[Elecraft] Re: KBT3?

[Bruce McLaughlin]

And certainly the per pound cost ratio would be improved!

Bruce-W8FU

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of WILLIS COOKE
Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 3:29 PM
To: wayne burdick
Cc: Elecraft Reflector; DOUGLAS ZWIEBEL
Subject: [Elecraft] Re: KBT3?

Whatever you offer Wayne, be sure that it weighs at least 50 pounds.  If you
have to, ballast it with a couple of cement blocks.  You need to accommodate
the group that really wants a work out and would like a transceiver that
functions as a barbell as well as a ham radio.

Willis 'Cookie' Cooke 
K5EWJ


--- On Sat, 1/3/09, wayne burdick <n6kr at elecraft.com> wrote:

> From: wayne burdick <n6kr at elecraft.com>
> Subject: KBT3?
> To: wrcooke at flash.net
> Cc: "Elecraft Reflector" <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>, "DOUGLAS ZWIEBEL"
<dougzzz at gmail.com>
> Date: Saturday, January 3, 2009, 10:38 AM
> WILLIS COOKE wrote:
> 
> > Wayne, for those who complain that the K3 is not heavy
> enough I 
> > suggest that you sell a battery box to attach to the
> bottom with a 100 
> > amp hour gel cell.  That should make it heavy enough
> to give anyone a 
> > hernia.
> 
> This is left as an exercise for the reader  :)
> 
> OTOH, we could offer an internal Li-ion battery for the K3
> that would 
> be interchangeable with the KPA3 module. We could get about
> 7 AH in 
> there, I bet. Built-in fast charger, charge monitoring at
> the front 
> panel, separate fuse.... hmmmm.... nice for QRP
> picnic-table outings.
> 
> A fuel cell would be even more fun.
> 
> 73,
> Wayne
> N6KR
> 
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> 
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