[Elecraft] KX1 #712 on the air

[Leigh L. Klotz Jr]

Looks like I'm next in line after Brent WB4X who built #711 [1].

I received my KX-1 Wednesday and finished the RX in time for Wayne's
talk at PAARA [2] and completed the TX about 3AM today.  

I lost or never got one of the 1000pF capacitors, but found them at
Fry's Electronics 2 for 59 cents.  Other than that it went together
smoothly and worked on all tests first time.

My first contact with it was cross-mode SSB/CW on 40M with JA1DOT in
Tokyo; he was running a kilowatt into a 4-element beam and I was using
my KX1 and HFPacker amp (40-50W) [3].

[1] http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/elecraft/2004-May/033189.html
[2] http://www.paara.org
[3] http://wa5znu.org/log/archives/2004_06_01_index.html