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mg NG7M On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 4:52 PM kevinr <[email protected]> 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 > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > Message delivered to [email protected] -- M. George ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
