[Elecraft] Just how good is the K2?

[George, W5YR]

Thanks, Lee, for a reasoned and rational response to my heretical seeming
"put down" of the K2, which my piece was never intended to be.

I don't know about the PhD in K2 and PRO2!   <:} I suspect that Gary at
Elecraft is the person most suited to that title for the K2 part of it.

I hope that no one misunderstands what I said clearly: I love the K2 and
enjoy using it! It has a completely fitted out travel case with all
accessories, ready for the field or a trip at any time.

But, I just cannot equate my own experience with the two radios under
discussion with all the "enthusiasm" that I read on the reflectors about BDR
being the end-all of receiver performance. Important, yes. The determining
factor? Perhaps, in certain situations. I happen to have examined both these
radios in sufficient detail and gained enough experience to make the
comments that I did, and which I believe to be true.

When I can watch the spectral response of an S1 CW signal in a 150 Hz DSP IF
filter and the associated receiver noise floor in that bandwidth, and then
introduce an S9+40 dB signal just off the flank of the passband and see no
change in either the weak signal or the receiver noise floor, then I have to
believe that the PRO2 is just not the bad actor that the ARRL front-end
measurements would have us believe.

Thanks again for your kind words, Lee.

73, George W5YR
w5yr@att.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lee Buller" <k0wa@swbell.net>
To: "George, W5YR" <w5yr@att.net>
Cc: "Elecraft Reflector" <elecraft@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 9:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Just how good is the K2?


>
> George,
>
> I realize how much you use both rigs and have full understanding of the K2
and the PROII.  Don't you have a PhD in K2 and PROII?  I think that your
comments are well justified.  I appreciate your candid comments and I too
will keep the PROII as the main rig, but the K2 is something I built and I
find it a joy to operate.  Your contributions to the discussion is
appreciated.
>
> For what the K2 is ... and is not ... it goes down in Ham Radio history
along side some pretty good rigs.  It is not a DX-40 or SB101, or a KWM2A,or
a TS520, or a FT-101 or a IC756PROII,  or what ever.  It is truely a
remarkable rig that can hold its own in its class...a class of its own.
>
> Thank you for your very honest and enlightening comments.
>
> Lee Buller
> K0WA
>
>