[Elecraft] New KX1 Distance Record Claimed

[VR2BrettGraham]

W7AQK asked:

>Well, for the time being anyway, I claim the KX1 distance record!  This
>morning I worked JA7SSB in Japan on 40 meters.  Not a record you 
>say?  Well the
>distance I am talking about is the PRICE between his rig and mine.  He was 
>using
>the new ICOM 7800!  As I understand it (it may be rumor, but I bet it's
>close), the price for that rig, when it finally comes to market here in 
>the U.S.,
>will be north of $10,000!  The way the dollar is going it might be more.
>Anyway, it sounded nice, very nice, but I won't be writing a check that 
>big anytime
>soon.  My memory is a little fuzzy, but itsn't JA7SSB one of the honchos at
>Icom?  Maybe the founder?  Seems like I saw his picture in an ad in QST or 
>one
>of the magazines recently.

You are thinking of Tokuzo Inoue, JA3FA.

Snaps of the late JA1MP - Yaesu's founder - have been in MP ads.

Jun ('7SSB) always has the latest rig - must have been into JA1 real estate 
before
retiring.  ;^)

73, VR2BrettGraham