[Elecraft] TS-990

[George O'Brien]

This is my first reflector post in the three years that I have been a member.  As one of the early adopters of the KX3 and later the PX3, I have a high regard for the excellent Elecraft customer service and quality of engineering.  Whenever I am doing portable operations, I carry the KX3 along with a spare LiPO battery (e.g. Field Day or hikes).  I am also the owner of a FlexRadio 6700.  It is my home station rig along with the Alpha 9500.  I have had the Flex for 6 months and am very pleased with it.  It replaced my TenTec Orion II and functions well on many, many modes.  
I operate CW 98% of the time.

I am delighted to be able to choose knob radios (SDR nonetheless) from Elecraft AND software HMI radios from FlexRadio.  Both are excellent American ham radio firms. 
George, AB4FH




> On Mar 10, 2015, at 12:39 PM, Guy Olinger K2AV <k2av.guy at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Wes (N7WS) <wes at triconet.org> wrote:
>> 
>> On the other hand, except for replacing a noisy fan, I've never had a
>> computer hardware failure.
> 
> 
> Well, you are as rare as hen's teeth. And not only that, you announced it
> in public, thus notifying the world AND MURPHY that you are WAY on the
> undeserved side of normal experience. Prepare for an onslaught. You have
> wakened Smaug with your brag  :>)
> 
> At SAS institute, where I worked for 20 years before retirement, there were
>> some 20,000 PC's on campus. They had a PC service department of thirty-some
>> techs, not counting supervisors, who were always busy 16 hours a day
>> fixing/replacing some busted PC or peripheral, or upgrading one so it could
>> keep up with more and more resource-thirsty applications. I had a 21 inch
>> IBM branded Sony Trinitron monitor that made it until drivers for it could
>> no longer be found for the latest version of OS. It was the ONLY PC device
>> I had at SAS in 20 years that did not fail in some manner at some point.
> 
> 
> There is a point to the idea of not needing a PC for some operations,
> particularly portable ones.
> 
> 73, Guy K2AV
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