[Elecraft] Elecraft Junk (K2 Modifications)

[gregory.beat at comcast.net]

Scott -

Amateurs have been modifying and expereimenting with electronic components and assembled radios since DeForest and Armstrong.

You obviously have not read the laundry list of modificaitons on MODS.DK

Just view MANY of these comments and suggestions -- as anything you see on TV shows --- DIY, Pimp my Ride, Overhaulin, etc.  Why put a 2007 fuel injected computer monitored crate motor in an old muscle car -- gee - maybe because it is more relaible and fuel efficent than the original 1960s block?   Look at the "Back to the Future" trilogy by Robert Zemeckis --- "Doc" Brown is constantly adapting vehciles -- cars, locomotives.
In fact, if you look at the automobile industry - as an analogy -- the after market customization is HUGE.  

As with all of these -- some are for convinence -- others are innovative -- or in Lyle's DSP board -- a great adaptation and anhancement -- not readily avaialble when K2 first introduced.  That is the beaty of technology -- and adaptation.

My area of "assistance" is with the soldering tools themselves -- making sure that the builder has a quality "operational" tool for building -- and you can go to BAMA and see the growing Weller doucmentaiton library for amatuers to DIY repair their own tools (save $$, and learn something).

Greg
w9gb

-----Original Message-----

I ordered my K2 before I joined this forum, and now that I did, I am
thinking maybe I shouldn't have ordered it. It hasn't been delivered
yet. 
Is everyone having trouble with them as it sounds on this froum?  Why is
it necessary for all the modifications that are being done to them?

What's all this about completely removing RFC10 from the KPA100? Did
Elecraft do a bad job of designing this thing?

I just ordered the basic unit plus the noise blanker, and was planning
on adding the kpa100, and the KSB2 ssb unit later. I had the
understanding that these two options were plug in boards, but it sounds
like a rebuild to add anything. I have always hesitated to take
components out of a circuit board because there is a good chance that
damage to the board might occur.

Will a new kit that I just ordered four days ago need modifications, and
if so, how will I know what modifications I will need to do?

Would someone please tell me why I shouldn't put this thing up for sale
on Ebay in the unopened box?

Thanks
Scott N5SM