Hi Carl, (& everybody else) I too love my K1. (#1337) It has a funny story behind it too. I had just moved into my (Oops, our.) new QTH and to battle the needs of my newfound CW addiction, (Thanks N2EY.) I decided to put a small portable SW rcvr on the nightstand. A dedicated "shack" was still in the process of being built from a converted closet that was itself converted from a crawl space beneath the stairs. (Anybody laughing yet?)
Early one morning I heard HC1HLO from Santo Domingo, Ecuador...a town which I'd visited just a year earlier. There I was with no xmit capability, very frustrating, to say the least! So I decided to check out eBay for a quick and dirty solution. I grabbed a 4-band K1 with all the options for a steal, tossed up a 40m doublet and viola, I was back OTA. I ran the feedline to my father's room downstairs with the intention of eventually letting him use it for his SWLing. Well, it's been about six months and I'm more than halfway toward my WAS, including a very nice contact with Curt, AH6RE on the heels of the Sunday Elecraft 40m net. I bagged a 1,000 mi./Watt award for that. All on 5 Watts! Now I want my WAS to be all QRP, I love it. Yeah, I now have a K2/100 and a Ten-Tec Jupiter in the "main" shack, but something always draws me to that K1 in dad's room. (The "secondary" shack, hi.) 73 de Bert WA2SI P.S. Any AKers want to set up a sked? ;-) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carl Bredberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <Elecraft@mailman.qth.net> Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 11:54 AM Subject: [Elecraft] K1 enthusiast wonders ?? > It seems the K1 has fallen off the radar screen here on the Elecraft reflecter and I wonder why. I have a K2 which is wonderful for CW ops in my shack, but it is not as stingy with power as my K1 and too valuable a radio to be bouncing around in the field. Also it is significantly bigger when packing into the wilderness. > > The KX1 is definately a slick little rig. I have had the opportunity to borrow a friends for a week, and although it definately is a great travelling rig, the K1 outputs twice the power, has 4 bands rather than 3, and seems better able to match whatever you can hook up to for an antenna. I use a "Paddelette" paddle which mounts to the short K1 tilt stand. Darn near as neat as the KX1 plug in paddle. > > I have a complete station, the K1, a 10 cell AA battery pack, wire antenna, headphones and logbook all in an insulated soft sided lunch bag. This goes everywhere with me and is without exception THE MOST FUN radio I have ever owned, used or heard tell about! > > If you don't have a K1, borrow one and you will become a believer too. > > 73 de > Carl, K1KID > _______________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > You must be a subscriber to post to the list. > Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm > Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
