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

[EMD]

Hi Mike,

That sounds great.  I have never sent cw before, but I have been  
trying to prepare.  Now I really need to get up to speed since my  
radio is nearing completion.

Thanks Mike,

Ed Doyle  KE7HGA  Colora MD
On Oct 15, 2009, at 8:18 PM, Mike Scott-7 (via Nabble) wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
>
>
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