[Elecraft] K2 1E field day

[Paul Heller]

I picked up K2/100  #4760 on eBay a few weeks before field day - it was 
built but not properly aligned (only one of the filters worked on CW), 
so I went through the receiver alignment (Spectrogram was a real help) 
several times and got the receiver working well. 

I operated 1E from home, using a fairly big marine battery, running 100 
watts on CW.  351 Qs over Sat and Sun, with the K2 left on at all times, 
and the battery still had plenty of juice.  I must say the K2 is 
certainly efficient ...

The only glitch I'm having right now is that I'm getting reports of 
FM/Chirp, and I can hear this when I transmit into a dummy load, 
listening on a TS-940.  I thought it might be voltage drop under load, 
but reducing power doesn't change it.  I haven't gone through the TX 
alignment so maybe this is an alignment thing(?). 

Anyway, I'm loving the K2, and just received the KAT100-1 and KSB2 kits, 
so at least I'll have built part of it :-)

-- 
Paul Heller W3PH
ph at his.com