[Elecraft] "KX2" musings

[Mike Morrow]

The receiver design very very badly needs a four-pole IF filter.  Coverage of 15m is essential, and 17m would be nice.  The ATU capability needs great improvement beyond the 254 possible reactance combos in the current model.  A noise blanker would be great.  

But...the most important thing:  Design all of this from the start as a straight-forward system without a bunch of tricky add-on boards.  Implement it with PCBs the way MFJ (yeah...I know) did their QRP Cub rigs...with most components as pre-installed SMT.  Those Cub rigs were very quick to assemble and looked extremely neat...too bad the Cub RF design was so marginal.  No fear of that with Elecraft.

Mike / KK5F


>Obviously, there is no KX2..  But if there were a KX2, I'd like to see these
>features in one (being a KX1 fan):
>          More bands - 80, 60 (CW allowed on 60M channels), 40, 30, 20, 17,
>15, 12, 10.  The KX1 with the 3080 kit is 80/40/30/20M.
>.         5 watts out using internal battery pack; more with external power
>12-15V.
>.         Same shape, size, controls, display, layout as the KX1.
>.         Same CW-only and SSB receive
>.         Same internal tuner concept, but capable of the extra bands.
>.         Same paddle key, but two screws to reduce wiggle when the key is
>attached.
>.         CW sidetone a sinewave to allow for easier spotting.
>73,
>Jay
>W6CJ