[Elecraft] OT: Trade K2 for Drake TR4CW/RIT or C line

[Brett gazdzinski]

I had an R4c and T4xb? with added 160 meter crystals.
I cant say I liked it much, they had an odd tuning setup,
and I thought it was crazy to mix transistors and IC chips
in with the tube circuits they way they did, 
in high voltage points and in line with the tubes.
Look at the R4C schematic and tell me that it does not
look crazy, IC chips at over 100 volts and so on!

It might be hard to keep one going with that kind of mix.

The filter setup worked very well, very nice looking gear
and it was a very nice sounding radio, seemed to have very clean
audio on cw and ssb, low noise, but was not user friendly.

I paid $400.00 for the pair, in like new shape
about 5 years ago, at a fest, and sold it for 
less a few years later....

I am sure the K2 would be a LOT easier to use on the air.
The old tube stuff has preselector peak, then you tune up the
transmitter, then the antenna tuner each time you 
change frequency much. Band changes can take a while...

That's also why I got rid of the KWM2-a, not frequency
agile, and CW was an afterthought and poorly done.

That's not as much of a problem if you operate around
some favorite frequency, but otherwise it gets old quick.

Its amazing how lazy one gets with the new stuff!
Push a button and the rig is tuned up and ready to go.
Push another button and you change bands and are 
tuned up and ready to go!

Its HARD to go back to the old way....

>From memory, there are different analog scales on the
r4 series, and one tunes backwards? That requires a bit 
of getting used to.
 
Brett
N2DTS



 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net 
> [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of 
> Fernando Quinones
> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 10:52 PM
> To: Elecraft
> Subject: [Elecraft] OT: Trade K2 for Drake TR4CW/RIT or C line
> 
> Hello.
> 
> Anyone have one that they would like to trade?
> 
> I have a excellent K2 with all options except the 60m and DSP.
> 
> If yours is pristine I can sweeten the deal
> 
> with the 100w amp and 100w tuner (both unbuilt in the box), ec2..
> 
> Package worth over $1000.
> 
> email: n2fq at sbcglobal dot net.
> 
> tnx.. for the bandwidth
> 
> Fernando  N2FQ
> 
> 
> 
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