[Elecraft] kx1 on airlines

[dock0evz at earthlink.net]

Don:

 Be sure to bring along ur owner's manual (fer the value of the photo of the on the cover).  Next be sure to have at some lite-weight headphones handy.  Also bring along along some small battery setup (9v shud do it) which you can plug in *only* if asked.  I wud stay away from any internal batteries until the thru security.
What I have just just suggested might well enable you to get thru security somewhere--if some agent asks you turn on your radio, etc., and you have long ago packed your larger battery in your checked luggage (g).

GL and have a great trip.

73,
--Doc/K0EVZ

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-----Original Message-----
From: "Bill W5WVO" <w5wvo at cybermesa.net>

Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:30:35 
To:"Blachura" <haircutter at verizon.net>, <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] kx1 on airlines


My understabnding of what they are looking for in checked baggage, using 
either dogs or instruments, is the extremely low-concentration outgassing from 
explosive materials. I don't think your KX-1 would trouble anyone in the 
least. MHOO, etc.

Bill W5WVO


Blachura wrote:
> Hello Folks,
> Going on a trip and was wondering what kind of hassle I would get if I
> packed my KX1 in my baggage. Would it look like a "bomb"? Was
> thinking of putting a copy of my amatuer ticket on the box. But I bet
> no one there knows what a ham radio operator is. Is it worth the
> trouble?
>
> Don...w2xb 

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