{"id":439,"date":"2009-02-24T05:51:15","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T09:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/?p=439"},"modified":"2010-10-27T13:15:47","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T17:15:47","slug":"k2-impressions-part-9-one-nit-to-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/?p=439","title":{"rendered":"K2 Impressions &#8211; Part 9 &#8211; One Nit to Pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, it is pretty minor, but in listening to the K5D pileups last week, I figured out that the K2 is less user friendly for chasing splits than the FT-920. Even though the second VFO on the 920 is not a genuine second receiver, it is a lot simpler to use than the K2 for hunting down the guy the DX is working. So the 920 is definitely the first choice for hunting DX. The close in capability of the K2 is not as important when the DX is working split. But the ergonomics of using the 920 is so much easier for split DX hunting, it will take a lot of effort to adjust to the K2 ergonomics.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>I guess the solution is to buy a second K2. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s not going to happen with the first college tuition check for the eldest only months away. Until that is behind us, I&#8217;ll just need to use the 920 for SWL&#8217;ing and some DX&#8217;ing. And SO2R, if I ever get geared up to practice that.<\/p>\n<p>And of course, the K2 can&#8217;t get WWL during LSU football season.  We won&#8217;t count that as a demerit since it was not designed for that purpose.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The K2 Impressions series\" href=\"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/?p=209\">&#8211; more &#8211; at the K2 Impressions page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, it is pretty minor, but in listening to the K5D pileups last week, I figured out that the K2 is less user friendly for chasing splits than the FT-920. Even though the second VFO on the 920 is not a genuine second receiver, it is a lot simpler to use than the K2 for hunting down the guy the DX is working. So the 920 is definitely the first choice for hunting DX. The close in capability of the K2 is not as important when the DX is working split. But the ergonomics of using the 920 is so much easier for split DX hunting, it will take a lot of effort to adjust to the K2 ergonomics.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>I guess the solution is to buy a second K2. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s not going to happen with the first college tuition check for the eldest only months away. Until that is behind us, I&#8217;ll just need to use the 920 for SWL&#8217;ing and some DX&#8217;ing. And SO2R, if I ever get geared up to practice that.<\/p>\n<p>And of course, the K2 can&#8217;t get WWL during LSU football season. We won&#8217;t count that as a demerit since it was not designed for that purpose.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; more &#8211; at the K2 Impressions page<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}