QRP rig for Hawaiian Cruise..Saturday- Heath HW8/9 or ??

[Don Melcher]

Remember - The FCC rules say that you MUST have permission from the captain
of the ship before you operate.

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From: Heathkit Owners and Collectors List [mailto:HEATH at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV]
On Behalf Of W5EUQ
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 4:43 PM
To: HEATH at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV
Subject: [HEATH-TEMPE] QRP rig for Hawaiian Cruise..Saturday- Heath HW8/9 or
??

Any ideas?
This Saturday morning I fly to Honolulu, with my beautiful wife, for a 
seven day cruise of the Hawaiian Islands.  Plans have been to take my 
Icom 7000/LDG Z11Pro, Astron power supply and gear to support, such as 
antennas/miniature iambic key/keyer and laptop.   After much soul 
searching I have decided to not take the above gear.  Reasons are many 
however here are a couple.  One, I'd have to carry the heavy bag ( I'm 
not a young feller any more) through the air ports and it all weighs 
over 50 lbs.
Two, if the ship would not let me take it on, I'd have to find a way to 
ship it back to myself.  The gear is expensive gear.  I have no problem 
with a couple of hundred dollars lost but close to $1,800 worth of 
gear........ No....
I have emailed the ship lines, months back and no answer.  I called the 
ship recently, even talked to an officer of the bridge on the bridge. He 
was very helpful but no one said okay.   I could not get in contact with 
the purser and no one would tell me anything but an emphatic NO!!!  
(then when asked if they knew what ham radio was...the answer 
was..."no"...)

If I had been able to predict this, I would have planned to take a QRP 
CW rig with a battery on ship... used a wire hanging off my balcony and 
if I contacted one ham, just one QSO,  then I could say I had done 
it..... and it would be great.

KH6ZM, Max, said he would meet me at the ship on the first day out.  
I've tried to figure out how to get a QRP rig at this late date and get 
it to him to give me to take on the ship.  If anyone has a complete 
outfit, CW would be fine, and get it to Max by Saturday, then I would 
make sure you got it back.  OR ship it overnight, at my expense to me in 
Tampa by Friday.  I have a very small electronic key that works off a 
watch battery.  I can make my own antennas... eg.. 32 foot piece of wire 
and counterpoise the ship...
Any takers?  thank you,  Bob Hardie-  W5EUQ-  Tampa

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