[Elecraft] K3 add on kit idea

[Jack Brindle]

Actually the KRC2 should be able to do this now. It has up to 16  
outputs that can be mapped to switch antennas whichever way you would  
like, based on the band your K2 or K3 is tuned to.

You _do_ bring up some rather interesting ideas...


On Apr 17, 2009, at 8:31 AM, Dick Dievendorff wrote:

> The Array Solutions SixPak is an antenna switch, but I don't think it
> decodes band line input, at least the one I have doesn't.  I was  
> thinking of
> their DBS-1 and DBS-2 or "BandMaster" products.
>
> Dick, K6KR
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of WILLIS COOKE
> Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 8:26 AM
> To: Elecraft at mailman.qth.net; mike at paxsen.com
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 add on kit idea
>
>
> Array solutions has such a product called Six Pack.  You will like the
> product, I think, but you may choke at the price.
>
> Willis 'Cookie' Cooke
> K5EWJ
>
>
> --- On Fri, 4/17/09, Mike Scott <mike at paxsen.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Mike Scott <mike at paxsen.com>
>> Subject: [Elecraft] K3 add on kit idea
>> To: Elecraft at mailman.qth.net
>> Date: Friday, April 17, 2009, 7:30 AM
>> Recently there was a request for ideas for kits that could
>> be useful to
>> accompany a K3.
>>
>> When we use diversity mode antenna switching becomes a
>> different problem
>> than I have run into before. The usual antenna switch
>> routes many antennas
>> to one radio port. Some of us have many antennas that need
>> routing to two or
>> more radio ports.
>>
>> So I could imagine a useful kit would read K3 band decode
>> and map something
>> like 6 or 8 antennas to 2 or 3 ports and makes sure the K3
>> does not transmit
>> into the other radio ports.
>>
>> Some attention to stations using two K3's or a second
>> receiver might be
>> useful also. Not sure what this would entail because I
>> don't operate that
>> way.
>>
>>
>> Mike Scott - AE6WA
>> Tarzana, CA (DM04 / near LA)
>> NAQCC 3535
>> K3-100 #508 / KX1  #1311
>>
>>
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