Re: about this K2 mojo

[n5pip]

I'll echo what Chris wrote.
 I just received my K2 on Monday (4/11/05), purchased from the estate of
George W5YR (SK).
 I was tuning through 17m at 2357z on 4/12/05. Heard a strong 59 station
running a pileup on 18.135. K9SG/PJ2.
What the heck, I'm running 10w into a vertical. Let me give it a try. Whoa!!
He's answering me! And we exchange 5x9 !!!
15 minutes later (0112z, 4/13/05) I'm trolling through 20m. A strong S9
station at 14.202 . A huge pileup. Well, my 10w is fired off again. What?
he's calling for the Papa India Papa station to try again. This is getting
really interesting. So I go back, "N5PIP/QRP". K9LZJ/PJ2 replies, "You're
5x3, try lower power". So now I'm REALLY sitting up straight, I lower to 5
watts, get another 5x3. Lower again to 1 watt. Still 5x3. Lower to 1/2 watt,
then 1/10th watt. Still getting 5x3. Now we're BOTH amazed. He wants to know
what rig I'm running.  "ELECRAFT K2, of course", I proudly reply. He replies
something to the effect that he's going to have to seriously look into
Elecraft a bit further.
   Now I want to know, do Wayne & Eric pay commissions?????!!!!
   To paraphrase an older popular commercial, "When Elecraft speaks, people
listen".

73 de Stirling, N5PIP
K2 #0489

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[johnny-52]

First of all, I love K2 and built a number of them.  However, I have similar
experience for my other rigs.  Sometimes, what happened will depend on band
conditions.

72/73

Johnny Siu VR2XMC
builder of s/n 1146, 3837, 4165, 4255, 4597
----- Original Message -----
From: "n5pip" <[hidden email]>
To: <[hidden email]>
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 12:01 PM
Subject: [Elecraft] Re: about this K2 mojo

>
>
> I'll echo what Chris wrote.
> I just received my K2 on Monday (4/11/05), purchased from the estate of
> George W5YR (SK).
> I was tuning through 17m at 2357z on 4/12/05. Heard a strong 59 station
> running a pileup on 18.135. K9SG/PJ2.
> What the heck, I'm running 10w into a vertical. Let me give it a try.
> Whoa!! He's answering me! And we exchange 5x9 !!!
> 15 minutes later (0112z, 4/13/05) I'm trolling through 20m. A strong S9
> station at 14.202 . A huge pileup. Well, my 10w is fired off again. What?
> he's calling for the Papa India Papa station to try again. This is getting
> really interesting. So I go back, "N5PIP/QRP". K9LZJ/PJ2 replies, "You're
> 5x3, try lower power". So now I'm REALLY sitting up straight, I lower to 5
> watts, get another 5x3. Lower again to 1 watt. Still 5x3. Lower to 1/2
> watt, then 1/10th watt. Still getting 5x3. Now we're BOTH amazed. He wants
> to know what rig I'm running.  "ELECRAFT K2, of course", I proudly reply.
> He replies something to the effect that he's going to have to seriously
> look into Elecraft a bit further.
>   Now I want to know, do Wayne & Eric pay commissions?????!!!!
>   To paraphrase an older popular commercial, "When Elecraft speaks, people
> listen".
>
> 73 de Stirling, N5PIP
> K2 #0489

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[Ron D'Eau Claire-2]

Stirling, N5PIP wrote:

 I just received my K2 on Monday (4/11/05), purchased from the estate of
George W5YR (SK).

----------------

It's good to know that the "Yellow Rose" of Texas' rig is on the air and
providing a lot of enjoyment!

George was a special Ham and a FB QRP operator.

It's always exciting when a good setup, favorable propagation and someone on
the other end who has a good receiver and knows how to use it makes an
seemingly "impossible" contact very possible indeed!

It's the sort of excitement that never wears off.

Ron AC7AC



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[NR5A]

I've got my K-2 baby 2839 that only has the SSB option, and thats mainly for
PSK31 operating. I got it built up to about the half way point and it was
taking me about a year to get that far. I finally had someone take my baby
and finish it. He brought all the small mods it needed up to date,
exceptional job and it has worked better than I could have ever asked. .
Except for very low output on 10m its working great. I use it on some  mode
almost every day. I'm getting the urges to make it even better to put more
add ons.

I was given a KAF-2 module already built but the battery holder was damaged.
I now have a new holder to but in the unit which I will do tomorrow when I'm
more like awake.

Now page 3 of the KAF-2's lil manual says you must have a 2.01 or later
revision. Your suppose to hold any key power up and when you release the
switch you will see the revision on the left side. Upon doing that I see a
2.02H and on the right side I get a 1.02.
So am I safe?? Have there been other upgrades done? Can or How do I get
them?? They are talking about U6 here aren't they?

I'm going to go thru each step and make sure what was suppose to be put
where was done and keep on till I get to the end. Then just follow the
undone steps and see what happens.

U2 has a paper on it that says KAF2  right below that is 1.00  is that ok???
Thats on the board that was given to me.

Once I get the KAF2 in my K-2 and see what it actually does then I'll get
one of the simpler model upgrades and do that. Like maybe the 160M Option,
and then just maybe the Noise Blanker Option, low and slow is my key. ha ha

Jerry - NR5A - South Dakota


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