[Elecraft] (no subject)

[Paul Gates]

I see in the ARRL weekly letter that the ARRL is disappointed that the FCC 
is not holding to the 5 WPM requirement. I do not get too excited about what 
the ARRL wants for I well remember what they did in the 1960's with 
"Incentive Licensing." However, I think they learned a hard lesson.. After 
the dust settled and they lost a lot of their subscribers to QST.

I am a 13WPM Extra but I well know if you want to work the DX you do it on 
the low end of 40 and 20. I appreciate the incentive of Elecraft because I 
got back on QRP again and have increased my speed from 10-13wph to 18-20 
now. And, I am not stopping there.

Actually as I have said before my wife is responsible for getting me started 
on QRP along with Elecraft because she did not want me to put a 100 watt 
<<706MKIIG> radio in her new Chevy Impala!! That sort of sent my brain 
thinking again about QRP.

This time we are leaving on vacation this coming Sunday and I have my KX1 
plus everything that goes with it in my attaché case. Since we are going to 
Fla. on the Auto Train my wife wanted to know yesterday if I thought I was 
going to operate on the train!! <g> I assured her I wasn't that my station 
would stay in the car till we got to Fla. Hope to work some of you from Fla. 
Since we are driving home from Fla hope to work some of you from TenTec and 
Tenn!!

Paul Gates
K1  #0231
KX1 #1186
XG1
kd3jf at hotmail.com