[Elecraft] K2 S/N 2818 Passes First Test

[Larry Weaver]

K2 S/N 2818 passed the ultimate test: a QSO this evening on 30 meters with 
6F1LM in Mexico City, minutes after the (hopefully) last bad connection was 
fixed. 10 watts to a Butternut vertical.

Now that I've mastered cold solder joints, unsoldering and determining the 
limits of mistreating CMOS technology, on to integration of SSB, KPA100, etc.

A few construction aids I discovered: searching (CTRL-F) in the PDF version 
of the manual locates part numbers not only in the text but also in the 
circuit diagram and the board layout drawings. Saved lots of time.

Some time ago I built the wattmeter in June 2001 QST which is great for 
measuring low power (and it also makes a sensitive field strength meter). A 
40 dB tap is used to measure power up to 100 watts. It occurred to me I 
could use the tap with another radio connected through it into a dummy load 
as a signal generator by attaching the tap output to the K2 antenna jack. 
Worked great

73.. Larry N6TW