To all,
Thank you very much to all who have responded. As I indicated, my
expenses have now been covered.
If you want to provide further assistance, please contact the "point
man" on this project Gerald KC6CNN. Several of the 'locals' have
contributed $$$ to purchase the base K2 and mast and antennas for this
disabled veteran. Perhaps your additional contributions will help to
ease that initial expense.
This person has presented all of us with a gift of his service, and the
response that I have seen has been overwhelming. Thanks to one and all
who responded. I have had to refuse some of the offers because it is in
excess of my expenses. This is *not* a project that I desire to 'make
money' on.
Thank you all for your offers.
BTW, I will be publicly announcing those who contributed when 'the dust
clears'. If you do not want to be included, please send me a private
email.
73,
Don W3FPR
On 8/20/2013 10:14 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote:
To all,
Thank you, the purse has now been fully funded. Thanks to the
generosity of several hams and Elecraft, my expenses have now been
covered. That is all I want. While I would normally charge a build
fee, this one is different.
This new disabled ham will receive a new KPA100 and KAT100 and his K2
will be aligned and calibrated to perform the best it can be.
Thank you all again for your offers of assistance. The outpouring of
offers from other hams is overwhelming. Thank you all for your
assistance on this project.
73,
Don W3FPR
On 8/20/2013 2:48 AM, KC6CNN wrote:
I wanted to take a minute to thank a few hams that help me assist a
wounded
warrior that just became a ham operator.
I would like to thank John KF7OM for being patient while a bunch
of ham
pooled their money to purchase a radio for the wounded warrior.
I would like to thank Don Wilhelm W3FPR for his help trouble
shooting and
walking me through a trouble shooting of a donated kio2 kit that did not
work. Don you assistance was right on and you hit the nail on the
head and
solved the problem.
I would also like to thank the fine people at Elecraft. Once Don had
isolated the problem and it was a transistor. I called Elecraft and
spoke
with Howard. I explained that Don and I had been trouble shooting a
KIO2 for
a Wounded Warrior new ham and needed a transistor. I gave him a part
number
and Howard said I will get it sent out to you tomorrow. It arrived
fast and
resolved the problem.
The radio was given to the Wounded Warrior today and he was beaming with
pride. A bunch of local hams came out and built a dipole antenna and
pitched
in to get him on the air.
When he found out that John, Don, Howard from Elecraft had all help a
person
they did not know it brought a tear to his eyes. For a Wounded
Warrior who
also suffers from PTSD. Ham radio allows him to met new people and talk
around the world. Right now he has a Elecraft K2/10, we are all going to
work on getting him a mic and eventually up to a 100 watts. But he
showed
great interest in qrp. The mic will not be used much I suspect as he has
also expressed a great interest to do CW.
So, Thanks to all of you that help in this project. It reassured me that
hams are great people and that Elecraft is the very best in customer
service. I know that most the hams down here could not believe that
Elecraft
would send the part out and that it was so easy to get ahold of a
knowledgeable person from the company. I can assure you that the Wounded
Warrior will not buy any other brand of rig, except Elecraft.
Thank you all. It was very touching.
73's Gerald KC6CNN
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K2 # 5486
K3 # 6254
KX3 # 757
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