[Elecraft] 6M Preamp K3

[Bill Johnson]

Yes, the 502, I had one of those and worked with the built in antenna to
great results with 2 watts.  The K3 has some good noise filtering and the
filters are helpful.  I have two other radios capable of 6 meters and have
not done a comparison.


Bill

-----Original Message-----
From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Jim Wiley
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 3:32 PM
To: Greg-N4CC
Cc: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] 6M Preamp


While having a 6-meter preamplifier may help when signals are weak, if 
the band well and truly opens, signals will be so strong that overload 
will be most operator's main problem.  Remember that during the openings 
of 1948 and 1959, many stations managed to work WAS with transmitters 
that put out less than 10 watts (Gonset "Communicators" and the like) 
and had receivers where a 10 db noise figure was considered good, and 
many were much worse, plus many were using very simple antennas (eg: a 
ground-plane vertical).  Up this way, Tim, KL7WE (SK) did indeed work 
WAS (from Alaska) with a barefoot 2 to 3 watt output ICOM IC-502 set in 
the 1970's.   Not trying to discourage anyone from having a preamplifier 
available, but just mentioning that with a bit of patience,  a "stock" 
radio may be all you need.


- Jim, KL7CC