Hello Don, You may never know how many folks you have helped-out who are K2 owners. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I didn't finish my K2/100 until very recently, serial number 0086.....four years after I retired! So, as you know, I had to do lots of mods. I think I got them all.
Your posts got me through several issues, including the keying wave-form mod, alignment of the crystal filter (I used the newer crystals based on your post about this--a big difference in my case), the power output instability problem (which led me to the Elecraft mod on this).....and some more stuff I don't recall now. I don't think there was one issue that I searched on that didn't include a response from you. All your advice was dead on, too. Anyone wanting to build K2 has a resource on this reflector in your advice. Thanks for all your advice and easy to follow instructions. I guess K2 is a legacy radio but it will out perform all those up-conversion radios, hands down. Sweet sound too. You may never need a K3! 73, Will, wj9b Kx1, K2, so2r K3/P3 CWops #1085 CWA Advisor levels II and III http://cwops.org/ -------------------------------------------- On Tue, 9/20/16, Don Wilhelm <[email protected]> wrote: Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: K2 To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, September 20, 2016, 4:34 PM Eric, I do repairs, alignment and calibration and upgrades of the Elecraft legacy gear (K2, K1, KX1 and XV series transverters), and I am as busy as I want to be (sometimes more than I want to be). So there is still a lot of interest in that gear, but you are right, most of the posts are about the K3, KX3 and KX2. Non-the-less, there are frequent posts about the legacy gear. Many of the older posts about "how to do ..." are no longer seen, but those questions do pop up occasionally. Many of the K2, K1 and KX1 posts come from folks who have purchased a used transceiver. In many cases, they did not get all the associated pieces (counter probe for the K2, connecting cables for the KAT100, power cables, etc.) so those new owners need assistance, and they do often post to the reflector. 73, Don W3FPR On 9/20/2016 2:35 PM, Eric J wrote: > I had recently stopped monitoring the reflector as I only have a K1 and > two K2's. Everything is K3 and subject lines rarely reflect that anymore > so it's hard to filter them. But I had a K2 problem and rejoined. Got a > response with solution within an hour! And discovered that I miss the OT > discussions from a unique bunch of experts. Most of the OTs are > interesting and more relevant to a non-KX/K3 owner. So I'm back to > monitoring only OTs. hi. > > The new products don't fill any need in my hamming that isn't satisfied > by the K2, but the ongoing development of the state of ham art at > Elecraft is extraordinary to see. > > Eric KE6US > > On 9/19/2016 8:05 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote: >> P.S. Us K2 owners are rather quiet these days. I suspect few are still >> monitoring the reflector. I miss the many questions about soldering, >> testing, setting up an antenna, etc. But time, and products, moves on.. >> > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
