[Elecraft] (Mini)P3 v SubRX

[Walter Underwood]

Perhaps you missed the P3BRK option. Only $1, but the shipping is brutal.

I did the same thing with a Christmas present for my sister when she was twelve. She always checked out all the presents, so I packed a brick and earrings in a long box.

To get back on topic, I have a KX3 and the only thing I miss about the IC-756 that preceded it is the rudimentary bandscope. A P3 or PX3 would be light years beyond that. I don’t have either of those, but I’d buy them first.

wunder
K6WRU
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On Mar 10, 2015, at 4:44 PM, Fred Jensen <k6dgw at foothill.net> wrote:

> in the mid-50's two youngish teenagers with new General licenses decided to build a puzzle for the next radio club meeting.  It consisted of two of those Bud aluminum boxes.  Box 1 had a cord to plug into the wall, two switches, and two single wires coming from each end.  It weighed about 1/4 of a brick.
> 
> The two single wires went into the ends of Box 2 which had two #47 dial lamps poking through rubber grommets on top.  It weighed almost nothing.  Plugged in, Switch 1 turned Lamp 1 on and off, Switch 2 turned Lamp 2 on and off.  We hacked 1/4 of a brick off and put it inside Box 2 with duct tape.
> 
> You could have both lamps off, one or the other on, or both on, however binary arithmetic had not yet arrived in Los Angeles and we failed to sense the significance of that.  Convinced we were going to stump everyone at the meeting, we brought it out during the coffee break before the raffle.  None of our teen friends could figure it out. The OT's remained silent but smiled a lot.
> 
> We finally said we'd give them a hint.  "Box 1 contains a transformer, two switches and two solid state diodes," just then coming onto the market.  "Box 2 contain two more diodes, two lamps, and 1/4 of a brick."  Still no one could draw the circuit, so Terry did for them.  They asked, "What's the 1/4 of a brick for?"  Terry said, "To make it seem substantial."
> 
> Rather than put a brick inside my P3, I put two little squares of double-stick automobile moulding tape under the two front feet to keep it planted on the shelf.  While I'd like to think Elecraft has a whole bunch of cool electronics and features to make use of all that empty space about to be released, I suspect it is as long as it is so it would keep the K-Line symmetric when lined up on the desk.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Fred K6DGW
> - Northern California Contest Club
> - CU in the 50th Running of the Cal QSO Party 3-4 Oct 2015
> - www.cqp.org
> 
> On 3/10/2015 4:14 PM, Harry Yingst via Elecraft wrote:
>> You could always put a block  or bag of lead inside
>> 
>> 
>>       From: Wes (N7WS) <wes at triconet.org>
>>  To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
>>  Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 1:39 PM
>>  Subject: Re: [Elecraft] (Mini)P3 v SubRX
>> 
>> Lyle, KK7P, demoed a pre-production P3 to our DX club.  When I picked it up I
>> told him Elecraft better put a steel plate inside if they wanted to get that
>> much money for so little weight.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 3/10/2015 10:06 AM, Jim Brown wrote:
>>> K6XX used the void space in the P3 to carry hand tools to WRTC in Russia.
>>> 
>>> 73, Jim K9YC
> 
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