[Elecraft] "The Elecraft Story"
Art Peters
k0acp at k0acp.com
Fri Jul 27 12:11:33 EDT 2018
Pete,
Careful, that is darn near an antique book, but I too still reference
today, kidder did an excellent
job of capturing the ethos of that team and effort.
73 es God Bless,
Art / K0ACP
On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 11:23 AM, N4ZR <n4zr at comcast.net> wrote:
> Thanks, Mike - I fell prey to the old fallacy - "if I haven't seen it, it
> must not exist." That said, I'd love to see something more up-to-date. It
> has always intrigued me that the KPA-1500 took so long to actually enter
> the market, having seen a prototype at Dayton about 10 years (or so) ago.
> And of course, we're all waiting for the K4.
>
> I still view Tracy Kidder's "The Soul of a New Machine" as the best
> example ever of close-up technological narrative.
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
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>
> On 7/27/2018 11:02 AM, Mike Markowski wrote:
>
>> Pete,
>>
>> In 2011 Wayne wrote up a nice history. An Elecraft wikipedia page points
>> to it, and I put it on a web page here:
>>
>> http://udel.edu/~mm/ham/elecraft/history/ <http://udel.edu/%7Emm/ham/ele
>> craft/history/>
>>
>> Just ignore the graph up top. Out of date ponderings!
>>
>> Maybe Wayne & Eric can flesh it out, update where needed, and put it on
>> elecraft.com <http://elecraft.com>. :-)
>>
>> 73,
>> Mike ab3ap
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 10:52 AM, N4ZR <n4zr at comcast.net <mailto:
>> n4zr at comcast.net>> wrote:
>>
>> It strikes me that an article, or even a book about this would be
>> welcome. Or has it already been done? If so, a reference would
>> be appreciated.
>>
>> --
>> 73, Pete N4ZR
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>> at <http://reversebeacon.net>, now
>> spotting RTTY activity worldwide.
>> For spots, please use your favorite
>> "retail" DX cluster.
>>
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