[Elecraft] Elecraft wins again

[COLIN WHITMORE]

Elecrafters,

I occasionaly visit K3WWP's website 
(http://home.alltel.net/johnshan/index.html) as he tends to cater to the QRP 
ham. I would recommend a look. Anyway, I was looking through some of his 
past polls and came across the one mentioned below. It looks like Elecraft 
is the rig of choice for the QRP community. Of course there weren't a whole 
lot of repondents (143), but it's probably not too far off.

Cheers,
Colin

#39 - What rig (manufacturer) do you use most often for QRP?
Date: 9/15/02-10/14/02 --- Selections: 143


Rig                Nr    Pct
Elecraft          38    27%
Heathkit           7     5%
Homebrew      13     9%
MFJ                22   15%
Oak Hills           5    4%
SGC                 1    1%
Small Wonder  14  10%
Ten Tec          13    9%
Wilderness        8    6%
Other             22  15%

A repeat of an earlier poll shows pretty much the same results with the K1 
and/or K2 rigs being the class of the field. This bears out a prediction I 
made several years ago that if a really good 9 band QRP rig was developed it 
would be a big seller. The single or double band rigs are nice, but a 
dedicated QRPer should be using something that allows him or her to cover 
all the HF bands. Only a couple of those who voted for other bothered to 
eMail and tell me their choice. One said he used a collection of rigs, and 
the FT-817 also got mentioned.

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