Hi Group,
K2 Serial Number 04630 sprang into life here over the weekend...just under a week from receiving a parcel with the K2, an XV50 and an XV144. It was a great experience, and full marks to the Elecraft Crew for an excellent product and fantastic documentation. Very little head scratching went on, and I found the paperwork very easy to follow. I cheated a bit and used the " Toroid Guy's" toroids, which were equal in quality to the Elecraft provided bits and saved a heap of time I think. The XV144 is up and running, and the XV50 about half finished. The most complicated part...getting a grip on the Menu System on the K2 and all the functions. I still have to do a complete filter setup, and went with the basic factory setup in the handbook. I'm looking at around a 30Hz error on Tx, so I will go in and do another Ref Oscillator setup along with the PLL and Filter setup, when I fully understand what I am doing :) I found my Weller WTCP Iron with an 800C very fine chisel tip to be just about perfect excepting the "Big" jobs of soldering the nuts to the KI02 9 pin connectors. I used a multicore solder with a 2% Silver content, 0.56mm diameter. I realise that Elecraft no longer require this solder, but it leaves an almost clean finish, much tidier than the standard Multicore 60/40 that I normally use. It also proved no problem to remove when I had to add the options components. My one and only complaint...some of the masking on the metalwork was a bit haphazard and required further sanding/scraping to get a bright metal finish for grounding. A really great experience, and I'm already looking for a reason to get a second K2...this time with the 100W option, as this first one is destined for a life as an IF for the 50/144/432/1296 Transverters I will have plugged into it. Given a good soldering iron,reasonable soldering skills...and carefully reading the instructions, I think just about anyone could have a go at a K2. My Icom756Pro2 is long gone, as will be my IC910...when it gets back from Icom Repair ! 73 and happy assembling Glenn VK4TZL -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.6.9 - Release Date: 6/01/2005 _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [hidden email] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com |
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