[Elecraft] K2 Build: Options Advice

[Peter Wollan]

It's been a long time since I did this, but I remember there are a couple
of connectors for the option boards that can be installed during the main
board assembly, and make a tremendous difference in ease of installing the
options when you get around to it.  So there's an advantage in buying at
least some of the options right away -- I think the sideband board, and
maybe the tuner?

If I remember right, the noise blanker has some unavoidable disassembly
when it's installed, but not so much the others.

   Peter W0LLN

On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 4:06 PM, David Woolley <forums at david-woolley.me.uk>
wrote:

> The disadvantage is that you will need to unsolder some components.  In
> most cases, I think you can destroy the through holes, but there is at
> least one case where you have to insert a new value in the old hole.
>
> There used to be a, third party, product, called UnPCBs, which provide a
> minimal dummy version of most of the modules, but the sales of the K2
> dropped to a level where it wasn't worth another production run for the
> PCBs for this.
>
> --
> David Woolley
> Owner K2 06123
>
>
> On 24/05/18 19:44, AE0MM wrote:
>
>> I'm planning to build a K2/10 with the following options:
>> KNB2
>> KAT2
>> KAF2
>>
>> Is there any disadvantage to building the base K2, then adding the
>> options later?
>>
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