Thank you Mike. I would get the four band module if it had 10m (I might still). I have a PAR end-fed dipole for 40/20/10, so it would be great to use the same antenna for three bands. I have seen that 10m can be done on the K1. I guess that with a wire and ATU I could cover four bands...
Gil. -- http://radiopreppers.com On Jun 16, 2012, at 12:09 AM, Mike Morrow wrote: > > Hi Gil, > > Welcome to the list, and congratulations on completing one of the best small > QRP sets ever designed. > > What you report is normal. Each heterodyne crystal on the filter board will > be a few kHz plus or minus the nominal frequency of BAND LOW END plus 8.000 > MHz. So the OPF cal must be performed for each band. The result is stored > for each BAND in the front panel EEPROM, which allows multiple filter boards > for different bands to be swapped in with the previously stored OPF data for > each BAND recalled in the front panel board and put into effect when you > assign b1 through b2 (or b4) the appropriate ham band. > > I always recommend the four-band filter board, which has superior filtering. > Also, unlike the KX1, the K1 is capable of excellent performance on 15m and > 17m. These bands are fantastic QRP bands for the next several years as solar > cycle 24 activity increases. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
