{"id":5160,"date":"2016-06-11T14:32:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T04:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/06\/11\/bob-crane-interviews-eric-schwartz-of-elecraft-about-the-new-kx2-with-si5351\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T18:26:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T08:26:51","slug":"bob-crane-interviews-eric-schwartz-of-elecraft-about-the-new-kx2-with-si5351","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/06\/11\/bob-crane-interviews-eric-schwartz-of-elecraft-about-the-new-kx2-with-si5351\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Crane Interviews Eric Schwartz of Elecraft About the New KX2 (with Si5351!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p> <b>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&#8217;s interview with Eric: <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b><a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/WA6HHQFDIM.mp3\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/WA6HHQFDIM.mp3<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p> <b>Pete and I were very pleased to see that Elecraft made use of our beloved Si5351 chip in <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elecraft.com\/manual\/kx2_datasheet_web.pdf\"><b>their amazing new KX2 rig.<\/b><\/a> <b>Check it out:<\/b> <\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/KX2BlockDiagram.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"298\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/KX2BlockDiagram.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>You can click on the diagram or see it directly on page 62 of the manual at this site: <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elecraft.com\/manual\/KX2%20owner's%20man%20A4.pdf\">http:\/\/www.elecraft.com\/manual\/KX2%20owner&#8217;s%20man%20A4.pdf<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>Here&#8217;s the KX2: <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/KX2ad.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/KX2ad.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>Three cheers for Elecraft! Three cheers for Bob Crane! <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<p> <b><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/06\/11\/bob-crane-interviews-eric-schwartz-of-elecraft-about-the-new-kx2-with-si5351\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bob Crane Interviews Eric Schwartz of Elecraft About the New KX2 (with Si5351!)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[376,133,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elecraft","category-hamfests-and-flea-markets","category-si5351"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5163,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5160\/revisions\/5163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}