Howdy All,
As I left work last Friday it was with heavy heart as I had just read on the
ABC web site that Lincoln Hall, one of our great adventurer / mountaineer /
writers had passed away while descending from the summit of Mt. Everest
I awoke to the miraculous news on Saturday morning that reports of
Lincolns passing were incorrect, his expedition had radioed that he had
passed away and left him but an American climber had found him alive the
next morning (reports are sketchy) however he is alive and nearing or at
base camp and things are looking optimistic.
I have been interested in Antarctic exploration (and amateur radio) all my
life and have heard Lincoln talk. I got out some of his books from my
library and was staggered to see some of the connections with amateur radio
in a book called "The Loneliest Mountain" co written by Lincoln with
Jonathan Chester and an account of an expedition to climb Mt. Minto in
Antarctica.
In Lincoln's book on the Mt. Minto expedition I came across the following
end note on "Field Communications". "The second field radio was a very
compact 1 - watt HF Codan 8332 hand held transceiver that had both a whip
and dipole antennae." and later "The radio was, however, instrumental in
saving Chris Hilton's life and mine."
I love my KX1 most of my radios, the K2 is nearing completion but the KX1 is
the favourite. I was thinking, in view of some suggestions for new Elecraft
Kits of a KX2, a 5 watt ssb 5 and 18 MHz rig (Channelised backpack group
type frequencies) that might appeal to wilderness travellers. Serious groups
now use Iridium but I am sure there are many outdoors folk that could be
induced to amateur radio with such a rig.
I have been browsing EMRFD (Epiphyte) and my WM-20 manual looking at qrp ssb
since.
Cheers
Glen
VK1FB
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