[Elecraft] Just how good is the K2?

[Dan Presley]

Hi George-well, I played extensively both with the Pro2 and a FT 
1000MP, and the IMD products drove me nuts! I could easily hear sigs 
on the K2 that were garbled or unreadable on the Pro,the 1000MP and a 
T-T Corsair II ( my next favorite cw rig). In the heat of battle as a 
fox, I can say that the K2 beats all of the other radios I've used ( 
haven't tried an Orion yet). It's the only one that didn't fold up 
under the assault of having hundreds of signals 'hurled' at me by the 
qrp crowd.I call it 'blow by', but a better phrase is IMD which I 
found objectionable on the Icom and Yaesu, and the Corsair.All of the 
other radios were not able to sort out multiple signals, and no 
amount of audio/dsp/notch filtering would solve that-it's a design 
issue. Might be different if I was just chasing one signal, but I use 
the cw reverse, filters and audio filters, and haven't been flummoxed 
yet. We all hear things differently, and I hope no one has been 
obnoxious just because you expressed another opinion :). I am 
wondering if some of the mods ( mine is #1010-with all updates except 
the crystal grounding) and careful alignment with spectrogram might 
make a difference in your rig. I talk with a fair number of dxers and 
dxepedtioners, and a lot of them are ditching the 
Icoms/Yaesus/Kenwoods for K2s due to superior performance, especially 
in weak signal stuff like 160, and also on dxepedtions for the IMD 
performance.
I do appreciate a lot of your posts to this and qrp-l .Maybe look at 
'tweaking' your K2-might be a new rig :)
-- 
Dan Presley-N7CQR-Portland, Or QRP-L #502
n7cqr@arrl.net