[Elecraft] What made you decide to purchase an Elecraft transceiver?

[Joseph Trombino, Jr]

Howdy Gang:

Might as well chime in with my .02 cents on the subject.

I was working overseas in Cyprus when Elecraft offered up the K2 kit for sale back in 1999.

I had been in QRP since my first homebrew Novice TX back in 1962 and over the years had built all the Heathkit HW QRP kits, OHR kits, etc plus homebrew gear.

When I saw the specs on the kit I decided that it was the project for me.  I had never heard of Elecraft before but I was familiar with the work of Wayne, N6KR going back to his Safari transceiver project that was printed in the October 1990 issue of QEX.

I had to email the XYL back here in the States and have her place the order with Elecraft for the K2 with KAT2, KAF2 and SSB module.

I'm sure she was thrilled doing that (grin).

After building the K2 I was wondering if Elecraft would come out with anything else...sure enough out came the K1 followed by the KX1.

Needless to say I just had to have one of each of those puppies so the building experience continued.

I have to say that building Elecraft kits is highly addictive...I wound up building another K2, 4 K1's and 4 KX1's.

I built them, operated them for a while, sold them and bought other Elecraft kits....the cycle continued....like I said, these kits are addictive.

How many more K2's, K1's and KX1's will I build??  Let's see...how much time is left in life??

Did I forget to mention that I also built 2 K3's?? (grin).

OK...so now I am waiting for the the K4, KX2, K1B or whatever else is in the works....with Elecraft you never know what's next.

We are indeed fortunate to have such a wonderful U.S. company offering these products to us...QRP building has never been so good.

So, melt solder, build and enjoy.

						73, Joe W2KJ
						I QRP, therefore I am