Paul,
At this time during the sunspot cycle, and especially over a holiday
weekend, you are not likely to hear many signals from a random wire
unless you have some way of tuning it - that is doubly a problem if it
is just strung out on the house floor. Being 70 feet long, it is likely
presenting a high impedance at the end approaching 4000 ohms, where a
lower impedance (ideally 50 ohms) is needed.
The TUNE buttons put the KX1 into transmit, but you should be operating
into a 50 ohm load.
Can you obtain or borrow a 50 ohm dummy load? That and some means of
indicating power output is necessary.
For receive, a signal generator of some type is a real asset if you do
not have a good resonant antenna with a 50 ohm feedline.
I suggest you contact some of the local hams who might have some test
equipment and dummy loads to help you out.
73,
Don W3FPR
On 12/26/2016 1:48 AM, Paul C wrote:
Hi folks. I'm in the final steps for getting my KX1 working and am kind of
stuck. Since Elecraft is closed until Wednesday I thought I'd check with y'all
for a few ideas before then.
Q1). What exactly is TUNE mode supposed to do? For me it doesn't appear to do
anything.
BTW, I'm trying to align the thing and I have a random wire dipole fed directly
to the antenna jack. I have the KXAT1 ATU option assembled but it's not
installed in the rig yet.
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