[Elecraft] Big Rigs?

[AJSOENKE at aol.com]

I am so glad the day has arrived that the rigs  are small enough to fit in 
the car and light enough to carry from the den to the  family room.  My SX101 
and HT32B had to have their own Desk with shelves  for the other equipment, and 
the KW (now in the garage gathering dust) is in a  19 in. rack 4 ft high and 
on wheels). If we lead  our lives in reverse  order it might work out to grow 
the equipment, but the Yaesus and Icoms on the  high end are only larger to 
handle an unapproachable number of smaller and  smaller buttons.

Personally the smaller rigs are not convenient because  they rely more on 
pushing programming which gets harder to remember as we get  older and the rigs 
diversify. The ability to preset the K rigs to pre configured  settings is a 
great help and I find their size to be a reasonable  compromise.   My Ft-100 and 
IC-7000 push it a little over the  line.

Al WA6VNN  




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