[Elecraft] Random Wire from KAT2
Howdy Folks, I usually run my KX1 like this http://n3wg.com/kx1.jpg, with wire straight off the antenna connector using the internal tuner. I've had my K2 for about 8 years now and I'd like to add the internal tuner. Is anyone running wire straight off the KAT2 antenna connectors when portable or can you see any problems with doing this with the KAT2? Thank you and 73, Nick N3WG __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Random Wire from KAT2
It works fine on the K2, also. If you direct-connect ladderline in this way, you can get unbalanced currents on the feedline, which may distort the antenna pattern some but otherwise work fine as well. The KAT2 is one of the nicest K2 modules., both to build and to use. Peter N8MHD On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Nick Garner nwgar...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy Folks, I usually run my KX1 like this http://n3wg.com/kx1.jpg, with wire straight off the antenna connector using the internal tuner. I've had my K2 for about 8 years now and I'd like to add the internal tuner. Is anyone running wire straight off the KAT2 antenna connectors when portable or can you see any problems with doing this with the KAT2? Thank you and 73, Nick N3WG __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Random Wire from KAT2
Hi Nick, I'm currently using my K2 QRP with the internal tuner and a few meters of wire strung out the window. It's connected directly to the K2 via a BNC-banana adapter like you do with your KX-1 and works OK for me, I even made a few 160m QSO-s. I also do have something like a dipole cut for 7 MHz that I feed with 2m of coax and tune this on 15m. Works really nice and the ability to switch two antennas is great, I only wish that you could assign one antenna output of the tuner as receive antenna (RANT). Sanjin DL/E71DX Nick Garner wrote: Howdy Folks, I usually run my KX1 like this http://n3wg.com/kx1.jpg, with wire straight off the antenna connector using the internal tuner. I've had my K2 for about 8 years now and I'd like to add the internal tuner. Is anyone running wire straight off the KAT2 antenna connectors when portable or can you see any problems with doing this with the KAT2? Thank you and 73, Nick N3WG -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Random-Wire-from-KAT2-tp3915489p3915859.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
