Topband: rigs for top band

[EP Swynar]

On 18th August, Tree wrote...

"...So - keep it on your radar.  This little 8 pound box is not only easy to
use, but has the performance to turn many heads."

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Back some 4-5 years ago, I helped to man the 40-meter CW tent at a local
club's Field Day effort...

Not having taken part in FD for several years, I expected the usual
cacaphony (sp?) of inter-mod / "phantom" CW signals / blocking / ad nauseam
that one usually encounters whenever several stations are crowded in close
to one another like this. I was floored by the absolute immunity to such
ills that the Elecraft rig we were using displayed!

Midway through my shift, I subbed-in my venerable Icom 751A for a "run"...it
was removed from service post haste by yours truly, bearing a red face --- 
the difference in the performance of these two rigs truly had to be heard to
be believed.

I'd always considered the Elecraft to be some marginal, QRP-fringe outfit,
until I was shown otherwise that day!

~73~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ