[Elecraft] K2 Tx lock enquiry

[Nicholas Lokuciewski]

Well thank you for your replies. I will re-ring the RA tommorrow to double 
check this. With your persmission Brian may I qoute the body of your email 
when I ring them up? (Also I think they may wish me to use the chip mod 
anyway, since the original k2 will Tx on 10m of which I am not allowed)

>If it is not simple for Elecraft to supply a custom UK microcontroller
>then I wouldn't worry. The point made in the regs is to stop people
>using SSB on 27MHz (illegal here in the UK). I even took my K2
>capable of transmitting outside UK bands to a 'test your equipment
>evening' run by the RA at the local club. They were all very
>impressed and I was very worried while they checked the harmonic
>suppression but it came through with flying colours.
>
>Incidentally your M3 license doesn't give you privileges on 10m - to
>be logical you would need your K2 locked for no-transmit in the 28-
>30MHz range!
>
>Pretty much all rigs are capable of transmitting out of band, either
>through harmonics or transmission of wide bandwidth signals at
>band edges.


73 2E1LOK Nicholas

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