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been too early for
stations from Northern Europe, so PA0RBO and I made a ECN QRP QSO
afterwards.
It would be interesting to hear how much power YI9RVT used?
Next week maybe ...
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In addition I responded to G4DMP's CQ ECN call on 40 m and was also
contacted by DL1IAQ on 20 m. So this has turned out to be a North Sea
Elecraft net.
Sverre
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Worked on 20m:
DL1IAQ/ 559/Mac/K2 # 2706/5 W
LZ1VB/329/name ?/K2 # 2745/5 W. (deep QSB)
Worked on
Correction: both contacts were on 40 m.
In addition I responded to G4DMP's CQ ECN call on 40 m and
was also contacted by DL1IAQ on 20 m. So this has turned out
to be a North Sea Elecraft net.
Sverre
LA3ZA
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Worked on 20m:
DL1IAQ/ 559/Mac/K2 # 2706/5 W
Do you have the KDSP2 in your K2?
There is an issue with it that gives a pop as you change to rx.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jimmy Lee
Sent: 28. juni
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pops you hear is when you are the end of the pulling range, and the
divisor changes and the varicap voltage goes to the other end of the
pulling range.
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mode issue with antenna tuners and K60XV
- Computer interface for PSK31 completely inside K2
and with contributions from Elecraft, G3RXQ, W3FPR, PC2A, KD5NDB,
WA8SRA, EA3BLQ, and LA3ZA
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I'd appreciate hearing from those of you who HAVE installed one of these
devices, and more specifically
those of you who have implemented use of the right-most (10th) LED of the
K2's 10-segment LED S-meter as the tuning indicator LED.
Tom,
I have used the right-most LED for some years and I
With SMD you should be able to fit it where I put my Manhattan-style
zero-beat indicator + audio amplifier: on the back of the front panel board
above the mic connector. The advantage is that all connections go to the
front panel board so there will be no loose wires.
See
sorted into a KI6WX and a G3RXQ
section.
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is now mirrored on
http://www.qslnet.de/la3za/K2/mod.html
Thanks to DL5SFC for providing the web-space, and to the German ham whom I
unfortunately have forgotten the name of, who first suggested
Did you get a reply to your question?
In case you did not, there were some noise blanker mods for pulse widths a
long time ago. They can also be found on the K2 Mods list, see
http://www.qslnet.de/la3za/K2/mod.html under General mods and KNB2.
73
Sverre
LA3ZA
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It works now, so I think it is just the usual qsl.net problems. This is why
I have mirrored my mods list on qslnet.de .
Try http://www.qslnet.de/la3za/K2/mod.html
http://www.qslnet.de/la3za/K2/mod.html under General mods and KNB2.
73
Sverre
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just read the manual for the KAT100. It states to remove C44 on K2 control
board before using KAT100.
OK. How does this affect the use of the K2 without the KAT100, with KAT2?
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C44 is explained in the following alert from Elecraft:
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Arntzen
I have a birdie at 28019,27 cw and cwr falling slightly during warmup.
Since I know that you have a K2/100 and none of the others that answered you
I can confirm that the birdie is from
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I've wanted to eliminate this for some time since there a lot of cw activity
between 28025 and 28025. My KPA100 is installed on the K2. The birdie
produces about 1 s unit bar with the pre-amp on. Based on Sverre comments,
how do I
-Original Message-
There is an Errata from Elecraft which does not appeared to have made it
onto their Web site yet. It is:-
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K2/100 MANUAL (Appendix G) ERRATA
Rev. C-3, December 14, 2004
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In my case, I want to think of the birdie living in my K2/100 as a
substantially bigger one, a turkey (with the K2100 enabled -power 11w) at
28.266 (USB).
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This birdie is an image of the 18432 KPA100 oscillator since 18432 + 2*4915
= 28262.
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Agree with what you say, but I get a strong birdie at 28.276 without the
KPA100 on. This one I think is LO + BFO , that is 23.361 + 4.915 =
28.276,
nominal freqs. Being first order it is also strong. Other products + mLO
+/- nBFO also converge here, but are not a
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of G3VVT
The reported birdie at 28.276MHz is there, but extremely faint at about
28.275.6MHz on USB and shifts up to about 28.277.7MHz on LSB. I would think
it fair to comment that most ham receivers have birdies somewhere if you
I now have my newly assembled KPA100 running in a separate EC2 enclosure
without a KIO2 in the K2. For me it is a temporary solution until I get a
KIO2, but at least the setup described below actually works.
73
Sverre
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-Original Message-
From: Sverre
You are both right here, the K2 in CW normal mode, tunes upwards in beat on
the low bands (160m - 17m) and tunes down in beat on the higher bands. This
is due to the K2's mixing schem with low side injection for the higher
bands. But the K2 remebers the CW/CWr setting per band, so I have mine
-Original Message-
From: Ken N4SO
Sent: 6. februar 2005 16:16
The K2 owner's manual explains CW Reverse on page 94 of the Rev. E, 2003
version. The explanation is not as precise or clear as Sverre Holm's. I
penciled in the CW Normal and CW Reverse information. That's a neat trick
to
I have just made a compilation of all the schematics of the latest revisions
of the K2 and options available as a single pdf-document on the the LA3ZA
Unofficial Guide to Elecraft K2 Modifications on
http://www.qslnet.de/la3za/K2/mod.html and
http://www.qsl.net/la3za/K2/mod.html
I made it first
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Reading the mail here about the mods to the SSB Module...I remember that
someone was playing around with some shielding to cut down on blow-by or
something like that. What ever happened to that? I think it was a person
in England who was experimenting with shielding on
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The first step is to be sure that C70 and C71 in the VCO area have the
shortest possible leads. Then the last step in that segment is to remove
C70. This seems strange. Is this the same VCO C70 that we just snugged
down in the first step?
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The application note
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I have light doubt that aroused yesterday night when I reached page 52 of
part II assembly. In the current manual to build S/N 4726 it instructs to
install 3 components on the bottom of the board (C91, RFC15 and C88). I
remember that when I build S/N 3279 there were only
The LA3ZA Unofficial Guide to Elecraft K2 Modifications on
http://www.qslnet.de/la3za/K2/mod.html and
http://www.qsl.net/la3za/K2/mod.html has been updated again. I never stop
wondering about all the creativity that the K2 inspires, but with thousands
of builders out there, maybe one should not be
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas Beltran
The LA3ZA Unofficial Guide to Elecraft K2 Modifications is an excellent
resource for determining the mods that exist for the K2. What I find
confusing however, is where some of the upgrades
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Guys - Let's kill this thread now. It was dealt with and explained more than
a day ago via private email between us and we're all happy :-)
Must be a night for Long Delayed Echoes...
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Wow, you have just experienced an LDE which is longer than anyone else
before
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Would this type of noise canceler not work on white noise also ?
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White noise typically arrives from random directions, with random phases,
random polarizations, etc. etc. etc. and are usually from thermal and
uncorrelated sources.
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From: W3FPR - Don Wilhelm
I put the tiny LED in the SPOT button, I figure its function is more
intuitive in that position.
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This is neat and something I've been looking for for a long time - a
solution for indicator lights for those of us
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When I'm using my scan function on 40M, it just scans past stations that
are S8-9, and keeps going.
I've tried different filter settings, etc. What have I missed?
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The latest firmware has two scan modes. The old one which scans silently and
stops
Grade A submission from K3UJ!
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I THINK he said good luck with the building
Please correct me if I'm wrong, Sverre.
72, Bill K3UJ
=
Lykke til med byggingen!
73
Sverre
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The URL for the meters :
http://www.marteltesttools.com/products.php?cat=113action=detailid=69
QM-100V
QM-110T
QM-130M or QM-140V might work for an amp-meter. Proper current sensing
resistor (shunt) will be needed and some other components.
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Nice idea
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I am in the process of building a remote KPA100/KAT100 in an EC2 enclosure.
The KAt100 is done and I am starting the amp.
I would like to have one power cord with a Y connection to the KPA100 -
and have the KAT100 get it's power internally in the EC2 from the KPA/100.
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My K2 (and I've talked with several other K2 owners with the same problem),
Serial #4338, will not always detect a hand key properly -- Autodetect is
turned on in the menu - and I am using 2 1N914 diodes between the hand key
contacts and the dot and dash inputs to the
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MY kpa 100 and kat150 don't have a power switch and they are in the separate
ec2 case when I turn the k2 on everything comes on. Or am I missing
something
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Parts of the circuitry is on as soon as power is applied to them via the
Anderson connectors.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Sheldon
Sent: 9. mai 2005 23:41
Picked up a couple of 5711's from our local surplus electronics dealer.
They appear to do the trick - hasn't glitched once since I switched out the
4148 (914) diodes.
I have put a picture of my K2 2098 with two LED indicators on
http://www.qslnet.de/member/la3za/K2_LEDS.html. The LEDs were put in keycaps
using W3FPR's method:
- Green indicator for zero-beat in PRE/ATT - SPOT button.
- Yellow indicator for Split/RIT/XIT in A=B - SPLIT button
I have also
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I have a Nokia 6360 that alerts me to incoming messages with a nice, slow CW
'SMS'. This was the default when I got the phone several years ago. It is
definitely a feature!
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There is another SMS alert in there as well: 'Connecting people', at least
it has
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I have kept my K2 (1188) up to date with all the A/B mods, however at times
I see references such as the one below about T7 where a toroid may have
been changed from the original windings to a revised spec. Are these
documented anywhere, which toroids are now different
I have had a problem with the K2 mods list during the latest update on June
12, so many of the links have been shifted one position to the right in the
main table of general mods, http://www.qslnet.de/member/la3za/K2/mod.html
I have not been able to come up with a more recent backup than the
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The problem with checking most noise blanker is generating the necessary
test conditions to see if the operation is correct. Most radio equipment
manufacturers are rather vague in this respect and I have yet to find a
piece of test equipment that will provide
If you want the K2 voltmeter to read the correct external voltage, why not
connect directly from the input power jack to the external input of the
voltmeter, and slide the switch/strap over to the EXT position? In this way
you bypass the diode loss and there is no need for recalibration. Or are
Unfortunately, my K3 NR and NB are poor second performers compared to one
standard, the SGC ADSP2. I've made my concerns to Lyle and Wayne and hope
improvement will be placed high on the to-do list using the ADSP2 as a
standard.
I think the difference in performance may be due to the use of
My KPA100/KAT100 is located 5-6 meters away from the K2 and I am afraid I have
gotten RF into the VRFDET line and fried the output buffers on both of them.
The Power display on the K2 does not reach full value especially on 15, 12, 10
meters. In this setup I think it is the voltage from the
Thanks Don for the tips:
If you have the KAT2 installed, try changing its R6 value to 470 ohms as a
first step.
If the K60XV is installed, be certain that its VRFDET output is NOT being
enabled when the KAT100 is installed and the low power output is not being
used.
Check RF board D9 to
Thanks Don for the tips:
If you have the KAT2 installed, try changing its R6 value to 470 ohms as a
first step.
If the K60XV is installed, be certain that its VRFDET output is NOT being
enabled when the KAT100 is installed and the low power output is not being
used.
Check RF board D9 to
I have used these settings for the K1EL-keyer to emulate the K2:
Ratio 45, Weight 65, Sample 35. They work quite OK. They have been taken from
here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/elecraft@mailman.qth.net/msg46771.html
73
Sverre
LA3ZA
Unofficial Guide to K2 Modifications
Simon (HB9DRV) wrote:
...but the Morse code decoding needs some work.
I agree - I would love to have a month later this year to work on CW
decoding. I have no doubts that a computer can decode better than a human,
just needs someone (!) to write the decoder.
Oh, ye of great faith!
Just
It is interesting to see the responses to my statement on the difficulty
of machines copying CW better than humans. Although this is a little
off-topic here, I hope we can have a short discussion of it anyway.
First, the success of negative SNR communications methods such as
Olivia,JT65, and
Pretty sure it's The Weird Stuff Out There.
I have a page dedicated to all kinds of weird stuff in terms of
propagation, see http://www.qslnet.de/member/la3za/prop/
The page has a collection of audio samples from unusual HF propagation
phenomena, from round-the-world propagation (delay 138
On 160 m and 80 m, one kind of weird delayed propagation is the ducted
one, where signals travel along magnetic field lines into space and
back, but it is very rare.
And on second thought, since Matt was hearing static crashes with delay
between his two receivers - one imaginative
I don't know about the Bose noise cancelling headphones, but with electronics
integrated such phones may pick up RFI. I had a pair of noise cancelling Aiwa
headphones, and they picked up a strong buzz whenever I was transmitting, so
the noise cancelling feature was useless in practice with
Audio is notorious for having a very subjective vocabulary, and this may make
it hard to understand what is meant. I hear terms like hissy, rounder, lack of
bass etc in this discussion. In an attempt to make this discussion more to the
point I would suggest this list compiled by Bruce Bartlett
Tnx Lyle,
I've seen that link before. It links to
http://www.ac6rm.net/mailarchive/html/elecraft-list/2003-10/msg00581.html
which is broken. Maybe I can browse the old archives 2003-10 from a
different archive.
73,
Steve N6VL
Steve,
Unfortunately many of the links on the LA3ZA K2 mods
I also read about some owners having to replace the headphone jack.
The headphone jack will go to the back and I will put a hefty 6 mm phone
plug in there. Plenty of space there, hi hi.
I wouldn't be so concerned with this. I have had my K2 for 6 years without any
problems with the headphone
K6DBG wrote
Some of the time, my pulses just die at the output of R8, which goes to ground
via L1. I'm not sure exactly what I do differently when the pulse gets past -
perhaps just how hard I'm tapping?
Sounds strange, if you hear the noises coming through your K2 (with the NB
off), they
Here's a planetarium program for your Java mobile phone that also includes a
greyline program:
http://www.piecafe.co.uk/solun/jsolun.htm
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When a K2 stops working when the mic is connected, then this sounds as if the 5
Volt in the mic connector is being shorted.
This will take out several vital functions on the front panel/control boards. I
would check the mic's plug.
Sverre
LA3ZA
I think you may have hit the nail on the head. I DO have to reduce the
volume greatly when using the headphones. From my perusal of the schematic
for the K2, it looks like if I changed R36
There isn't really any need to modify resistor values in the K2 to achieve
what you want, unless you
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The problem with the in-line volume control is that it will
reduce the desired signal also.
I believe that is exactly what is needed. The inline volume control will
affect both the sidetone level and the audio output just as the suggested
modification of the
I recently had a chance to implement the improved sidetone filter by TF3MA
(http://www.raunvis.hi.is/~matti/TF3MA/sidetone_tf3ma.html). This was
inspired by the experience of KT5X in November
(http://www.ac6rm.net/mailarchive/html/elecraft-list/2006-11/msg00456.html).
This mod really works
My K2's AF gain must be set at about 1-2 o'clock to be able to hear
anything.
Could your AGC be too agressive? What happens to AF gain as you turn AGC off
(Press AGC and PRE/ATT simultaneously). If gain increases considerably the
pot on the back of the control board needs some adjustment.
73
second, if the RF gain control is turned or touched at all, the rig
immediately goes silent and all the bars in the bar-graph meter are
illuminated. Over a period of about three seconds the bars are
extinguished, from right to left, and the sound comes back up. The
control
itself works in
I've finished additional K2 receiver measurements and have posted them to
my web site,
www.cliftonlaboratories.com.
Very interesting results, in particular the AGC performance curve.
I wonder about the statement In an ideal receiver, once the threshold point
is passed, there will be little
I see that on the LA3ZA modification pages there are some capacitor
changes
that change the time constants in the KNB2. Unfortunately the links to the
mods themselves seem to be broken.
These links are to www.qsl.net which seems to be down for the moment. I try
to avoid links to qsl net on the
I have often wished I could monitor the output of the IF of my K2.
You may find some past experience on the K2 Mods page (link below my
signature), go to 1. General Mods and then click Input/Output.
There is some advice from Eric - WA6HHQ /Elecraft on what to do and not to
do there as well as
Ben K1NT wrote
This week I was performing the power control mod (R98)
and noticed that I was only getting a maximum of 7.5w
at 28.8 MHz.
If you used to have full output on 10 meters and don't get it any longer
after having changed R98, what comes to my mind first is that you may have
I have the KBT2 battery mounting hardware for my K2, but so far no battery.
The Elecraft 2.9 AH gel-cel battery costs $30.00. Unless someone convinces
me, I don't see any point in transporting a battery across 9 time-zones,
when similar batteries seem to be available locally.
But that's the
My L1 82 mH inductor has a DC resistance of 62 ohms. This is quite
different
from the 180 ohm version used in the mod. Would a series resistor be
desired
as Fred indicates in the message below? I have 100 ohm, 120 ohm, and 150
ohm
resistors on hand. Where is this resistor installed between
W1UJR wrote:
I built and installed the Noise Blanker board for the K2 last night.
Even when not switched on, it seems to attenuate the signal by 1-2 S units.
I did not find this correct and went back and double-checked components and
windings on the cores, twice!
This is not correct, you should
NZ0R wrote:
I'm using an Alinco DM-330MV switching power supply for my K2 with no
problems. It has a control that allows me to move the frequency of any RFI
I
encounter from the supply, but I've never heard any.
I have this supply also and use it daily. I can hear some noise in the 160 m
band,
WB6QRN wrote:
And just to confuse things even more, what about the Tayloe mixer?
I don't know about the H-mode mixer, but the Tayloe mixer has been patented
by Motorola.
Product detector and method therefor was filed in 1998 and granted in 2001
as US patent 6,230,000. See
Benny Aumala wrote:
v6 SoftRock lite kit ...
If you will use it with K3, ask Tony to send 11 MHz Xtal with the kit.
Benny,
I don't quite understand the X-tal frequency of 11 MHz. My impression is
that the Softrock needs a crystal which is 4 x the center frequency, i.e. in
the order of 4 x
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From: Bekir Kemal Ataman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is it possible at all to work from a train in motion?
de TA2RX
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Merhebe Bekir,
Yes, you can operate from a train, see LA5XOA's story from last year about
LA1TRAIN - LA9TRAIN
After having read the interesting thread about binaural CW and pseudo-stereo
I found these two descriptions of analog circuits that are fairly simple to
build. The most advanced one is by VE3VXO:
http://www.arsqrp.com/ars/pages/back_issues/2001_text/0501_text/street.html
. It has both phasing and
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Can anyone recommend a way to test my new K2 noise blanker?
The simplest way to test the KNB2 is to rub a screwdriver across Q21 - the
RF Preamplifier- a metal case transistor which is visible when the K2 top is
removed. That will generate the kind of noise that
For those of you who miss indicator lights on the K2 front panel, I have now
been able to add a third LED on mine. I had one for the CW zero-beat
indicator in the SPOT button, one for the RIT/XIT/SPlit in the SPLIT button
and now also have one for the audio filter in the XFIL/AFIL button.
The
I have read the postings on the problem of having to set the AF gain as
bands are changed with FSK and PSK31 modes, and I seem to recall that I have
seen a product that automates this.
I believe it was a hardware device that monitored the PSK31 output and
adjusted the AF level for optimum
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that's the PSKMeter .. I have one but I don't remember who I bought it from
:)
... Google sez http://www.ssiserver.com/info/pskmeter/
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Yes, that's the one, I got several responses, the first after 12 minutes!
For $39.35 the audio level is
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For a 'no-holes' implementation, a small LED can be mounted in a keycap.
Don W3FPR
I have pictures of mine on my web site at
http://www.qslnet.de/member/la3za/K2_LEDS.html
Since the Split LED output from the K2 only can drive a low current LED it
takes
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I have pictures of mine on my web site at
http://www.qslnet.de/member/la3za/K2_LEDS.html
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The schematics of how the LEDs in the buttons for the SPLIT, zero-beat
indicator and KAF2 indicator are wired can now be downloaded from the page
above, see about
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I want to remove the KPA100 from my K2 and install it in the KAT100-2
enclosure. Since I will NOT be using any type of computer control, is it
still necessary to install a KIO2 in the K2 and beef up the handling
capacity of the RF choke?
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I am running my
Didn't DK3RED do something similar some time ago?
Take a look at
http://www.ac6rm.net/mailarchive/html/elecraft-list/2002-06/msg00829.html.
He used instead the on-off switch of the K2 with its DPDT function to bypass
the in-line diode for charging of the internal battery when the K2 is turned
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My RIT control got quite squirrely after a while, and I replaced it. Now
it's fine. The new pot I got from Elecraft seemed more substantial (the
shaft appears to wobble less) and they may be using better pots now than in
my K2 no. 709.
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These comments, and my own
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The preferred method of padding the BFO capacitors is to
maintain the ratio between C173 and C174 by paralleling them
with capacitors. A single capacitor from the junction to
ground will be in parallel with the series combination of
C173 and the varactor D38
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If your K2 is suffering from this issue, the solution is to
modify the KSB2 module. Unfortunately, I can't find the
details offhand.
I think it must be this link that applies:
http://www.ac6rm.net/mailarchive/html/elecraft-list/2004-08/msg00887.html
The
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I ran a square loop with 65' sides, up 20 feet, fed at a
corner, through EZNEC. The antenna would be a good NVIS
antenna on 80 and 40 meters, with maximum radiation straight
up on 80 and at 55 degrees on 40. It would be good for QSOs
up to a couple of hundred
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Is there a way to test the KNB2? Anything that can be
measured? Do I need a different noise-source?
A simple test that costs nothing in terms of test equipment is to scratch
Q21 with a screwdriver, see
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The W0MHS Loop Skywire is a great antenna, but feed it with
some ladder line.
I should add that this is exactly how I feed mine. About 8 meters of ladder
line (450 ohms I believe), into an Elecraft 4:1 balun and then to the
KAT2/KAT100. The ladder line is
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I need to order a set of headphones. They'll be used on my K2 for CW
primarily.
Apart from comfort in wearing, and how desirable it is that the headphones
supress external noise, the sensitivity is the main issue with the K2.
The K2 has relatively low output
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I am interested in determining which earphone (or speaker)
would have the highest physical movement. I am deaf and
intend to read morse by feeling the vibration.
It occurred to me that the vibrator which is found in most cellular phones
these days may be
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Now I have had my K2 for some 2 years I have still not had a
single QSO with another K2 ... anyone interested in giving me a call?
OZ6ABM
Hi Robin,
I don't think I have ever had a QSO with a K2 in Denmark. I'll be happy to
have a QSO with you any time. It's not
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If you really can't hear them on a different receiver, check
the bias voltage on the t/r switch. It should be between 90
and 150v. Low voltage here can cause this problem. The t/r
switch is used whether or not the KPA100 is activated.
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Another test you
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Can someone remind me what we're supposed to use instead of
WWV for VFO calibration in EU?
RWM from Moscow on 9996/14996 kHz is an alternative, see
http://www.irkutsk.com/radio/tis.htm and scroll to bottom of page.
73
Sverre
LA3ZA
http://www.qslnet.de/la3za/
Thanks for the replies to my earlier post - can someone
confirm that when cycling through SSbC from 1-1 to 4-1 what
the states of the three compressor pins COMP0/COMP1/COMP2 are please?
They start all high for SSBC 1-1, then COMP2 goes low, then COMP2 + COMP1,
until all three are low for
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KNB2 Rev C dtd 3 Feb 2000
KAT2, Rev B, dtd Feb 14, 2000
KSB2, Rev B, dtd Nov 15, 199
but are there any upgrades to the un built modules?
KSB2:
I am aware of the ALC upgrade mod for the KSB2 dated Sept 2001, see
http://www.qslnet.de/member/la3za/K2/mod.html and go
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