[Elecraft] K2: another one is alive, :)

Thu Apr 3 19:32:01 2003

Congratulations Rafael.  I just finished my K2 yesterday and I'm
enjoying it a lot.  I'm sure you will have a lot of fun.

73,

Bruce - W8FU

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rafael Garc=EDa
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 11:09 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Elecraft] K2: another one is alive, :)

Hello,

K2 serial 3330 is working. Two weeks from California to Spain and almost
12 days more to complete the kit, without any options -yet.

Even it is not aligned well, a quick turns over the differents slugs to
gain some receiving in all bands, I am quite satisfied! The receiver
seems to be better than my -still- FT-817. I hope to do the alignment
process next days a bit more relaxed.

About the kit building, I did two mistakes: in the alignment part I and
after power up, display came with INFO 201, and no more... pin 1 at U1
in RF board was unsoldered! Corrected this, I had to do a hard reset
(4-5-6 keys) because display was still showing garbage. And the second
one, not corrected yet, it is the display itself: it is not correctly
aligned with its window in the front panel.=20

In alignment and test part II, I could not get the VCO voltage: only 4.8
volts. As per it was suggested in this mail list, I rewind T5 with 18
turns. No joy too: now voltage was fixed at 8.0 volts and no action from
L6. I left one turn (17 now), and it was right!

All in all, I am very satisfied with this kit. I enjoyed in the building
process and it is sure I will go for the SSB and AF filter options very
soon.

Congratulations to Wayne and Eric for this superb design and quality
kit. To the rest of the people at Elecraft, my compliments for the nice
work.

EA4RJ

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Rafael,
Madrid

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