[Elecraft] Re: REAL CW!!

[zl1aih at ihug.co.nz]

Phil wrote:

 > 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>

In 35 years I can remember only one ship that had better equipment than my ham 
gear and I joined it in Japan 6 weeks before it was launched - JRC, of course.

On a small cruise ship based in San Francisco (mid 1970s) I had a re-badged BC-
348 for an emergency receiver and the ship was only 15 years old.

73,
Ken ZL1AIH (at ZM1A in the contests)
K2s #767, #3725 - K3 on order<G>