[Elecraft] KX3 Shipment notification

[Jim Lowman]

Features of the new transceivers are nice, but there's something to be 
said for the simplicity of the old boatanchors.
Receivers and transmitters had similar controls, with similar names, 
across many manufacturers.
This was handy at a club station, Field Day or a multi-radio contest effort.
None of this "having the manual open at all times" back then.

73 de Jim - AD6CW

On 7/18/2012 5:05 PM, Fred Jensen wrote:
> Many years ago, $/watt actually *was* a measure used in evaluating
> transmitters [they were all either transmitters or receivers then, until
> Art Collins invented the KWM-2].  Transmitters all sort of followed the
> same architectural pattern and were not what you might today call
> "feature-rich."  "Press the key, make RF."  Bandswitching was a feature
> compared to plug-in coils.  Menus hadn't been invented either.
>
> 73,
>
> Fred K6DGW
> - Northern California Contest Club
> - CU in the 2012 Cal QSO Party 6-7 Oct 2012
> - www.cqp.org
>