AD6XY wrote: > > Having seen how bags were literally thrown from the hold on a recent > Easyjet flight I was in the plane next to in Toulouse, I would never put > my K3 in the hold. > The baggage handlers unloading my EasyJet flight to Nice in August managed to fracture the welds in a steel framed suitcase and broke the antenna that was in there just from the impact. (I don't know if it's the French or if they reserve special treatment for EasyJet.) If a K3 had been in that case I think it would have ended up in several pieces. I can't envisage a case that would protect a radio from that kind of treatment.
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