[Elecraft] KX2 ATU question

[Bill Johnson]

Linas, great review and answer.  I also owned both.  I found the T-1 to be fine; but for portable, just one more piece of equipment and more wires.  I have the KX2 and have used in the station so far and its tuner is super for the station needs.  Once it warms up will hit the trails.  The T-1 is excellent, better than the competition in my experience.  The K3 tuner has larger components and thus will tune much more logically.  Enjoy the Kx2 when you get it.  It is super.  I can grab and antenna, plug in the dragging counterpoise, and go walking with nothing else... you really cannot beat that with a stick!!!

73,
Bill
K9YEQ

-----Original Message-----
From: Elecraft [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Irma & Linas(LY2H)
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2017 5:00 PM
To: Dave Fugleberg <dave.w0zf at gmail.com>; Elecraft List <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KX2 ATU question

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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