[Elecraft] KX2 on JT65 & JT9 ??

[Dan - VA3MA]

Luke
Thanks - just what I needed to know!
Have you tried JT9 ?
Perhaps some sort of heatsink/handles added to the case might help??
73
Dan VA3MA


On 2016-05-29, at 22:37, Luke <aurich85 at yahoo.com> wrote:

Hmm, not sure why it cut out my message. Here's what I wrote:

I've used my KX2 on WSPR and JT65 and it appears to be plenty stable. I used to have a KX3  and sold it because it wouldn't decode WSPR between transmit cycles due to excessive drift. I've kept the KX2 to <5 watts because the right sideplate gets very hot with the high duty cycle.

I've actually just been sitting here running JT65 @ 10 watts when I got your email, and it is doing pretty well. I had 3 back to back QSO's and on the last transmission the PA Temp got up to 47C (~117F) which doesn't seem too bad. As it cools off there is no drifting or slanting of signals on the waterfall either. I think the 1 minute on/off duty cycle of JT65 is very doable with the KX2, and WSPR might be pushing it. The other night the sideplate got quite hot running WSPR at 5 watts.

Luke
AD0KI


From: Dan - VA3MA <va3ma at me.com>
To: Luke <aurich85 at yahoo.com> 
Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2016 8:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KX2 on JT65 & JT9 ??

Luke
No content????

> On May 29, 2016, at 8:51 PM, Luke via Elecraft <elecraft at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
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