\/k4-transceiver\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to check out the K4 product page at Elecraft.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elecraft had hoped to start shipping the new K4 flagship transceiver this week and I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s been a real challenge realizing this goal in the day and age of the Covid-19 pandemic. This morning, Elecraft posted the following photo on their Twitter account with the caption, &#8220;New K4s in production \ud83d\ude42&#8220;: I&#8217;m sure this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[545,836,3,43],"tags":[2034,7772,7773,7864],"class_list":["post-45148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-new-products","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-elecraft","tag-elecraft-k4","tag-k4","tag-paul-evans-w4-vp9kf"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-bKc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":37506,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/first-look-elecraft-k4-photos-and-preliminary-information\/","url_meta":{"origin":45148,"position":0},"title":"First Look: Elecraft K4 photos and preliminary information","author":"Thomas","date":"May 17, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Today, prior to the open of the 2019 Hamvention, I had an opportunity to hang with the folks at Elecraft and grab some photos of their newest transceiver: the Elecraft K4 direct-sampling SDR (click here to read the announcement). 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This fills a niche in the Elecraft product line and is certain to directly compete with the likes of the Icom IC-7610 and a number of Flex Radio transceivers, among others. 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