Hi Folks,
I want to introduce myself as a new K2 owner. Over the 18 years that
I've been a Ham, I've owned a multitude of rigs. My first station consisted
of a HeathKit Apache TX-1 (cw only) transmitter and a Collins 75A-1
receiver. (Talk about HUGE boat anchors!!). The last few years I've been
somewhat in a slump as far as actively operating. So I decided that I needed
to do something about that problem. Well, I became interested in the K2
several months ago. I've been reading this list, checking out everything
about Elecraft and the K2 that I could find. I even talked to Wayne (great
guy) at this past Orlando Hamfest. I even got to touch a K2. Talk about
sweet!!. My only problem was time. I've just moved to the Daytona Beach, Fl.
area, started a new job, and trying to fix up the house that we bought. So
free time is really at a premium. I started saving up my money to make the
plunge. I'd seen several ads on eBay for a K2's. So I placed a bid on K2
#0489 (from the estate of George, W5YR(SK)), thinking, "Well if I get it,
great, if not, I'll just build one over several months.". It has the KIO2,
Rev. 2 firmware, KAT2, K160RX,KSB2, KBT2, KNB2, and KAF2 options.
Well, as luck would have it, I won the auction with a very reasonable
price. Then I get an email from Chuck WA6LTV congratulating me on winning
and telling me that he had built the K2 and if I had any questions to just
email him. And Chuck wasn't even involved in the auction!!!
So now that I've bored everyone with this long winded story let me wind
it down. I recived K2 #0489 today and immediately set it up side by side
with my Icom 746. I tuned both around on 40m. The K2 is hearing signals that
the I Can Only Monitor doesn't even know is there!!!! Both rigs are on the
same antenna (an 80m loop). What a great piece of equipment the K2 is!!
Thanks for everyones patience.
73 de
Stirling, N5PIP
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