Weight of equipment

[Bob Waddell]

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 weight of equipment began to drop...(no heavy transformers, thinner metals for chassis, plastic cases, etc, etc)  Thank God for lighter equipment...I can't lift the heavy stuff any more!  Bring on light, small and high tech!





73,
Bob


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On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 16:05:58 -0400, Bob Waddell <[hidden email]> wrote:

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>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 weight of equipment began to drop...(no heavy transformers, thinner metals for chassis, plastic cases, etc, etc)  Thank God for lighter equipment...I can't lift the heavy stuff any more!  Bring on light, small and high tech!
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>Bob
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Yes, Bob, the K3 is truly amazing in both performance and weight.

Thank you, Elecraft, for the sturdy use of aluminum in most of the K3
construction.

For those of you who may not know that plastic we use, including packaging
materials (groceries and all sorts of things) is made from petroleum, every
piece of plastic not used keeps a little money here instead of in the OPEC
countries.

 
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[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 activate
a menu button (tap or press & hold momentarily) without moving my 6.6 lb.
radio. Surely anyone brilliant enough to purchase the K3 (8 lb. or more,
depending upon configuration) should be adaptable enough to operate the
radio without moving it all over the bench. It's been a long wait for mine
(due to delayed release of the KRX3)! Fortunately, I'm expecting my shipping
notification any day now.

Nelson, KU0A

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Subject: [Elecraft] Weight of equipment



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
weight of equipment began to drop...(no heavy transformers, thinner metals
for chassis, plastic cases, etc, etc)  Thank God for lighter equipment...I
can't lift the heavy stuff any more!  Bring on light, small and high tech!





73,
Bob


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