[Elecraft] Beyond the K2, Part 1 of 3

[Vic Rosenthal]

k6se@juno.com wrote:

> I loaned my K2/100 to a friend a while back to try with his new Alpha 99
> amp (his rig did not have adjustable tx output).  He returned it the next
> day saying that it worked fine with his new amplifier, but he didn't like
> the K2 because the S-meter was stingy.  This was embarassing for me and
> surely was the loss of a potential Elecraft customer.

First of all, the K2 s-meter is just a little bit less sensitive than 
the one on my TS850.  Hardly a big deal, and as you well know, S-meters 
vary all over the map.

Secondly, the one who should be embarassed is the guy who made a big 
deal about it!  If he's old enough to be allowed to operate an Alpha 99 
he should know that S-meters are only useful for relative comparisons 
and therefore it doesn't matter if one is a bit stingy and another 
generous.  This has been discussed over and over on the reflector, and I 
personally have been listing to complaints, etc. about S-meters since 1956.

Vic K2VCO