[Elecraft] Future elecraft projects

[Brendan Minish]

At 15:33 30/08/2003, George,  W5YR wrote:
>One must be careful about confusing stats with suitability for the task and
>overall performance. The K2 has some specs that are numerically superior to
>my PRO2, but overall the PRO2 can deal with much more severe QRM and QRN
>conditions plus offer semi-infinitely better IF filtering, so overall for
>me, the PRO2 is the more desirable radio.


I Also have a PRO2 but Unlike W5YR I find that my K2 easily outperforms it 
for CW reception under difficult conditions, especially under crowded 
contest conditions or on the low bands.
There are plenty of occasions when I can hear stuff on the K2 that I can't 
hear nearly as well on the pro2. I have matrix Switching on my antennas so 
it is really easy to try both radios on the same antenna. This is a 
demonstration I gladly provide for Shack visitors!
My K2 has had pretty much all the mods done and I have aligned it very 
carefully using good test equipment so it is performing about as well as a 
K2 can.

My main observation is that, yes the PRO2 has tighter filters with much 
better skirts BUT I also hear more Junk on the PRO2 when things get 
crowded, when things aren't crowded you don't need the tight filters anyway.

  The PRO2 is a good receiver and certainly has nice features. For SSB the 
PRO2 is better than the K2 but since I mainly operate CW the K2/100 is now 
the primary rig in this shack since if you can't hear them you can't work 
them.

I also hate the Full break in keying on the pro2 but that's another story.

73
Brendan EI6IZ
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