Elecraft really got its start in the QRP circles, so I can understand how other OTs who are not interested in low-power operations may never have heard of them.
I first met Wayne and Eric at Pacificon, circa 1999, when they were showing off a prototype of the K2 at a presentation there. Since then, they would be hard to miss at a convention at their booth. As an aside, Prof. Rutledge was one of the speakers at the Antenna Forum at Pacificon. I attended his presentation and invited him to our convention in 2001. He teaches at nearly Caltech in Pasadena, and requires his students to build a 40A as a class project. The book that you mentioned is the textbook for this class. Even today, with producing a 500w amplifier, Elecraft still offers the base model of all of its transceivers targeted at the QRP gang; even the K3. 72/73 de Jim - AD6CW On 7/15/2012 10:28 AM, Phil Hystad wrote: > I think it is probably interesting how people discover Elecraft. I have > recommended Elecraft products to a few friends and almost in every > case the friend did not know about Elecraft. Of course, these guys > were older and maybe that had something to do with it. When I say > older, I obviously mean older then me -- still young at 64 3/4s. > > I discovered Elecraft via my Norcal 40A kit. I discovered the Norcal > 40A via the book "The Electronics of Radio" by Rutledge. I read the > book and built the 40A and then decided that the designer of this > radio was very talented. So, I started googling Wayne to find more > information about him and from that came across the Elecraft web site. > That was in the Fall of 2009. Now I own a complete K-line with the > KAT500 on order plus a KX1 and a variety of other Elecraft mini-kit > products. > > 73, phil, K7PEH > ______________________________________________________________ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
