[Elecraft] Ruggedness of the K2 Vs. other rigs for emergency field use

[Dave]

You are asking a very biased group of users! From an outright performance
point of view, this is a one horse race with the K2 winning every time. The
receiver will knock spots off all those transceivers you mention. Static is
something you should deal with at the antenna, expecting the transceiver to
be able to withstand a few KV into the antenna socket is not being
reasonable. Marine receivers used to incorporate a large carbon resistor,
and equally hefty collection of diodes, to protect both against static and a
high power transmitter feeding too much RF into the receive antenna.

Using a dipole with a balun that gives a DC ground to both halves of the
antenna, plus earth connection from coax outer to ground, would be a useful
idea to avoid static building up on an antenna.

When you damaged the Icom rig, was the antenna DC grounded?

Dave, G4AON
K2 #1892, KSB2, KBT2, Mountain Ops TacPack.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "phoon.usinet" <phoon@attglobal.net>
To: <elecraft@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 6:59 PM
Subject: [Elecraft] Ruggedness of the K2 Vs. other rigs for emergency field
use


>
> 1)  How well protected is the K2 front end against static discharges when
> the rig is used in the field?
>
> 2)  When damaged from static, what components have K2 owners had to
> replace/repair?  What trouble shooting methods were used to find K2
problems
> caused by static?
>
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