Re: [Elecraft] Great day for short whips & /PM operation

2018-03-24 Thread rich hurd WC3T
I'm looking forward to doing some of that this spring and summer. I had some issues with the BNC connection on the KX3 and, although it's not truly configured as a mobile, I do want to use it like that. I bought a replacement connector and after a little struggle with the ATU connections to the

Re: [Elecraft] Great day for short whips & /PM operation

2018-03-24 Thread Paul Van Dyke
That is easy John ... When is Dayton ..?? Remembering the shock of the amateur radio world of the KX2's birth. Paul -- KB9AVO On 3/24/18, Jan Timmers wrote: > OK Wayne, you've piqued my curiosity. Is this the first day of the > Elecraft marketing campaign for their own branded version of a po

Re: [Elecraft] Great day for short whips & /PM operation

2018-03-24 Thread Jan Timmers
OK Wayne, you've piqued my curiosity. Is this the first day of the Elecraft marketing campaign for their own branded version of a portable loaded whip? You discreetly use "a couple different" in your comment, but as I'm a keen-eyed observer to this sort of phrase-ology, I'm taking the bait. Spil

[Elecraft] Great day for short whips & /PM operation

2018-03-24 Thread Wayne Burdick
I was out walking around in a local park with the KX2 today, using a couple of different 48” loaded whips. (/PM = pedestrian mobile, closely related to “HF Pack,” though I prefer an ultralight version of it, with a “pack” weighing only 2 pounds.) There were quite a few stations on 20 and 15 mete