[Elecraft] KX3 ordered!

[Keith Heimbold]

Congrats! You have picked an awesome transceiver as your first rig! As a fellow newbie (38 months), you will find the folks on this reflector to be nice and accommodating to all manners of questions related to the hobby and Elecraft equipment.

Good luck & 73,

Keith
AK6ZZ

Sent from my iPhone please excuse typos

> On Feb 27, 2014, at 12:47 PM, "Phil Hystad" <phystad at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> I think it is a contraction of "Yippie!!"
> 
> 
>> On Feb 27, 2014, at 12:43 PM, Phil Wheeler <w7ox at socal.rr.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Or "Yipes" -- Oops no "i" in there :-)
>> 
>> Congratulations, Sean. Once, in Aug 1953, I felt just as you seem to today!
>> 
>> I also have a KX3 on order to join my K3/P3 combo (and my first two Elecraft rigs, K2 and K1). Elecraft gets it right.
>> 
>> 73, Phil w7ox
>> 
>>> On 2/27/14, 12:36 PM, Sean Wall wrote:
>>> Wow, it's a bumper crop of excitement. Just got notified that my call sign
>>> is in the ULS database. I've been assigned KK4YPE. Now it's *really*
>>> official. ;)
>>> 
>>> -73 Sean
>>> KK4YPE
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Thursday, February 27, 2014, Sean Wall <seancwall at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi folks!
>>>> 
>>>> The big moment - I just ordered my KX3!  I decided to splurge and get the
>>>> ATU, roofing filter, and... the keyer paddle.  *gulp* Guess I'm committed
>>>> to learning Morse now! (Well, I did get a mic as well.   Gotta give myself
>>>> something to do until I can learn the code.)   I'll be getting an antenna
>>>> soon.  I'm thinking of an end-fed antenna from kx3helper.com and
>>>> stringing it up in the attic and making the garage (where the attic hatch
>>>> is) my "shack".  Pretty exciting stuff.  :)
>>>> 
>>>> As soon as I get my rig set up (and my call sign from the FCC) I'll be on
>>>> the air.  I'll let you know when I am.
>>>> 
>>>> -Sean  (call sign TBD)
>> 
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