The K-2 was ordered on December 17th and No. 6653 arrived 3 days later. I have to say I did not know what to expect- I was just looking for 'something' to keep me busy during the summer holiday (I am located in Australia). Well let me just say that I got my money worth of pleasure even before the radio was completed!
I am a master watchmaker by trade so I can not comment on electronic aspect of K-2. However from the mechanical perspective the kit surpassed all expectations. The quality of instruction manual, PCBs, relays, connectors, individual components is just amazing. Everything fitted together perfectly and I got the radio working in a first go! The bit that I enjoy the most is winding of toroids. I love the magic of radio "getting alive", especially when LCD flashed Elecraft for the first time. And most importantly I've learned a lot! Since English is not my first language, I'll keep this rapport brief. I took 175 photos of assembly process, including on-air test :http://vk1aa.com/K2/k2.html The very first contact made was with JE1RZR over the distance of 9,250 Km on 14,054 MHz. (Manabu was operating K-2/100 !). Few minutes later under rather poor band condition I also worked FK8DD, BV7, ZL1. Just after my sunset, I had a lovely QSO on 40m with another JA1 and ZL2- all with 5W out into home-made vertical antenna. I would like to thank Wayne and Eric for such a wonderful experience and to many of you on Elecraft forum for your unselfish assistance to Ham community. 73, Nick VK2DX Sydney - Australia. -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/K-2%3A--my-perosnal-experience-tp2110935p2110935.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ 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
