[Elecraft] KX2 Antenna Analyzer Program

Mon Feb 19 23:08:26 EST 2018

Ah, finally found it. Install the “Wizkers:Radio” Chrome app in the Chrome browser. Start it. Connect to your KX3. One of the instruments will be “SWR Sweeper”. Use that.

wunder
K6WRU
Walter Underwood
CM87wj
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> On Feb 19, 2018, at 5:52 PM, Walter Underwood <wunder at wunderwood.org> wrote:
> 
> Wizkers:Radio works with the KX2. Here is the main page instead of the KX3 documentation.
> 
> http://www.wizkers.io/wizkersradio/
> 
> I’ll ask Ed about the SWR function, because I know it worked. Ah, found the original forum discussion where I asked him to add it. That includes the screenshot.
> 
> http://forum.wizkers.io/t/swr-sweep-with-wizkers-and-kx3/43
> 
> wunder
> Walter Underwood
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>> On Feb 19, 2018, at 4:58 PM, Jim Sr Sturges <jwsturges at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks to everyone. The Wizkers appears to want to work with the Elecraft 100W amp, not the KX2. The KX3 is supported, but not the 2 and I couldn’t find the “sweep” functionality for the 3. 
>> 
>> I will continue to search. 
>> 
>> And I will call it an antenna sweeping thingy in order not to offend. 
>> 
>> Thanks, again. 
>> 
>> 73
>> 
>> Jim N3SZ
>> On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 7:31 PM Walter Underwood <wunder at wunderwood.org <mailto:wunder at wunderwood.org>> wrote:
>> I know, I was going to fix that, but it was already too complicated. It would be measuring the same thing that an “antenna” analyzer measured when connected to the same terminal.
>> 
>> The common terminology is such a disaster that it is tiring to fight it.
>> 
>> wunder
>> K6WRU
>> Walter Underwood
>> CM87wj
>> http://observer.wunderwood.org/ <http://observer.wunderwood.org/> (my blog)
>> 
>>> On Feb 19, 2018, at 3:52 PM, Fred Jensen <k6dgw at foothill.net <mailto:k6dgw at foothill.net>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Antenna Z?  I think you meant "Impedance at the ATU antenna connector?"
>>> 
>>> 73,
>>> 
>>> Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
>>> Sparks NV DM09dn
>>> Washoe County
>>> 
>>> On 2/19/2018 3:02 PM, Walter Underwood wrote:
>>>> I’m pretty sure that Wizkers:Radio can do an SWR scan. I did that with an earlier version of the program.
>>>> 
>>>> http://wizkers.github.io/wizkers-doc/ins/elecraft-kx3/ <http://wizkers.github.io/wizkers-doc/ins/elecraft-kx3/>
>>>> 
>>>> An antenna analyzer does a lot more, but an SWR scan is handy.
>>>> 
>>>> Hmm, because you can read back the L-C combinations from the ATU, you could estimate the antenna Z from the conjugate match. That would be a lot more like an antenna analyzer.
>>>> 
>>>> wunder
>>>> K6WRU
>>>> Walter Underwood
>>>> CM87wj
>>>> http://observer.wunderwood.org/ <http://observer.wunderwood.org/> (my blog)
>>>> 
>>>>> On Feb 19, 2018, at 11:40 AM, Jim Sr Sturges <jwsturges at gmail.com <mailto:jwsturges at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I saw and carefully bookmarked an article on a software utility that would
>>>>> allow the KX2 to act as an antenna analyzer. And lost the bookmark.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Unless that was a dream/fantasy, would someone kindly Elmer me along and
>>>>> remind me where that resource is? My considerable googling skills have
>>>>> proved for nought.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Many thanks and 73,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Jim N3SZ
>>>>> --
>>>>> Jim Sturges, N3SZ
>>>>> Amateur Radio operators do it with frequency.
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