[Elecraft] Elecraft email from 2000 onward

[M. George]

The mailman qth archives go back to December of 2001:
http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/elecraft/

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On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 4:52 PM kevinr <kevinr at coho.net> wrote:

> 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
>
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M. George