[Elecraft] K3 and general coverage

[Julian, G4ILO]

What will the ATU do in general coverage mode? I guess the best thing would 
be to switch straight through, but would you have to go into a menu and do 
that manually whenever you tune to a non-ham band?

Julian, G4ILO

wayne burdick wrote:

Hi Bob,

As Greg (AB7R) mentioned, it isn't possible for the K3 to provide coverage 
in the vicinity of our first I.F., 8.215 MHz. We felt that this was a small 
price to pay, given our primary goal of offering an excellent ham-band 
transceiver. However, all other bands of interest for general coverage from 
0.5 to 30 MHz can be tuned. If you have the KBPF3 option installed (on 
either or both receivers), its filters will automatically be switched in to 
cover the gaps between the narrow ham-band filters. But even without the 
KBPF3 you'll have useful sensitivity in shortwave broadcast segments near 
ham bands.