Re: [Elecraft] What made you decide on purchasing an Elecrafttransceiver?

2011-02-27 Thread Lou Kolb
: [Elecraft] What made you decide on purchasing an Elecrafttransceiver? I'm on a little 2-day vacation up in Bear Valley, CA, with Lillian and the kids. I'm not allowed to work, but I've really enjoyed reading this thread. (Who wouldn't?) Thanks, everyone With your help, we hope our

Re: [Elecraft] What made you decide on purchasing an Elecrafttransceiver?

2011-02-27 Thread Jim Brown
On 2/27/2011 7:35 AM, Lou Kolb wrote: Perhaps there were reasons I'm not aware of for doing this but it unnecessarily complicates things as those of us who are blind use screen reading software. It would be good to hear from other blind hams on this. Elecraft has been VERY good at

Re: [Elecraft] What made you decide on purchasing an Elecrafttransceiver?

2011-02-24 Thread Gary D Krause
My first rig was a Kenwood TS-530SP which I still have. I became a ham around 1984. I also have a Ten Tec Centruy 22. A little later I purchased a TS-440S. My wife passed away in 2000 and I didn't do much if any ham radio for about five years. When I did start to get back to it, my TS-440S

Re: [Elecraft] What made you decide on purchasing an Elecrafttransceiver?

2011-02-24 Thread Nick-WA5BDU
Let's see. I'd had the FT-1000 for about eight years and had a bit of new rig fever, plus a bonus check was looming and I didn't want to fritter it away on food and shelter! When I bought the FT-1000, I liked the fact that it was a real boatanchor in size and weight. But after I gimped up

Re: [Elecraft] What made you decide on purchasing an Elecrafttransceiver?

2011-02-24 Thread k6rb
I would not describe myself as fad driven. My first station was a Viking Adventurer and HQ-110, and I used it for 12 years (1958-1970). My second was an HW-100 and I used it for 12 years (1970-1982). After that, though, I had a Ten-Tec OMNI D, IC-761, and FT-1000s over the ensuing 28 years. But,

[Elecraft] What made you decide on purchasing an Elecrafttransceiver?

2011-02-24 Thread Bill Davis Jr
The reasons I initially selected the K3 to adorn my shack were: (1) A rig designed with no compromises for transverter use -- coded output for transverter selection and control (2) Performance and at affordable price! (3) IF output to drive my Softrock Panadapter when

Re: [Elecraft] What made you decide on purchasing an Elecrafttransceiver?

2011-02-22 Thread Kevin Rock
You are welcome Carl! My first introduction to the K3 was at Ozarkcon the same day as Visalia. I was stalking N0SS and slipped into his room. He got a call from Wayne who gave the go ahead to announce the new rig. That was when Tom let me look on his laptop at the files about the K3. I

Re: [Elecraft] What made you decide on purchasing an Elecrafttransceiver?

2011-02-22 Thread Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
you decide on purchasing an Elecrafttransceiver? I'm on a little 2-day vacation up in Bear Valley, CA, with Lillian and the kids. I'm not allowed to work, but I've really enjoyed reading this thread. (Who wouldn't?) Thanks, everyone With your help, we hope our future products will also

Re: [Elecraft] What made you decide on purchasing an Elecrafttransceiver?

2011-02-22 Thread Fred Jensen
Hey Jeff, Did the ZL earthquake affect any of you? 73, Fred K6DGW - Northern California Contest Club - CU in the 2011 Cal QSO Party 1-2 Oct 2011 - www.cqp.org On 2/22/2011 3:22 PM, Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF wrote: Hi Wayne, I am glad I started it as it has been an interesting read.

Re: [Elecraft] What made you decide on purchasing an Elecrafttransceiver?

2011-02-22 Thread Alan Slusher
/ 8P9BM From: Wayne Burdick Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 4:27 PM To: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] What made you decide on purchasing an Elecrafttransceiver? I'm on a little 2-day vacation up in Bear Valley, CA, with Lillian and the kids. I'm not allowed to work, but I've

Re: [Elecraft] What made you decide on purchasing an Elecrafttransceiver?

2011-02-22 Thread Bill Conkling
- VK4BOF [mailto:vk4bof.elecr...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 6:52 PM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Cc: Eric Swartz WA6HHQ Subject: [Elecraft] What made you decide on purchasing an Elecrafttransceiver? Hi Wayne, Eric everyone on the list, I thought that perhaps it was time to ask one