Next week is an anniversary of sorts. It will have been a year since I first put my hands on a K3 at Dayton. N6KR was pretty busy at the Elecraft booth but I did have an opportunity to tell Wayne that I considered the K3 a risk-free investment. Only a couple of weeks prior, on May 5, 2007, I had given Elecraft my 50 percent deposit.
I haven't been disappointed. This past year has produced some of the best fun I've ever had in 46 years on the air. The Elecraft reflector, for one thing, has been a total riot! I'll clamber out of bed before the break of day to read what has become a global seance on everything from the K3 to the nuances of radio station grounding. I'll laugh. I'll wince. I'll shake my head in amazement at the level of expertise that's so apparent in many posts. Beyond that, the colorful tapestry of personality and opinion, unfolding as it does in real time, highlights the best that ham radio and the Internet have to offer. Most of the time :) For me, the K3 represents a kind of hardware platform upon which the envelope of HF performance / features can be explored and expanded via software. Being even a small part of the dynamic, collaborative evolution of the K3 is at least half the fun. The other half arises from the sheer pleasure of operating a radio at the top of the competitive heap. The conduit for all this enjoyment is the corporate culture at Elecraft - sometimes referred to as The Mojo - which allows each of us to feel as though we are somehow part of the company. That's leadership, pure and simple, and I'm grateful for it. The usual disclaimers apply. The personality, feel and capabilities of the K3 will mature over time, but hopefully it will be a long while before this radio is considered a finished product. Meanwhile, I'm just having way too much fun. Hope to see ya'll in Dayton. And many thanks. 73, Bill, WA4KBD K3 #0224 K2/100 #5473 -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/K3%3A-One-year-and-many-thanks-tp17156641p17156641.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net 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
