{"id":18901,"date":"2016-05-19T17:18:05","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T21:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=18901"},"modified":"2016-05-19T17:20:11","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T21:20:11","slug":"photos-of-the-new-elecraft-kx2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/photos-of-the-new-elecraft-kx2\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos of the new Elecraft KX2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Elecraft-KX2-2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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. Elecraft’s booth is always epically busy during the Hamvention–and this year will be no exception, I’m sure. It was nice to visit and get one-on-one time with the KX2 with no crowds.\"Elecraft-KX2-6\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Many thanks to the staff at Elecraft–especially David Shoaf–who gave\u00a0me a quick tour of the KX2 and allowed me to take a few photos.<\/p>\n

The KX2 is smaller than it even appears in most of the photos Elecraft has published. It’s roughly the size of the KX1, but somehow manages to fit the same backlit display of the KX3. They’ve done a pretty good job of designing this rig to accommodate a lot<\/em> of features–but to be clear, it doesn’t have as many features of it’s “bigger” brother, the KX3.<\/p>\n

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\"Elecraft-KX2-3\"<\/a> \"Elecraft-KX2-4\"<\/a> \"Elecraft-KX2-5\"<\/a> \"Elecraft-KX2-7\"<\/a> \"Elecraft-KX2-8\"<\/a> \"Elecraft-KX2-9\"<\/a> \"Elecraft-KX2-10\"<\/a> \"Elecraft-KX2-11\"<\/a> \"Elecraft-KX2-12\"<\/a> \"Elecraft-KX2-13\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The KX2 is actually much smaller than the KX3.<\/p>\n

\"Elecraft-KX2-14\"<\/a> \"Elecraft-KX2-15\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I am very<\/em> tempted to purchase a KX2 for review, but may hold out for a few months. I would like to review it after my summer travels, though.<\/p>\n

In truth, I love my KX3<\/a> and it serves me well: since I like the KX3\u00a0form-factor, it covers more bands than the KX2 and has a great general coverage receiver with AM mode for SWLing, I have no need for the KX2. The price point for a KX2 is a tough one, as well: after adding an internal ATU and paying taxes, you’re staring at $1,000 US.<\/p>\n

Still: if you want almost all of the features of the KX3, yet\u00a0something even more\u00a0<\/em>compact–something that can even be operated as a handheld!–the KX2 will serve you well. It’s certainly a clever piece of kit.<\/p>\n

I will plan to review the KX2\u00a0later this year. Click here to download the Elecraft KX2 spec sheet.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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. Elecraft’s booth is always epically busy during the Hamvention–and this year will be no exception, I’m sure. It […]<\/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":[545,836,3,1936,43],"tags":[2034,5083,5090,5084],"class_list":["post-18901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-new-products","category-news","category-photos","category-shortwave-radio","tag-elecraft","tag-elecraft-kx2","tag-elecraft-kx2-photos","tag-kx2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-4UR","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18871,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/the-elecraft-kx2-a-fit-in-your-pocket-size-transceiver\/","url_meta":{"origin":18901,"position":0},"title":"The Elecraft KX2 : a “Fit-In-Your-Pocket size” transceiver","author":"Thomas","date":"May 18, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Since I own the Elecraft KX3, Elecraft K2 and the Elecraft KX1, I'm excited to see that Elecraft has announced\u00a0a new addition to their product line:\u00a0the Elecraft KX2. 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