[Elecraft] OT: K Line's 100th

[Fred Jensen]

We lived in Auburn CA for 38 years and the transcontinental Union 
Pacific goes right through town [we lived about 1/4 mile from both 
tracks].  The eastbound track crosses I-80 at the south end of town on a 
very high trestle.  Just after Elecraft had coined the term "K-Line," I 
saw a container train on the trestle with a bunch of "K-Line" 
containers.  First thought was that Elecraft sales had exploded in 
volume to fill that many shipping containers.  I emailed Eric and asked 
if their product name might be a trademark infringement on the Japanese 
company. He explained that trademarks are registered by business sector 
and the Elecraft K-line was safe since Elecraft wasn't a shipping 
company and Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha didn't make ham radios.

Those same tracks run through Sparks NV where we now live.  Nevada has 
no inventory tax on wholesale goods, so we have a huge number of 
distribution centers [like Amazon], and I see those K-Line container 
trains and trucks with triple trailers all the time and occasionally 
imagine them filled with "real" K-lines.

73,
Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County

On 4/5/2019 6:00 PM, Mike Markowski wrote:
> Google does a pretty good job of bringing up things on my phone that I'm
> interested in. But I got a smile when this one showed up. Nothing is
> infallible, even machine learning. :-)
>
> https://splash247.com/new-boss-strikes-sombre-tone-as-k-line-turns-100/
>
> 73,
> Mike ab3ap
>