[Elecraft] [K2] K60XV - No longer available?

[Bill Coleman]

Here’s a radical idea. Why not just sell the K60XV, minus the 60m parts?

That way, no one has to design a new board.

You could call it the K—XV, where the 60 part has been subtracted.

> On Aug 27, 2019, at 1:32 PM, Wayne Burdick <n6kr at elecraft.com> wrote:
> 
> The high-value, low-temperature-coefficient trimmer capacitors leveraged in the design are no longer available. Unfortunately we don't have staff available to redesign the board to do it in another way, and demand is low.
> 
> The transverter interface by itself could live on a smaller board. Schematics are available if someone would like to home-roll a replacement. We could supply small quantities of the programmed PIC16C621 that runs the module (cost TBD).
> 
> 73,
> Wayne
> N6KR
> 
> 
>> On Aug 27, 2019, at 9:13 AM, Neil Zampella <neilz at techie.com> wrote:
>> 
>> FWIW .. this question is for Wayne or Eric,  could the K60XV be
>> redesigned using currently available components, or perhaps something
>> that would allow easy use of the transverters?
>> 
>> Neil, KN3ILZ
> 
> 
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