[Elecraft] connectors for options

Mon Aug 18 17:43:00 2003

>
>  I wonder if Elecraft couldn't just include the internal connectors 
>for options  with the base K2? Or, at least the ones which live 
>under the dreaded Heat Sink?? They would avoid having Yet Another 
>Kit to keep track of, and for us a lot of un-necessary disassembly 
>and fuss could be avoided.

The extra cost to the K2 surely wouldn't be over a few dollars?

eric

PS - K2/100 upgrade now alive and well. Biggest construction problem 
was to avoid frying other nearby components with the big soldering 
iron while soldering the transformer frames and transistor tabs. 
Otherwise pretty much straight ahead.

I'm definitely going to remote mount it - I've already noticed the 
narrow cw filters drifting due to the extra heat -- the signal I'm 
copying gets very weak, presumably  as it drifts out of the filter 
passband.

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>Message: 9
>From: "Don Brown" <[email protected]>
>To: "Ben Dalfen" <[email protected]>,
>	<[email protected]>,
>	"William M. Spaulding, Sr." <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: [Elecraft] k2 expansion kit
>Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 07:26:06 -0500
>
>Hi
>
>I have been doing this for a year or so. In fact I just ordered a couple =
>of sets of the internal connectors from Elecraft. I always install all =
>of the module connectors even if the modules are not installed in the =
>kit yet. The cost is small and it makes installing the modules a snap. I =
>agree Elecraft should make a kit of parts that includes all of the =
>connectors for the modules and the parts that go on the front panel for =
>the SSB module. That way someone could build his basic K2 ready for the =
>modules that he may want to install later. Or someone like me that =
>builds K2's for other people could install all of the connectors for =
>later assembly and installation of the modules. I know the parts come in =
>the module kits but sometimes people do not get all of the modules when =
>they get the K2, but I would guess most people will eventually install =
>all or most of them. This would save a lot of disassembly when the =
>modules are purchased.
>
>Don Brown
>KD5NDB=20

-- 
Eric Manning   VA7DZ VE3DPV
K2 #2561 "Pauline"

If God intended you to use SSB, He wouldn't have given you a fist. Or 
two lungs.