[Elecraft] My K3 is Sick!

[Wayne Burdick]

"Sick" as a superlative really caught me by surprise. I learned it from my daughter who was 12 at the time. Thirty years earlier it was "bad," another lesson in irony. I hope Websters is keeping up.

Wayne
N6KR

>> Sick seems to be the word the kids at the Olympics now use to
>> describe an
>> exceptional performance, as in, "Dude, that gold medal run you just
>> did was totally sick"!
>> 
>> So, I tune in to 10 meters CW this morning to see what FT5ZM is up
>> to.  As
>> usual, the pileup is S9 and about 20 khz wide.  I'm running my K3
>> at five
>> watts, into a G5RV wire antenna up about 30 feet.  And it's snowing.
>> 
>> But, what the heck.  I widen the P3 range to see the whole pileup,
>> look for a minute to see where he's listening, punch up my Split
>> macro, and call. Once.  Back he comes, first time.
>> 
> 
>> 73,
>> John W3DN