[Elecraft] K2 as a "contest" radio (was "growing market share")

Thu Mar 6 12:04:58 2003

My former "contest radio" (an FT1000MP) now makes a nice shelf and
backup for the K2. I did have several problems with K2 during the recent
ARRL DX Phone contest, so reliability concerns me; I'm still debugging.

I planned to use the K2 as the primary rig going into ARRL DX CW to
evaluate it as a contest rig. I was concerned that I would cut the K2
lots of slack and endure less-than-'MP performance because I built it
myself, etc. Let me say that I felt the K2 kicked the 'MP's butt all
around the block! (Note: my 'MP is not a Mark V!) I find the audio
"fatigue factor" is much lower with the K2 than the 'MP, both for CW and
SSB. I liken the K2's audio to the Kenwood TS850, which I found to be a
very pleasant radio to operate for long periods. Where split frequency
operation is required, e.g. 40m and 80m phone, the MP does have an
ergonomic advantage; I need to address this by learning better how to
use the features of the logging software.

Hooray for the K2!

Brian K1LI
K2/100 #3070

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Coleman
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 7:46 AM
To: Michael E Dobson; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] growing market share

On 3/5/03 10:28 PM, Michael E Dobson at [email protected] wrote:

>To really see this point in action, go to Bruce's (ZF2NT) web site and
>read his 
>description of his operation in the ARRL CW DX contest.  On the table
>next to 
>his FT1000MP is a K2 which he uses "when I really want to hear
>something".

QED. If the K2 were the contestors radio of choice, it would be sitting 
on the table all by itself. (Or next to another K2...)

Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: [email protected]
Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
            -- Wilbur Wright, 1901

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