[Elecraft] K3 500kHz?

[Dave Sergeant]

Congrats on the new rig, very nice....

As one of the growing number in the UK who now has a special permit 
for 501-504kHz...

I see that with the general coverage filters the K3 tunes down to 
500kHz. Presumably at the moment there is no possibility of full 
transceive. But I was wondering what the receive performance is like. 
Does it like quite a few of the Japanese rigs have an attenuator 
automatically switched in between 500kHz and 1.6MHz to reduce 
blocking from medium wave broadcast signals (I guess not, with those 
IMP figures though..)?

With quite a few countries talking about allowing operation down 
there it may well become a real band in the lifetime of the K3!

Does the standard K3 include 60m transceive (or maybe it is limited 
to the USA channels?).

73 Dave G3YMC
 
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