Burdick has too much on his mind to bother with dates, but actually it
was late 2007 ...
From my logbook of that year:
Sun, Oct. 14: Email from Elecraft saying they would be shipping this week
Thu, Oct. 18: Email from Elecraft saying they would be shipping today
Fri, Oct. 19: Serial Number 21 delivered by UPS at 9 a.m. CDT
Sat, Oct. 20: Assembly of kit began at 10:15 a.m. and was completed on
Sunday at 10:30 a.m. with time-outs for meals, sleep, participation in
an emergency pandemic communications exercise, and continuous
annotations and corrections to the assembly manual as I encountered them
and as NØSS recorded them at the request of Elecraft.
Assembly went smoothly, filter calibration (manually) went well, and
first contact was made at 5:02 p.m. that afternoon on the ECN (Elecraft
20 meter Net). Rare DX it was ... across town to NØSS who was NCS.
Fully updated, S.N. 21 has worked every Field Day since, demonstrated
ham radio at numerous Boy Scout affairs, handled a bunch of special
events, an ARRL 100th anniversary, a Missouri bicentennial, and 15
Halloweens from Frankenstein.
73,
Kent
K9ZTV
On 6/29/2022 11:39 AM, Ed Cole wrote:
I bought my K3/10 in 2010 (SN 4340). Didn't realize that was only two
years after launch of the radio "We started selling the K3 in early
2008-per Wayne".
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