tnx fer cl OM es YL = hope to see you on the air = 73
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You can watch a video of the Texas balloon flight on Dec 30th, 2011: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eiL1Xx9Ckg.
Matt KF7OCC and a casual group of friends launched a balloon carrying APRS tracking and two video cameras to 103,000 feet from College Station, TX. Well done!
They have been talking of launching another balloon from eastern Washington during this spring or summer.
Barry WA7KVC
You can watch the APRS track of a Texas balloon launch here: aprs.fi/?call=kf7occ-11
Matt KF7OCC Monson of the Redmond club implemented the APRS tracking system. Nice job!
Barry WA7KVC
Well, time to update the site’s K3 section. There are now four K3 owners, W7QC, W9HXM, W7FU and me. I understand that there may be a 5th sooner than later.
The SN for Steve’s K3 is 35. Mine is 2757. In that time the wait period between order and receipt has changed a lot! Steve wait just a little over 6 months. I ordered my on a Saturday night via the Elecraft Web site and the K3 arrived on the following Thursday.
I didn’t think I would be able to get to it for 2 to 3 week, but thought I should at least inventory the parts. Once everything was spread out I decided to at least put one thing together. Big mistake! By the following Saturday I had made QSO! So less than a week for order to use. And the build was relaxing and enjoyable. Only made one easily corrected faux-pas.
I am really enjoying the rig whenever I get a chance to use it.
At the last club meeting I was having fun with a pun – adding a 3 after the K in RTKCC. Sort of a sub-club. Here’s he badge that grew out of that bit of fun.
My K3 was delivered on Nov 7th around noon. I had it assembled and was making contacts by 8:00 pm that evening. I plan to bring it to the Nov breakfast for show and tell and should be able to hook it up to my mobile antenna for a demonstration.
Today I received word that my K3 has shipped. It will be here on Wednesday, November 7th. So just a bit over 6 months since I placed my order. Since it is a kit, i will have to assemble it when it arrives. My estimate is 6 to 8 hours to have it fully assembled.
The first K3 was shipped on Tuesday, October 9, 2007. I have heard nothing regarding my order but expect to get it in the next couple of weeks. I have the Assembly manual and the Operators Manual so I have some reading until the radio arrives.
DX-World
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