hello elecrafters, I ordered my K2 kit on dec 3th it was sent off to me on dec 4 th I had to wait till dec 27th for it to arrive here because it was held up in customs. Had to pay 21% VAT and 5% income tax. But in the meantime, I had a lot of time to browse the email reflector archive, and this was very helpful and interesting. The kit was fun to assemble. I liked very much : - the manual is very well layed out. - the resistors in order of use. - the modular system. - the built in freq. counter and voltmeter. - the milimeters between brackets where inches are mentioned. - the finger dimple ( I ordered a second one for my TS-850 ..) - Allignment was easy with the Xg2 signal generator and N-gen and the spectrogram software. - I did a complete inventory before I started and I was glad I did. - the way the construction is split up in phases , and you can test parts before everything is finished. - The result is really fantastic: stable and relyable tx and very good rx... The pitch is set to 580Hz which is near enough to a D. My guitar tuner is used as a help for zero beat. I find it difficult to zero beat with the spot function.
The main Tuning knob is OK with the finger dimple, but still a bit going up and down, I think the hole is too large for the shaft, and this gives a bit of excentricity. I didn't use the tilt bar, the K2 is on top of my TS850S which is already tilted. The fast rate is far too fast for me , I would have prefered 200steps and not 100. I miss a built-in SWR meter but no problem, I had one on the shelf so put it back to use. My first qso was with IZ0DQZ/qrp on 14 mc. I have been building many kits. I have been a ham since 1965 , and this is the best kit I ever built. Thanks and 73 to all , looking forward to meeting you on the air. joe on5ao K2#5237 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ 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
