Hi Gary.

One of these days, I'm going to have one of those Ellicraft radios, and the 
old Ten Tec Argonaut 509 will go up for sale.


I've heard nothing but good things about the receivers in those radios.
73, de Lou K2LKK



At 08:07 PM 5/31/2006 -0400, you wrote:
>Walt:
>
>I beg to disagree with your statement on tentec.
>I submit to you elecraft.
>
>Not only did they develop an add-on box for their k2 to read out in cw,
>they then built cw output into their most recently released rig; the kx1.
>
>They too are a small company, and have, up until now, catored to a small
>subgroup of the ham community, the qrp crowd.
>
>However, they found the resources to design and manufacture something for
>our special needs.
>
>Finally, I forwarded a specific promise from Elecraft's chief designer and
>cofounder to include accessibility in all future radios to this very list.
>
>Sorry, no excuses accepted for tentec, yaesu, or even icom.  The ham
>population is aging, and therefore, will eventually need
>accessibility.  The big names just refuse to se that.
>My hat is off to Elecraft, Small wonder labs, and many other qrp kit
>manufacturers who include access for us.
>
>73

Louis Kim Kline
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