[hpsdr] Mercury status

[John Ackermann N8UR]

Speaking for myself, but as someone with a pretty deep understanding of 
how TAPR works...

The TAPR office is essentially John Koster, who does a tremendous job 
handling all TAPR orders and doing an amazing number of background tasks 
that the members never see, but would absolutely notice if they weren't 
done.

When an HPSDR project comes along, the sudden rush of several hundred 
orders takes some time to process and a backlog tends to develop. 
However, John diligently works through the pile and in the end everyone 
gets their shiny new board.  But it's a *lot* of work, and it takes some 
time.

If you got an automated confirmation right after you placed your order, 
that means the process worked and your order is in the queue.  The next 
step is to check your credit card for a pending charge; when that 
happens, John has actually processed the order.

If you're concerned about your order status, you can contact John by 
going to the http://www.tapr.org/contact_us.html page.  However, please 
remember that every email John has to answer is time taken away from 
processing orders!

73,
John
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Greg Clark wrote:
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> Hmmmm, I see no such pending transaction for my card, guess I'll wait
> a couple of days before I feel like my order got lost....
> 
> -- Greg
> 
> On 11/19/08, Chris Smith <chris at vspl.co.uk> wrote:
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>>  John
>>
>>  I see from my credit card account that there is a 'pending transaction' for
>> roughly the amount of a Mercury board in £sterling. So I'm assuming that
>> TAPR have taken the money. In view of this I'm also assuming that enough
>> have been ordered for a production run.
>>
>>  Cheers
>>
>>  Chris G4NUX
>>
>>
>>
>>  On 19 Nov 2008, at 11:44, John Melton wrote:
>>
>>
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>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Just wanted to check the status of the Mercury orders.
>>>
>>> It appears the TAPR order page is still active although the date for
>> ordering by was 15th November.  Have enough been ordered for the build to go
>> ahead?
>>> regards,
>>>
>>> John g0orx/n6lyt


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