Paul,
This is normal. You need two wires for your antenna. If you have the
antenna tuner option, you can use the Elecraft suggestion of the
following: hook a 16, 24, or 33ft wire to the ground side for 20/30/40,
and a 24-28ft wire to the center conductor. The Pomona BNC to binding
post adapter makes this convenient....there is a part number in the
manual. Then tie a hex nut to the hot wire and throw it in a tree and
put the other wire on the ground. (You may get away with shorter wires
for ground, but these are convenient sizes for putting in the air as
well...putting both wires in a tree works, too.)
Almost any wire will do, but Teflon-coated silver plated wire is often
available from surplus places, and is excellent. Or try thewireman.com
for other nice wire.
73,
Leigh/WA5ZNU.
On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 7:54 pm, Paul Clay wrote:
If I insert a long random length wire
into the KX1 I don't hear receive too many
signals; advance or retarding the RF gain has
little audible effect in the headphones. But,
when I also attach a wire to the outside of the
BNC connector and then to a ground, the receiver comes alive with
signals.
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