[Elecraft] Some Basic K2 Opinions and Information

[Julian, G4ILO]

Paul Huff-3 wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'm considering the purchase of a K2 and would appreciate any information
> and/or 
> opinions that you might have.  I'm strictly a QRP guy so I'm not
> interested in 
> the 100-watt version.  I would probably want the internal tuner.  I don't
> work 
> SSB, but PSK is of some interest to me so I'm thinking about the KSB2
> option. 
> Other than that, since money is definitely an important consideration, I
> would 
> be very interested in opinions about the KIO2 RS232 interface - would it
> help 
> with PSK?  I would also like opinions on the KAF2 filter vs. the KDSP2 DSP 
> filter.  My current rig is a K1 so just about anything would be "gravy" to
> me - 
> I'm not comparing the K2 to some Rolls Royce kind of rig.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help that you can offer.
> 
> 
I found the KIO2 useful for PSK as I'm a great believer in using narrow
filters to get the best reception of weak signals and the software I used
allowed me to center a signal in the passband and select narrow filters
using a click of the mouse. Since I used MixW logging software I had these
features available in CW too.

I never felt the need for the KDSP2 and only had the KAF2 which was all that
was available when I built my K2 in any case. To be honest I never used it
that much and found the 4 choices of filter bandwidths the K2 offers per
mode to be more than adequate.

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