I had to take my primary HF station out-of-service, and rather than suffer withdrawal, got my KX1 out of mothball and put it on the air.
My current HF antenna is a Barker and Williamson ACS110, a terminated end-fed Vee which is similar to the Radiowavz EFT-110. I wasn't expecting a lot from this type of antenna and my three watts. It's more suited to 100-1000 watt operation, MARS, E-Comm, it covers all of 1.8-30 MHz. I was pleased that I did not need the internal KX1 ATU running on 40, 30 and 20 M with my antenna. In a week of very casual operation, I worked more stations on the KX1 than I had since its completion in 2005. Most contacts were CONUS with the Exception of HI, and several contacts were QRP-to-QRP on 40 and 30M. I was pleased with the audio and filtering in the KX-1, whether it was driving earbuds or an amplified computer speaker. The adjustable crystal filter produced non-fatiguing CW copy. It was enjoyable to put the fancy radio station away and get back to basics. 73 Jay W6CJ ______________________________________________________________ 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
