[Elecraft] New P3 "meters"

[Jim Lowman]

Obviously you've never been to the International DX Convention in 
Visalia that happened last weekend.

These guys (and ladies) are dead serious, and are not afraid to spend 
some money.  Don't confuse them with the guy at the local swapmeet who 
saved the 50 cents on a bar of soap so that he could haggle with a 
seller to get a dollar mic for his half buck.

It was obvious from who the vendors were - most of them hawking high-end 
products like amplifiers, antennas and the like - and what they didn't 
have on display.  Even at the Yaesu and Icom booths, there was nary a 
thing that would appeal to the shack-on-the-belt members of the fraternity.

Back in the late 90s, when US Tower was located in Visalia, they would 
have an open house and lunch for anyone from the convention who stopped 
by.  It was not unusual for some of the visitors to pull out checkbooks 
or plastic for thousands of dollars worth of purchases.

I'm sure that Eric and crew took lots of orders for the K-Line and 
KX3-Line products.

73 de Jim - AD6CW

On 4/21/2015 4:54 PM, David Cole wrote:
> Yeah right...  Never going to happen...  Hams are without a doubt the
> cheapest people I have ever met.
>