This may be coals to Newcastle for many on the list, but I did some crude experimenting with my KX-1 and the Norcal Doublet antenna yesterday out on the back deck. I was bopping back and forth between no ATU and a ZM-2 tuner and the ATU + BL2 combination.
Based SWR readings from the KX-1, the ZM-2 could give me somewhere on the order of 1.5:1 to 2:1 on 40 and 20 meters. Using the ATU and BL2 instead, I got 1:1 on 20 (with the switch at 4:1) and 1.2:1 on 40 (with the switch at 1:1). As a practical matter, those differences may not mean much in the overall scheme of things. But I got a kick out of the improvement. I realize the tuner was designed with random wires in mind, but I was pleased to see how well it worked with the balun and the doublet. Now to try a version of the doublet for 80-10 rather than just 40-10. Thanks for a great line of products! With best regards, Pete P.S. Oh, yes, I *was* making contacts with each... -- Peter N. Spotts -- W1PNS http://www.w1pns.net Email: [email protected] | Skype: pspotts QCWA #34679 | SKCC #4853T | QRP-ARCI #4174 NEQRP #714 | NAQCC #2446 | WARC-CC #147 ______________________________________________________________ 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
