[Elecraft] Newbie K2 questions

[Tom Althoff]

Sorry for the off-topic content.

Wow...it looks like the magic word was Ampex!  It is good to know I have
something in common with at least 2 people here besides ham radio.
I had some old HS-100 discs that I hot-glued audio CD's in the middle of to
make them look like giant LP's.  They made good mirrors.  Also had one with
a clock movement in the middle.

Yes...I miss Ampex.

On topic.... My AtoB, KAF2 and internal battery arrived today.  I took Don
W3FPR's suggestion that I swipe one of the 470pf caps from the 10/12
bandpass filter update and put it in the VCO circuit....VOILA!!!!   I'm on
160M with the K2 again (after first pulling out all the junk caps
parallelled and sucking the solder out of the holes etc.).   Now I just need
to order a replacement 470pf for the bandpass filter.

It's great to have a radio that I can fix on top of my washing machine (the
only clear bench space I could find today).  And its great to meet such
helpful friendly people... I wish the ham bands themselves were this
pleasant to participate on.

Tom K2TA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Phipps" <larry at telepostinc.com>
To: <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 10:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Newbie K2 questions


> It's nice to see some fellow ex-broadcast types on here. I worked in TV
> broadcast and later owned a post-production house. I think I've used or
> owned just about every AMPEX product ever made dating back to the model
> 350 audio tape deck, every VTR from the VR-1000 forward except the AVR-3
> and VPR-80 (including the high speed tape duplicator of which I think
> only three were made). HS-100 & 200 slomo disc recorders, AVA paint
> system, several ADOs, ACE editors, Century 330 switchers, etc. Never had
> a DCT deck or the storage deck based on it though... we went with
> DigiBeta, D1 and D5 at that time.
>
> It was a sad day indeed when AMPEX closed up shop. Without question,
> Redwood City was the center of the video universe. A lot of those guys
> went on to make more great products like Abekas (we also had a ton of
> Abekas equipment).
>
> 73,
> Larry N8LP
>
>
>
> VR2BrettGraham wrote:
>
> > K2TA wrote:
> >
> >> Oh... The stock knob is gone.   The previous owner had a nice ridged
> >> knob with a spinner grip installed on the rig.   But I had an old
> >> knob from an Ampex VPR-3 1" broadcast videotape machine whose
> >> diameter just meets with the bottom edge of the K2 and only slightly
> >> covers the lables for the ATT and A VFO.
> >
> >
> > Darn, I know where there's a VPR-3 here that's not doing anything -
> > never would
> > have imagined that the shuttle knob would fit a K2.  From Tom's
> > description, this
> > is a fitting way to recycle bits from the best Type C VTR ever produced.
> >
> > Alex Poniatoff might even have approved.  ;^)
> >
> > 73, VR2BrettGraham
> > ex-AMPEX HK
> >
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