Our ace correspondent Bob Crane W8SX caught up with Eric Schwartz WA6HHQ of Elecraft at the FDIM event n Dayton last month. Here is Bob’s interview with Eric:
http://soldersmoke.com/WA6HHQFDIM.mp3
Pete and I were very pleased to see that Elecraft made use of our beloved Si5351 chip in their amazing new KX2 rig. Check it out:
You can click on the diagram or see it directly on page 62 of the manual at this site:
Here’s the KX2:
Three cheers for Elecraft! Three cheers for Bob Crane!
The mp3 link appears to be bad.
URL’s on *nix systems are generally case sensitive. http://soldersmoke.com/WA6HHQ.mp3 seems to work 🙂
And it’s fixed… (Bill is fast!)
Note bi-directional [amps? ZIAs? or just switching?] either side of the bandpass.
Switches. Just found how to zoom the pdf.
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3 Cheers for Elecraft! Those guys are amazing. Can’t wait to hear what the illuminati have to say about the choice of the Si5351. Then again two years ago I said it was “good enough” …