Cool! I also ride a recumbent but, not a trike. If you have never ridden
one, you should try it. In a way the recumbent is to the bike community the
way the K3 is to the ham community. It seems that it takes time for both to
catch on even though they are both superior in performance to the norm. I
still hear people discussing there favorite transciever with comments about
them being the best you can get without even a mention of the K3. Even with
the published test results and first hand reports, they still seem to ignore
it. Same with recumbents. They are faster, more aerodynamic, totally
comfortable and hold all the land speed records yet, many cyclist either
ignore them or wouldn't be caught dead on one. Why, because, they have never
tried one and they think they are for old farts with bad backs. I don't think
the K3 is just for contestors either. I'm hoping to buy one in the future
when the dust settles...that is if I don't buy a new recumbent before then ;-)
Gary, N7HTS
K2
On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 19:51:38 -0600
KM5Q <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
We had 6 check-ins. KE4WY is a new one in my log -- Jim in Kentucky on K3
#367.
But the highlight of my evening was Budd W3FF mobile, riding a RECUMBENT
TRICYCLE sporting an FT-857 and a vertical buddipole. Budd is a friend of
Eric at Elecraft. He had just visited and tried a K3. He had so much
enthusiasm and WOW in giving his impression of the K3 that he was
overloading his little FT and proceeded to whack his antenna into a tree.
Look him up on QRZ if you don't believe it.
So there IS some fun on the Elecraft SSB Net. Y'all join in some time,
hear?
Windy KM5Q
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