[Elecraft] Re: about this K2 mojo

2005-04-13 Thread n5pip 



I'll echo what Chris wrote.
I just received my K2 on Monday (4/11/05), purchased from the estate of 
George W5YR (SK).
I was tuning through 17m at 2357z on 4/12/05. Heard a strong 59 station 
running a pileup on 18.135. K9SG/PJ2.
What the heck, I'm running 10w into a vertical. Let me give it a try. Whoa!! 
He's answering me! And we exchange 5x9 !!!
15 minutes later (0112z, 4/13/05) I'm trolling through 20m. A strong S9 
station at 14.202 . A huge pileup. Well, my 10w is fired off again. What? 
he's calling for the Papa India Papa station to try again. This is getting 
really interesting. So I go back, N5PIP/QRP. K9LZJ/PJ2 replies, You're 
5x3, try lower power. So now I'm REALLY sitting up straight, I lower to 5 
watts, get another 5x3. Lower again to 1 watt. Still 5x3. Lower to 1/2 watt, 
then 1/10th watt. Still getting 5x3. Now we're BOTH amazed. He wants to know 
what rig I'm running.  ELECRAFT K2, of course, I proudly reply. He replies 
something to the effect that he's going to have to seriously look into 
Elecraft a bit further.

  Now I want to know, do Wayne  Eric pay commissions?
  To paraphrase an older popular commercial, When Elecraft speaks, people 
listen.


73 de Stirling, N5PIP
K2 #0489

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[Elecraft] K2 #0489

2005-04-11 Thread n5pip 

Hi Folks,
   I want to introduce myself as a new K2 owner.  Over the 18 years that 
I've been a Ham, I've owned a multitude of rigs. My first station consisted 
of a HeathKit Apache TX-1 (cw only) transmitter and a Collins 75A-1 
receiver. (Talk about HUGE boat anchors!!). The last few years I've been 
somewhat in a slump as far as actively operating. So I decided that I needed 
to do something about that problem. Well, I became interested in the K2 
several months ago. I've been reading this list, checking out everything 
about Elecraft and the K2 that I could find. I even talked to Wayne (great 
guy) at this past Orlando Hamfest. I even got to touch a K2. Talk about 
sweet!!. My only problem was time. I've just moved to the Daytona Beach, Fl. 
area, started a new job, and trying to fix up the house that we bought. So 
free time is really at a premium. I started saving up my money to make the 
plunge. I'd seen several ads on eBay for a K2's. So I placed a bid on K2 
#0489 (from the estate of George, W5YR(SK)), thinking, Well if I get it, 
great, if not, I'll just build one over several months.. It has the KIO2, 
Rev. 2 firmware, KAT2, K160RX,KSB2, KBT2, KNB2, and KAF2 options.
   Well, as luck would have it, I won the auction with a very reasonable 
price. Then I get an email from Chuck WA6LTV  congratulating me on winning 
and telling me that he had built the K2 and if I had any questions to just 
email him. And Chuck wasn't even involved in the auction!!!
   So now that I've bored everyone with this long winded story let me wind 
it down. I recived K2 #0489 today and immediately set it up side by side 
with my Icom 746. I tuned both around on 40m. The K2 is hearing signals that 
the I Can Only Monitor doesn't even know is there Both rigs are on the 
same antenna (an 80m loop). What a great piece of equipment the K2 is!!

   Thanks for everyones patience.
73 de
Stirling, N5PIP 


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