Re: [Elecraft] [KX3] Camping radio ops: then and now

2016-10-04 Thread Alan
Other than Field Day, my first true portable operation was one summer around 1970 when I spent summer vacation working as a waiter in a Swiss hotel. I got a callsign (HB9XVK if I remember right) and took along an all-homebrew CW station. The receiver was a transistorized direct conversion

Re: [Elecraft] [KX3] Camping radio ops: then and now

2016-10-04 Thread Alan Bloom
On 10/04/2016 09:36 AM, Wayne Burdick n...@elecraft.com [KX3] wrote: My first attempt to operate from a campsite was in 1972, when I was 14. My dad chuckled as I hefted my box of gear into the camper. At the time I had no battery powered radios. The receiver was a Heathkit HR-10B. The