[Elecraft] Flying with a rig

[Fred Jensen]

I've never taken my K3, but I have taken my K2 and KX1.  This may be 
overkill but:

I put a copy of my ham license in the carry on case, taped a note to the 
radio explaining what it, and the paddle, jumpers, and battery was, had 
the manual in with it, and had no problems.  They asked me to fire my 
laptop up but not the radio.  I was going to take a knockoff MP-1 
antenna, but decided against it since the resonator looks like a pipe 
bomb on the x-ray.

I have braces on both legs and carry some surgical and scrap metal 
inside me, and am total toast at TSA anyway [I always wear shorts to the 
airport, even if it's snowing :-)].  By the time they finally decided I 
was too old to be an effective terrorist, my wife had collected our gear 
and we were on our way.  It turned out that I was there long enough to 
have explained short, base-loaded, HF antenna theory to them and could 
have taken the MP-1 and I wished I had.  Trying to string wire in the 
opening on our balcony on the ship in some fashion that would radiate 
was pretty much a non-starter.

YMMV however, it *is* TSA.

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2012 Cal QSO Party 6-7 Oct 2012
- www.cqp.org

On 1/30/2012 10:26 AM, Mike wrote:
> What's your experience/advice about a domestic flight in the TSA era with a K3 in
> carry-on buggage?