I own an upgraded K3, a K3S, a KPOD, a KPA500 and a KAT500. I used the latter
two with a brand K transceiver and very modest antennas to work them (so far) on
25 of the 29 slots they operated on.
In my book six-meters doesn't count and they only made a handful of 60-meter CW
and SSB Qs so that doesn't either. They operated briefly on 20-meter RTTY while
I wasn't home :-(
My only nod to QRP is that the whole station runs on one 20A 120VAC circuit.
Wes N7WS
On 11/3/2021 9:07 PM, Tim Tucker wrote:
While I own both the KX2 and KX3, when I was trying to work HD8R on 40m
with an Inverted V in the early evening here in SoCal on FT8, there was a
HUUUUGE pileup. In my case, the K3 (upgraded to K3S) with the KPA1500 was
the trick. It took me an hour and a KW, but I finally got through. So I
guess the story here is that, depending your circumstances, Elecraft has
the tools to get the job done :)
On Wed, Nov 3, 2021 at 5:42 PM Bill Lederer <[email protected]> wrote:
By far it is the most fun per watt of any radio that I have ever owned.
I worked HD8R on 15 with 10 watts to a random wire.
w8vln
On Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 6:08 PM Wayne Burdick <[email protected]> wrote:
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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