[Elecraft] K2/Elecraft Kudos

[Paul Clay]

I have been playing with my K2 and really enjoying 
it.

I got a big warm and fuzzy today when I set a new 
Icom R-75 up next to my K2 to do a receiver 
comparison.  It seems (so far) that on the ham 
bands the little K2 is every bit as sensitive as 
the store bought R-75.  And, and it's probably 
just coincidence and I'm not sure that it means 
all that much but I got a BIG kick out of this, 
tuning in two SSB signals, they both showed up on 
the same place on the dial, to the last digit, 
with the pitch of the received voices being 
identical.  Wowza.  The reason I got the big kick 
is that my K2 was calibrated during construction 
by reference only to the frequency readout on a 
Yacht Boy 400 (which was receiving the weak 
signal from the K2's oscillator).  No skill on my 
part to be sure, just luck and a good kit design.

Second, I had to dive into the construction manual 
for my aging Heath HW-101 in making some repairs 
to that unit.  Gave me the opportunity to compare 
the Elecraft K2 construction manual to the Heath 
manual.  Maybe it's because I just completed the 
K2, but, my impression was that the Elecraft 
manual is even better written than the (very 
good) Heath manual.

Just wanted to let the Elecraft folks who follow 
this mail list know how much fun I had putting 
together my K2 (took it slow so I had a couple of 
months of fun) and how pleased I am with the 
results.  I am looking forward to building future 
Elecraft kits.

- Paul, N6LQ (ser 3640)