[Elecraft] [OT] K5! [was: K3 time from 'gram to ship]

[David Wilburn]

Great! Now we will have ANOTHER contest category!!!


Dave Wilburn
K4DGW
K2/100 - S/N 5982



Bill W5WVO wrote:
> Aw, Keith let the cat out of the bag!
> 
> It was Schrodinger's cat, actually. :-) Might as well fill you in as 
> much as I can...
> 
> Keith and I have been part of an ultra-secret Beta test team for the K5 
> for some time now (I think). The K5 utilizes an entirely new technology 
> that produces a communication medium by modulating dark energy to 
> produce quantum resonance with an infinite number of possible parallel 
> reality states, thus allowing us to communicate with other 
> similarly-equipped hams -- alternative, parallel instances of other 
> hams, actually, since randomly connecting with the instantaneous quantum 
> state of one's own reality plane is vanishingly unlikely. We'll leave 
> that to all the obsolete electromagnetic guys still using K3s and the like!
> 
> This has produced some very interesting results so far. With careful 
> adjustment of the K5, it is possible to access many of the possible 
> reality states of any given ham. We are even discussing establishing an 
> operating achievement award for working the same ham in 100 different 
> parallel reality planes. (Contacting yourself in an alternative reality 
> plane does not count.) Further evolution of the quantum CPU's firmware 
> will be necessary before results such as this can be reliably achieved, 
> but the possibilities are quite intriguing. Already I find myself 
> working instances of other hams who live in countries that used to exist 
> here, or that might exist here, or that will never exist here. Makes 
> DXCC take on a whole new... er, dimension! So to speak. It's all 
> somewhere... out there... (I think...)
> 
> Anyway, you get the idea. I can't tell y'all any more about it, because 
> if I do, it will all change anyway, so what's the point? Needless to 
> say, it's really very challenging!
> 
> So back to my Beta testing... Let's see, what was it I was Beta-testing, 
> then?... I don't seem to see anything here... can't remember...
> 
> Bill W5WVO (I think)
> 
> 
> Jim Miller wrote:
>> I noticed you have a K5.  Let us know what it is like.  HI
>> 73, Jim
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Darwin, Keith" <Keith.Darwin at goodrich.com>
>> To: <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
>> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 4:08 PM
>> Subject: [Elecraft] K3 time from 'gram to ship.
> 
>> - Keith N1AS -
>> - K5 5411.ssb.100 -
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Elecraft mailing list
> Post to: Elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> You must be a subscriber to post to the list.
> Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.):
> http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft   
> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm
> Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
>