Questions about the sensitivity of the KX2
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Hi, I must confess that although I have interfaced my KX2 to my software I haven't really had a chance to use it as a pure radio, unattached to the computer. One reason was a lack of accessible antennas and time. Today however I received my MFJ 20m whip antenna and was playing around a bit tonight. Now I know it's not meant for 160m or 80 or 40, but shouldn't I hear something? I mean even tuning to strong am bands, would I not hear these signals?Is this normal? Thanks for any advice.73 Tom va2fsq.com
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Re: Questions about the sensitivity of the KX2
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The bands are very dead tonight
I was dialing around with my freshly built K2 and wondering if I messed something up when I put in the SSB board Then I turned on my K3 and found that the bands are just bad tonight. From: tomb18 <[hidden email]> To: [hidden email] Sent: Monday, March 6, 2017 10:09 PM Subject: [Elecraft] Questions about the sensitivity of the KX2 Hi, I must confess that although I have interfaced my KX2 to my software I haven't really had a chance to use it as a pure radio, unattached to the computer. One reason was a lack of accessible antennas and time. Today however I received my MFJ 20m whip antenna and was playing around a bit tonight. Now I know it's not meant for 160m or 80 or 40, but shouldn't I hear something? I mean even tuning to strong am bands, would I not hear these signals?Is this normal? Thanks for any advice.73 Tom va2fsq.com Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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I just shut things down for the night. I could absolutely no signals on any band 160 through 10. 80 and 40 were even completely devoid of signals and they usually have activity well into the night. You just picked a poor time to try that whip Tom. Morning should hopefully be better.
Jim, W0EB > On Mar 6, 2017, at 9:09 PM, tomb18 <[hidden email]> wrote: > > Hi, I must confess that although I have interfaced my KX2 to my software I haven't really had a chance to use it as a pure radio, unattached to the computer. One reason was a lack of accessible antennas and time. Today however I received my MFJ 20m whip antenna and was playing around a bit tonight. Now I know it's not meant for 160m or 80 or 40, but shouldn't I hear something? I mean even tuning to strong am bands, would I not hear these signals?Is this normal? Thanks for any advice.73 Tom va2fsq.com > > > Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [hidden email] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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Check "spaceweather.com", we're in the middle of a pretty good sized geomagnetic storm with the planetary K index at 5 or higher. No wonder the bands are dead!
Jim, W0EB > On Mar 6, 2017, at 9:17 PM, Harry Yingst via Elecraft <[hidden email]> wrote: > > The bands are very dead tonight > I was dialing around with my freshly built K2 and wondering if I messed something up when I put in the SSB board > Then I turned on my K3 and found that the bands are just bad tonight. > > > > > From: tomb18 <[hidden email]> > To: [hidden email] > Sent: Monday, March 6, 2017 10:09 PM > Subject: [Elecraft] Questions about the sensitivity of the KX2 > > Hi, I must confess that although I have interfaced my KX2 to my software I haven't really had a chance to use it as a pure radio, unattached to the computer. One reason was a lack of accessible antennas and time. Today however I received my MFJ 20m whip antenna and was playing around a bit tonight. Now I know it's not meant for 160m or 80 or 40, but shouldn't I hear something? I mean even tuning to strong am bands, would I not hear these signals?Is this normal? Thanks for any advice.73 Tom va2fsq.com > > > Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [hidden email] > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [hidden email] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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WSJT is still running strong on 40m here in northeast Kansas. The storm
line east of here has clobbered 80 and 160m tonight. 73, Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://www.n0nb.us ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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In reply to this post by tomb18
Those MFJ single-band whips are not particularly
sensitive on lower bands, since they are sharply tuned for the band in question for best results. You shouldn't judge the KX2 based on that test. If you have the internal ATU (or some external ATU) connect a wire and a counterpoise. You'll have better results. Phil W7OX On 3/6/17 7:09 PM, tomb18 wrote: > Hi, I must confess that although I have interfaced my KX2 to my software I haven't really had a chance to use it as a pure radio, unattached to the computer. One reason was a lack of accessible antennas and time. Today however I received my MFJ 20m whip antenna and was playing around a bit tonight. Now I know it's not meant for 160m or 80 or 40, but shouldn't I hear something? I mean even tuning to strong am bands, would I not hear these signals?Is this normal? Thanks for any advice.73 Tom va2fsq.com ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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