[Elecraft] K3: NOT an analog radio.

[Guy Olinger K2AV]

What I get for posting late at night....   I had meant that just as a
reply to Ralph.  And apparently clicked the wrong reply-to box.  Sorry
for the OT post, but not too sorry.  :>)



On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 12:23 AM, Robert Harmon <k6uj at pacbell.net> wrote:
> Guy,
> I hope we are not drifting off forum purpose here but wanted
> to say you are bringing back happy memories.  I used to have
> a 75A3 also.  Beautiful receive.  Remember many enjoyable
> evenings rag chewing on 75 with my feet propped up on the
> desk holding my D-104 mike.   I'd better curtail this, hi,hi.
>
> 73,
> Bob
> K6UJ
>
>
>
> On Oct 9, 2010, at 6:41 PM, Guy Olinger K2AV wrote:
>
>> Yur welcome and enjoy all of your stuff.
>>
>> I run back to my Johnson Ranger, Johnson Courier amp, and 75A3 when I
>> have analog withdrawal symptoms (often enough).   I also have a Yaesu
>> FT101ZD that was a gift that I'll probably never sell.  When I get
>> homesick for a real RF gain control and S-meter that's on an AGC
>> control bus, I fire up the 75A3.  That STILL is really smooth audio.
>> But it can't hear the Russian 100 watt crowd on the monster 40m quad
>> out at NY4A.
>>
>> A Ranger and a 75A3 was the first ham rig I ever saw in Columbus, Ohio
>> in 1956. That was "hard sky" back then.  Highest sunspot cycle in my
>> lifetime, and 11 meters was a ham band.
>>
>> I used to drool over Valiants.  Wanted one so bad I could just spit.
>> Settled for a beat-up used Ranger.  When I started making money, I
>> built a Heath SB300 and SB400. Souped those up and used them at W4BVV
>> in the 70's alongside Collins rigs.  S-line was something else I
>> drooled mightily over.  Saw my first S line at the ARRL convention in
>> Wash DC in 1959.  They also had an old spark transmitter that they
>> fired up intermittently for two days -- had FCC permission.  When you
>> left the room after watching that with the lights out, you felt like
>> you had SEEN radio.
>>
>> 73, Guy.
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Ralph Parker <ve7xf at dccnet.com> wrote:
>>>> This ain't your daddy's analog radio...
>>>
>>> A frightening article, especially for a guy who still uses his Valiant and
>>> NC-303!
>>>
>>> But seriously, folks, it was very informative, and gave me something to
>>> think about while being dragged into the 21st century.
>>> Tnx, Guy.
>>>
>>> VE7XF
>>>
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