[Elecraft] K2 for Contesting/Dxing

[Jim Brown]

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 18:30:22 -0500, Richard Thorne wrote:

>I know some DXpeditions have used the rig but was curious how it
>performs during contests and DXing.  

Equipped with the 100 w power amp and antenna tuner modules, it is my
favorite CW contesting rig. The DSP module is well worth having. The
noise blanker in mine doesn't do anything to the line noise at my QTH.
The weak point is the narrow receive filters on SSB. I would not use it
by choice in a SSB contest. Transmit on SSB is fine, and the full
bandwidth receive filter is fine.  It works quite well with WriteLog,
and it's quite easy to have both the computer and a paddle keying the
radio at the same time.  

Jim K9YC