Re: [Elecraft] K2 SSB wider filter mod

2011-12-12 Thread Ron D'Eau Claire
The crystals used in the filters vary somewhat within the parameters set by Elecraft. Indeed, I believe Elecraft tightened up the parameters somewhat a number of years ago. The bottom line is that they do vary from filter to filter. Checking with Spectrogram is an excellent idea. I found that my

Re: [Elecraft] K2 SSB wider filter mod

2011-12-12 Thread Leroy
Message- From: bdenley Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 6:31 PM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K2 SSB wider filter mod My understanding is that owners of relatively new K2s have the 2.4 KHz bandwidth if they have the KSB2 board. It's older K2s +KSB2s that came wit

Re: [Elecraft] K2 SSB wider filter mod

2011-12-12 Thread bdenley
My understanding is that owners of relatively new K2s have the 2.4 KHz bandwidth if they have the KSB2 board. It's older K2s +KSB2s that came with the narrower 2.1 KHz BW. Brian KB1VBF -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/K2-SSB-wider-filter-mod-tp7087890p70884

[Elecraft] K2 SSB wider filter mod

2011-12-12 Thread W2bpi1
I just did it. You can do 2.4 or 2.6. I chose the 2.4 for my K2. Am getting good reports and rcv works FB. You really need to do the allignment with Spectrogram to get it right. 73 George/W2BPI __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mai

Re: [Elecraft] K2 SSB wider filter mod

2011-12-12 Thread Ron D'Eau Claire
-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Vic Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 9:18 AM To: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: [Elecraft] K2 SSB wider filter mod Hi Folks, I am not happy with the original 2.2khz ssb filter in my K2 (serial 1926). It sounds very restricted and fine tuning the BFO setting is quite cri

Re: [Elecraft] K2 SSB wider filter mod

2011-12-12 Thread Dave Johnson
When I ordered a KPA500, I also ordered the capacitor and crystal kit to do the wide band SSB mod on my K2. I plan to do the mod tomorrow (13th Dec) and will let you know how I feel it worked out, both from the point of view of the mod itself and audibly. My K2 has already had the 2nd filter "flat

Re: [Elecraft] K2 SSB wider filter mod

2011-12-12 Thread Bill K9YEQ
See below. 73, Bill K9YEQ -Original Message- Has anyone done this ? [WRJ] YES!! If so - are you glad that you did or do you wish you had never tried ?[WRJ] I am glad!! 73, Vic GW4JUN __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http:

[Elecraft] K2 SSB wider filter mod

2011-12-12 Thread Vic
Hi Folks, I am not happy with the original 2.2khz ssb filter in my K2 (serial 1926). It sounds very restricted and fine tuning the BFO setting is quite critical and tx audio ends up either too bassy or too toppy. I'm thinking of fitting the wider ssb filter mod kit . That's the replacement