I took advantage of the excellent conditions today to work a little DX with the
KX2. I was running 10 watts on 17 meters to a 20 meter vertical.
There was HD8M (Galapagos), loud and clear, calling CQ "up 5" on 18.145.
When I broke the pileup on the third call, I reflected on how many of the KX2's
features came into play to make this happen:
- ATU easily matched my 20 meter vertical on 17 meters (1.0:1)
- internal battery allowed transmit at a full 10 watts
- speech compression made it sound more like 20 or 30 watts :)
- used the KX2's stereo audio/dual-receive function to listen on both
18.145 (RX) and 18.150 (TX) at the same time; transmitting SPLIT
- annoying S8 noise pulses were vanquished by the NB
- carriers from the inconsiderate were dealt with by auto-notch
- used one of the rig's two DVR messages to do the calling
That's a lot of fully integrated fun in a radio that weighs less than one pound
and draws only about 170 mA in receive mode. And a great excuse to get outdoors.
Details on the KX2 can be found here:
https://elecraft.com/collections/kx-line/products/kx2-ssb-cw-data-80-10-m-transceiver
73,
Wayne
N6KR
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