[Elecraft] Steve Anness <steve at kj5t.net>

[Tommy Judson]

Glad to see this post, could almost be from me in a week or so.  The only difference is I’ve been AWAY from HF for 19 years and CW since the early 60’s.

Been reading the KX2 manual over and over and think it has to be at least as good as you say for this guy, could be more.

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> Date: Sat, 2 May 2020 19:25:01 -0500
> From: Steve Anness <steve at kj5t.net>
> To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [Elecraft] Getting into CW and WOW! Praise for the KX2
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> Recently I decided after almost 19 years in ham radio I would finally do
> what it takes to become a CW operator.  After about 10 days of re-learning
> the code and also spending a fair amount of time with sending practice
> using both my dad's old Radio Shack Straight Key (Ameco look alike) and my
> MFJ-564 using the practice feature on the Elecraft KX2, I made my first CW
> contact today with Steve WB2WIK in California.
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> Obviously KX2 was designed by people who love CW and the history of the
> Elecraft radios has been about really good CW rigs.  In general I am still
> really impressed with how wonderful the CW signals sound, I am listening to
> K7M right now on 20 meters running in the 7QP, using the default 500Hz B/W
> and it just amazes me how good the signals sound on this tiny little rig.
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> So I am not saying anything that anyone on this reflector doesn't already
> know but wanted to share my story and spread some praise.  Keep it up
> Elecraft!
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