Joe/AF6NI wrote: > I have the T1 tuner and love it with the K1... > I think the internal tuner is important in the trail > friendly KX1 but not so necessary in the larger K1.
The T1 is definitely better when one uses an ill-behaved antenna system that needs a lot of reactance precisely inserted by a tuner to match it to the K1 output. But beware of the losses from small tuners with very thin wire inductances, an aspect happily ignored by many in the Elecraft community. That's *much* less necessary if a resonant antenna such as a dipole is used that requires little or no tuner reactance to achieve satisfactory VSWR. That's what I use for my campsite/backpack operations, after literally *decades* of experimentation with many other antenna types. The K1 has better CW-segment RF performance than the KX1 on *any* band, and it covers some of those now important bands that are above the 20m limitation of the KX1 (15m in particular). I've never agreed with the common assertion that the KX1 replaced the K1 for backpacking operations. Not if RF performance means anything! Under these conditions, the internal KAT1 is extremely useful and very very convenient. 73, Mike / KK5F ______________________________________________________________ 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
