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[David F. Reed]

Larry,

I have to admit, I for one am very impressed by the thought and 
ingenuity that went into this product; as a single instrument, it 
accurately covers a very wide range and could prove a fine thing, so I 
am planning to buy one.

The down sides in my opinion.

Much of my QRP operations are portable, and occasionally even back-pack 
portable.

I manage fine without a watt meter in either case, but would find it 
interesting to have access to if it were light enough and small enough, 
given all the other gear I like to have along (I admit to excess here, 
but QRP rig aside, I like spare power, more than one antenna tuner (so 
far, I find different ones to work better with some of the odd 
opportunistic antennas I put up), a key-paddle with enough heft to stay 
put, a logbook, sometimes a laptop computer and associated stuff to do 
psk-31, and so on.

So I run the range between backpacking and car camping.  Depending on 
which end of that range, it would make sense or not for me.

Congratulations on a fine new product.

73 de W5SV, Dave

Larry Phipps wrote:

>
> I want to thank all Elecrafters who stopped by the SteppIR booth to 
> see my prototype E-meter wide dynamic range digital wattmeter kit. 
> Thanks especially to Eric who offered words of encouragement... a real 
> gentleman.