For some years I've had the
Elecraft K1 transceiver that I made. It covers 40, 30, 20 and 15m with a built-in auto ATU. This is a nice little CW radio, but I rarely use it, preferring to use home designed kit on MF and 10m these days. It has always been used at home and is in as-new condition.
This afternoon I fired it up, using the coax feeder to my 10m halo as a vertical and tuned this against my central heating ground using the internal ATU. It is a far from optimum antenna and suffers from QRM from my central heating controller's SMPSU right next to the feeder on RX.
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RBN spots with my K1 today (intermittent operation) |
Conditions were not great but several reports were seen on the Reverse Beacon Network (see above) and half a dozen QSOs are in the logbook on 7MHz and 10MHz (in DL, I, EI and LX) in not a lot of actual operating time: we had neighbours around for Christmas nibbles and drinks most of the day!
I really ought to think about selling the K1 as I don't use it enough to justify keeping it. Ahead of my move next year I should be doing more de-cluttering as well, HI.