[Elecraft] Subject: Re: Wounded Warrior - Ham Operator

[EdG]

To all-- I'm a K3/P3 owner and a reborn contester who has just recently joined/started reading these Elecraft posts.   But more importantly, as a retired Navy Admiral with 41 years in uniform, I'd like to thank all of you but especially Gerald KC6CNN,  Don W3FPR and the Elecraft crew for helping out a wounded warrior. Since I'm late to the party on this case, let me say if you know of other servicemen or women who need help, please count me in. I also work with organizations that can donate and help in addition to all of us as individuals. 

thanks again to all of you

73
Ed N4OC  


Message: 20
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 22:50:04 -0400
From: Don Wilhelm <w3fpr at embarqmail.com>
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Wounded Warrior - Ham Operator
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To all,

Thank you very much to all who have responded.  As I indicated, my 
expenses have now been covered.
If you want to provide further assistance, please contact the "point 
man" on this project Gerald KC6CNN.  Several of the 'locals' have 
contributed $$$ to purchase the base K2 and mast and antennas for this 
disabled veteran.  Perhaps your additional contributions will help to 
ease that initial expense.

This person has presented all of us with a gift of his service, and the 
response that I have seen has been overwhelming.  Thanks to one and all 
who responded.  I have had to refuse some of the offers because it is in 
excess of my expenses.  This is *not* a project that I desire to 'make 
money' on.

Thank you all for your offers.

BTW, I will be publicly announcing those who contributed when 'the dust 
clears'.  If you do not want to be included, please send me a private 
email.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 8/20/2013 10:14 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote:
> To all,
> 
> Thank you, the purse has now been fully funded.  Thanks to the 
> generosity of several hams and Elecraft, my expenses have now been 
> covered.  That is all I want.  While I would normally charge a build 
> fee, this one is different.
> 
> This new disabled ham will receive a new KPA100 and KAT100 and his K2 
> will be aligned and calibrated to perform the best it can be.
> 
> Thank you all again for your offers of assistance.  The outpouring of 
> offers from other hams is overwhelming.  Thank you all for your 
> assistance on this project.
> 
> 73,
> Don W3FPR
> 
> On 8/20/2013 2:48 AM, KC6CNN wrote:
>> I wanted to take a minute to thank a few hams that help me assist a 
>> wounded
>> warrior that just became a ham operator.
>> I would like to thank  John   KF7OM  for being patient while a bunch 
>> of ham
>> pooled their money to purchase a radio for the wounded warrior.
>> 
>> I would like to thank Don Wilhelm  W3FPR for his help trouble 
>> shooting and
>> walking me through a trouble shooting of a donated kio2 kit that did not
>> work. Don you assistance was right on and you hit the nail on the 
>> head and
>> solved the problem.
>> 
>> I would also like to thank the fine people at Elecraft. Once Don had
>> isolated the problem and it was a transistor. I called Elecraft and 
>> spoke
>> with Howard. I explained that Don and I had been trouble shooting a 
>> KIO2 for
>> a Wounded Warrior new ham and needed a transistor. I gave him a part 
>> number
>> and Howard said I will get it sent out to you tomorrow. It arrived 
>> fast and
>> resolved the problem.
>> 
>> The radio was given to the Wounded Warrior today and he was beaming with
>> pride. A bunch of local hams came out and built a dipole antenna and 
>> pitched
>> in to get him on the air.
>> 
>> When he found out that John, Don, Howard from Elecraft had all help a 
>> person
>> they did not know it brought a tear to his eyes. For a Wounded 
>> Warrior who
>> also suffers from PTSD. Ham radio allows him to met new people and talk
>> around the world. Right now he has a Elecraft K2/10, we are all going to
>> work on getting him a mic and eventually up to a 100 watts. But he 
>> showed
>> great interest in qrp. The mic will not be used much I suspect as he has
>> also expressed a great interest to do CW.
>> 
>> So, Thanks to all of you that help in this project. It reassured me that
>> hams are great people and that Elecraft is the very best in customer
>> service. I know that most the hams down here could not believe that 
>> Elecraft
>> would send the part out and that it was so easy to get ahold of a
>> knowledgeable person from the company. I can assure you that the Wounded
>> Warrior will not buy any other brand of rig, except Elecraft.
>> 
>> Thank you all. It was very touching.
>> 73's Gerald KC6CNN
>> 

Edmund P. Giambastiani, Jr. 
Admiral, U.S. Navy (ret)
170 Eagle Drive
Jupiter, FL 33477

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