[Elecraft] New K2 build.

[Johnny Siu]

>From my past experience in upgrading or repair some old K2s, general built workmanship is good.  Except some occasions when the K2 changed hands few times with upgrades in stages, then a variety of workmanship was noted.
May be I live in Hong Kong, repair request are mostly from Asia Pacific region.
73
Johnny VR2XMC
       寄件人︰ Ron Fial <ron at fial.com>
 收件人︰ elecraft at mailman.qth.net 
 傳送日期︰ 2015年04月23日 (週四) 3:55 AM
 主題︰ Re: [Elecraft] New K2 build.
   
Someone wrote: 

>>It's in no way "excess".  Innocent things like this are why I'd never buy a
>>kit assembled by someone else.

There are some builders with poor skills and I have read about disasters.  But I have purchased a lot of kit-built stuff and have been generally pleased with the build quality and soldering skills.  Kit built stuff has always provided me with the greatest performance/price ratio.  

A K1 4-band unit I purchased on ebay was advertised with a low RF-output problem.  It was beautifully built but during alignment, the trimmer cap for the RF driver tank circuit could not peak the rf because an associated fixed cap was too far off tolerance.  I could see the trimmer was at max when it peaked. I added a few pf across the existing fixed cap and the rf peaked and the Watts output was even way more than the K1 specs!

I felt like a criminal paying so little and getting such a fantastic unit already built.  I added the backlight to the display, changed the internal batteries to 3 lithium cells (came with internal battery pack) and added the resistor to linearize the tuning and enjoyed it ever since.  It even came with the mobile mounting kit!

73,  Ron KO7V


  



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