[Elecraft] OT: CW Skimmer

[Roger D Johnson]

I think very few hams could afford the KWM-2. I'll give Collins the credit for 
the innovation
but I think the Heath SB series had a much bigger influence on the average ham.

73, Roger (former owner of the SB-101)


On 2/7/2015 10:09 PM, Fred Jensen wrote:
> I'm working on my 62nd year as a ham and looking back at the history I've
> experienced, I think I would credit the KWM-2 as the turning point in the
> adoption of SSB over AM.  Not that the all the masses could afford it [in
> todays dollars, I think it cost around $10K], and there had been the KWM-1
> which didn't seem to catch on well, but the KWM2 introduced the concept of "HF
> Transceiver," where you transmitted exactly where you were listening ... One
> Big Knob.
>
>