[Elecraft] having enough radios

[Fred Jensen]

On 9/11/2011 8:35 PM, David Pratt wrote:
> Good to see you using the right name for them, David.  These days
> ex-CBers, or those influenced by CB, tend to call rigs and transceivers
> "radios".  To me a radio is something on which one listens to broadcast
> stations.
>
> You are quite obviously a traditional ham - good on you.

My radios have been "radios" since I first got on the air with a 
6AG7/6L6 rock-bound CW radio in 1953.  CB didn't exist then over here in 
the Colonies, so I couldn't have been influenced by it.  I have had many 
"radios," some transmitted, some received, some did/do both, 
occasionally whether or not I wanted them to [see PS below]. ARC-5's, 
R-388, BC-348, lots of Heath [currently enjoying a re-birth on this 
list], Hallicrafters, RME, Swan, Collins, Kenwood, Yaseu, Drake, and now 
an FT-847, K3, K2, KX1, KPA500, P3, IC-4300H [in the truck], and FT-51R 
and Kenwood TH-G71 [both going dead because I forget to charge them]. 
Even the P3 is a "radio" for me, the manual on page 28 refers to it as a 
"true SDR receiver."

I have been on 11 meters when it was still a ham band, shared with a 
bunch of industrial/medical noisemakers, however I've never had a CB 
license [when they still existed] and I've never had a CB radio.  It's 
called "Amateur 'Radio'," and sometimes, people refer to me as an 
Amateur Radio Operator.

Then of course there are the internationally recognized Q Signals:

INT QKB:  How many knobs does your *radio* have?
INT QKK:  How many of those do you know how to use?

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2011 Cal QSO Party 1-2 Oct 2011
- www.cqp.org

PS:  Sometimes, the 6L6 in my first TX got a case of "oscillator envy," 
watching the 6AG7 actually make RF I suppose, which garnered me my first 
pink slip from the FCC.  I learned after that to recognize when it 
wasn't feeling good and tune it a little off frequency.