Building my K2 next week. I run 600 meters and use a homebrew
transverter right now with my Kenwood HF rig. Going to build a new
transverter for my K2 when it is finished. I ordered the transverter
option. I need the K2 to function from 3.135mc to 3.510mc as I use a
3.0mc oven oscillator as my
Hi Mike:
I got out a l'il FCC-2 freq counter/vfo that I built, hooked it up to
the K2 and was able to hear a signal on the K2 to down just below
2740kc. The VCO unlocked just below that. At 3000kc the output power was
about 10 watts. I don't know what kind of sensitivity is available in
the K2
Thank you Ken. Looks like it will be just fine then. Just built a FCC-2
MK-II a few weeks ago. It is a very nice DDS VFO.
73
Mike
WE0H
Ken K3IU wrote:
Hi Mike:
I got out a l'il FCC-2 freq counter/vfo that I built, hooked it up to
the K2 and was able to hear a signal on the K2 to down just
Hi Don,
Wow that does present an issue now. I will see if I can find a suitable
reference oscillator at one of those 4 freq's. Seems kind of odd IF
freq's not having one at 10.0mc. Does anyone has a suggestion on what
oscillator I could brew up that would stay on freq within 1 cycle for
over
Mike,
It is a matter of firmware, not hardware limitations.
I would guess that when the K60XV was released, no one thought it would
ever be used for down-converting, so only the normal VHF IF frequencies
were made available.
Since your current oscillator is super-stable, have you considered
Hi Don,
I can drop the level down and divide as you said. That would be easy
enough. I wonder if the software of the K2 could be changed to allow any
HF band to be used as an IF with that K60XV board? Who would I speak
with about changing the software?
Otherwise I'll continue to look for a
Mike,
The only person that would change the firmware would be Wayne Burdick
himself. In the K2 it would require replacement of the firmware chip
because K2 firmware is not downloadable like the K3.
You would likely have to pry Wayne away from his K3 MCU firmware efforts
to get his attention,
I wonder if that was Wayne whom I spoke with at the Orlando Hamcation a
couple weekends ago? There was a guy and a lady there at the Elecraft
booth and both were extremely helpful and willing to sit down and answer
tons of questions. That was the best customer service experience I have
seen in
Mike,
I know that Eric was at Orlando (based on his note to the reflector in
which he referred to we), but I don't think Wayne was there. The lady
may have been his wife Lerma, but that is only a guess on my part based
on no valid information - that we may have been the 'royal we' or
could
Hi, Folks,
I have a K2, serial 4004 with 203d 1.07 firmware. I am trying to
interface it with a Ten-Tec 1208 6m transverter.
The transverter has a 36 MHz IF and it works fine. When connected to ANT2,
I can tune to the 14 MHz band on the K2 and send/receive 6m signals with no
problem
The
John,
Is there a possibility you have RANT turned on for the TRN1 band? Check
in the menu.
If you still can't hear on the 6 meter band, switch to the TRN1 band and
attach an antenna direct to the K2 antenna jack. Can you hear the 14
MHz signals? If so, the K2 is doing its job and you
Hi, Don,
I did double-check and the RANT is off.
What you say about the RF setting is interesting. I am confused about what
that setting is supposed to be.
If I set RF=36 (the IF of the Transverter) then the display comes up as
50XXX.XX. If I set the RF=50, the display comes up as
Don,
That solved the problem. I set the RF=50, then did a direct frequency
entry. It is working great.
That was a bit confusing. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
John, WA6L
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