Greetings,
Name is Jerry, call KF6VB. Been a ham since 1970. For some strange
reason, my interest in amateur radio always peaks at the bottom of the
sunspot cycle. No, I don't understand it either :).
Lately, I've been playing a lot with CW & QRP radios. Got a uBITX
"kit" from India. In quotes, because it was assembled and tested, you
just mount the boards in the case. Then a "QCX+" kit from Hungary -
this was a real kit, you solder in the parts.
I discovered that I *really* like electronic QSK ( aka full-breakin
CW ). The QCX+ does it really well. But it's only one band. I built
it for 40M, but during the day, the action is mostly on 20. The uBITX
is multi-band, but does not do QSK. What to do? I investigated
converting the uBITX to full-break, but that turns out to be a very big
deal. As in "Nobody's done that yet".
...So yesterday I pulled the trigger on an Elecraft K2 on Ebay. Waiting
with bated breath for that box in the mail.
It's an early serial number - 00845. It seems that a lot of changes
took place over the years - and Elecraft doesn't show a manual for it -
their download site only shows the manual for "Rev B" PC boards.
I see that they still have some parts and accessories for this unit -
and the SSB module is not too expensive.
- Jerry KF6VB
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