wa5pgl wrote: > K1 Serial Number 2305 operational on 2/6/07. > 2-Band (20&40)w/Antenna Tuner
That's 2130 K1 units since my number 175 arrived in November, 2000. I ordered it in June, so I waited five months. It was worth it. I'm not all that fond of the monotony of stuffing resistors and capacitors on a PCB, so I bought the K1 in spite of it being a kit, rather than because of it. Sandy wrote: >You will find the receiver supurb during heavy QRM situations like contests! >Best QRP rig I ever owned. It's a real gem in the Elecraft line. I know of no other QRP rig that I'd rather carry portable. >I have 4 band board (40/30/20/15) and a 2 band >160/80 meter board. The roll-off of the elliptical low pass filters on the four-band filter board is much sharper and deeper than that of the very simple filters of the two-band board. I've never seen any spurious-output specs for a four-band K1, but since the two-band K1 has the best figure for spurious output of any Elecraft rig, the four-band K1 can only be even better. It has better performance than the two-band 40m/20m board, and twice the the available bands (including 15m, IMHO the best QRP band when open). How could one beat that combination of *both* improved versatility and improved performance? >If I did it all over again, I'd opt for the little >external tuner (T1?) instead of the internal tuner. I really like the internal tuner, even though currently mine has recently developed a yet un-diagnosed problem and now never returns a VSWR less than 9.99, even into a dummy load. I tried the KBT1 for more than a year, but eventually discarded it. I don't like sources of chemical leakage and outgassing next to printed circuits. 73, Mike / KK5F _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
