I've a story to add to the list. My wife, KI6SLX was lucky
enough to win a KX2 at the Foothill Amateur Radio Society's
winter banquet. She was very pleased. Her radio experience is
all on VHF/UHF FM, so after digging in the manual for a while,
she asked me, "Do you know how to set it up for repeater use?" I
dug around for a while, noticed it didn't support FM, and said,
"I don't think it supports repeaters." A few days later she
said, "Next time you're at HRO, please pick up a general class
license manual."
The short answer to, "What would you do with a KX2?" is "Get
enough incentive to study for a license upgrade."
We could use radios that allow technicians to operate on HF as
an incentive to upgrade. The Yaesu FT-8900 comes close as it
operates on 10M, 6M, 2M, and 70cm but it is FM only. It would be
an ideal radio to introduce Technician licensees to HF
operation, but it doesn't support SSB. Technicians can't use FM
on 10M so, catch 22.
(Yes, Technicians can use CW on several HF bands. But, the
number of new licensees of any class who know CW is tiny. We've
run out of retired commercial telegraphers who don't already
have ham licenses.) Nowadays, you get your license, start to
operate, and then you decide to learn CW.
73 Bill AE6JV
On 2/3/17 at 1:23 PM, [email protected] (Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ,
Elecraft) wrote:
We've just completed our "What would you do with a KX2?" joint
contest with K6UDA. Here are the winning videos that won a KX2.
Pretty cool!
See:
https://youtu.be/xlDQu9GbbbY
73,
Eric
/elecraft.com/
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