My KX1 puts out over 5 watts when powered with an A123 LiFePO pack, and will run longer than I can from a small.4S1P battery. It fits perfectly into a Pelican 1060 box, which makes it nearly indestructible when using it to soften face plants while xc skiing. It's perfect as is, though a 40-20-15 version would be interesting.
I'd like to see a single-band KX0, the size of a Rockmite, a full 1-2 watts out, with attendant Elecraft mojo. THAT would be cool. It could use an outboard T1 for tuning wires. 73 Eric WD6DBM Mike Morrow <[email protected]> wrote: >Phil wrote: > >> A reasonable assessment, Johnny. Of course the KX1 >> was designed as the ultimate Trail-Friendly Radio >> (TFR) and that it is! > >I always preferred the K1 versus the KX1. I must have 15m, >plus the KX1 really needs a four-pole IF filter, IMO. > >I have a dream of a KX2 that is a KX1 descendant, with four-pole >filter, 15m and maybe other bands not on a KX1, back-lit LCD vs >LED, noise blanker, and everything required for the band coverage >laid out from the start in the design, and not as an after- >thought. (As has been often noted, the KX1 is not particularly >easy rig to build with all the options.) I'd also like to see >5 watt output on all bands with 14 vdc power. Perhaps it could >even be a factory-built SMT design. Finally, that KX2 would need >an ATU capable of far more than 254 combinations of reactance >insertion. The KAT1's 1022 combinations would be minimum, IMHO. > >A small, capable, simple-to-operate, very low-power-consumption >QRP rig still has great appeal even with availability of the >overwhelming capability of the KX3. I'd like to have both. > >...and the KX2 slot in the Elecraft line needs filling! :-) > >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 >Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
