[Elecraft] KXAT1

David Pratt [email protected]
Sun Nov 2 17:41:00 2003


Yes, Joe, I find my 45 foot piece of wire loads up nicely on 40m, 30m, 
and 20m with r1.1 on 40m.  I am running my KX1 from a 12V SLA battery 
and have just worked Italy, Sweden, France and Slovakia on 40m running 
2W.  But despite recommendations, I have NO GROUND or counterpoise 
connected!

73 de David G4DMP

In a recent message, Joe Roof <[email protected]> said....
>Has anyone got the KXAT1 tuner to match anything on 40 meters except a
>resonant antenna?  I've tried the recommended 28' with counterpoise and the
>old standby 87' with a 17' counterpoise.  Nothing seems to match closer than
>3.5-1.  20 and 30 meters seem to work fine.