[Elecraft] Well, I just dipped my credit card in the water.

[Phil Hystad]

On the antenna being a problem...

A nice thing about the KX3 is portability.  Get yourself a bow-and-arrow, some dracon line (if needed), wire, and go find a park with nice trees and string up your temporary antenna.  I have strung up a 20-meter dipole up about 35 feet in a county park.  Usually the trick is finding a nice place for the antennas as well as a place to sit like a picnic bench.  So, a card table and portable camping style chairs work too.  Then again -- a single wire antenna with another ground wire laying across the ground works too.

Have fun...

73, phil, K7PEH


On Jun 2, 2013, at 1:30 PM, Bill Blomgren <billblom at nc.rr.com> wrote:

> I ordered a portable "getting started" type super delux thing, with most of the options... a kx3...
> 
> Now to see how fast the folk at Elecraft are..<G>
> 
> (I suspect rather zippy, having seen some of the comments in here.)
> 
> 10 watts is a lot of DB down from 100... like 10db down.. And the antenna *will* be a problem at this location.  (apartment life..)
> 
> Ordered a more-or-less complete starter rig to get things on the air.. Now to find appropriate power supplies... 
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