Re: [Elecraft] Weight of equipment

2008-07-01 Thread Tom Childers, N5GE
On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 16:05:58 -0400, Bob Waddell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Remember the 20's 30's when equipment took up an entire wall of a shack? Remember rigs like the Johnson transmitter line?...Hallicrafters rx's, etc? How about transceivers of the 60's, 70's 80's? As years went by the

RE: [Elecraft] Weight of equipment

2008-07-01 Thread Nelson Moyer
Radio weight is relative (isn't everything?). I've owned two radios in 27 years of ham radio, the FT-707 (14.3 lb. and considered tiny in its day) and the FT-100 (6.6 lb. and very tiny). The former was a knob radio, the latter a push-button radio. I quickly learned to use just enough force to