On Saturday, April 12, 2014 11:51 AM, lane zeitler <lanenav...@yahoo.com> wrote: Got the KX3 about a week ago. First contact was today, portable, I was sitting next to the bay on a picnic table (salt water, here on the Navy base in Yokosuka Japan) with a 17ft replacement tent pole I ordered on Amazon for $38 as my 20 to 10 mtr vertical. The new "vertical" is tie wrapped to a 3 ft high chain link fence. Two 17 ft radials are laid out. 50 ohm coax as the feed, about six feet long straight to the KX3. Built in auto tuner tunes it easily to a 1:1 match on 20 to 10 meters. It will load on 40 but the final swr is high and did not try 80 or 160 or even 6 mtrs yet. We will leave the area and return back to the states in JUL so not going crazy with antennas here.....and all of my operations here will be picnic portable until we leave.
Worked A35V on 12 meters ssb, I was xmitting 4 watts into the tent pole vertical. Took a few calls but got him with my JA call of JH1JCM/QRP. My Eneloop batteries were straight out of the packaging....had not even did a charge yet but the KX3 indicated the voltage was 8.7 so I figured I would give it a try. They worked. There are a lot of menu driven options with this rig and overall I prefer a simpler rig such as the Argo VI which I almost bought but hopefully over the next few weeks of very casual operating I will get to know the knob functions better. Impressed with the build quality and the display is awesome. The CMP seems to have a major positive impact on SSB. The SSB monitor sounds weird though....when I engage the SSB monitor circuit it sounds like it is being processed digitally and has that "in the cave" dsp sound to it....do not like the way the monitor sounds so I must be doing something wrong. Still slowly figuring this rig out. Eneloops are charging now off of my Astron SS30. Expect to have full charge in 10 hours. Will see how long they last before needing charging again. Bought the optional paddle but have not hooked it up yet. More to follow. LCDR Lane Zeitler Forward Deployed US Naval Hospital Yokosuka Japan JH1JCM Ku7i ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
