I picked a K1 as the radio for my vacation QTH - in part because I
already have a K2 and KX1 and wanted to see what the other member of the
family is like. I had been carrying the KX1 back and forth, and got
tired of doing that, so I bought a used K1 to leave there. (That also
sent me down a path of craziness regarding paddles, but that's another
story.)
I really like the little guy. At first, I found that I missed some of
the features of the K2, but after operating casually in a couple of
contests and working some DX, I find that it's got pretty much
everything that's needed. Now I'm (slowly) working on the antenna
situation there.
I have the ATU and a 40/30/20/15 board installed. I also have a board
with 80/17, but I don't use it as often as I thought I would. The ATU
doesn't really like loading my W3EDP on 80, and only sort of works on
40; I'll probably tack on a little extra capacitance (and eventually
replace the W3EDP with some fan dipoles).
I have the backlight - very useful. I'm probably going to install the CW
tuning indicator at some point. I would love a simple DSP denoiser,
since I've gotten used to that on the K2 ...
73 de chris K6DBG
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