[Elecraft] K2 drif problems?

Thu Dec 19 21:19:00 2002

True, Tim, but the oven contolled xtal would be there even if the KPA100 
were not.

best,
dave

--On Thursday, December 19, 2002 3:44 PM +0000 [email protected] 
wrote:

> David wrote:
>
>> Oven controlled xtals are not particularly battery friendly.  Remember
> that
>> beneath the K2/100 is still the K2 with all its original hopes and uses.
>
> Yes, but most people are reporting drift when using the KPA100. If they
> are using batteries, they must be pretty large?
>
> Lyle wrote (about huf-n-puf)
>
>> This has promise as long as the introduced phase noise is low enough.
>> One the the K2's reasons for great signals is its very clean
>> oscillators...
>
> Huf-n-puf does not introduce phase noise. It is simply a counter which
> decides whether to gently increase/decrease voltage across a varacter
> which is in parallel with the LC cct of the VFO - in this case an xtal.
>
>
> Tony
> G7IGG
>
>
>
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