I am about to order a KAT100 (and the little tilt bail that goes with it, which I wish the KAT100 picture showed more clearly).
While I am placing the order, I was also thinking about getting a new set of motion-matched crystals for my K2 and SSB board. The ones I have are originals from the early kit, circa November 1999. I ask myself "Why?" since the radio works great now. Would it make an improvement? If so, what? Reduced blow-by? Better skirts? Smaller passband ripple? Or, maybe new crystals will help me keep some of the hair that is jumping off my head the past few years, or turn dark the ones that stay and go white. Who knows. On TX, I already sound like FM (that's 'frequency modulation'). The K2 SSB envelope is as good as even the best phase-method systems (except maybe for a smidgen of unwanted-sideband suppression) and I'm very picky about this sort of thing. How would/could changing crystals on the SSB board improve what is already very, very good? Just looking to save a buck or two on shipping, if I will get a measurable improvement in the RX. TX would be gravy. Opinions and/or facts welcomed. If you think a crystal swap-out won't do that much for me, I can skip it and spend the $25 or so on something else. Also: cabinet parts are not on the price list. My left-side panel has a tiny bit of road rash on the paint. I don't think I can make it look any less noticeable with touch-up paint; in fact, I tend to think I'd make it look _worse_ plus the paint is $10 and a panel shouldn't be even that much. So I'd like to buy just a replacement side panel, if it's sold that way. Anybody know? Or maybe someone has an EC2 left side panel they would like to sell me? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net 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