Ha, ha!! Phil, you are an FCC engineer (retired) who also became a lawyer!
I'm a field technician who was lucky not to have been arrested by you during my tenure servicing shipboard radio systems <G>. (I do recall one of your staff calling me on my cell phone from the FCC monitoring station insisting I was responsible for some lengthy unauthorized transmissions on emergency VHF channel 16 - until I put another FCC engineer, who I was on a ship with at the time doing a SOLAS inspection, on the phone to confirm I wasn't responsible for the signal.) It's a matter of how our minds work differently! I can get the Icom to work perfectly but a week later I've forgotten how I did it. Clearly your memory of the button-press sequences is better than mine. I probably would never have made it as an FCC field engineer either! I didn't have my HT with me at SeaTac, but sure enjoyed chatting with you face to face at the Elecraft booth! Ron AC7AC -----Original Message----- On Sat, 9 Jun 2007 14:55:43 -0700, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote: >I have an Icom WM32A that I picked up in 1999. Works fine, when I can >figure out how to work it. Claims to have an "Intuitive" interface. >Perhaps to C3PO or R2D2, or one of their human clones, but not to this >mere mortal. Gee, Ron, I'm sorry that you didn't mention that when we met at Sea-Pac last week! I've been using that HT for about 5 years for both hamming (both 2m and 3/4m) and monitoring my other hobby - chasing and photo-ing the railroads. It's easy once one gets the hang of it. Then again, I have 5 ICOM transceivers, including the HT.... <g> My only "gripe" - which is my problem, not ICOM's - is that I have to use the lighted magnifier to read the pushbutton labels and occasionally have to refer to the step-by-step directions in the manual. -- 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon _______________________________________________ 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
