[Elecraft] KX1 Nr 63 first QSO

[Phil Wheeler]

Thanks for the report, Nick.  I'm in the process of building my KX1, but 
going slowly (recovering from surgery and my stamina is limited, and I 
really don't yet trust myself to concentrate for long periods).  So far, 
so good -- and I'm waiting for my shack to warm up to start again today 
(frost on the lawn this am here in the Los Angeles area and my shack has 
no heat).

Arnold, MD: Named for Benedict or for our new Governor? <grin>

73, Phil

Nick Yokanovich wrote:

>
>
> K3NY de K2PQ/P  ur RST 559 in Wharton State Forest, NJ  (note: abt 170 
> miles from my QTH near Baltimore & he was 579 running a K1 at 5w)
>
> I was so elated I could hardly key the rig!  I was on docent duty at 
> the Historical Electronics Museum where our club (W3GR, 
> http://www.qsl.net/w3gr)  is based, and after the last visitor left I 
> started experimenting outside on the lawn. The high end of the wire 
> was about 15 ft up, rest was laying on grass.  I had tried a couple 
> different lengths of wires for antenna and counterpoise with no luck 
> -- the KX1 ATU wouldn't give me a better SWR than 8:1. The connector 
> was also suspect, so I went into the museum lab and found a neat BNC 
> connector with two 5-way binding posts for input, just what I needed. 
> I hit close to a good length (I haven't measured it, just used the 
> pieces of wire I had)  for 40m on second try, got 1.3:1 swr and 1.0 w 
> out (six fresh alkaline AA cells), and heard K2PQ/P finishing a QSO, 
> then calling CQ. I was standing up holding the rig in my left hand and 
> keying with right. I never had a stand up QSO before! hi hi!  That 
> length of wire didn't tune on 30 or 20, so more experimenting is 
> needed. The ATU is quick but its range is limited, so (and this isn't 
> a complaint) it needs a little help. I tried tuning a 20m dipole later 
> in the evening, and it was FB on 20m, but band was dead. It wouldn't 
> tune that antenna to operate on 30m or 40m. Bottom line: I am 
> extremely happy with the rig. It's a bit harder to build than an 
> NC20/Red Hot 20, the hardest thing I've built to date, but still a 
> reasonable build. It took me abt 20 hrs: I am a 
> one-component-at-a-time installer, pretty slow. But it worked first 
> time I tried it! What more can one ask?
>
> 73
> Nick K3NY
> Arnold, MD
> "My name isn't Arnold and I am not a doctor."
>
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