Howdy All, As I left work last Friday it was with heavy heart as I had just read on the ABC web site that Lincoln Hall, one of our great adventurer / mountaineer / writers had passed away while descending from the summit of Mt. Everest
I awoke to the miraculous news on Saturday morning that reports of Lincolns passing were incorrect, his expedition had radioed that he had passed away and left him but an American climber had found him alive the next morning (reports are sketchy) however he is alive and nearing or at base camp and things are looking optimistic. I have been interested in Antarctic exploration (and amateur radio) all my life and have heard Lincoln talk. I got out some of his books from my library and was staggered to see some of the connections with amateur radio in a book called "The Loneliest Mountain" co written by Lincoln with Jonathan Chester and an account of an expedition to climb Mt. Minto in Antarctica. In Lincoln's book on the Mt. Minto expedition I came across the following end note on "Field Communications". "The second field radio was a very compact 1 - watt HF Codan 8332 hand held transceiver that had both a whip and dipole antennae." and later "The radio was, however, instrumental in saving Chris Hilton's life and mine." I love my KX1 most of my radios, the K2 is nearing completion but the KX1 is the favourite. I was thinking, in view of some suggestions for new Elecraft Kits of a KX2, a 5 watt ssb 5 and 18 MHz rig (Channelised backpack group type frequencies) that might appeal to wilderness travellers. Serious groups now use Iridium but I am sure there are many outdoors folk that could be induced to amateur radio with such a rig. I have been browsing EMRFD (Epiphyte) and my WM-20 manual looking at qrp ssb since. Cheers Glen VK1FB _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
