[Elecraft] K3 6m pre-amp

[Brendan Minish]

In my quiet rural location with a 7 element long yagi fed with feeder
totalling about 0.5dB of feeder loss, I find that the K3 is sensitive
enough (just) to hear to the band noise floor. 
My Icom 7800 was more sensitive on 6m (& a superb 6m radio in general)
but since the K3 is sensitive enough to hear to the band noise floor I
suspect that adding a premap in my case is not going to help.
Eavesdropping on EME QSO's ( i have yet to do EME on 6m  with the K3)
seems to indicate that the in my setup adding a preamp is going to make
little or no difference.

A simple test is to compare the noise level of a Dummy load with the
noise level received on an antenna. If you hear more nose on the antenna
than you do on the Dummy load then it its unlikely that adding a preamp
will help in your situation.
     
73
Brendan EI6IZ 


On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 08:01 +0000, Stewart Baker wrote:
> Haven't really had time to use my K3 on 50MHz, but when I tried it 
> the sensitivity seemed quite a bit down on my K2/KXV50 
> combination. Unfortunately I have sold the KXV50, so I can't do an 
> A/B comparison.
> 
> Is this what the preamp is meant to address  ?
> 
> 73
> Stewart G3RXQ
> On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 19:51 +0000 (GMT Standard Time), Trevor 
> Smithers wrote:
> > Anyone have any new information on the 6m pre-amp for the K3. 
> I'm aware that it was
> > being tested back
> > in January - just wondering when its likely to become available.
> >
> > Hopefully it will be in kit form.
> >
> > 73 to all
> > Trevor  G0KTN
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