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Gil WA5YKK

Re: K2 near the sea

Tom seems to have discovered the prime problem that plagues most of us
who live on or close to salty sea areas of the nation. I've been living
with the sad sight of watching my gear all dissolve into rust and
corrosion for decades, lost lots of good and mediocre items to salt air
damage, and had thought that it was something to put up with forever.
All the coatings I've ever tried have given up to the insidious process,
so I've been accustomed to saving my ham bucks and simply buying new
gear "too often"! I read about the Boeshield product that can be applied
on electronic parts, so I'll try to find a source, and see what happens.
Aside from that, there's not much hope but to put the gear into an air
conditioned room, keep the humidity low, and seal the rigs off until you
want to use them!
My final solution will be to move most of my gear, antennas and all,
to a city well inland from the Texas Gulf Coast, and maybe enjoy life
with my ham rigs with little or no worry about salt damage anymore. That
will also eliminate the loss of gear to hurricanes, and my area is ripe
for a total wipeout "one year soon"!

73's
Gil WA5YKK

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> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 06:49:16 -0500
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> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 07:59:51 -0400
> From: "David Robertson" <[hidden email]>
> Subject: [Elecraft] K2 Cal
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> Nick,
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> I know you got many responses to your question about frequency calibration on the K2.
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> I just wanted to give you my slant on this.
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> When I calibrated my K2, I set up the K2 as a counter. On the tip of the counter jumper cable you built, wrap a little piece of bare wire around the banana plug and attach a clip lead to that wire. Plug the cable (along with wire and clip lead into your VCO output test jack on the RF board. Connect the other end of that clip lead to an external frequency counter.
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> Note the frequency readout on the counter (the actual readout frequency is not critical) and adjust C22 on the Control Board so the K2's frequency counter's readout is exactly the same as the external counter. Your adjusting the time base on the controller board to match that of the external counter.
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> Remove the clip lead and wire but leave the counter jumper wire connected to the VCO test jack. Put your K2 on the 7 MHZ band and Run VCO Cal.
> When the VCO Cal is completed, run the calibrations for your BFO offsets and if that external frequency counter was working correctly you will be dead on frequency.
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> Hope this is not too confusing Nick.
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> 73
> Dave KD1NA
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> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 08:45:22 -0400
> From: "Bob P" <[hidden email]>
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K2 Cal
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> Saw a article in FISTS news letter about mods for a K1, Changing USB to LSB,
> Does any one have comments if this works and why do it ??.
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> Mod is remove RFC1 and jumper it, then realign BFO
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> Bob KC8IPQ
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> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 08:26:39 -0500
> From: Sam Morgan <[hidden email]>
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K2 Cal
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> Bob P wrote:
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>>Saw a article in FISTS news letter about mods for a K1, Changing USB to
>>LSB,
>>Does any one have comments if this works and why do it ??.
>>
>>Mod is remove RFC1 and jumper it, then realign BFO
>>
>
> In the article I believe Harry explains his reason for doing this. First note
> that he is a JL3 so his band conditions I'm sure aren't the same as here in
> Texas. <g>
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> But for his usage he says the USB to LSB change allows him to "listen to phone
> QSO's on high-bands to know how propagations are good or not. And he can be
> active on his favorite 12-meter."

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