Caution when using this location: Make sure your counterpoise is insulated and there’s no way to contact bare metal at this point with your hand when using the KX2 hand-held ‘walkie-talkie’ style. I received a nice RF burn on my hand at this point once!
Steve AA8AF > On Sep 24, 2022, at 3:37 PM, Dan Presley <n7...@arrl.net> wrote: > > The other nice feature of the KX2 is the mini banana jack on the side of the > radio for attaching the counterpoise . It’s perfect for pedestrian mobile and > should you encounter some sort of snag it’ll pop out before the wire > breaks.Wayne can better comment than me,but I believe the resonance of the > AX1 (or AX2 I presume) it’s not right within the 20M band, but close. The > auto tuner easily takes care of matching and as Wayne mentioned earlier > compensates for all of the other variables. Just a note that the AX2 is a > single band coil and can be modified for different bands. Plus it’s even a > lot lower profile than the AX1. > If you want to see some fun videos of using the AX1 directly attached to the > KX2 search on YouTube for HB9BZG-SOTA from the Swiss Alps! > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
