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Re: New K1 on the way - Band Module Questions

Posted by Bill W4ZV on Jul 25, 2009; 11:57am
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/New-K1-on-the-way-Band-Module-Questions-tp3323422p3325164.html

David Y. wrote
The internal ATU option is a tricky decision.  I have it in
both the K1 and K2, but the T1 is a super alternative.  If
you have both rigs, or other rigs (like an FT-817 maybe?),
the T1 can solve a lot of problems.  If I was really
pinching pennies (which I seem to be doing more of these
days!), I might have just let the T1 be my sole tuner option
for QRP stuff.  If you have any kind of collection of QRP
rigs, you will probably want the T1 anyway.  It's a great
little tuner.
I have two QRP rigs (a K2 and KD1JV's ATS-3) so I opted for an external tuner that works well with either.  I have nothing against the T1, but another low cost ($65 kit, $90 assembled) alternative is the Emtech ZM-2:

http://emtech.steadynet.com/zm2.shtml

It's small, light (8 ounces), passive (non-autotune but very easy to tune and no battery to worry about) and tunes virtually anything on 10-80m (but not 160).  The 15W power rating is a nice complement to the QRP K2.

CU tomorrow in the Flight of the Bumblebees...I'll be using my K2 and the ZM-2 from the top of Morrow Mountain (NC).

73,  Bill  W4ZV