I'm pleased to announce that the construction of K2 SN 6281 has been successfully completed by the students of the Dos Pueblos Amateur Radio Club ( Dos Pueblos High School, Goleta, CA) with the new Call Sign of KI6PRK, and is now on the air. The newly completed rig is a K2/10 with KAT2, KIO2, KSB2 and KDSP2 installed. No particular difficulty in building, one toroid (K1 on KAT2) needed to be rewound. After comparing it to the drawing it was found to be a mirror image. As a comment, were this a simple inductor or transformer, it wouldn't have mattered. But, as the pickup point for the SWR bridge, the mirroring of the windings causes the single turn pickup loop to work in reverse - swapping the apparent Forward and Reverse currents. As I told my students when they found this, if the Elecraft manual says 'exactly like the drawing' they mean it! We have a VE session this Saturday - getting ready for FD.
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