Re: [Elecraft] That's a whole lotta buttons and knobs!

2020-08-01 Thread Barry
Remember the early days of transistor radios and how they advertised the number of transistors on the case? The more the better! Turns out some of those with big numbers had transistors not connected to anything. Barry W2UP -- Sent from: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/

Re: [Elecraft] That's a whole lotta buttons and knobs!

2020-07-31 Thread N4ZR
But it's a deft fake - if it weren't for the ST on the front, I would probably have thought it was a typo 73, Pete N4ZR Check out the Reverse Beacon Network at , now spotting RTTY activity worldwide. For spots, please use your favorite "retail" DX cluster. On

Re: [Elecraft] That's a whole lotta buttons and knobs!

2020-07-31 Thread Tommy
 It looks like it's a piece of test equipment. Reminds me a little bit of Tektronix gear. Tom - KB2SMS On 7/31/20 7:15 PM, w4sc wrote: My isp is blocking that link….. beware!! __ Elecraft mailing list Home:

Re: [Elecraft] That's a whole lotta buttons and knobs!

2020-07-31 Thread Fred Jensen
INT QKK: How many knobs does your radio have? QKK18: My radio has 18 knobs. INT QKU: How many of those do you know how to use? QKU4: I know how to use 4 of them. 73, Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW Sparks NV DM09dn Washoe County On 7/31/2020 1:07 PM, Grant Youngman wrote: When I was 12 in 1957, trying

Re: [Elecraft] That's a whole lotta buttons and knobs!

2020-07-31 Thread w4sc
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Re: [Elecraft] That's a whole lotta buttons and knobs!

2020-07-31 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2020 31 Jul 15:54 -0500, Wes wrote: > Russian fake news. That's kind of my thought. "ST-9xxx"? Huh? All Kenwood HF transceivers sold in the US since the early '70s have had a "TS-" prefix. I don't see Kenwood changing that designation. Has there been a brushed aluminum front Kenwood

Re: [Elecraft] That's a whole lotta buttons and knobs!

2020-07-31 Thread Bert
Someone is playing games! ;-)) Don't believe everything you see on the net. Bert VE3NR On 2020-07-31 16:52, Wes wrote: Russian fake news.   On 7/31/2020 1:02 PM, Douglas Zwiebel wrote: http://www.cqdx.ru/ham/new-equipment/kenwood-st-995sdr/ de Doug KR2Q

Re: [Elecraft] That's a whole lotta buttons and knobs!

2020-07-31 Thread Wes
Russian fake news.   On 7/31/2020 1:02 PM, Douglas Zwiebel wrote: http://www.cqdx.ru/ham/new-equipment/kenwood-st-995sdr/ de Doug KR2Q __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help:

Re: [Elecraft] That's a whole lotta buttons and knobs!

2020-07-31 Thread David Gilbert
When I first started working in the semiconductor business in the mid-70's, companies in Asia would buy our unmarked test rejects to stuff them into transistor radios to fluff up the transistor count. Lot's of "12-transistor radios" back then had a lot fewer devices that actually did

Re: [Elecraft] That's a whole lotta buttons and knobs!

2020-07-31 Thread lrahnz
Refl Subject: Re: [Elecraft] That's a whole lotta buttons and knobs! When I was 12 in 1957, trying to decide what receiver I wanted, that’s how I evaluated them — count the controls and switches. The more of those, clearly, the better the radio :-). :-) Grant NQ5T > On Jul 31, 2020, at 4:02

Re: [Elecraft] That's a whole lotta buttons and knobs!

2020-07-31 Thread Bob Wilson, N6TV
IMHO, both the RIT/XIT knob and RIT clear button in the Kenwood ST-995sdr image are poorly located. I wouldn't recommend this radio for "big gun contesting" unless they offered an outboard RIT knob with an RIT clear button, like the Elecraft K-POD, or the old Ekletech outboard tuning knob (made

Re: [Elecraft] That's a whole lotta buttons and knobs!

2020-07-31 Thread Grant Youngman
When I was 12 in 1957, trying to decide what receiver I wanted, that’s how I evaluated them — count the controls and switches. The more of those, clearly, the better the radio :-). :-) Grant NQ5T > On Jul 31, 2020, at 4:02 PM, Douglas Zwiebel wrote: > >

[Elecraft] That's a whole lotta buttons and knobs!

2020-07-31 Thread Douglas Zwiebel
http://www.cqdx.ru/ham/new-equipment/kenwood-st-995sdr/ de Doug KR2Q __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list