[Elecraft] New KX2 - what am I doing wrong?

[Bill Frantz]

I will add, the Elecraft tuners can tune almost anything. When 
you do a tune (Don's last step below), if the relays click for a 
long time before settling into a not-super-good solution, that 
is a symptom of no antenna, or a short circuit in place of an 
antenna. If you are on the same band as the setting on the AX1, 
tuning should be fairly quick.

73 Bill AE6JV

On 11/23/20 at 6:50 PM, donwilh at embarqmail.com (Don Wilhelm) wrote:

>What kind of a building are you in?  As an example, I live in a 
>stucco house, and with the wire on the walls before the stucco 
>went on, I live in a faraday shield and few if any signals are 
>received inside the house.  That does include cellphone signals 
>as well as ham frequencies.
>The AX1 does not work inside my house unless I take it near a window.
>
>So take a look at your situation - take the KX2 outside with 
>the AX1 and a trailing counterpoise wire to see if you can hear 
>any signals.
>
>Make sure the switch on the AX1 is set to the band you are listening to.
>Do a TUNE to set the KX2 ATU to the frequency of interest.

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