[Elecraft] Elecraft SSB Net April 3, noisey but fun tonight

[Gary D Krause]

Cool!  I also ride a recumbent but, not a trike.  If you have never ridden 
one, you should try it.  In a way the recumbent is to the bike community the 
way the K3 is to the ham community.  It seems that it takes time for both to 
catch on even though they are both superior in performance to the norm.  I 
still hear people discussing there favorite transciever with comments about 
them being the best you can get without even a mention of the K3.  Even with 
the published test results and first hand reports, they still seem to ignore 
it.  Same with recumbents.  They are faster, more aerodynamic, totally 
comfortable and hold all the land speed records yet, many cyclist either 
ignore them or wouldn't be caught dead on one.  Why, because, they have never 
tried one and they think they are for old farts with bad backs.  I don't think 
the K3 is just for contestors either.  I'm hoping to buy one in the future 
when the dust settles...that is if I don't buy a new recumbent before then ;-)

Gary, N7HTS
K2

On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 19:51:38 -0600
  KM5Q <km5q at mac.com> wrote:
> We had 6 check-ins. KE4WY is a new one in my log -- Jim in Kentucky on  K3 
>#367.
> 
> But the highlight of my evening was Budd W3FF mobile, riding a  RECUMBENT 
>TRICYCLE sporting an FT-857 and a vertical buddipole. Budd  is a friend of 
>Eric at Elecraft. He had just visited and tried a K3.  He had so much 
>enthusiasm and WOW in giving his impression of the K3  that he was 
>overloading his little FT and proceeded to whack his  antenna into a tree. 
>Look him up on QRZ if you don't believe it.
> 
> So there IS some fun on the Elecraft SSB Net. Y'all join in some time, 
> hear?
> 
> Windy KM5Q
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