Forget "radials" for receiving. You don't need them to hear many, many signals.
The suggestion to throw out a hank of wire (or just tie the center and shield of the coax to your vertical together and connect them both to the center pin of the antenna connector - assuming your coax isn't buried) for an impromptu receive antenna is a good one. That should bring in a lot of HF signals. One thing about your SWR readings -- If your antenna system is very lossy for some reason often the SWR will look excellent. All the SWR says is that there's little reflected power and even a short or open circuit at the end of a very long piece of coax will show a fairly low SWR while preventing reception (or transmission!). Do you have the correct antenna selected? You have ANT1 and ANT2 selectable from the front panel. There's enough leakage between the two that a tiny amount of signal will be audible if you have the wrong antenna. And if you are so equipped, you have the option of the RX antenna on a separate connector at the rear that is completely independent of the KAT2 an it's two antenna selections. Choosing that one will produce your symptoms too. Ron AC7AC ______________________________________________________________ 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
