[Elecraft] Wording

Heyder, Norbert [email protected]
Wed Jan 23 02:57:01 2002


Kit Builders,

I'm looking for a correct, non-ambiguous term to be used in
a CW QSO, where you like to express (rig info) that you are
using a homebuilt kit for TRX (the K2 for instance).
This should be expressed by possibly one word, like in the
usual short standard QSO exchange.

Just to mention, that you are running a K2, might not
be clear overall in the world. There are still regions where
the K2 is unknown.

Saying just 'home-built' implies the possibility, that you
also could have developed the radio, which is not the case here.

Of course I could describe the TRX in more detail,
like: homebuilt Elecraft kit K2 etc., but the 'detailed format'
is not requested here.


Examples:
	'home-built kit' (disadvantage: 2 words)
        'kit'
	'homebrew' (has it really been brewed by yourself?)


Any better suggestion from the native speakers?


72 and thanks de Bert,  DL8BDF

K2 #433