[Elecraft] Contesting with a K2

[Hank Kohl K8DD]

At 9/8/2003 02:05 PM -0700, Lee Buller wrote:
>The conclusion was that the IC756PROII produces more highs in the 
>headphones and has more of a tinny sound to it.  .....  The k2 was much 
>more pleasant to operate as you have CW pounding into your ears.  I did 
>not feel I needed a bandpass tunner, the filters work superbly.  I rarely 
>use the BPT on any of the rigs I've owned maining because I have trained 
>myself to have one in my brain.
>
>I use a 400 Hz bandpass and use the RIT quite a bit
>
>The K2 is awesome for contesting.  It is my rig of choice, but since I 
>contest with a bunch of other guys, they do not see it that way and think 
>it is a toy.

I have to agree with this .... Several times I have set up my K2/100 (700Hz 
for CQing and 400Hz, occasionally 200Hz, for S&P) and IC-746 (with a pair 
of 400Hz IRI filters) in a "manual switching" SO2R and always find myself 
ending up using the K2/100 because it just sounds better and is more 
pleasant to listen to than the 746 .... On CW.

A lot of the large station owners are beginning to see that the K2 is not a 
toy .... it's been a long slow, and painful change!   "How can those little 
toy K2's be better than a roomful of 1000D's and MP's?"

K2/100 #850 made well over 1100 Q's from V47DD, St Kitts Island, in 
February - most of it was contest like pileups and performed great - enough 
so that the other ham that we travel with bought a K2/100 with a bunch of 
options at Dayton this year!

>
>On SSB, the rig again holds its own...and...again...the audio is a lot 
>sweeter than any of the rigs I have mentioned.

Either I can't adjust filters on SSB or something, but I don't like the way 
it sounds on SSB .... or maybe I just don't like SSB!

73    Hank    K8DD


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