[Elecraft] discovering elecraft

[Bob Nielsen]

I first heard about Elecraft at the same meeting and was quite
impressed with Eric's presentation, although I only bought my K2 a few
months ago.

73, Bob N7XY

On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 02:40:04PM -0700, Milt Jensen wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > 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
>