Connected the Gap vertical to the Radiokit this AM before heading to work.
Powered up and listened to the band for a few minutes. The band was almost
completely dead except for the SW broadcasters, one JA, a W0 and a W7. The
W0 had a decent signal but he was calling CQ for 10 minutes straight
without stopping to listen. Tried one quick call to him when he stopped
sending, but I guess he didn't hear me because he started another 10 minute
CQ. I had to get to work so I couldn't wait.
My Kenwood TS-570D gave the same results.
The WM2 showed about 3.5 watts out to the Gap.
Tuning was smooth and pretty linear. The tuning range is adjusted to cover
from just below 7 MHz to 7.140 MHz. RIT works very nicely. The switchable
bandwidth is very nice.
Listened to the Radiokit transmitter with the Kenwood and might have
detected a very slight chirp, but I need better ears to tell. I'll have to
see if I can increase that -- after all, how will the other guy know it's
QRP unless it chirps?
One problem: The transmit sidetone is extremely loud! This is actually
the receiver hearing its own transmitter and I'm not sure if it is inherent
to the design or something broken.
I'll have to look into that today and replace the power-on LED.
Mike K1MG
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