[Elecraft] K2 #6662 built, ...

[W7BRS]

Yea!

I really enjoyed building my K2 and sharing the ups and downs with Phil.

Phil and myself received our K2 kits roughly the same time (or at least 
began building them at the same time).

Phillip - great job.
Don and Gary - nice help also, many thanks.

During the course of the adventure, I saw a post here by NG0R,

(Message-ID: <5E6B2A5471F94793BE873D16C6C3A78A at hoaglun.org>)

that pointed to his blog page

(http://www.hoaglun.com/Blog/CategoryView.aspx?category=Elecraft+K2+Project)

where I found a link to the Solid State Design for the Radio Amatuer, 
SSDRA.

Whoa, checking ebay that thing is North of two C notes.  But, you 
know how this story goes.  Interest piqued and reason taking the night 
off, I found a copy at bookbomb.com for much less.  A relative bargain, 
*gulp*.

My K2/KSB2 is complete and now I'm delving into building homebrew outboard
afterburner (300W apprx Solid State PA or more with some other MOSFETs) 
and other small projects... oh just small like a 100VDC @30A power supply 
:O

The designs of interest range between these two:

Among hundreds of schematics out there, these two are interesting.

http://www.communication-concepts.com/appnotes/AN758300Sharp.pdf

http://www.arrl.org/qex/2006/09/qx9ohsawa.pdf

Good thing the Puyallup, WA Hamfest is weeks away.  Need transformers and 
aluminum chassis.


-jeff


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DE W7BRS K3 #2105  K2 #6665   http://w7brs.com/k3
k3user at w7brs.com

On Sat, 24 Jan 2009, Phillip Heller wrote:

> Thanks in no small part to the list and archives, Don / W3FPR, Steve/
> N1JFU, and Jeff/W7BRS, K2 #6662 is fully calibrated and made it's
> first contact today!
>
> Incidentally, this was also my first ham radio contact (besides one or
> two perhaps done with an elmer some 20 years ago).
>
> Now to troubleshoot the slightly low power on 10m and address my
> rather poor antenna situation.  ;-)
>
> For those that are interested, my calculated MDS is -137.271 db.
>
> 73,
>
> Phil
> KB1FIY
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