[Elecraft] discovering elecraft

[Milt Jensen]

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> > From: k4wtf@ENTERZONE.NET [mailto:k4wtf@ENTERZONE.NET]

> Perhaps a more pleasant thread than the 100/10 battle would be
> to recount how you discovered Elecraft, as the List ends 2002...


I was in attendance at the Cactus Intertie annual bash in Tucson, February,
1998, and one of the Elecraft guys was there with what I remember as a
prototype of the K-2.  An ad hoc demo after the regular meeting finished was
made by stringing a piece of wire across the room and then making some CW
contacts.

I didn't pay much attention, but the incident stayed in my mind.  This past
year when our club was shopping for more efficient Field Day (solar
powered)(the YaComWood radios turned down to 5 Watts are power hogs) rigs,
attention was turned to the K-2.   Three of them were constructed in a
couple of months time with the various boards being farmed out to individual
constructors and the final assembly, testing, etc. taking place at the club
house.

The results?  Even though we were not able to operate from our normal
mountain location (cool and great take off angles) the Eastern Arizona
Amateur Radio Society did well with the 3, K-2s at the main three
transceivers in a 3A operation.  The temp was HOT in the lower desert
country and the RF location was not the best, BUT, K7EAR placed "numero uno"
in the 3A QRP class and I believe we were number 5 overall in 3A.  And that
is against the 100 Watt class stations east of the mississippi.

In other words;  They work well !!!!!!!!

73, and Happy New Year de Milt, N5IA