[Elecraft] Radios on airlines

[jac]

From long experience, including a trip to ZS6 with my K2 wrapped in newspaper 
in a plastic carrier bag,  just days after 911.

1.  keep the radio and/or parts in hand baggage. I have even hand carried a  
TenTec Hercules II to Sevierville and back from UK with only one person 
asking me to open the bag !  No-one asked to see my K3.

2. NEVER ever say you have something unusual !  I made that mistake with a an 
Omni-V and had to get personal clearance from the plane captain before they 
would even x-ray the thing (at Philadelphia.) And others were shoving 
laptops, record players and all sorts of junk through x-ray without being 
challenged.

3. Don't panic - whatever happens !  If you get visibly agitated, so will 
security.  See 1 above. "Its just my travel radio ..."  worked all the way to 
ZS6 from UK via Amsterdam, and back again.

John G3JAG