VE9KK Blog

I was just reading a post on the Elecraft reflector of an amateur and that he contacted Elecraft to get some spare parts for his K1 and K2...

It's like the Borg connected to the collective! As my readers may have clued in already I am a big Elecraft fan and the two radios I...

My 1/2 built K2 is up for sale Many decisions have been made here at VE3WDM in the past few months. We decided to downsize to a condo in...

The K2 ready in it's Pelican case to be shipped For some time now I have been looking at my Elecraft K2 sitting on my radio desk d...

I have resistance for a long time but as the borg say "resistance is futile" and it's time to sell my K2 package. I have see...

Times R a changing with the way the sun is preforming these days. I know we have all wanted the sunspots to go up along with the flux numb...

Last weekend I was working on my Elecraft K2 project all was going well until I tried to clean my Weller soldering tip in the wire sponge....

Oliver is keeping an eye on things I was on the radio this afternoon and not much was on the WARC bands    (CW contesting on the other b...

Things don't seem to work  when you really need them I have been reading on many blogs of fellow hams who have had an increase in QR...

RFI Friday night My last post dealt with my PC monitors causing me some grief in the form of RFI to my K3. On Saturday I spent most of...

My additional blog Back in December when my second Elecraft K2 kit arrived I tossed around the idea of starting an additional blog abou...

Just waiting to be framed and hung on the "I love me" wall  The Skeeter Hunt contest had it's first running this year its...

Last Friday we had a "situation" at work that had me working until about 3 a.m. and when I got home I was still all pumped from ...

My first K2 serial 6613 This week I posted a question on the Elecraft reflector "I'm building a bare bones Elecraft K2 radio an...

Now that fall is in full swing and most.....typo alert remove  "and most" (thanks to Gary at rework eliminator for Elecraft K2 ...

Charger ready for testing I have built  A&A Engineering's 1 amp Smart Battery QRP charger mainly for my Elecraft K2's intern...

The setup at the park Last weekend on Saturday the weather here was great lots of sunshine and very few clouds. So it was off the the ...

Packing up for the contest I took part in the first annual Skeeter contest sponsored by the NJQRP club the first years theme was to go...

Elecraft KX3 But To help raise the funds for the new Elecraft KX3 some items here at the shack have to go up for sale....including m...

Portable op's QTH VE3WDM portable in action It was and still is a beautiful day here at VE3WDM there is a nice cool breeze, the ...