Alan W1HYV built this little gem for me and he did a beautiful job. This was a very old kit s/n 192 but it had the rev B RF board so it ended up with the newer serial number. Alan also installed a few mods which have occured over the years since this old kit was bought. With the help of the Elecraft web site and Tom N0SS I've got it all calibrated, the BFO's set properly and the Audio filter adjusted to peak at my 600 Hz offset. My settings not be exact because I've not used the Spectrogram program but I'm real close! Calibration is within 20 Hz at 10 mHz and the s-meter peaks when the signals are tuned in on their zero beat frequencies on CW, CW-R and both sidebands. I may tweek it a bit more once I make up a cable to send the audio to my sound card.
This is the basic radio with only the AF/RTC installed. I also have the KSB2 kit and may build it at some time in the future but it sure has a lot of small parts densely packed on a tiny board - not a easy looking task for sure. I also communicated with support at Elecraft about the old KNB2 kit I also have and found out I need to update it a bit before building and installing it. They sure responded extremely quickly to my query! I understand now why they have such a strong following. Not only do they make outstanding radios, they give outstanding support to their customers.
Back to working some CW DX and a few rag chews with this fun and great performing little radio.
73,
Puck W4PM
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