[Elecraft] Elecraft email from 2000 onward

[kevinr]

I was digging in my computer backup files and found some Elecraft 
email.  When I build a new computer I back the old one up on it. Since 
drive sizes are increasing with time it became easier. Currently my main 
server holds the data from at least twenty different computers I've 
owned from 1982 until today.  My first four computers were not archived.

I was using Opera as my browser and my email client back then so the 
messages get stored in databases.  But the format changed over the 
years.  I also deleted email back then so coverage is not complete.  
Between 2000 and 2002 things are very spotty.  I was in grad school so 
life was hectic and amateur radio was my respite of sanity.  Building my 
K2 helped a great deal.  Beating undergrads into shape is hard work.

It is fun to read the net reports from 2002 onward.  Many of the people 
who checked in then are still checking in today.  But others are now 
gone or into other things.  Given time and a number of Perl, awk, and 
sed scripts I should be able to reassemble many Elecraft messages from 
when the K1 was young.  I am trying to find the first Elecraft CW Net 
announcement but the database system makes searching difficult.

I remember email messages about the Elecraft naming scheme in 2001.  
This was when I first heard about the K3 and K4 but only as a numbering 
system.  I mentioned the K4 late in 2005 for other reasons.  There were 
no KX anything in those days.  I did find the email about me taking my 
K2 to the Duke City Hamfest in 2002.  I got my first Elecraft shirt that 
year.  Lisa also sent me a chocolate bar but that got eaten by someone 
else ( she will remain nameless the shameless chocolate bar stealer :)

One of these days I may have some net reports retrieved and formatted.  
Somewhere around 2009 I switched to Thunderbird as my mail client so 
I'll need another set of scripts to dig through those files.  I threw 
out many fewer emails after that so I have a more complete record.

Now to go back to what I was looking for when all of this started :)

   73,

       Kevin.  KD5ONS