I finished building the basic K2 on Wednesday night. I had just finished aligning the receiver and transmitter, still had the cover off, when I heard an Italian station calling CQ around 7010 KHz, so I gave him a call. He didn't respond, but F3NB came back to me! I was running 10 watts into my Hustler 5BTV vertical. He gave me a 579. What a thrill! My first contact with the K2 was to France with 10 watts! WooHoo.. I worked a couple more stateside stations at 10 watts, then backed the power back to 5 watts and worked several W6's. I think I'm going to like this QRP business.
Everything seems to be working fine. I kept getting a HI CUR indication, so I increased the current max to 3.5 amps and that cured that. At one point the keyer started acting wacky. It seemed to have a mind of it's own. It was sending random character instead of what I was sending. It did that for a couple of seconds and then went back to normal. Hasn't happened since. I'm not sure what that was all about. No other problems! It's a wonderful little radio. Now on to the SSB module and KIO2!! Maybe I'll try my hand at the Elecraft QSO party this weekend. Regards, -David W4SMT _______________________________________________ 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
