[Elecraft] OT: Radios and the TSA

[Brett Howard]

I just got back from a "send an engineer to appease a loud customer by
sending an engineer" trip...  Now if you ever want a guy why looked like
he was doing something weird it was me!!!

I took two bags.  A barely qualifies for carry on sized suit case with a
single change of clothing and an Agilent MSO6104 oscilloscope in it.
Then a bag full of all my spare cables and random electronics parts and
a laptop.  

About the only thing that was going for me was that I had a round trip
ticket and I was only "staying" at my final destination for about 5
hours.  Ended up being a 2.5 day period with no sleep so I'm sure I
looked a bit haggard going through security too but I was given little
resistance.  The worst thing was that someone asked if I had a computer
in the suitcase.  I said no its an oscilloscope.  I could see them
say... (a what?).  They then said we're going to have to open it up and
take a look.  I said certainly let me help you with that.  They then
backed it up and looked at it in the X-Ray again and decided they didn't
really need to look inside and they let me go on my merry way.  

TSA is actually pretty darned reasonable from my experience.

~Brett (KC7OTG)

On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 04:55 +0000, Ken Kopp wrote:
> One of Rose's customers who's just returned from an overseas 
> trip commented that the TSA folks showed little interest in his 
> K3, and that this may have been due to it being hand-carried
> in an obviously made-for-the radio brand-labeled carry case. 
> 
> 73! Ken Kopp - K0PP
>       ElecraftCovers at rfwave.net
> 
> 
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