[Elecraft] K2 Front Panel Extension

[Don Wilhelm]

I already have a K2 Front Panel extension quite similar to what you are
discussing (Control through the KIO2).  It is called Ham Radio Deluxe!  And
it is as big as my computer screen or whatever I size it to.  About the only
thing it can't do is adjust the AF Gain and the RF Gain.  Besides that, it
is customizable so I can put the buttons in most any pattern that suits me.
And best of all it is free, a lobor of love by a very generous and talented
ham.  It can also make many other brand transceivers have the same controls
as the K2.

Thanks Simon.

but most of the time, I end up using the original panel and find it
sufficient.

73,
Don W3FPR


> -----Original Message-----
>
>   I really like the idea of a Front Panel Extension for the K2 and have
> seriously thought about building one myself.  I like lots of
> knobs, switches
> and buttons.  I dislike having to do repeated "long presses" of a
> button to
> cycle through the DSP filter bandwidths, for example.  I'd much
> rather have
> a button for each bandwidth for both the DSP and crystal filters.
>  And, as
> another example, I long press for "tune" several times a day, but
> never use
> short press "Ant 1/2" except inadvertently when I'm trying to tune in a
> hurry!
>   So, my K2 front panel extension, some day, will have single function
> buttons with indicators, and be run by a dedicated computer mother board
> that talks to the front panel and the K2.
>   73, Dick, AD7AF
>