Jerry...
I'm not an expert on the K2, just a die hard fan. Others will advise you
on the upgrade(s). I'm pretty sure the upgrade "kits" are available from
Elecraft. That said, once you're satisfied with your upgrade you can go
all the way a purchase the complete, current kit from Elecraft and put
that together. Hardly anything beats that for fun. Welcome to the K2
cool aid drinkers club.
...robert
On 22 Jun 2021 12:51, jerry wrote:
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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