There is a well-written and illustrated overview I found useful when building
mine located here:
https://ac2c.net/KX1-Project.php
73 Scott ka9p
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> On Apr 10, 2023, at 1:51 AM, Julia Tuttle wrote:
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> If you mean the original manuals, they're here:
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Dave, if you’d like to see a reasonably controlled test of radiators, you might
want to take a look at the 2002 HF Pack Vertical Antenna Shootout Results. The
antennas range from full size to a resistor with a short whip.
https://www.qsl.net/hfpack/antennas/shootoutvertical2002.html#vertical
My KX3 took a 3 month sabbatical to the mothership the first of this year.
Communication was great, problem isolated over the phone in two calls, part was
available but I was advised that most Elecraft customers “prefer to have
Elecraft do those repairs” and that was all the encouragement I
My KX3 just made it back from its 10 year anniversary trip to the mothership.
I have all the options and I would just say get them if you can, but make sure
you think through all of the uses you plan to make of the radio to make the
best decisions for you. Or at resale time.
2 examples.
I
http://www.wb9kzy.com/gzb.htm
This Zerobeat kit looks like it’s still available, might be worth a look. If
anyone does please report back, I’m still banging away on my KX1 as well
Scott ka9p
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> On Jun 9, 2020, at 4:30 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote:
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> Tom Hammond
http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Field-Day/2019/2019%20FD%20Flier%20-%20What%20is%20FD.pdf
ARRL says it’s “an informal contest” and says that the “contest part” is to
contact as many folks as possible, as well as what Bob notes.
Everybody is right, but this duality has more than once created a
I'd appreciate some thoughts on the following. Setting up for SS tonight, I
measured K3 (SN474, all mods done) low power output all bands, CW and SSB,
about 400 milliwatts before KPA3 kicks in, then increasing power to about 8 or
9 watts at 100 watt setting. Tuner would function fine and tune
How about an urban HOA tan stucco AX1 for us cliff dwellers as well? Scott
Ka9p/0
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> On Sep 3, 2019, at 7:32 PM, HB via Elecraft wrote:
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> Desert tan!!
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>> On Sep 3, 2019, at 9:26 PM, Wayne Burdick wrote:
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>>> Mike Morrow wrote:
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>>> ... [a] characteristic
I think all the comments argue for flexibility in a K4 UI. Even the lowly UBITX
(not a dig) has a plethora of touch screen and non-touch screen options these
days that make it relatively easy to personalize your rig to your preferences.
I'd like an option to plug in a screen, touch or
But Al, it’s not a bad thing to want Wayne to do an Elecraft quality V/U
capable KX2 or 3, its a compliment!
Many of us that do linear portable satellite work lug a pair of 817s around
that do a commendable job for 15 year old tech, but would be much better and
lighter to have a couple KX2s
Been having some great fun hiking around with the MFJ 20 meter monoband whip
working cw out in western Colorado this week.
I'm surprised that I was able to make several solid contacts in NAQP and CWOPS
this way, but wondering if anyone has found a way to make the attached paddle
any easier to
Ha.
I loaned a good friend my K3 on Field Day for cw and ran my Omni 7 a few feet
away on phone.
No doubt phone is tougher.
He still has my K3.
My proposed rule change - anyone that can't run Elecraft should get both
sympathy and at least a 25 percent multiplier
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> On
I have that kind of neighbor hood, so I painted the spreaders grey, and the
mast and cables grey, to match the garage and the too frequent midwestern
sky, put the mast base and rotor inside the garage, so the hex just kinds
blooms about 10 foot over the roof.
With the rotor and base
Hey Mike.
For a trip to ZF last month, I took several old Walmart crappie pole pieces and
built a 22 foot mast by judiciously selecting and cutting pieces no longer than
28 inches so that the sections would stack and the disassembled antenna would
fit diagonally in my suitcase.
I'm hoping
I enthusiastically second what Paul said, and in the meantime would be excited
to see a small 2 meter/435 receiver converter card or box for either radio so
at least one KX sibling could go along on a satellite ops trip, rather than
forlornly watching the Y twins head out the door.
I realize
The KX2 was pretty thoroughly reviewed by Peter Hart in the January 2017
edition of RadCom.
Without trying to reproduce the receiver data tables, some representative
numbers are:
3.5 MHz close in IMD (500 Hz bandwidth, 2 kHz spacing with preamp off) yielded
a 3rd order intercept of +15 dBm
I'd be curious to know if the kx2 ends up being a kx1 slayer.
I'll admit to forlornly looking at mine from time to time since the kx2 came
out, but then she reminds me that she was the last in a long line of trail
radios I built, and a darn good one, and I'm guilted into keeping her. Tho she
I'd love to see Elecraft sell a set of plug and play VHF/UHF transverters and a
k3-sized box to hold, say, 1 to 4 of the transverters, which would be a
flexible and cost effective way to address VHF/UHF capability, much like the
736 optionally provided for 50 and 1296 MHz.
A few higher orbit
You might also take a look for a note from k6ll in the archives about erratic
button behavior related to encoder issues-he described a way to exercise the
encoders that resolved what looked like keypad issues on my k3 in short order.
73 Scott ka9p
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> On Apr 8, 2016,
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