[Elecraft] Elecraft at Dayton

[David and Dianne on Comcast]

Hi Everyone,

I got back from Dayton late last night after seeing all the sights at 
the Hamvention including the 'Three Amigos of Ham Radio' (You have to 
have seen them to believe it! Dressed in full Mexican garb!) and Steve 
with the 'Helmet Tower'. Lots of fun.

The Elecraft booth was a wall to wall crush all during the show with the 
K3 being one of if not the most popular rig of the entire event. Wayne, 
Eric, Tom and others were continuously demonstrating the K3 to the 
multitudes wire to wire. (IMO attendance at the Elecraft, Ten Tec and 
Flex booths seemed to surpass the Japanese Big Three IMO. It's great to 
see America back in the hf rig business big time.)

The second receiver was fully demo'ed by Wayne and will be worth the 
wait! Elecraft has achieved virtual total isolation between both 
receivers up to incredible signal strength levels.  An S9+60db signal on 
the main receiver is not heard at all on the sub receiver at all. All of 
this being done with the same IF frequency for both receivers. NO ONE 
has done that before in a modern ham transceiver. It's very slickly 
packaged in the K3 as well. The versatility it will bring to this radio 
is without peer.

Eric commented that the sales of K3 this Dayton surpassed the 2007 show 
considerably. He seemed a bit surprised. He shouldn't be.  I told one 
guy on the plane ride out that I was running a K3 and then had an three 
row audience and Q&A session for the entire ride out to Dayton. (I just 
sold my Pro III and am glad I did!)

Those of you wanting a panadapter to add to the K3 will be happy to hear 
that Larry N8LP at TelePost demonstrated his LP-PAN. It is a superb 
after-market addition to the K3. I suspect he will be selling all he can 
build for the time to come based on the crowds at his booth.

Finally, I lobbied Eric about looking at the KPA1500 and KPA800 amp 
project once again and while being politely non-committal about their 
future, I suspect that those of you harboring any interest in them, 
should let Eric know your thoughts as he is listening right now! In the 
mean time, Tokyo High Power has introduced a 22 lb amp for dxpeditions 
putting out 600w with a 100 to 250 variable voltage switching power 
supply in a small footprint case with a handle. Really neat! Be 
listening for that on on dxpeditions in the near future.

The Hara is still a dump and it only sprinkled on Friday. All in all a 
really good time!

If you haven't been to Dayton, plan on going once in the near future. 
Nothing lasts forever, them or us!

73 de N1LQ-Dave