On Nov 10, 8:29?pm, Mike Coslo wrote:
On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:25:12 -0500, N2EY wrote:
On Nov 6, 8:17?pm, Michael Coslo wrote:
Now we have a rig that will permit a person with no
typing skills to
send perfect RTTY or PSK31.

Like they say, "It's all good". I don't know anyone nearby that has a K@,

Did you mean "K2" or "K3"? I have a K2 and at least one other
regular here does too. Great rigs. I've used the KX1 and K1 as well.

but at Dayton next year I'm going to haunt the Elecraft booth.

You and a lot of others...

Elecraft has shipped a few dozen K3s so far. The first two production
runs sold out long ago, if you order now, expect
a few weeks' wait as they catch up on backlog. Some reviews
have started to appear on the 'net, and eventually there will be
QST and Sherwood measurements of the truly amazing numbers.

I worked a couple of stations using K3s in CW SS last weekend, so they
*are* on the air.

From the descriptions, assembling a K3 is more like building a PC than
it is assembling a Heathkit. The boards and modules are all
preassembled; you simply put it together and configure it. Which is
not a trivial job!

And like a PC, you have a choice of which options to add to the basic
unit. Options can be added at initial build or later. This helps keep
the price down - if you don't need things like general coverage
receive or a second receiver, you don't have to pay for them.

I don't work for Elecraft and my only interest is as a stisfied
customer and builder.

- 73 de Mike N3LI

Congrats on the new call!

Thanks. I was toying around, not too serious, looking for
something a
little shorter, and found this one. I like it both for Morse and Voice.

And N5EE was taken already, hehe

Yup, one of the shortest possible US CW calls that's not a 1x1. It's
tied with AE5E. Compare with a call like KQ0JJJ....

Besides, "N3LI" has the same rhythm as "N2EY"...

73 de Jim, N2EY

On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 08:29:02 EST, wrote:

Yup, one of the shortest possible US CW calls that's not a 1x1. It's
tied with AE5E. Compare with a call like KQ0JJJ....

Besides, "N3LI" has the same rhythm as "N2EY"...

One of my former staffers and still friends, Bob Weller, picked up the
call N6NE about 20 years ago. Bob spent 9 years with the FCC, then
went to the private sector as a broadcast engineering consultant, and
this week returned to the FCC as the RadHaz specialist. AFAIK he's
still a CW contester, hence the short call.
--

73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane

From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest
Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon

e-mail: k2asp [at] arrl [dot] net