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Greg Derda-2

K2 #6100 is alive!

My XYL wasn't quite as excited about this as I had hoped, so I've got
to tell someone .... ;-)

I wired my TenTec 701, and the mic header, last night, and made my
first contacts with K2 #6100. The first, from my QTH in North Georgia,
was using 8w on 10m, to Pennsylvania - the band was up and down and we
each exchanged only 5-3 reports. The second was much more exciting,
and marks (to me) the point at which I consider the radio "complete."
I used 8w to break into a small DX pileup on 20m, and Carlos (I can't
think of his call), in Costa Rica, gave me a 5-7 report, and
voluntarily added that I had "great audio"! My antenna was a 125'
doublet at 50', fed with 600-ohm open feed and an MFJ-949E.

Although I plan to add a KPA100 and KDSP2 next, I have decided that I
don't need to be in a hurry. I am looking forward to learning what all
I can do with this radio on low power, and the received signals are so
strong that noise is not an issue at this time - What's amazing is that
I find myself using the Attenuator regularly!!

Thanks to all for the great replies to my earlier newbie questions!!

73,
Greg
KI4MMM

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Gary D Krause

Re: K2 #6100 is alive!

Congratulations Greg! I'm working on #6113. It sounds like you have
installed the SSB board as well. I also have the SSB board to install but, I
think I will wait to see how it works on CW first after I have finished the
rig. Have fun and I hope to work you on the air!

Gary, N7HTS

On Wed, 23 May 2007 09:47:43 -0400
Greg Derda <[hidden email]> wrote:

> My XYL wasn't quite as excited about this as I had hoped, so I've got to
>tell someone .... ;-)
>
> I wired my TenTec 701, and the mic header, last night, and made my first
>contacts with K2 #6100. The first, from my QTH in North Georgia, was using
>8w on 10m, to Pennsylvania - the band was up and down and we each exchanged
>only 5-3 reports. The second was much more exciting, and marks (to me) the
>point at which I consider the radio "complete." I used 8w to break into a
>small DX pileup on 20m, and Carlos (I can't think of his call), in Costa
>Rica, gave me a 5-7 report, and voluntarily added that I had "great audio"!
> My antenna was a 125' doublet at 50', fed with 600-ohm open feed and an
>MFJ-949E.
>
> Although I plan to add a KPA100 and KDSP2 next, I have decided that I don't
>need to be in a hurry. I am looking forward to learning what all I can do
>with this radio on low power, and the received signals are so strong that
>noise is not an issue at this time - What's amazing is that I find myself
>using the Attenuator regularly!!
>
> Thanks to all for the great replies to my earlier newbie questions!!
>
> 73,
> Greg
> KI4MMM
>
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Gary D Krause

Re: K2 #6100 is alive!

I'm glad to hear everything went well with your build. I'm almost ready to
start winding the toroids. I've had a little practice since I built the SSB
board last weekend while waiting for a part to come from Elecraft. Those guys
are great for getting things to you fast. Those toroids are pretty close to
the crystals on the SSB board and I'll probably put some electrical tape
between them just to make sure they don't touch. I work mostly CW so getting
the SSB board in there right away isn't a priority for me but, it is nice to
have because, I do like to work SSB too.

Gary, N7HTS

On Wed, 23 May 2007 11:25:38 -0400
Greg Derda <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Gary,
>
> Yep, the SSB board had to go in as part of my basic build, because I am a
>no-code General ;-). I really, really want to learn code and experience that
>world. My build went very well until right at the last moment - all of a
>sudden my receiver was greatly attenuated. With the help of a fellow
>Elecrafter (a builder for hire that was guiding me via email), we determined
>that the very last thing I did, which was to install the two very tiny
>toroids, was the culprit. Mine were touching the crystal cans, and simply
>moving them away a hair fixed everything.
>
> Also, I did the N-Gen/Spectrogram alignment, but everything was so close to
>being right using the default settings in the manual that I don't think I'd
>recognized the difference.
>
> 73,
> Greg
> ki4mmm
>
> On May 23, 2007, at 10:44 AM, Gary D Krause wrote:
>
>> Congratulations Greg! I'm working on #6113. It sounds like you have
>> installed the SSB board as well. I also have the SSB board to install
>> but, I think I will wait to see how it works on CW first after I have
>> finished the rig. Have fun and I hope to work you on the air!
>>
>> Gary, N7HTS
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 23 May 2007 09:47:43 -0400
>> Greg Derda <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>> My XYL wasn't quite as excited about this as I had hoped, so I've got
>>> to tell someone .... ;-)
>>> I wired my TenTec 701, and the mic header, last night, and made my
>>> first contacts with K2 #6100. The first, from my QTH in North
>>> Georgia, was using 8w on 10m, to Pennsylvania - the band was up and
>>> down and we each exchanged only 5-3 reports. The second was much
>>> more exciting, and marks (to me) the point at which I consider the
>>> radio "complete." I used 8w to break into a small DX pileup on 20m,
>>> and Carlos (I can't think of his call), in Costa Rica, gave me a 5-7
>>> report, and voluntarily added that I had "great audio"! My antenna
>>> was a 125' doublet at 50', fed with 600-ohm open feed and an
>>> MFJ-949E.
>>> Although I plan to add a KPA100 and KDSP2 next, I have decided that I
>>> don't need to be in a hurry. I am looking forward to learning what
>>> all I can do with this radio on low power, and the received signals
>>> are so strong that noise is not an issue at this time - What's
>>> amazing is that I find myself using the Attenuator regularly!!
>>> Thanks to all for the great replies to my earlier newbie questions!!
>>> 73,
>>> Greg
>>> KI4MMM
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