[Elecraft] How long until K3 is declared the greatest rig of all time?

[Lyle Johnson]

Hello Paul!

> I couldn't resist:

Me too.

In the early 50's, the Central Electronics products that brought SSB 
into Amateur radio in a practical way.  Maybe not Hallicrafters, but 
still Chicago based :-)

And one mustn't forget the various Swan transceivers, starting with the 
SW-175, SW-140 and SW-120 made in a garage in Benson, Arizona in the 
very early 60's. Then the SW-240 and in 1965 the SW-350 (and its long 
line of variants) brought SSB and the transceiver concept into the range 
of affordability.

For a kid like me, for whom all of this was financially 'way out of 
reach, Heathkit came to the rescue with their SSB monobanders.  I could 
(and did!) make the payments out of my spending allowance...

This, of course, was just as RM-499 began the destruction of Amateur 
radio :-)

73,

Lyle KK7P