Mike, My K2/100 stayed put without any issues while running 24/7 in receive mode for almost two years, while monitoring for any 2 metre openings across the pond. I did disable the transmitter to avoid accidental frying of the 2 metre converter.
In normal use on 40m, it drifts about 10 Hz during the first few minutes after a cold start before settling. 73, Geoff GM4ESD Mike WE0H wrote on Monday, March 09, 2009 at 3:40 AM > Has anyone left their K2 on 24/7 for freq stability reason's? Or ran > QRSS and can say how well it stayed put? Previously when I was running > 1750 meters, I used to leave my TS-440 on 24/7 for a couple years. It > still worked after all that time running...hi hi...But what I would like > to know is, would the K2 be expected to run say for a year straight > without any issues? Of course no antenna would be connected when it > shouldn't be...I have had it running for about 9 hours today and did the > calibration a couple hours ago and the radio is dead nuts stable within > 1hz of what the reference oscillators here are which are calibrated to > WWV. I haven't had the chance yet to let it come down to room temp and > be turned back on and see where the calibration would be at. Anyone with > experience in this stuff? ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
