All this for 11m coverage ? Really ? Merry Christmas. Randy Lake N1KWF
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 7:02 AM, Fred Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > I personally hope personally that "NO ONE" from Elecraft would ever add > "11m > Bands" features to any radio they sell!!! For thing by law they can not do > so, why would even consider asking such a question? > > Go buy a $29 CB HT and be done with it...and BTW I will leave a call sign > unlike "YOU"! > > Fred/N0AZZ > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of rwm rwmr > Sent: Friday, December 14, 2012 5:18 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Elecraft] missed market > > You guys missed a Big Part of the Market.. > You have a Great radio in the Portable K3X.. > > With Recent Hurricane Sandy.. > Correct me if i am Wrong.. > > Ham Radios are supposed to offer one ability to carry on Emergency > contacts.. > Both for owner of radio ( for themselves and their family) As well as > working with various local/regional emergency services.. > > So that within a Crisis happening.. > Communications can be kept going where all other forms fail (like how home > and cell phones and power outages...that went on for at least a week and up > to still lack of power and phone service in some spots of NY and NJ as > direct result of Hurricane Sandy ) > > Yet even though your K3X offers no more then 10 watts output > (with external battery pack...5 watts in using internal batteries) > > Yet even though i asked.. > You refused to do a firmware upgrade so not only is the K3X be usable on HF > ham bands..But also on 11 meter/cb frequencies .. > > I could understand if it was a 100 watt or such radio. > Fact is though it is clearly Not.. > > The K3X is a Perfect radio for emergency use.. > Yet you CLEARLY leave out and refuse to allow one to use it on some of the > most used local frequency's that would enable one to remain in contact with > local people ( for themselves as well as surrounding community) > > This is Indeed a Very Big Over Sight. > This is Also a Very Poor attitude.. > > It seems you people are so Hard Core with offering High Quality Radios with > Excellent Abilities.. > Then when you Design a merging of SDR radio with a regular radio and Not > requiring a PC hook up.. > Offering a Huge advantage that other companies can only Hope to so offer ( > but can not ) However in one of the Most Important aspects..You Also Drop > the Ball.. > > Will you Re consider ? > Or do i need to start a Petition on a National scale (even bringing it to > the white house if need be) In order to get this done with a simple 5 watt > portable radio ? > > By the way > > Yes i am a ham radio operator. > > Owning a 706 MKIIG..IC-7000 .. AR-3500 .. RCI 2970 .. IC-R3 .. DR235 .. > ID800 .. ID-1 .. T90a .. ID-91AD .. THF-6a various tuners..various power > supplies .. > > until recently with hurricane Sandy.. > create RC5 antenna rotor .. 2 meter,70 cm and 1.25 meter beams .. tribander > 2 meter/70 cm/23cm vertical and 5/8 wave ground plane 11 meter antenna.. > > Thankfully i had many batteries for my HT's and plenty of antennas for > them.. > For as it turned out it was my ONLY means of communication to the outside > world for 9 or 10 days (pay phones..home phones..cell phones were all > useless..power was out .. all for over a week) > > I clearly would have befitted with battery operated able HF > ( yes 11 meters as well ) > Even though via UHF i got out as far as 70 miles with just my HT and HT > antennas ( i had to go to to top of walkway on the bayonne bridge to get > out > beyond 10 miles during the first week to 2 weeks ) I can easily get a Buddy > Pole portable HF antenna to use with the K3X. > > So as i Now am still repairing my roof > ( it still leaks like a lot any time it rains now ) I am Now also looking > to re create my antenna farm ( i likely can salvage my 70 cm beam..all the > others are trash..also lost a good deal of LDF5-50a and LDF7-50a coax > feedline ) So while re doing my antenna farm for base operations.. > I am also looking to further update my portable/backpack gear. > (seems i also have to bite the bullet and get a car again.. thus getting > needed antennas for whatever car i get as well.. i have kept away from > driving for 20 years..but hurricane sandy showed if i needed to > bail/evacuate on my own..without driving on my own.. well it turned out it > was not possible) > > Bob Muller > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > -- Randy Lake N1KWF 73 Gunn Rd. 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