[Elecraft] You people just made me buy a K3 five minutes ago

[Stephen Prior]

Stan,

That's brilliant, your strategy and patience brought the results in the
end.  Please don't take offence, but I'm going to have to delete this
email now in case it ever falls into the wrong hands!!

Seriously, I've had my K3 (#980) now for over two years and I still like
it a lot.  I've added bits and pieces to it as time and finances have
allowed, and that is one of the advantages of the Elecraft way.  By the
time we have paid  shipping costs and taxes here in the UK it is certainly
not a cheap line of equipment but we accept that for the quality we
receive and the great service, much of it via this reflector.

Give the dog a pat for me, I'm sure that he/she will soon get the hang of
the paintbrush!

73 Stephen

On 06/03/2011 22:13, "stan levandowski" <sjl219 at optonline.net> wrote:

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>Stephen, I spent my career in business and negotiation is how things get
>done in business.  I began buttering her up a while back.  Offering to
>cook supper, taking her out for Sunday breakfast, cleaning the
>bathrooms, etc.  After a period of this "indirect" approach I then cut a
>cardboard box down to the 10x10x4 size of the K3 and pasted a downloaded
>picture of it on the box.  I set it next to my K2 but said nothing.  In
>a few days,, her curiosity got the best of her and she asked about it.
>I explained that it was my dream rig and that it would really be the
>final piece I'd need to complete my perfect All-Elecraft station.  This
>all made it easier to get to "you can buy your radio after we finish the
>painting."  The dog idea was a stroke of genius on my part...or was
>it????
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>73,  Stan WB2LQF
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>On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Stephen Prior wrote:
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>> Stan,
>>
>> You won't regret the K3 - the dog, well I'm not so sure about that!
>> :-)
>> Our Jack Russell drives me bonkers, although I live in Jack Russell
>> land,
>> the breed was first bred just a mile along the road from here by the
>> Revd
>> Jack Russell.
>>
>> I've bought my wife some nice antique earrings for her birthday in
>> May,
>> and now you've set me wondering what I'll be able to get away with
>> then!
>>
>> So, to keep this on topic, I'm really looking forward to putting some
>> more
>> hardware in my P3.  Monitor output?  Directional coupler port?  Coffee
>> maker?  Please?
>>
>>
>> 73 Stephen G4SJP
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