I finally got a chance to try my KX1 on 80m last night. I've had the new KXB3080 installed for several weeks and did the resistor/L3 power mods, but haven't actually gotten on the air before now.
Late yesterday, about 2330 EDT I heard a weak station at around 3720. Zeroed him in with the K6XX tuning indicator, and replied to his call. He pause for a bit, then resumed calling CQ. Okay, I don't always get a reply -- my antenna is definitely not optimal for 80m, a 40m horizontal loop at about 20 ft, tuned with an externa tuner. I then tuned up the band a few hundred hertz, and to my surprise found the same station calling at 599!! I answered him on this frequency, and we had a brief QSO. My report was not that great, 479/QRN and it turned out he was quite local, only about 30 miles away. A textbook example of NVIS I suppose, given my antenna. So what did I hear the first time? Could that have been some kind of image on the other sideband leaking through? Groundwave? (whatever that means...) This is sort of like low band crop circles.... ;-) Anyway, the KXB3080 seems to be working fine, and I will check out the other bands over the next few days. The receiver in the KX1 seems better since I made the mods, but that could just be a result of better alignment than before. 73, Mike _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
