Hello Everybody. (Sorry if this is a duplicate, I got error messages) After putting K2 #3375 on the air back in January I have been having too much fun to take it to the workbench and finish the rest of the option kits. This time has now come ... and K2 #3375 has been moved across the room to the workbench.
Before I dig in too far, and while it was open, I hope I can solicit some advice on SSB and microphone selection. I have the SSB board already installed and working. I have had QSOs with the K2 on SSB both domestically and DX, but something always seemed a bit amiss. When I recently repaired the finals on my FT817, I was able to do side by side tests. On CW I choose the K2 everytime for receive and transmit. On SSB while I would take the K2 for receive, I work stations giving me solid reports with the FT817 that can not hear me at all, or can only barely pull out one letter of my callsign with the K2. Seems to me that I don't have something optimized properly yet. I have all of the most recent SSB upgrades installed. I am running the K2 with a Heil HC4/HC5 element in a dual element Heil HM10 mic. I was thinking of trying a preamp while I had the rig on the bench, but am I moving in the right direction or is there something else I should be focusing on as to the optimization of my SSB signal. Thanks as always. 73/72 Jeff - VA3JFF Canadian QRP Award http://www3.symaptico.ca/wjhetherington/cqa.htm -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.8/71 - Release Date: 8/12/05 _______________________________________________ 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
