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The Ham Radio two point zero Audio
podcast RIP. Thank you for downloading and

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listening to this podcast. So basically
what I do is I take all the

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audio clips out of my videos and
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I want to welcome you and thank
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series on Ham Radio. I hope
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Thank you. In seventy three,
hope you enjoy it. Ella Craft reveals

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a brand new pocket held handheld HF
transceiver something for the Ultimate Go Kit,

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the KH one, the Kilo Hotel
one. We're gonna talk about it right

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now. Okay, honestly, I
think you guys are gonna watch me order

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this. Okay, here's here's a
KG. But Kyle aa zero Z Kyle

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shared this to me earlier. Actually
I had found it a little bit before

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that, just a little short time
before that, and I was like,

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oh, I should make a video
on that, and then I got sidetracked,

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I got distracted, and then he
put it in to discord and I'm

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like, well, crap, now, I gotta really make a video about

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it. The KH one transceiver from
Ellacraft. Only bring this down here where

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I can actually see it there.
It is right there. This is brand

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new with a kh LOG one,
KHPD one and AX one sold separately.

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Now, the AX one is an
antenna. It's a little uh telescoping antenna.

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X one and X two, two
different models. I actually have both

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of those, and I ordered those
a while back, and it took him

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a couple of months to send them
to me. I think they were like

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on pre order or something. So
I got those and you'll be seeing some

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videos on those upcoming. But did
not look like a really cool transceiver.

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It kind of comes in this little
book thing here. Let's read more about

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this right now, overview. We
just tackled some of the hardest problems in

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the HS field deployment. How to
get on the air in seconds with an

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internal ATU that comes both built in
and a multiband whip and BNC connected random

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wires. Okay, providing field logging
that's truly convenient field logging. It just

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it just little. It looks like
to me, it just comes in this

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little book thing that you can just
write down your paper logs for. I'm

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not big on paper logging. I
know a lot of you like paper logging.

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Nothing wrong with it, I just
it's just not for me. So

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but okay. Cool. Providing field
field logging truly convenient. Can creating the

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optimal user interface for handheld CW operation
because there isn't always somewhere to sit,

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okay, so it's CW only.
Okay. The results of this or the

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efforts are that KH one and ultra
light radio will never leave it home.

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Probably true. With the Edgewood package
shown installed below below or above above,

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I guess okay. Your Cage one
becomes a fully integrated station with fold out

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log tray and pin so for paper
logging, plug in key or pawer,

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battery, comma charger, battery en
charger, ATU internal antenatuner, and a

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whip intend. It all fits in
the versatile e S twenty caring case with

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room to spare so it covers forty
to fifteen meters six to twenty two megahertz

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shortwave listening CW modes five wattson all
bands. ATU includes a whip and a

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high Q inductor for twenty seventeen and
fifteen two point five amp hour lithium ion

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battery and internal charger. Okay,
cwdcode in thirty two kt X log Okay,

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So why don't we do some CW
decoding with it? Why don't I

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take this out to a park and
look at the decoder. I said this

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at the Huntsville Hamfest. I was
talking to Kyle. I think I was

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talking to Kyle about the same thing, and I'm like, some guys standing

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next to Kyle, He's like,
don't do that. Sorry, CW guys.

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I'm not there yet. I'm not
as good as you yet. I'll

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get there, but you gotta let
me. I gotta cheat a little bit

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first. Cwdcode scan, mini PAN
feature, real time clock, full remote

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control, full remote control, that'd
be interesting. A speaker, a WRIT,

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I always call this a ZiT XIT. It's your transmit variable, the

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received variable. If someone's a little
bit off frequency, the WRIT lets you

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kind of go up or down to
make them a little bit sound a little

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bit better. The XIT is a
transmit so that you could so if they

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say you're off frequency, you can
adjust that a little bit so they hear

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you a little bit different. VFO
lock light. Great case here we go

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right here. So the specs the
weight about seven ounces. Wow, that's

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freaking cool. With all options except
the bag, it's about thirteen ounces.

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It's still less than a pound.
One pound is sixteen ounces less than one

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pound. With everything except the bag. You can supply it with eight to

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fifteen volts DC, fifty to seventy
million amp hours on receive with no signal,

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and a zero point five to one
point zero amps transmit, so a

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two point five amp hour battery would
last you for two and a half hours

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if you just key the whole thing
down and leave it there. You're not

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gonna be doing that when you're you're
tapping CW off and on off and on

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off and on. Superheterodyne receiver with
variable BW crystal filter. So those of

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you who are worried about SDR receivers, the superheterodyne is the as the sought

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after receiver. Usually usually SDR is
really good too, so depend on what

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architecture you want. Attenuator has a
twelve dB switchable attenuator. Wow, twelve

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dB. That's incredible. Most rados
will have a three or a six dy

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b attenuator. A twelve dB.
That's pretty cool. Modes is CW upper

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and lower sideband receive, so it'll
receive sideband. Allows cross mode CW transmit

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single sideband receive. S meter and
AGC included. That allows cross mode CW

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transmit single sideband receive, so you
can do that at the same time.

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I guess modes is CW upper and
lower sideband receive. Transmitter five WAT nominal

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all bands eleven volts, dc SWR
tolans is infinite auto power rollback. Sidetone

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is five hundred and eight hundred hertz
U CW. Guys will understand what that

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is. I understand what it is. Too key here is eight to fifty

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words per minute. So Charlie J
seven Victor, he will be able to

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do his fifty words a minute like
he always does. Yeah, he's a

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nut. So I ambic A and
B paddle reverse hand key mode three point

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five millimeter key jack can be used
with a KHBT one or other paddles.

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Three messages auto repeat for calling CQ
presumably CQCQ PODA or something like that.

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CQ your call sign. ATU works
with both a B and C jack and

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a whipmount post matches most intenna on
multiple bands. Slide switch ATU works with

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both B and C jack and the
whip mount post. Okay, so it's

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got two. It's got a B
and C jack for external intendas like an

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infant halfwave or whatever. Anybody poll
coax that has B and C can go

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to, or any coax it has
B and C to go to. Any

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intenna matches most intenna's on multiple bands. I wish that it had for something

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like this. It would be awesome
if it had digital, if you could

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do FT eight with it onto the
digi rig. I wonder if the digi

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rig that's made for the KIX three
will work with this unit, because that'd

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be cool because you could you could
digirig it so you could put this thing

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in your backpack and stick the whip
up and then you could hold your tablet

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with the digit rig cable plugged in
the USB and just be walking down the

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road and you could be calling a
CQFT eight on a tablet that see.

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That sounds fun to me. I
know somebody you'd be like, you're not

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wrong, but to me, it
sounds fun. Full remote control and firmer

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upgrades supplied via USB. A cable
scanning text logging thirty two kilobits of recorded

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text with time stamping, so it
hads its own logging software. It sounds

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like packages. The Edgewood package is
one hundred dollars savings. You get the

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handheld five band transceiver, the ATU
internal tuner, the keyer paddle, the

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log book tray, rechargeable lithium ion
battery. Important to remember it's a lithium

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ion back similar to your phone battery, So it's not a lithium irn phosphate

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battery. It's a lithium ion battery
similar to your your smartphone internal battery charger,

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and customs zipper carrying case, price
list and order. Okay, so

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here, how much is it?
How much is so? You can get

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the transceiver by itself for five forty
nine. I don't think that's too bad,

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honestly. I mean for something that's
Llocraft Llocraft Flex Radio and ten Tech

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if they ever come back top notch
made in the USA Ham radio transceivers.

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You're gonna pay for maid in the
USA because they are so high quality.

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And I'm okay with that. I
am totally one hundred percent okay with that.

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Some people don't want to pay that
much that's okay, made in the

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USA is something to be proud of, so be proud of it. Five

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forty nine for the transceiver with the
Edgewood package. It almost doubles that pretty

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much doubles the price. So you
get, yeah, eleven hundred for the

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Edgewood package. Or you can buy
stuff. You know. Llocraft is very

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all a cart with stuff you can
buy. The keyer paddle by itself,

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the log tray, all this stuff
kind of by itself. The ATU,

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that's good, a tou kit.
ATU factory installed a tou kit, so

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you put it in yourself. I
put the ATU in my k X three.

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It was not hard. It's easy. If I can do it,

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you can do it. Internal battery
charger factory installed internal battery charger kit.

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Same price on those two. Okay, keyer paddle tray, lithium ion battery

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pack, external lithium ion fast charger
for KXBBT two, the pen replacement whips,

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zippered case. Okay, so you
can kind of all the kart the

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stuff together, X one antenna and
all that good stuff. Okay. Good,

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So there it is right there.
So who wants to see me buy

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this? I almost pulled the trigger
on the transceiver by itself. But then

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I looked at that kit and I'm
like, that would be fun too,

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So put a comment below. Let
me know what you think about this,

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let me know if you are interested. Even though it's CW only and that's

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a little bit an ambiguous that page
that says it's CWLSB and USB received,

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it doesn't say anything about transmit.
That's under the receiver section, of course,

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but it doesn't say anything about transmit, so it'll receive sideband. You

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know what, if I bought one, I could test it