I have just returned from a few days away in Italy with my xyl. Being limited with what we could take (we were flying, usually we drive), I took along my KX-1. It was the first time that I had used it this year- blame the K3 for that!
When I used it last (in CT and EA in summer 2008) I posted to the reflector that I had suffered Broadcast interference on 20m after the radio had suffered a rather severe blow caused by my son tripping up over the antenna wire and launching the KX-1 some distance! As a result of this mishap I discovered that I had a broken bnc socket which I have since replaced. I imagined that this might have been at the root of the problem and that all would be well. However, on the aforementioned trip I threw about 10m of wire out of the hotel window (just to listen) and was surprised to find three or four strong broadcast stations around 14.2MHz, so strong in fact that they were badly interfering with QSOs. I cannot help but think that there is something else awry with the KX-1. I have checked the filter alignment and all seems okay according to the manual. Is there anything else I should check for? I don't expect the kind of performance I get from the K2 or K3, but it seems to me that the KX-1 should be performing better than this. Any suggestions appreciated 73 Stephen G4SJP ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
