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Elecraft SSB Net April 3, noisey but fun tonight

We had 6 check-ins. KE4WY is a new one in my log -- Jim in Kentucky on
K3 #367.

But the highlight of my evening was Budd W3FF mobile, riding a
RECUMBENT TRICYCLE sporting an FT-857 and a vertical buddipole. Budd
is a friend of Eric at Elecraft. He had just visited and tried a K3.
He had so much enthusiasm and WOW in giving his impression of the K3
that he was overloading his little FT and proceeded to whack his
antenna into a tree. Look him up on QRZ if you don't believe it.

So there IS some fun on the Elecraft SSB Net. Y'all join in some time,
hear?

Windy KM5Q
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Gary D Krause

Re: Elecraft SSB Net April 3, noisey but fun tonight

Cool! I also ride a recumbent but, not a trike. If you have never ridden
one, you should try it. In a way the recumbent is to the bike community the
way the K3 is to the ham community. It seems that it takes time for both to
catch on even though they are both superior in performance to the norm. I
still hear people discussing there favorite transciever with comments about
them being the best you can get without even a mention of the K3. Even with
the published test results and first hand reports, they still seem to ignore
it. Same with recumbents. They are faster, more aerodynamic, totally
comfortable and hold all the land speed records yet, many cyclist either
ignore them or wouldn't be caught dead on one. Why, because, they have never
tried one and they think they are for old farts with bad backs. I don't think
the K3 is just for contestors either. I'm hoping to buy one in the future
when the dust settles...that is if I don't buy a new recumbent before then ;-)

Gary, N7HTS
K2

On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 19:51:38 -0600
KM5Q <[hidden email]> wrote:

> We had 6 check-ins. KE4WY is a new one in my log -- Jim in Kentucky on K3
>#367.
>
> But the highlight of my evening was Budd W3FF mobile, riding a RECUMBENT
>TRICYCLE sporting an FT-857 and a vertical buddipole. Budd is a friend of
>Eric at Elecraft. He had just visited and tried a K3. He had so much
>enthusiasm and WOW in giving his impression of the K3 that he was
>overloading his little FT and proceeded to whack his antenna into a tree.
>Look him up on QRZ if you don't believe it.
>
> So there IS some fun on the Elecraft SSB Net. Y'all join in some time,
> hear?
>
> Windy KM5Q
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Gary D Krause

Re: Elecraft SSB Net April 3, noisey but fun tonight

Hi Steve,

Perhaps you could enlighten me on what page 68 of CQ magazine is about since I
don't subscribe to it. QST has a review of the K3. As far as the trike you
looked up, that was only one in many. You can buy a trike for under a
thousand dollars just like you can buy a K2 for under a thousand and a basic
K3 for not much more. Buy the way, I own three recumbents and I also own
three HF rigs :-) Oh, I think we will be able to buy a K3 off the shelf
because, not everyone will want one and sooner or later someone else will come
up with something a little better or different. On and on it goes. It's kind
of like the driver that weaves in and out of traffic to get to the front of
the line. Pretty soon he or she is at the back of the line again. :-)

On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:00:32 +0000
[hidden email] wrote:

> Gary,
>
> Please allow me to refer you to page 68 of the current CQ magazine.
> Some very interesting reading and hardware. I looked up one of the trikes,
>and it carries a 3k pricetag. Hope to be able to purchase a K3 when I can
>get "off the shelf " delivery. But that will never happen in our lifetimes.
> It is just too popular.
>
> 73,
>
> Steve Brandt N7VS ex: WB6VVS, WN6QYP Portland, Oregon
> -------------- Original message from "Gary D Krause" <[hidden email]>:
>--------------
>
>
>> Cool! I also ride a recumbent but, not a trike. If you have never ridden
>> one, you should try it. In a way the recumbent is to the bike community the
>> way the K3 is to the ham community. It seems that it takes time for both to
>> catch on even though they are both superior in performance to the norm. I
>> still hear people discussing there favorite transciever with comments about
>> them being the best you can get without even a mention of the K3. Even with
>> the published test results and first hand reports, they still seem to ignore
>> it. Same with recumbents. They are faster, more aerodynamic, totally
>> comfortable and hold all the land speed records yet, many cyclist either
>> ignore them or wouldn't be caught dead on one. Why, because, they have never
>> tried one and they think they are for old farts with bad backs. I don't
>>think
>> the K3 is just for contestors either. I'm hoping to buy one in the future
>> when the dust settles...that is if I don't buy a new recumbent before then
>>;-)
>>
>> Gary, N7HTS
>> K2
>>
>> On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 19:51:38 -0600
>> KM5Q wrote:
>> > We had 6 check-ins. KE4WY is a new one in my log -- Jim in Kentucky on K3
>> >#367.
>> >
>> > But the highlight of my evening was Budd W3FF mobile, riding a RECUMBENT
>> >TRICYCLE sporting an FT-857 and a vertical buddipole. Budd is a friend of
>> >Eric at Elecraft. He had just visited and tried a K3. He had so much
>> >enthusiasm and WOW in giving his impression of the K3 that he was
>> >overloading his little FT and proceeded to whack his antenna into a tree.
>> >Look him up on QRZ if you don't believe it.
>> >
>> > So there IS some fun on the Elecraft SSB Net. Y'all join in some time,
>> > hear?
>> >
>> > Windy KM5Q
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