[Elecraft] K2 EXTERNAL VFO CONTROL

[Andrey Stoev]

Chris,

If you have a computer close by, you could use a remote control software - 
there are few good ones...including Ham Radio Deluxe or the one by Elecraft 
and you can use Power Mate from Griffin Technology as your VFO knob - 
http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/powermate/.
It is USB device and comes in aluminum and black metal finish, look very 
neat!. You can even configure the driver to perform specific key strokes, 
while rotating or pressing the encoder.
You can even attach the Finger Dimple which Elecraft sells.

73s
Andrey E. Stoev

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Page" <g4bue at adur-press.co.uk>
To: <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 3:45 AM
Subject: [Elecraft] K2 EXTERNAL VFO CONTROL


> Has anyone built an external VFO for the K2, please?
>
> I took the plunge last Sunday and sold my UK main station
> transceiver, a Ten-Tec Omni VI, and have replaced it with one of my
> K2s.  I am now an all Elecraft K2 station at both my UK and at my
> Florida QTHs (SO2R in Florida and shortly SO2R in the UK).
>
> The only thing I miss with the Omni is the external VFO control (Ten-
> Tec model 301) and wondered if anyone has built an external VFO for
> the K2?
>
> Perhaps one of our technically minded members on the Reflector can
> tell us if it would be possible and/or very difficult to build such a
> control for the K2, possibly from Elecraft spare parts?
>
> I found a short thread in the Reflector Archives in July 2000 about
> it but without any firm conclusions.
>
> I didn't realise just how much I have come to use and depend on the
> external VFO of the Omni, especially in contests, until operating
> without it this week!
>
> 73 de Chris, G4BUE

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