[Elecraft] OT: Other Radios

[Jim Sheldon]

Something else that worked real well with my KX2 at a hotel in Branson, MO a couple years ago (OzarkCon QRP convention) was the hotel’s rain gutter. I ran a short wire out my ground floor room window to a screw holding a bottom section on.  KX2’s tuner clicked a couple times, 1:1 SWR and I was able to work all over the US on 40 and 80 meters in the evenings.  Beat having to try getting a vertical up exposed in the parking lot and probably worked much better anyway.

Jim, W0EB

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> On Jul 2, 2020, at 2:18 PM, Fred Jensen <k6dgw at foothill.net> wrote:
> 
> Can't report on snow, seasoned or otherwise, but never underestimate the usefulness of a barbed wire fence.  I took my K2 to our Cal QSO Party expedition in Alpine County one year and use an old, falling down fence behind our camp connected directly to the BNC antenna connector through a short length of RG-58 and the ATU didn't even run more than a second or so.  Made a number of CW Q's from 8,550 ft.  We also used that fence as the counterpoise for a 160 Inv-L a couple of times.
> 
> 73,
> Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
> Sparks NV DM09dn
> Washoe County
> 
>> On 7/2/2020 6:36 AM, Jan Timmers wrote:
>> Regards;
>> John Timmers
>> 
>> Hehe - lightly salted snow. Nice one
>> 
>> 73.5 de VE7JBT :-)
>> 
>> 
>>> On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 6:36 PM Wayne Burdick <n6kr at elecraft.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> - the KX2, like the KX3, has a built-in wide range ATU that will match
>>>   anything from barbed wire fences to lightly salted snow.
>>> 
>>> Disclaimer: IMHO. YMMV.
>>> 
>>> 73.5,
>>> Wayne
>>> N6KR
>>> 
> 
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