[Elecraft] K3 S/N plate,

[Ken Kopp]

Very well-said Ron! (:-))

Airplane pilots, truck drivers, ship's captains ... most all have the
same attachments.

We volunteer in an Oregon lighthouse.  Our visitors exhibit the same
fondness and some travel thousands of miles to visit, photograph,
talk and just stand and look.  Many are repeat visitors.  One day last
week we had them from eight countries!

Me thinks Mr. Harper and Mr.Trimble might be missing out ...

But then, who'd run the world's wrecking yards ...

73! Ken Kopp - K0PP
k0pp at arrl.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Ron D'Eau Claire
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Sent: Sunday, 20 May, 2007 15:57
Subject: RE: [Elecraft] K3 S/N plate,


You've just discovered there's a side of existence you've yet to
experience.  It's the same as those who have, for centuries, hewn
wood, rolled iron into huge plates, woven hemp into stout ropes
and enlisted hundreds of other inanimate objects in a huge construction
effort. Then they thoughtfully give it a name, christen it like a
new-born baby, and set it afloat on the waters of the world.

Why would anyone do that to an inanimate object like a ship? Because
it's the sane, human thing for them to do!

You are free to experience this, or not. That's the beauty of it. It
does not require anyone to participate but those for whom it is
important.

Let the good times roll...

Ron AC7AC


-----Original Message-----
From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of K9ZTV

John Harper, AE5X, wrote:

I've never understood the fixation some Elecraft-owners have with their
rigs' serial number.

I was wondering how long it would be before someone with common sense
came along.  I completely agree with Mr. Harper that we Elecraft owners
are much too enamored with serial numbers.  These aren't limited-edition
European china used for affairs-of-state at Buckingham Palace and
autographed by the queen.  For heavens sake, they're just radios ...
boxes of wires, metal, carbon, plastic, and other unsentimental
material.
No less a company than Collins is notorious for non-sequential
numbering.
In fact, the only way of dating a KWM-2 is by the date-numbers etched
onto the sides of the crystal-cases, and that's assuming the crystals
are
original to the rig (and that they had numbers in the first place which
not all
did).

We Americans seem to have developed a propensity over the last decade or
so for fawning after "idols-du-jour," both human and material.  Except
to a poorly developed ego, it makes not one scintilla of difference when
a given "box" is manufactured, sold, purchased, or "modular-ated."

Elecraft as a company, unique as it is, exists to transfer money from
your pockets to the owners' pockets.  That they have done so by
producing a quality product and answering emails is commendable, but
that is not their (nor my, nor yours if you're honest) ultimate goal.  A
comfortable retirement is.  That one can have fun and create enjoyment
for others along the way is icing on the cake.  But the cake is
capitalism.

Let's get off the kneelers, cool the incense, stop with the mantras and
chants, and be adults about this whole K3 business before it becomes the
cult it already has.

My opinion only . . .

73,

Kent Trimble, K9ZTV
Jefferson City, MO

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