[Elecraft] [KX1] "It's alive," sort of!

[Mike Scott]

Ed, welcome to Elecraft. I wish to relate my own experience. I had been off
the air for 30 years. I got the bug to return to the community. I took the
tests in November 2005 and for Christmas I asked for a KX1. I built it and
in January 2006 I finished. I put up a 40M inverted vee (still up and my
main antenna). The acid test soon came. I was tuning around 7.040 and I
heard JA3OLW call CQ. His signal was okay and I thought, why not? I returned
the call and he came right back. Suke was my first QSO in 30 years on a
radio that had never transmitted before. I was just as nervous as when I was
a novice in 1967. The best part: I built it myself! Crikey!

 

Any time you wish to get on the air with whatever Morse you can bring, I am
game.

 

Mike Scott

AE6WA Tarzana, CA

K3/100 SN508

 

 

>first thing I found was I never installed R2x, then in a close inspection I
found L10 was

cracked, crikey!  So I installed the missing resistor and ordered a new L10.


After installing L10 this morning I was amazed to hear a signal on my radio.


I have not had time for the alignment yet but I will get to it this

afternoon.

 

So I hope to get finished and on the air soon, so I can frustrate everyone

with my poor morse.  Another learning process.

 

73,  Ed  KE7HGA