[Elecraft] discovering elecraft

Albert Heyes [email protected]
Tue Dec 31 15:31:04 2002


It was the GQRP winter sports 2000/2001. Its a Boxing day to New Years =
Day qrp activity period. A few of my many qsos said TX is K2.
I had no clue about the K2 until I asked a Warrington ARC member. He =
told me to look at Elecraft on the web. The web page was my first view. =
In June 2001 I was a tutor  at an RSGB Morse Camp. Another tutor had =
brought his K2, so I had a good look and a little play. I was sold on =
the idea but had just traded in my 3 yr old 1000MP for a new 756PRO. =
Around Easter 2002 Mike G4VSS said he liked the K2 and what did I think. =
This encounter in the clubroom bar reminded me of a previous event when =
two of us instrument techs at a power station got brassed off and unlike =
the ladies who go buy a new hat we went to the stores and bought a new =
pair of safety boots. Mike & me decided to order K2s. Mike got 2702 I =
got 2703 after 44 hours of building I tuned it up on 20m and answered a =
cq call from Mongolia with 5 watts into a 90ft doublet and got 579. I =
recently worked 27 States including W6 during a couple of hours on the =
10m contest. With the K2 on filt2 700hz wide and the 756pro on 500Hz =
filter the K2 rx was much better on the same incoming signal. But dear =
reader you already know this HI. Happy New Year to all
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