[Elecraft] K2 drif problems?

Fri Dec 20 05:27:06 2002

Err - a switch?

----- Original Message -----
From: "David A. Belsley" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 2:16 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K2 drif problems?

> 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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> David A. Belsley
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