[Elecraft] [K2] SN6281 0n the air

[AJSOENKE at aol.com]

I'm pleased to announce that the construction of  K2 SN 6281 has been 
successfully completed by the students of the Dos Pueblos  Amateur Radio Club ( Dos 
Pueblos High School, Goleta, CA) with the new Call Sign  of KI6PRK, and is now 
on the air. The newly completed rig is a K2/10 with KAT2,  KIO2, KSB2 and 
KDSP2 installed.  No particular difficulty in building, one  toroid (K1 on KAT2) 
needed to be rewound. After comparing it to the drawing it  was found to be a 
mirror image. As a comment, were this a simple inductor or  transformer, it 
wouldn't have mattered. But, as the pickup point for the SWR  bridge, the 
mirroring of the windings causes the single turn pickup loop to work  in reverse - 
swapping the apparent Forward and Reverse currents. As I told my  students when 
they found this, if the Elecraft manual says 'exactly like the  drawing' they 
mean it!  We have a VE session this Saturday - getting ready  for FD. 

73  de WA6VNN, Al 
Trustee of KI6PRK  




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