[Elecraft] Case for XG2

[Scott Ellington]

I agree with Don, that the foil tape probably wouldn't be good enough.  The box described by AD5X looks good to me.  If you don't want to bother moving the switches to the bottom of the board, you could probably just leave the screws out of the cover, and remove it to manipulate the switches.  I would, however, replace the BNC connector with a metal one grounded to the box.

With the unshielded XG2, I think I got down to around -120 dBm with the K3 before the leakage was apparent.  Another 30 dB shouldn't require an air-tight enclosure, so the above should suffice.  That might be different with a less well shielded receiver, but I would guess that any transceiver that works in a high power multi-multi operation, as the K3 clearly does, would be fine.

Scott  K9MA


On Oct 29, 2010, at 6:17 PM, Dave Van Wallaghen wrote:

> If I were to put some kind of sheildng in the case like aluminum tape or something like it. Would that work? 

Scott Ellington
Madison, Wisconsin
USA