[Elecraft] New K1 Born Yesterday

[Sandy W5TVW]

I too tried the KBT1.  One "minus" was my hearing asn't that good anymore 
after years of working around jet aircraft and doing a lot of shooting under 
a range shed (before cheap ear protectors were available!  They were $125 or 
more then...early 60's)  Anyway the smaller speaker's output too low for me!
Another "minus" was the aggravation of getting the batteries in and out..  I 
opted for an external 8 cell "AA" holder for NiMH 2 A/H cells.  Also have a 
small pack of two 6 volt 3.5 A/H gel-cells that works great.
The internal KAT1 coupler isn't very good for 80 or 160 meters.  I use an 
external "L" coupler that is heavier but about the ame size as the K1! 
Don't do any "portable" 160/80 meter operation anyway as a rule.  I may try 
the "T1" seperate coupler anyway sometime this year just for fun.

73,
Sandy W5TVW
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Morrow" <kk5f at earthlink.net>
To: <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 11:19 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] New K1 Born Yesterday


> wa5pgl wrote:
>
>> K1 Serial Number 2305 operational on 2/6/07.
>> 2-Band (20&40)w/Antenna Tuner
>
> That's 2130 K1 units since my number 175 arrived in November, 2000.  I 
> ordered it in June, so I waited five months.  It was worth it.  I'm not 
> all that fond of the monotony of stuffing resistors and capacitors on a 
> PCB, so I bought the K1 in spite of it being a kit, rather than because of 
> it.
>
> Sandy wrote:
>
>>You will find the receiver supurb during heavy QRM situations like 
>>contests!
>>Best QRP rig I ever owned.
>
> It's a real gem in the Elecraft line.  I know of no other QRP rig that I'd 
> rather carry portable.
>
>>I have 4 band board (40/30/20/15) and a 2 band
>>160/80 meter board.
>
> The roll-off of the elliptical low pass filters on the four-band filter 
> board is much sharper and deeper than that of the very simple filters of 
> the two-band board.  I've never seen any spurious-output specs for a 
> four-band K1, but since the two-band K1 has the best figure for spurious 
> output of any Elecraft rig, the four-band K1 can only be even better.  It 
> has better performance than the two-band 40m/20m board, and twice the the 
> available bands (including 15m, IMHO the best QRP band when open).  How 
> could one beat that combination of *both* improved versatility and 
> improved performance?
>
>>If I did it all over again, I'd opt for the little
>>external tuner (T1?) instead of the internal tuner.
>
> I really like the internal tuner, even though currently mine has recently 
> developed a yet un-diagnosed problem and now never returns a VSWR less 
> than 9.99, even into a dummy load.  I tried the KBT1 for more than a year, 
> but eventually discarded it.  I don't like sources of chemical leakage and 
> outgassing next to printed circuits.
>
> 73,
> Mike / KK5F
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