[Elecraft] Best Handi-Talki Out There Now?

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

Ha, ha!! Phil, you are an FCC engineer (retired) who also became a lawyer! 

I'm a field technician who was lucky not to have been arrested by you during
my tenure servicing shipboard radio systems <G>. (I do recall one of your
staff calling me on my cell phone from the FCC monitoring station insisting
I was responsible for some lengthy unauthorized transmissions on emergency
VHF channel 16 - until I put another FCC engineer, who I was on a ship with
at the time doing a SOLAS inspection, on the phone to confirm I wasn't
responsible for the signal.) 

It's a matter of how our minds work differently! I can get the Icom to work
perfectly but a week later I've forgotten how I did it. Clearly your memory
of the button-press sequences is better than mine. 

I probably would never have made it as an FCC field engineer either! 

I didn't have my HT with me at SeaTac, but sure enjoyed chatting with you
face to face at the Elecraft booth!

Ron AC7AC 



-----Original Message-----
On Sat, 9 Jun 2007 14:55:43 -0700, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:

>I have an Icom WM32A that I picked up in 1999. Works fine, when I can
>figure out how to work it. Claims to have an "Intuitive" interface. 
>Perhaps to C3PO or R2D2, or one of their human clones, but not to this 
>mere mortal.

  Gee, Ron, I'm sorry that you didn't mention that when we met at
  Sea-Pac last week!  I've been using that HT for about 5 years
  for both hamming (both 2m and 3/4m) and monitoring my other
  hobby - chasing and photo-ing the railroads.  It's easy once
  one gets the hang of it. Then again, I have 5 ICOM transceivers,
  including the HT.... <g>

  My only "gripe" - which is my problem, not ICOM's - is that I
  have to use the lighted magnifier to read the pushbutton labels
  and occasionally have to refer to the step-by-step directions
  in the manual.

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   73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
   Elecraft K2/100   s/n 5402

   From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest
   Beaverton (Washington County)  Oregon