At Field Day, if you will be using your K2 with the KPA100 ... note that the radio's high-current DC port is 180 degrees reversed from the national ARES standard:
http://www.ocraces.org/powerpole.html http://www.westmountainradio.com/pdf/QSTrr.pdf http://home.comcast.net/~buck0/app.htm If other Field Day attendees attempt to connect you rig to a standard-configured PowerPole fitting, they will be connecting with reverse polarity, and this will blow the fuse. Hopefully there IS a fuse ... Otherwise, quite a lot of smoke will come out of many places. Now that I realize the problem, I will be re-doing my KPA100 connector with a wire pigtail instead of the PC mount, to make the rear panel fitting the correct polarity. The rear panel is also silk-screened backwards ( + and - ) from the standard but I will make a label of some sort to cover that up. Good luck and be careful out there. Don't let others use your K2/KPA100 rig unless they also use YOUR power wire. If they try to hook it up to an ARES standard club power block, uh-oh. 73 Steve KZ1X/4 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] 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
