[Elecraft] Tuning Rate and other wants

[K6MR]

If you are willing to do a bit of hardware work, installing a different 
tuning encoder will either double or quadruple the tuning rates.  I have 
the 400 step/rev encoders in my radios and find them quite acceptable.  
The encoders used to be available at Mouser, but the last one I bought I 
had to get directly from the vendor.  About $40 and about an hour of work.

Ken  K6MR

w4fms at aol.com wrote:

> Hi Gang...one of my wants for my K2 (and there's not much) is a 
> different tuning rate.  I use the 10/50/1000 Hz setting which is 1 
> KHz, 5 KHz and 100 KHz per knob revolution.  I'm usually in the 5 KHz 
> mode and find that's too slow and don't like to be switching rates too 
> often.  I'd like to cover 100 KHz in four turns so I'd like to try a 
> 1KHz, 25KHz and 100 KHz option. Maybe Wayne would consider it if more 
> memory ever comes available or perhaps the 3C or 2 option could be 
> changed?
>
> A second want from me is a good working vox.   I work a lot of cw but 
> I use the K2 on phone as well and find the vox works great just as 
> long as I'm using 4:1 compression.  Otherwise...doesn't work so well.  
> I'd like some menu settings with adjustable sensitivity so the vox 
> works great at 1:1 and 2:1 settings.  I don't know that anti-vox is 
> necessary...just some control on sensitivity.   My guess is the 4:1 
> settings were probably a compromise for contest use....which is a good 
> idea.
>
> Regards
>
> Frank, W4FMS
>
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