[Elecraft] Dressing Up the Back of the K2/100

Sun Dec 15 00:23:00 2002

The only place I've found BNC caps that your refering to is on
portable military equipment where they were used as waterproof caps when the equipment was
not in use.  Try Fair radio or Nebraska surplus.  Got several of them
years ago WHEN I purchased a signal generator from Fair.  They're held to
the front panel by a short chain.  Removed them because all they did was
get in the way when changing test fixtures.  As soon as I got my K2 going
I polished up a set and popped them on.  Some polish up real well because
they're silver plated.

One way you can use ethernet terminators is with a UHF adapter attached,
install on K100 amp.  Call CQ at 100 watts and the resistor will open up
rather quickly.  It can then be used for the purpose you had originally
in mind.

The terminators make handy little dummy loads and can handle 10 watts no
sweat, more if you slide a heatsink from a transistor on it.

Regards,
Helm.  WB2ADT

On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 [email protected] wrote:

> Has anybody found some nice looking caps to cover the unused BNC connectors
> on the back of the K2, KPA100 and the KAT100-1, replacing the black plastic
> ones.  I bought some 50 ohm BNC terminators (for computer network
> applications) from Radio Shack. I found that plugging in one of these
> terminators into the 50 ohm BNC K2 jack loaded down the receiver input
> because the 50 ohm terminator was in parallel with the receiver curcuit going
> through the KPA100.  I saw a BNC cap in the Mouser catalog, but it was a
> shorting type, and that certainly wouldn't work on the K2 jack.  I wonder if
> there is such a thing as a BNC cap without the inside guts.  If anybody knows
> where such caps can be found, please let me know.  Thanks   Roy Morris  W4WFB
>  KAT100-1, K2/100 #2225
>
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