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\"Elecraft-KX2-Data-Sheet\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Click here to download the PDF version of the Elecraft KX2 product sheet (2 pages)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Click here to download the PDF version of the Elecraft KX2 product sheet (2 pages).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[545,836,3,3196,26],"tags":[2034,5083,5087,5086,5084],"class_list":["post-18882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-new-products","category-news","category-portable-radio","category-radios","tag-elecraft","tag-elecraft-kx2","tag-elecraft-kx2-features","tag-elecraft-kx2-specifications","tag-kx2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-4Uy","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18901,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/photos-of-the-new-elecraft-kx2\/","url_meta":{"origin":18882,"position":0},"title":"Photos of the new Elecraft KX2","author":"Thomas","date":"May 19, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"One of the benefits of being an inside exhibitor at the Dayton Hamvention is the ability to visit with vendors and exhibitors on Thursday, prior to all of the traffic that happens on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. 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