Re: [Elecraft] [Fwd: KSBW Field-Day Video with K3]

2009-06-30 Thread Julius Fazekas n2wn
I think the neatest thing about this video is that there were YOUNG people there! That's encouraging. Nice press for Amateur Radio and Elecraft too. Wonder what she meant by the old way??? ;o) 73, Julius Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft wrote: I received a nice surprise watching the news

Re: [Elecraft] [Fwd: KSBW Field-Day Video with K3]

2009-06-30 Thread Ron D'Eau Claire
Wonder what she meant by the old way??? ;o) 73, Julius -- She's a child of the internet age. I've actually run into people who don't understand how a radio signal can pass over an ocean or continent without a satellite to relay it. They are so

Re: [Elecraft] [Fwd: KSBW Field-Day Video with K3]

2009-06-29 Thread David Ferrington, M0XDF
I just wish we could get that kind of coverage and understanding over here. It appears in the US, the media and public are much more aware of the part amateur radio can play in national emergencies and just generally (you have a big country with places with no cell coverage etc). 73 de

Re: [Elecraft] [Fwd: KSBW Field-Day Video with K3]

2009-06-29 Thread pd0psb
Same situation over here David. Even in items about CB or pirate music transmitters the media misuses the term radio-amateur. If you say a technical/regulations exam is mandatory for this hobby people are highly surprised. Why do you need that to play deejay on the air? Even to the local

[Elecraft] [Fwd: KSBW Field-Day Video with K3]

2009-06-28 Thread Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft
I received a nice surprise watching the news late last night when a K3 popped up on the screen at the end of this story. (See the link below.) They actually had two ham radio related stories. Field Day, and earlier in the broadcast, the story on moon bouncing that has appeared in the NY Times