[Elecraft] Airport security

[Jessie Oberreuter]

On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, George, W5YR wrote:

> One trap to avoid with the live demo is the potential question, "This thing
> got a battery in it, huh?"  "Yes." "Oh, what kind?" Better do some fast
> thinking about your answer just in case they decide to verify what you say
> by asking you to open the case.

     When I was flying 'bout two weeks ago, the "turn it on" policy seemed
to have gone out of vogue.  They asked us to pull out our laptops for
separate checking and, even when I offered, I was not asked to turn my K1
on.  I was given the "random complete search" at both SEA and MIA and in
both cases, in spite of the X-Ray folks giving the K1 a thumbs up, a
manager had to check it out at the gate.  The biggest problem was actually
my brass TwinKey -- dunno what they thought I could do with it; it's
function seemed pretty obvious.  I managed to get an external corner room
on the top (3rd) floor of the hotel in Miami.  Approx 30' of wire hanging
out the window and another 30' in a pile on the floor and I was talking
:).  Heard my friend, ki7el, from the other side of the continent in
Vancouver, WA for our weekly sked, but he couldn't here me.  Sokay; I got
to work up the coast and as deep as NE.


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Jessie Oberreuter
joberreu@moselle.com
"He's a bit on edge, Mr. Johnston -- he hasn't slept since 1945."