K1 Backlight

[John Young-10]

I love it.  It's nice to sit in the darkened shack late at night with
only the sound of CW and the faint glow of the display.

I was able to use a razor saw and miter box for cutting to length.  
<http://www.micromark.com> search for miter box

I made the cut in two steps - cutting from both sides to avoid chipping
the surface.


John
WA8KNE

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[Paul T. Rubin]

Hello all:

I was wondering if anyone has ever detached the faceplate of a K2?  I'm
considering using this rig for pedestrian mobile, and I think it would be
really neat to have the ability to have the rig in a backpack, and the
controls in a fanny pack, as in the ICOM 706.  Any ideas?

Thanks,
Paul Rubin N8NOV


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[James Kern]

Paul,
  Check in the Elecraft photo archives on Elecraft's website. Someone
detached the front faceplate (as well as some other things) to make the K2
bicycle mobile. Perhaps you can get in contact with that person and get some
tips. Good luck!

James Kern KB2FCV

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Hello all:

I was wondering if anyone has ever detached the faceplate of a K2?  I'm
considering using this rig for pedestrian mobile, and I think it would be
really neat to have the ability to have the rig in a backpack, and the
controls in a fanny pack, as in the ICOM 706.  Any ideas?

Thanks,
Paul Rubin N8NOV


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[David A. Belsley]

Paul:
   Way back, in the early days of the K2, there was a young chap who
detached the front of the K2 from the body in order to mount it on a
bicycle.  He did a nice job.  I believe there were a number of pictures
of his arrangement on the Elecraft site.

best wishes,

dave belsley, w1euy



On Sep 12, 2005, at 4:01 PM, Paul T. Rubin wrote:

> Hello all:
>
> I was wondering if anyone has ever detached the faceplate of a K2?  I'm
> considering using this rig for pedestrian mobile, and I think it would
> be
> really neat to have the ability to have the rig in a backpack, and the
> controls in a fanny pack, as in the ICOM 706.  Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Paul Rubin N8NOV
>
>
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[Margaret Leber]

James Kern wrote:

>   Check in the Elecraft photo archives on Elecraft's website. Someone
> detached the front faceplate (as well as some other things) to make the K2
> bicycle mobile. Perhaps you can get in contact with that person and get some
> tips. Good luck!

also see http://www.qsl.net/n8mx/bike.html

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[Andrew Moore-4]

> I was wondering if anyone has ever detached the faceplate of a K2?
I've been wanting to try this, and I think a 40 conductor IDE disk drive cable would be a good starting point -- they should be readily available, and connectors at each end that should be compatible with the "face" and "chassis" sides of the K2 with only slight modification.  You'd need a male-male header at one end since the cables have two female ends.  Since the K2 uses only 20 pins between the chassis and face, you could use every other conductor on the cable as a ground for shielding.  The IDE cable has two rows of 20 pins -- one row would connect to the existing K2 signals between face/chassis, while the other row of 20 could be connected to ground, and if I remember the cable layout correctly, one of these would conveniently fall adjacent to each signal pin on the cable.  Might be best to get a good length of cable (rather than 1-2 feet from a standard IDE cable) and the correct gender headers from digikey/etc. after experimenting with a standard IDE cable.
--Andrew, NV1B
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