[Elecraft] REAL CW!!

[Phil Kane]

On Tue, 29 May 2007 20:28:48 -0700, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:

>Ship owners never changed out something that worked, so as long
>as the radio console was repairable (and there wasn't anything
>that couldn't be fixed) they kept the same old console.

  Memories of all the old Victory ships that were pulled out of
  "red lead row" in the late '60s and into the '70s to ferry
  supplies to the war in SE Asia.  At the height of that
  operation we were doing mandatory Safety Radio Inspections at
  the rate of four per day in San Francisco alone.

  For those "sparks" who were hams and had transceivers on board,
  very often the ham gear was better than the installed radio
  console equipment (ship's equipment could not be used for
  hamming although I'm sure that some tried...)

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