Pete, Careful, that is darn near an antique book, but I too still reference today, kidder did an excellent job of capturing the ethos of that team and effort.
73 es God Bless, Art / K0ACP On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 11:23 AM, N4ZR <n...@comcast.net> wrote: > Thanks, Mike - I fell prey to the old fallacy - "if I haven't seen it, it > must not exist." That said, I'd love to see something more up-to-date. It > has always intrigued me that the KPA-1500 took so long to actually enter > the market, having seen a prototype at Dayton about 10 years (or so) ago. > And of course, we're all waiting for the K4. > > I still view Tracy Kidder's "The Soul of a New Machine" as the best > example ever of close-up technological narrative. > > 73, Pete N4ZR > Check out the Reverse Beacon Network > at <http://reversebeacon.net>, now > spotting RTTY activity worldwide. > For spots, please use your favorite > "retail" DX cluster. > > On 7/27/2018 11:02 AM, Mike Markowski wrote: > >> Pete, >> >> In 2011 Wayne wrote up a nice history. An Elecraft wikipedia page points >> to it, and I put it on a web page here: >> >> http://udel.edu/~mm/ham/elecraft/history/ <http://udel.edu/%7Emm/ham/ele >> craft/history/> >> >> Just ignore the graph up top. Out of date ponderings! >> >> Maybe Wayne & Eric can flesh it out, update where needed, and put it on >> elecraft.com <http://elecraft.com>. :-) >> >> 73, >> Mike ab3ap >> >> On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 10:52 AM, N4ZR <n...@comcast.net <mailto: >> n...@comcast.net>> wrote: >> >> It strikes me that an article, or even a book about this would be >> welcome. Or has it already been done? If so, a reference would >> be appreciated. >> >> -- >> 73, Pete N4ZR >> Check out the Reverse Beacon Network >> at <http://reversebeacon.net>, now >> spotting RTTY activity worldwide. >> For spots, please use your favorite >> "retail" DX cluster. >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> <http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft> >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> <http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm> >> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >> <mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net> >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to mike.ab...@gmail.com >> <mailto:mike.ab...@gmail.com> >> >> >> > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to k0...@k0acp.com ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
