[Elecraft] K2 EXTERNAL VFO CONTROL

[Larry Phipps]

You might want to look at the IQ-VFO or DDS daughtercard from AmQRP, 
http://www.amqrp.org/.

Larry  N8LP



Chris Page wrote:

>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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