Re: Delayed Options
Posted by KK6ZZP on Mar 26, 2016; 8:05am
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/Delayed-Options-tp7615506p7615572.html
Thanks, all, for the information and opinions. Sometimes it's not what we asked but what we should have asked that's useful, either to the OP or others. So I appreciate all the information and advice offered.
Some explanation: As it happens, I did read the installation sections of the KX3 manual/manuals, which seemed well-written and clear. But, not having seen a partially built KX3, it occurred to me that I might be missing something. In the case of the K3, which I own but purchased used and therefore did not have opportunity to build, there seem to be a few very definite maxims for installing initially vs. installing later. I considered that perhaps the same might be true of the KX3. I mean, the model identifiers are quite nearly the same, aren't they? (Sometimes I think we need and should have definite, reserved punctuation for sarcasm, humor. etc.)
Living, as I do, in a recently constructed Southern California community, my HOA has a rule that absolutely prohibits visible and possibly invisible transmitting and receiving antennas, except to the extent regulated by law. So, at best, my HF antennas of record <cough> are severely compromised. When one is driven to attempt using the rain gutter as an antenna, an antenna tuner is more than a mere convenience.
[Having used the H-- word, please let me offer a couple of precautionary notes: Advice to move seems to me more than a little ignorant of the local housing market--or perhaps just a great deal out of date. And unnecessary, holier-than-thou statements such as, "I'd never live in an HOA community," are just that--unnecessary, most especially when the speaker/writer is ignorant of the life-situation of the one whose choice as to only one attribute of a multi-attribute preference is being publicly excoriated. Being new to this board and having read only a few dozen or so replies to postings, it is perhaps impolitic for me to say, but I think that in some few cases, perhaps a somewhat better understanding of the context of an OP and the OP's question might sometimes lead to very slightly more accurate and practical advice.]
Thanks again!
Cheeeers,