[Elecraft] [KX3] KX2 - KX3

[Tom Crayner]

Wayne,

Your comment about VK prompted me to write... while on vacation last week I
was sitting on a balcony overlooking the James River in Virginia operating
a KX2 on 40m with 5 watts of power using JT65 into a magloop. After working
a few stations I opened up PSK Reporter to see that VK stations had been
reporting my signal. :-)

Anyway, my real reason for writing, the 2.66 code on the KX2 was great to
work with for digital operations.No fussing with modes while jumping
between different MIC settings, audio cables and such. A real pleasure to
work with the radio now...  Thanks!

Tom, W2YF


On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 8:22 PM, Wayne Burdick <n6kr at elecraft.com> wrote:

> Hi Ruchan,
>
> I'm inherently biased, of course, but here's my personal reasoning:  I
> wanted an all-band/multi-mode radio the size of an HT that put out 10 watts
> from internal battery and could be taken virtually anywhere. The KX2 is
> that rig. I can pack my entire station--including the KX2, mini-mic,
> adapters, paddle, log sheet, a whip and two lengths of antenna wire--into
> our CS40 padded bag. Everything weighs just under 2 pounds.
>
> I've been anxious to build something like this ever since my Elmer told me
> about working VK from CA using an 11-meter walkie-talkie during the 1957
> sunspot peak. This was in the 1970s when, as a teen, I first started
> building my own gear. But I couldn't even have imagined the construction
> techniques our engineering staff would employ to get the KX2 packed into
> half the space of the KX3.
>
> 73,
> Wayne
> N6KR
>
>
>
> On Jul 6, 2016, at 2:54 PM, Ruchan Ozatay ta2ah at outlook.com wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Since I have fully loaded KX3, KXPA100 and PX3.
> >
> > Can anybody tell me why I should buy also a KX2?
> >
> > Any comment would be very much appreciated.
> >
> > Ruchan Ozatay, TA2AH
>
>
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