[Elecraft] KX1 vs. FT-817

[Alexandra Carter]

Yes, two completely different animals.

I recently bought an Icom IC-7000, my friend Dale got one and if it's  
good enough for him it's darned good. My impressions so far are,  
Darned Good! But, which would I rather have out on the park here on  
our Thursday lunchtime get-togethers? Probably the K1 I'm building.  
Which is easiest to pull out of a backpack, throw a wire up into a  
tree, and work some CW from the bluffs overlooking Maverick's? Sure I  
can take the 7000 places but it needs many lbs of batts.

The original point was, Why was I able to hear so much more on my 817  
than on my KX1? And I think the conclusion was that I'd not built my  
KX1 right somehow, and some testing with a decent sig-gen and seeing  
if it would meet factory specs would have shown me that. 73 de Alex  
NS6Y.

On Jul 11, 2006, at 8:19 AM, Karl Larsen wrote:

>    When you try to compare two radios you get into a can of worms.  
> I own an FT-817 of about 5 years ago and it's a fine radio. It  
> covers 6 meters and the two VHF-UHF bands that are not on a KX1.
>
>    But the KX1 uses less input power on receive and thus will last  
> a lot longer on the internal battery pack.
>
>    But the KX1 has no SSB and the FT-817 does.
>
>    You go around like this and miss the real good points of both  
> radios :-)
>
> The KX1 is made to be carried in a pack to hard to walk to places.  
> It has a built in paddle and it works fine. I have taken my FT-817  
> on similar trips and it does well too, but it needs more battery.
>
>    So both radios do the same thing but the FT-817 does a few more  
> tricks.
>
> 73 Karl K5DI
>
>
>
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> Alexandra Carter wrote:
>> I am very happy to announce that I am apparently all wet!
>>
>> From the sound of it, the KX1 I built a couple of years ago had  
>> some undocumented "features" built in like perhaps the partial  
>> deafness problem. Some serious testing on my part would have  
>> sniffed this out and caused me to hunt down and solve the problem.
>>
>> I am working on a K1 now, and when it's done I'll make sure it's  
>> recieving the way it ought to.
>>
>> 73 de Alex NS6Y
>>
>>
>> On Jul 10, 2006, at 1:56 PM, ron wrote:
>>>
>>> I always thought them KX1's were far superior to them  817's!
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