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being a member of the community. I got it in. It arrived yesterday,
the Allocraft KH one with the Edgewood package and all of the accessories that
come with that bunch of different things. We're gonna go through it right now,
all right, Once again, Ellocraft came up with this new little handheld
transceiver called a KH one. This is the size of it right here.
I put it all together last night. Am surprised at how small it is
really. I mean, I knew it was small. I knew it was
a handheld transceiver, but it's like literally the size of a thing. Okay.
It came with the Edgewood package, came with all of this stuff.
It comes with this bag here, very nice bag opens up like that.
Okay. It's got a zipper pouch here on the top and inside the top
cover it's got a pouch there and there on the outside, and then it's
got some straps out here. You could put it on a belt loop like
that. You put it on a belt loop that way, hold it that
way, or hold it that way if you wanted to. It's got an
extra place around here for a pin. Comes with this carabiner on top,
and then another pin or maybe an intent or something like that over there.
You put their KX one in there. I guess if you wanted to a
neat little bag, I really like that. I'm kind of a sucker for
bag. So there you go. None of this stuff came attached to it.
This is the key that came separately. It just pulls right out here.
It's got a little three point five millimeters jack right there. It goes
in the bottom. You can actually turn I was reading in the manual.
This is the key pointed up right now. You can actually turn it whether
the paddles are down and you can do it that way, or you can
turn it around the other way that way. If you've got it in the
bag, it's not going to protrude out the top. So a little bit,
a little bit safer for carrying it. I guess, but if you're
using it, I assume you'd want to put it in this way like that
and then you can kind of key it right there. So this is the
power button on the side over here, and the charging button or they're charging
port rather and I'm gonna go through all this here in a second. It
comes with this flap here, and this is where you would put your paper
log would go in here. Now, it didn't come with a paper log,
but I learned just like last week or something that the paper logs are
actually downloadable and you print them out yourself. So because someone had made a
comment on like maybe the Happy Hour or something, I don't know, they're
like, ah, they're gonna charge a dollar a sheet for the log.
No no, no, you download the pfile and you print it yourself.
So that's kind of cool. That's the flap there. It inserts into the
side here with these two anchors that are at the top and bottom that are
attached to this and then attached inside of that is this pin here. It
comes with this ballpoint pin just right there, and that attaches to the flap
on the inside, so you can close that down have your little pin in
there. I always like having an extra pin with me anyway, and then
close that down like that. It comes with this antenna that attaches to the
side of the unit here, and it's got rubber spacer type things on two
sides of the antenna for it to fit more snugly into the side of the
case. These are built into the radio that's not built into the cover,
but built into the radio, so it just kind of snaps down right there
and snaps into place, so it's all one unit right there. This is
the antenna port on the top for this telescoping whip, and then of course
you can add your own in fed halfwave if you want to. So that's
the back of the unit there. It comes with this carrying strap for the
bag. It comes with a counterpoise with a little fork clip on. I
forget the name of this little blade style connector on it that I just went
blank on. The name with that is. It comes with this alan There's
an Allen wrench in here that will allow you to tighten down the key if
you want to tighten it down in there and have it a little bit more
stables where it's not going to fall out, especially if you're carrying in the
case and whatnot. This is the power cable that it comes with, and
it plugs in right there on the side, and then it's bare wires on
the other end, so you don't have to worry about proprietary plugs or anything
like that. You can simply attach your inner some power pools to that and
go from there, or you can attach an XT sixty connection to it or
anything else you want to it. Leave it bear wires and put it into
your power supply. But that comes with it like that right there. So
what I did was I built all I put all this together last Night's very
modular. You didn't have to solder anything. There's no kit building there,
nothing like that. It just came in pieces and you just assembled it last
night when I was assembling it. It comes with the battery, but the
battery's not installed. So what I did to get the battery in. You
just pull this little flap right here on the bottom and open that up and
this comes completely off if you want to take it off. This antenna is
part of the back cover there and then it kind of rests against the side
so you can kind of hinged right there. And then this battery comes with
it and it just plugs straight in there. Took me second to figure out
how to route the wire down here to where the door would close properly.
But this is how I've got it. So take a look at that.
I've got it plugged in right there. There we go. It's got this
little proprietary barrel connector here. I don't know how propriet It's not a proprietary
really, but it's a different size than it feels like. It's a bit
smaller size than the outside than the outside charging cable. I don't know.
I didn't measure it, so, but it comes with the battery out here.
It is a twenty six hundred million amp hour lithium ion rechargeable pack.
So again, you just put that in there like this, bring it around
here, just kind of real careful with it, kind of lay it down
in there and tuck the wire down into the side there, and then we
put the cover back on it like that. Make sure that that little lip
goes underneath this movable piece here, and then you're back in business and you've
got your antenna put down there just like that. This part of the cover
here actually clips inside. You have to. It's got these little tabs on
it right here, and it fits down inside of the radio here, so
when you close the cover, it kind of snaps into place. I hope
you heard it snap into place just then. It's not going to come open
by itself, so that's that's nice. I like that. So you have
to kind of you don't want to force it when you're opening it. It's
still new. Also, kind of lift up on those tabs and then open
it up and there you go. You've got everything you need there. So
let's see if we can pick up some signals. I'm not going to do
any transmitting of CW right now because I really don't want to embarrass myself.
I don't really want to go down that road right now. But you know
something for a future video. Yeah, so let's let's put this on here.
It'll do a short wave listening on sideband on certain bands. Probably.
Antena's probably three feet tall roughly something like that. And it didn't come with
a manual, and that's okay. That's okay, because I mean, who
really wants a paper manual these days? Anyway, it came with a little
paperwork that told you how to how to connect the power supply. I think
I don't remember something like that told you one thing out of a bunch of
things. So but I just went on their website. It's just a PDF
file, is all it is. So we can go through right here and
the part I was mainly, and it shows you how to do everything I
just showed you right there. It shows you how to do how to insert
the battery, how to close the back cover there, how to connect the
cover. The blue arrows right there are the little tabs on it where the
cover inserts into the side of the radio itself. And that's some other stuff
there. Tells you about the pen, tells you about the antenna. This
right here, this is the part I liked right here. Okay, So
when you go here, and I'm gonna switch back and forth between this a
couple of times. So when I go over here, I've got four buttons
here. This is your AF so your volume button down here that's left.
You can see on the screen there it says AF is twenty seven. Okay,
it goes up to thirty. Not very loud. Most of you CW
guys, you're probably going to be using some sort of headphone, especially if
you're out in the field, so you know, it doesn't need to have
a lot outspeaker. Something this small is not going to have a loudspeaker.
And that's okay, it's not a big deal. This is your two,
that's your VFO two NOB and you can see right there it's on fourteen two
fifty four. And I'm not really picking up anything in here, but I've
got my I've got my intenna horizontally pointed that way right now. I was
hoping to pick up something, even if it's a weak signal. I don't
know if you can hear that or not. But if you go back to
the manual here, which you can do, this is an explanation of all
these buttons right here. This is an explanation of all these buttons right here.
And you can say, you know B and C Jack. Of course,
this right here is your SPD plus and minus the words permitted up and
down. So if we go back here, we can you know, this
is the words permitted up and down. It goes down to eight words per
minute, and it goes up to fifty. I think that's like NJ seven
Victor level CW. Charlie, that's like Charlie level CW. I that's not
for me, but it does, you know, twenty words a minute eighteen
sixteen fourteen. I'm not sure what difference that's makes. Does that meaning that
you're listening at that speed because it's the it's not listening, But maybe that's
expect what you're expecting to send at I'm not sure what that means. I'm
not sure how you set words for minute because usually it's whoever sending to you
is sending it at certain words per minute, and whatever you're sending is up
to how fast you key. So I'm not sure even that what that is.
But you know that's that shows just how inexperienced I am with CW.
So these are the up and down buttons there turn the volume down a bit.
If you long press these, they do something different. So if you
long press that, it goes into this menu here, which is the FL
menu, which if you look right here, it says, yeah, the
receiver FL one through three attenuator. That's your attenuator. So you can go
zero dB minus ten minus thirty and you have the writ there, so so
I can go at minus ten just like that and then that will this will
exit out of it. So long pressing the buttons does something different. This
is the PFN and transmitter power level. So you've got the tuner there.
If you long press this button here, the second one from the left,
you got the tuner power level that does something different. There. Okay,
this is usually the exit key than one on the far right here, So
we go there. Span power PF three is test. I wonder how you
do actually do the power hold to and select low or high. About two
watts on loan, about five watts on high. So if you hold it
twice, long press it twice, long press it's on low power. Now
a long press it one more time and it turns to high power. So
there you go right there. Okay, good good, good, good,
good good. And this is this is a very good manual, very breaking
down all this stuff, very good, very detailed oriented. So and we
can go into this button here, which is your band in mode not in
auto tune. Hold it down, okay, sof VFO or memory. So
we've got forty meters there, thirty meters, fourteen dot two which is twenty
meters, eighteen dot oh which is seventeen meters, and twenty one which is
fifteen meters, so it goes fifteen through seventeen meters, twenty meters, thirty
meters and forty meters, so five bans advertises five band. I'm not sure
what that last menu is in there. And then if you want to change
the mode, we can scroll down over here and see how to change mode.
Holding ban mode brings up this display. Yes, tap one two to
change the last band to change modes, hold one, there we go.
So holding one, it's got this plus and minus. So you go to
up and down. So we're at the bottom of the list. Now CW
we'll hold that lower sideband, upper sideband, and that's the top right there.
Okay, Now I'm on twenty meters upper sideband, and as far as
listening goes, see if I can pick up a signal at all. Let
me vertically polarize this thing. I'm inside the shack. This is I don't
know if you can hear that. There's a guy talking out there. So
it's receiving. It's receiving, and in traditional allocraft fashion, I suspect that
that this uh that this receiver is fantastic, so it is receiving. So
good, let's put that right there. Make sure I got that out of
the way. Okay, because I do want to want to go through the
rest of this menu here, so we can go back. So if we
if we short press that, it goes into RPT one, two and three.
I'm not sure what those are. RPTO, Oh, there it is
RPT oh recording. You can record messages, okay, record and record and
play messages. Okay. And then if you long press that this is the
menu, then you've got You've got all kinds of stuff in this menu right
here. Okay. So you turn the afknob to change menus, you can
turn logging off and on. It'll log for you the key weight key jack
i ambic firmware version. There's a firmware version. I'm on one dot one
five right now. Ee initiate display mode ATU parameters. ATU mode is bypass,
so we're gonna have to have an antenna, okay, and a lot
of a lot of menus in there so you can get into the menu that
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tenna or the sparkplug gear antenna or something like that. So a resonant here's
the cool thing. Something I just thought about. A resonant forty meters in
FED halfway because guess what. You know what, I don't have to have
eighty meters because this radio dies new eighty meters, so you've got a shorter
intenna. With a forty meter INFED halfways is usually be about sixty five ish
feet I ish, and an eighty meter in FED halfways is about twice at
about one hundred and thirty feet. Well, I don't need eighty meters an
eighty meter intenna for this because it doesn't go to eighty meters, so I
only need forty through fifteen. So it'll one of those Pac ten is with
thanks cut in it, like the one KD. Emerdy made for me.
It'll do ten, fifteen, twenty, and forty and then you got a
link in it cut for seventeen that'll do almost everything you need to do.
Except with the exception of thirty meters on this radio. So a good practice
would be to set up a in fed halfway connected to this and actually do
some listening out in the field, which is something I'm going to do.
What types of videos would you guys like to see on this radio? I
tell you what, I am going to send this radio to Charlie because I
told him that I bought it. I bought this. I should have said
this up front. Also, I purchased this radio. They did not send
it to me. Ellacraft did not send it to me as as a gift
or a loaner. I purchased this radio with the Edgewood package. That's the
all the extra stuff that we talked about today, because let's face it,
I'm my name's Jason, and I buy radios that I don't need. After
I purchased it, I sent a message to Charlie on Discord. I'm like,
hey, did you see this? He's like, yeah, man,
I'd love to have that, but I just bought an ftd X ten.
I'm like, I'll tell you what. I'll send you mine if you make
some videos with it, and he's like really, I'm like, yeah,
man, come on. It's CW. It's right up your alley. So
let me know what videos you'd like to see me make with this thing,
And let me know what videos you'd like to see Charlie MAKEE because he's going
to do a lot better CW than I will.