Hello,
After reading this informative and well thought out letter (see below), I
have a better understanding on the situation. The people mentioned in the
letter has been helping the Elecraft community for years, I'm new and should
not be so skeptical about what is going on until I have a better
understanding of the situation.
I'm going to order what I need in the way of UNPCBs. It should help adding
the 100 watt unit etc, after the basic testing has been done with the basic
K2 unit.
Thank to everyone for all of the inputs.
Best,
DW Holtman
WB7SSN
----- Original Message -----
From: "Solosko, Robert B (Bob)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "DW Holtman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <Elecraft@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 9:19 AM
Subject: RE: [Elecraft] UNPCBs
Hello DW,
There are a few people who are making things for the K2 that are
not provided by Elecraft that provide additional capabilities and
convenience - these are individuals, like Gary Hvizdak, Don Wilhelm,
Mike Phipps and Jack Smith, who don't sell a lot of their products and
don't make any significant profit from them either. You'll see them post
information about their products to the reflector, and occasionally, as
in Gary's case, send e-mail directly to someone who has just ordered a
K2 and not burden the entire list.
My K2 was built with Gary's UNPCBs, and now includes Don's fixed
audio output board (which he no longer as available but may be picked up
by Tom Hammond, N0SS), and which, among other things, I use to drive
Jack Smith's Z100 tuning indicator.
There are obviously differing opinions about the usefulness of
the UNPCBs. Don Wilhelm, who is a very experienced builder (and an
invaluable resource to all of us - he's helped me solve a number of
problems with my K2), has no problems removing and replacing components
- but some of us do. Even if you've ordered all of the K2 options you're
ever likely to install, you still need to build the basic K2 first and
calibrate and test it before adding the options. That means removing and
replacing components. I built by K2 with the UNPCBs several years ago
and then added options one at a time over the last few years. For me,
adding options were then really just plug-and-play, and I avoided the
dreaded "unsoldering and replacing components". The UNPCBs had another
advantage when my K2 developed a problem that required the removal of
several of the options to trace down - all I had to do was plug the
UNPCBs back in, in place of the removed options. Without them, I would
have had to again unsolder, remove and replace some components. Don does
raise a good point with the UNPCBs in that installing the K60XV UNPCB
may cause calibration problems (if I did, I wasn't aware of it and my K2
seemed to work fine). But there appear to be no issues with the
remaining UNPCBs.
Bob W1SRB
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DW Holtman
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 9:51 AM
To: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Elecraft] UNPCBs
Hello,
Are these really necessary? Didn't Elecraft make the K2 to where
additional parts are really not necessary? I have ordered every option
that I will ever want along with a Elecraft Mic, why would I want to pay
for UNPCBS?
Should companies be able to "mine" information such as who ordered what
from this forum and send E-Mails for selling their goods? I understand
that this is parts for K2. Maybe this is alright and I'm all wet.
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
Best,
DW Holtman
WB7SSSN
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