Last night I was fiddling around with my Elecraft K1. Couldn’t get it to work properly. Couldn’t even spot myself on Reverse Beacon Network. Eventually I got out my Kenwood TS-590. Turns out my home-brew coax patch-cable didn’t work! Aaaargh, stupid mistake of course. After a few spins over 20m and 40m I heard a…
Tag: Elecraft K1
Setup a holiday shack
First thing I did when we arrived was setting up my little holiday shack. Only brought with me the little Elecraft K1 with four band module (40, 30, 20 and 17 meter). Because I don’t own (yet) the internal antenna tuner for the K1, I did bring my good old Kenwood AT-120 tuner (which is…
Buddipole accessoires
This weekend another package arrived in the PA1JIM-shack! It’s from Wimo and contains an important Buddipole accessoires. It is a mast of 240 cm (only 66 cm folded) and a tri-pot. So now I’m able to actually set-up the Buddipole in the field. Still need to align the Elecraft K1 for proper functioning and complete…