[Elecraft] The last of the through-hole kits

[Jim Lowman]

Still, I have to hand it to the team at Elecraft for offering upgrades 
to the K2 as new
capabilities became available.

When the K2 was introduced 12 years ago, we didn't have any spectrum on 
the 60m
band.  Elecraft wasn't in the transverter business, either.  But they 
came up with a
kit that provided both a transverter interface and 60m capability at the 
same time,
integrating it to fit inside, and work natively with, the K2.

Only one company comes to mind that has offered any sort of upgrade 
path, and
that is Ten-Tec, with its option 1, 2 and 3 upgrades, the latter of 
which resulted in
the electronic equivalent of the newer Omni VI Plus.  Still, any of 
these upgrades
required one to ship a heavy radio back to the factory where the upgrade 
was done.
With the K2, we can order the option kit and do the work ourselves.

72/73 de Jim - AD6CW

On 6/3/2011 7:01 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote:
>    Eric,
>
>
> However, my hopes for additional mods or upgrades to the K2 are nil - at
> least those coming from Elecraft (that is what a mature product usually
> means).  Any enhancements to my K2 will be mods of my own doing, and
> those will be done on a "one-off" basis (for my own use).  I may offer
> those mods to the general K2 public, but they will not be "Elecraft
> sanctioned".
>
> 73,
> Don W3FPR
>