SSB K2 sound good!!

[Renardy, Martin]

Dear all,

this morning I have spoken with a german guy who is living on a greek
island (maybe with the sirene women?!?)
on 20m and was able to record my transmission and he replayed it to me.

So the first time I heard my own trasmission using the K2 and it is
realy very good!!! The K2 has a clear good
modulation.

Regards

Martin, DL6KMR


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[Mark J. Schreiner]

Martin:  Gruess Gott!

Since I'll be using my K2 for this weekends Field Day for the SSB station I figured I better start trying it out a bit more on SSB.  So last night I cranked it up on 40m and had several nice QSOs.  Other than normal band conditions that changed I got good audio reports and had some very enjoyable QSOs as well.  

One station I worked for about 35 minutes while he was mobile in Minnesota, K7YOO/m.  He was quite intruiged with the K2 and sounded like he will be checking it out a bit more when he gets back home again.  He had built some Heathkit equipment back in its day so I think he would really enjoy building the Elecraft kits as well.

Although he was using Yeasu HF mobile equipment his home station uses either a Watkins Johnson or a Harris transceiver.  He also uses some old boat anchors (I'm not talking about "old" rice-box stuff, but real radios from back in the 50's).  He claimed that the Rx capabilities are much more important to him than any other features (a wise man).  I hope he gets a chance to check out an Elecraft sometime soon, I think he'll be impressed.  He even signed off telling me that maybe the next time we have a QSO it will be with a new K2 that he built.

Anyway, even though I didn't get to hear my own audio being played back to me, I guess if a guy hears the signal and claims he would like to get one as well that is a pretty good report.

I hope to be on to test it out again tonight and tomorrow night as well.  Of course the ultimate test will be on Saturday afternoon for about 24 hours.  I'll be operating the "midnight shift", thank God as the temps are supposed to be pretty hot during the day on Saturday and our F.D. QTH is in the middle of a wide open grassy field with no shade, other than the shade we bring.

73 und Tschuess,

Mark, NK8Q
K2 4786

>From: "Renardy, Martin" <[hidden email]>
>Date: Wed Jun 22 08:12:36 CDT 2005
>To: [hidden email]
>Subject: [Elecraft] SSB K2 sound good!!

>
>Dear all,
>
>this morning I have spoken with a german guy who is living on a greek
>island (maybe with the sirene women?!?)
>on 20m and was able to record my transmission and he replayed it to me.
>
>So the first time I heard my own trasmission using the K2 and it is
>realy very good!!! The K2 has a clear good
>modulation.
>
>Regards
>
>Martin, DL6KMR
>
>
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