Re: KX-2 wish list

Posted by Ed - K9EW on Oct 29, 2010; 2:08pm
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/KX-2-wish-list-tp5681590p5686602.html

At first, I passed over this thread.  But then I remembered a couple
of changes I would like to see in my KX-1

I use my KX-1 for portable operation when we go camping, hiking, or
sometimes in a local park or forest preserve.  I have never used the
KX-1 for anything other than CW QSO's, ie no SWL'ing.  So the
improvement I would like to see is to have a fixed bandwidth (500Hz)
4-pole crystal filter in the IF.  When the band is active, and
especially during sprints, that extra pole of filtering would be a big
plus.

That's it... a small change (maybe 3 additional parts for the
additional pole of filtering, and remove a few parts since it's now a
fixed bandwidth) for a big improvement in performance.  This would
seem like a pretty simple mod, and it's on my list of projects - just
haven't gotten to it yet.  (If anyone has already done this, I'd
really like to hear from you.)

73,
ed - k9ew
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