[Elecraft] KX2 ATU question

[Irma & Linas(LY2H)]

Dave,
Pretty much the same  to my experience. I have the T-1 for some 10 years
and the KX-2 with the ATU installed for some 1 month, :). May be too early
to make judgements but both tuners were  equally good in tuning the random
wire of some 9 m, also a 12m length vertical dipole fed by the 400 ohm open
air line through the current balun. Both managed to tune it from 40 to 10
meters except of 80. The tuner of my K3 made it also into 80m ( almost no
practical use but still the K3 tuner proved to be very capable, :). Except
the extreme situations like this or the 1/2 wavelenght antennas the both
small tuners doing extremely well. I would higly recommend the ATU option
for the Kx2 since  this is a very protable rig and the ATU is a must in
situations like hotel rooms etc. At the moment I am using it every day with
greate success in my mobile setup tuning the base-load mobile whip ( 1.25 m
lenght) made of a junk-box loading coil and the whip stolen from the VHF
5/8 antenna. During  every 20min trip to work and back I make 1-3 QSO's
incl even some stns from USA, Canada, Asian Russia and EU islands like
Crete. I am very much content with this in-built tuner!

73! Linas LY2H

On 2017 kov. 27, pr at 22:06 Dave Fugleberg <dave.w0zf at gmail.com> wrote:

> How does the optional internal ATU for the KX2 compare to the Elecraft T1
> ATU in terms of tuning range? In other words, if a given length of wire
> works well with the T1, can one expect it to work with the KX2 internal
> tuner?
>
>  I have a T1, but not a KX2 (at least not yet).
> Is  it  a similar design?
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