[Elecraft] Out with the Old

[Phil Kane]

On 4/1/2019 7:52 AM, engineercm wrote:

> Bumper cars?  Of course.  Manual typewriter (with the beloved Courier
> font?  Natch.  VW bus? Never drove one but saw many on the road.
> 
> All of these are no longer in production---except the K2.

I used a manual typewriter until I got a Selectric that was in use until
1999.  Never had a VW Bus but I had a 1953 VW Bug and later a 1963 Bug
that I did several engine rebuilds and a 12V conversion  but sold it in
1986 before it fell apart.

K2 old?  Mine is the newest rig on the shelf, just beating out my ICOM
IC-2820 VHF/UHF rig.  I don't get to use the K2 much any more after
moving from the house with 13 - count 'em - 13 antennas (2 HF ones) to
an apartment with only a porch-mounted mag-loop for HF - at least I got
to have my VHF/UHF j-poles and ground-planes, only after the very
grunting acceptance of the property owners after I played my "emergency
communication" card.


73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
Elecraft K2/100   s/n 5402

>From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest
Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon