[Elecraft] K2 Still Amazing

[Alan Davenport]

Don't feel bad Curt, I just fixed a cold solder join this week in the VCO area. While it was apart I did a re-alignment. Today I took the rig out on my patio and signals were REALLY weak. It took me a while to find the VCO problem so now I was thinking "Now what? It was recieving fine yesterday!". I sat there a while listening to the bands then went to pack everything up. I found I had the counterpoise and long wire connections backwards! So, I was listening on a short piece of wire laying on the ground. hihi
 
     73 de Al, W2GZN

From: Curt <rhulett1 at comcast.net>
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Sent: Thursday, September 8, 2011 2:19 PM
Subject: [Elecraft] K2 Still Amazing

Turned on my K2 s/n 06424 today to see if 15M had any activity.  Nothing in 
the headphones.  Preamp on, AF and RF gain to 100%, still silence.  Unplug 
the headphones, still silence, thought the rig was broken.  Then discovered 
I had disconnected the antenna yesterday :-o

What an amazing low noise floor!

73, Curt KB5JO 

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