[Elecraft] WRTC - Rig choices for the contest explained!

[FredJensen]

Many years ago as a teen ham [OK, way more years ago than "many," dirt 
was young then] I had an SX-28 receiver.  For the newbies, 
radioblvd.com/SX28Notes  I sold it when I was about to graduate from Cal 
Poly in 1962.

Several years ago, I "inherited" a stock SX-28 with speaker from the 
estate of Woody, W6ANX.  Nostalgia reigned for awhile, I used it on CW 
with my K2 as the TX on SKN and a few others.  Then nostalgia faded, and 
I began to realize:

1.  The RX, which sounded really good on AM left a lot to be desired in 
the stability, resetability, sensitivity, selectivity, noise reduction, 
AGC, and size departments, not to mention SSB reception capability.

2.  It weighed in a close to 100 US lbs, I could no longer lift it by 
myself as I could at 16, and it's primary purpose in the shack seemed to 
have faded to holding down the operating desk against gravity outages.

I finally donated it to the radio museum in Virginia City where it was 
restored and resides today.  Scroll down the above URL a bit to S/N  
H-130170 for a peek.

I had a little problem at first with the lack of weight of my K3 ... 
pushing the buttons caused it to slip a little on the rubber feet.  I 
cut a piece of that non-slip stuff [sort of a lacework] and solved the 
problem.  I do not want a heavy radio anymore, K3 is great for me.

73,

Fred K6DGW

Lu Romero wrote:
> A 7800/7700 would have collapsed my operating table.  I
> really dont want to call my neighbor to help me lift it out
> of the shipping crate.
>