[Elecraft] KX3 SWR change during a SOTA

[Oliver Johns]

Hi Mike,

Thinking of N6BT Tom Schiller's famous LBOTA demonstrations at Pacificon and elsewhere (Light Bulbs on the Air), I wonder if any one has a documented a case of HOTA (Ham on the Air):  Someone with no antenna other than themselves.  Maybe connect one side of the antenna to a stake in the ground and the other side to your belt buckle. Like Rudolf the RF-nosed reindeer.

Oliver
W6ODJ


On 6 Jan. 2013, at 11:02 AM, Mike Herr <wa6ara at gmail.com> wrote:

> On a SOTA in Death Valley I noticed something strange. Using a buddistick,
> I would touch up the SWR using the KX3 internal tuner. 1:1, ok, now
> transmit. The SWR would jump up. It would take a couple of cycles to get it
> to calm down again. Now thinking about it, When I first pressed the ATU
> tune, I was not holding the rig, it was sitting on the ground. When I
> started using the rig I had the head phones on and the paddle on my leg or
> the mic in my hand. Likely those two things were affecting my "ground"
> Anyone else see this? Now I need to go back out and experiment with it.;)
> 
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