[Elecraft] Rig forCW

[David Wilcox]

I have both rigs and mostly use just the basic stuff for home and camping CW/SSB QRP contacts so the KX2 works, BUT The KX2 isn’t much of a cost savings over the KX3 and the KX3 has a lot more features.  The only reason I would choose the KX2 again is if I was backpacking and size/weight were important.  The KX2 was “so cute” I had to have one and ran to the booth at Dayton the next morning after Eric’s introductory lecture about it at FDIM to purchase #34 from him.  It’s a fun rig, works well, but if you can have only one get the KX3.

And as a side note the Elecraft antenna tuners, in rigs or separately can’t be beat.  They will tune a wet noodle if that is needed for your ham radio experience. They almost make you think your really lousy antenna is the greatest because they will tune it, but again, if the results aren’t what you want it’s probably a poor antenna and the tuner is making it look better than it is.  Make a good antenna first and then use a tuner to take the pressure off your finals or expand the bandwidth.  

Dave K8WPE

David J. Wilcox K8WPE’s iPad

> On May 12, 2020, at 7:37 AM, Tommy Judson via Elecraft <elecraft at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
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> Good Morning,  I have a simple but difficult question for the CW ops.
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> I’m wanting to get back to ham radio and specifically CW.  Since I’m starting from scratch I am looking hard at all equipment needed to get on the air.  I’ve ordered supplies to assemble a 40M inverted V and have been thinking the best first rig I ought to order would be a KX2.  Now reading the posts on this forum I see that 95% of the ops use the KX3s.
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> Would anyone please like to educate me on these very unbalanced rig ownership numbers?
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> Thank you, Tommy2
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