[Elecraft] KX2 on JT65 & JT9 ??

[Dan - VA3MA]

Jim
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> On May 30, 2016, at 1:24 PM, Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon,5/30/2016 4:50 AM, D Howard wrote:
>> I thought at the price I paid for the KX3 I shouldn't have to do the compensation nor run the KX3 at such reduced power once compensated. My trusty old FT817 worked fine.
> 
> That's your problem, not Elecraft's. The KX3 was specifically designed as a backpacking radio that could also do other things. AFAIK, neither Wayne nor Eric is a JT65 op or a VHF op, so they didn't think of the thermal issue until users brought it up. When they did, Elecraft developed the temperature compensation as a solution and also improved the heat sink. I did both to my KX3. It took about three hours, half of which was reading the instructions and cooling the radio for the second part of the procedure.
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> Reading ARRL Lab test reports clearly shows that Your "trusty old FT817" isn't one-tenth the radio that the KX3 is. The KX3 is FAR cleaner on TX and FAR superior on RX. But the KX3 is fundamentally an HF + 6M radio, not a 2M radio. A few weeks ago, we used a KX3 with the KXPA100 and PX3 for a very successful mobile run in the 7th Area QSO Party.  Slide #8 in k9yc.com/7QP.pdf shows the setup that W6GJB put together. W6GJB drove while W6JTI operated, riding shotgun. The KXPA100 is on the floor of the back seat.
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> 73, Jim K9YC
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