Jeez, Doug ! You need to come and recite "The Night Before Christmas" to my kids ... in free prose !
Pink Floyd sounds about right, with maybe a smattering of Red Rider (Lunatic Fringe !) Have fun !!!!! 73 and green with envy, Jamie WB4YDL -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 1:46 PM To: Elecraft Subject: [Elecraft] The white box I returned home from the Tuesday HRO "lunch bunch" assemblage. As I pulled into my driveway I noticed a large white box resting on the door step, carefully placed to avoid the puddle of water created by the mis-ajusted lawn sprinklers (I've just gotta take care of that one of these days). But what could be in the box? Had my wife ordered yet another "something" from welovetoshop.com? I approached the box with caution as you just can't be too careful about strange packages these days, just think about what they do to unattended luggage at the airport! As I gazed upon it I had this hazy recollection that I had recently seen a similar container, but where? Yes, it had been a picture of an attractive young lady holding it and yet another picture of a white bearded man holding one of these boxes, flanked by the same lady! There must be a connection! And then I recalled I had actually met this lady, but where? As I drew closer, I could see what appeared to be a shipping label . Well, that should answer the questions. Return address, "Elecraft". Oh, that little purveyor of "ham radios" down the coast in the quaint little village of Aptos. I searched my memory as to what this could be. The last thing I had ordered from them had been a shield upgrade kit for my K2/KPA100 so I could move the KPA100 back from its home in an EC2. And then it hit me...many months ago at the DX convention in Visalia I stopped by the Elecraft booth and saw a new product, the K3. Nice looking radio, sorta like a K2 on steroids. Upon further investigation it was far more than a K2, with features available only on $10k radios, and some available nowhere else. As soon as I expressed interest in perhaps purchasing one, one of Eric's goons wrestled me to the floor and Eric shoved an order form into my hand, while extracting a credit card from my wallet. "Just sign here and by the end of July, you will have the best radio in the world!" July passed as did August, as well as September. By that time I had managed to repress the memory of actually ordering the radio, firmly convinced that Eric and Wayne had absconded with the down payments and moved to Brazil, living the good life. Yet this must be it, the K3! Still skeptical, I haulled the box back to my allready cluttered work bench, whipped out my 60 year old Boy Scout knife (yes, I have achieved Old Fartdom), cut through the sealing tape...and there it was, lots of pieces of a K3,all packaged in ESD proof plastic. But now the search for the single most important component of an Elecraft radio, the serial number! Mine is smaller than yours! So far nothing obvious on top so need to dig deeper. Check the back panel and it has not been "pre-serialed". Damn, I'm down to the rf board and still nothing but lots of hardware. It looks like someone dumped the screw bins in a hardware store on the floor and tossed the result into a single drawer. But I digress, only one more layer to go, and there it is! The Holy Grail! With trembling fingers I open the envelope with the S/N tag.....it's, it's ...#23. Outstanding! And now where DID I leave that screwdriver?............... Created under the influence of Pink Floyd. Doug W6JD _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
