[Elecraft] what are "x marks"

[ussv dharma]

Peoples:
I know this is off topic but I need help....I switched to Mozilla and now a box called "xmarks" keeps popping up asking me to use it ,....what is it?

Great Grandmaw Susan
If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm  AFA9SM                         USSV DHARMA 


--- On Sun, 7/18/10, FredJensen <k6dgw at foothill.net> wrote:

> From: FredJensen <k6dgw at foothill.net>
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] WRTC - Rig choices for the contest explained!
> To: "Elecraft Reflector" <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Sunday, July 18, 2010, 5:53 AM
> 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.
> >   
> 
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