Exactly - the hams are getting older on average. 
Somehow I prefer the key to be remote with a cable. This is probably a habit. Very often I sit on the ground or on a tree stump and not comfortably at the table. Then I have the device in or on my pocket and the small TP-III and the writing material on my thigh.
I can’t imagine a key permanently installed on the TRX.
…here on I/PM-201
73 Armin
Hi folks
No worry about that! As ELECRAFT writes on its page, you can order it the KH1 with us. ELECRAFT ships the KH1 as Kits to us as Official Distributor. With us you can order the kit, but we offer also the building of the radio as additional optional service, so that you can order the ready-built radio with us 
: ELECRAFT KH1 | Lutz Electronics (lutz-electronics.ch)
we’ll report about it soon in a video 
vy 73 de René, HB9NBG + 73/88 de Carine, HB9FZC
I can understand the different points of criticism. But still something bothers me.
The company Elecraft is developing a device that is specifically aimed at us Sota activators. And especially those where every gram in your mountain backpack counts.
It may be that it misses the needs of many. But they don’t have to buy it.
73 Chris
What is meant by “we SOTA activators” ?
If you see (and accept) that “we SOTA activators” are all individuals with very different needs and views, you should not take any of these statements as criticism - and certainly not be annoyed by it and take it as criticism of the developer company.
We amateur radio enthusiasts have been talking shop with Elecraft’s product developers for more than 20 years and, always with mutual respect, we get along well.
I very much enjoy working CW pedestrian portable with the KX2+AX1 combo on SOTA activations. I like the very short setup time, the stealth, the small form factor of the station, the freedom to operate from anywhere I want.
The KH1 does 100% suit my operating style and as far as I am concerned it’s a big win.
The only drawback is the price 
Time to sell some of my unused radios!
Hi all,
Clearly, a LOT of thought about features and trade-offs has gone into the KH1.
The market alone, will determine whether Elecraft has hit a home run, as they did with the KX2.
Delivery time at present, is “several weeks”. I’m willing to give the “key on the rig” a try.
Another comment, re: the KX1: XYL Kay and I built that kit years ago; it now belongs to N6PKT; he says he loves it so, and would not part with it!
As a phone op the interest in this rig is purely academic, but I wonder why, if it can be used for SWL to 22 MHz, they didn’t include the 18 MHz band?
“Static mobile” has an interesting origin: there was a time in the UK when you had to buy a seperate Mobile licence to operate a ham radio in a moving vehicle. I was told back in my SWL days (1957-1964) that you did not need to buy this licence to operate from a stationary vehicle. I have no clue as to whether this is true, but I often heard the expression in those days.
Might be a marketing decision to differentiate at some level between rigs.
The KX2 does not have 160 nor 6m that the KX3 has.
Maybe this replacement for the KX1 (???) dropped 80 and 17-10 to differentiate from the KX2.
From the manual:
Receive, amateur bands: 7.0-7.5MHz, 10.0-10.5 MHz, 14.0-14.5MHz, 18.0-18.5MHz,21.0-21.5MHz
Transmit: 40/30/20/17/15meter amateur bands.
Hello all,
Regarding mobile callsigns, have heard callsigns followed by “mobile-in-motion”.
Have done quite a bit of /AM when had an airplane.
Sexiest of all, in my opinion, is: (in CW, of course) CALL SIGN, followed by /MMS: (Maritime Mobile, Submerged)
I’ve put in the order… I’ve wanted a kx1 for a couple years.
If I love it, I’ll sell my MTR4B. If I don’t, I’ll sell both… And try the penntek tr-35 next.
The UK licensing authority was even more controlling in the inter-war years where one needed a license merely to test a transmitter into a dummy load.
The G2 plus three letters [callsign was] for a form of licence called an artificial aerial licence which allowed transmitters to be built and tested, but only into a dummy load or “artificial aerial.”
Delivery in 2 years lol
I’ve sent you an email Rene @HB9NBG
Before Sep 1939 Artificial Aerial licences were simple 2+three letters, i.e. 2AFJ and when amateur radio restarted in June 1946 original AA licences were reissued so 2AFJ became G2AFJ and the dummy load only requirement was dropped. New licencees got G3+three letter calls.
Before 1939 some of the most leaky dummy loads known to man were made in the UK as it was not illegal for a AA licence holders to have QSOs with other hams as long as they had no aerial attached.
Now you piqued my interest.
I bought a used KX1 at a hamfest about 6 years ago and it still is my only HF SOTA rig. It does everything I need, does it well, and for a rig with built in ATU is still remarkably lightweight. I, too, am not parting with mine!
Ahh. So that’s where ‘compromise’ antennae originated. Most of my contacts are made via a dummy load (2 in fact; 1 at each end of the radio/coax setup 
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