[Elecraft] Re: FT report on K3 subreceiver

[David Ferrington, M0XDF]

That is just Fantastic and I have all components on order - is the 3-dB
splitter included in K3/100 or KXV3?
If not, I'll have to order one, but don't remember seeing that as an option


On 8/10/07 17:23, "wayne burdick" <n6kr at elecraft.com> sent:

> Lyle Johnson wrote:
> 
>>> ... a K3, KXV3 and a XV144 would only allow you to Rx/TX
>>> on one 2M freq at any one time
>> 
>> Actually, I suspect it is possible to configure things so that you can
>> *receive* on two different 2m frequencies if using a K3 equipped with
>> Aux receiver.
> 
> Yes. There are two ways to do this.
> 
> 1. The main and sub can share the received signal coming from the XVTR
> IN jack, via the passive 3-dB splitter.
> 
> 2. The sub receiver's aux RF input can be routed to the "AUX RF" BNC
> jack near the main antenna jacks. This jack could be connected to RX
> I.F. output of a second transverter. This would eliminate the splitter,
> although in practice, the NF of the system is established at the input
> to the transverter, not its I.F. But it would allow you to get the main
> and sub RX inputs from separate transverters if required. You could
> even use different I.F.s. The K3 allows you to set up each transverter
> band independently (up to 9 bands), and put the two receivers on
> different bands.
> 
> 73,
> Wayne
> N6KR

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