Thanks, Don. I think I can get a dummy load from HRO today and can probably borrow a transceiver from my local club. My random wire is 34 ' each leg, which is close to what the manual suggests.
I have a signal generator which I forgot about. It goes into the MHz range. I've never used it on a radio before. I guess I can just attach it to the antenna jack. This a really neat radio. Construction took longer than I anticipated but went well. I wanted to have it going before my backpacking trip to New Mexico, but I'm running out of time now. I appreciate the ideas you mentioned. 73, Paul KG5KXG -----Original Message----- From: "Don Wilhelm" <[email protected]> Sent: 12/26/2016 7:47 AM To: "Paul C" <[email protected]>; "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KX1 alignment and testing guidance Paul, At this time during the sunspot cycle, and especially over a holiday weekend, you are not likely to hear many signals from a random wire unless you have some way of tuning it - that is doubly a problem if it is just strung out on the house floor. Being 70 feet long, it is likely presenting a high impedance at the end approaching 4000 ohms, where a lower impedance (ideally 50 ohms) is needed. The TUNE buttons put the KX1 into transmit, but you should be operating into a 50 ohm load. Can you obtain or borrow a 50 ohm dummy load? That and some means of indicating power output is necessary. For receive, a signal generator of some type is a real asset if you do not have a good resonant antenna with a 50 ohm feedline. I suggest you contact some of the local hams who might have some test equipment and dummy loads to help you out. 73, Don W3FPR On 12/26/2016 1:48 AM, Paul C wrote: > Hi folks. I'm in the final steps for getting my KX1 working and am kind of > stuck. Since Elecraft is closed until Wednesday I thought I'd check with > y'all for a few ideas before then. > > Q1). What exactly is TUNE mode supposed to do? For me it doesn't appear to do > anything. > > BTW, I'm trying to align the thing and I have a random wire dipole fed > directly to the antenna jack. I have the KXAT1 ATU option assembled but it's > not installed in the rig yet. > ______________________________________________________________ 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]
