[Elecraft] K3 add on kit idea

[WILLIS COOKE]

I think you are correct, it is an antenna switch that allows multiple antennas and multiple connections.  Such a product that decodes what antenna you want and what connection you want would be a really ambitious product.  The SteppIR antennas with a transceiver interface might be a solution.  I have the SteppIR and the K3, but my antenna selection is all manual.  I don't even have the Six Pack.

Willis 'Cookie' Cooke 
K5EWJ


--- On Fri, 4/17/09, Dick Dievendorff <dieven at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: Dick Dievendorff <dieven at comcast.net>
> Subject: RE: [Elecraft] K3 add on kit idea
> To: wrcooke at flash.net, Elecraft at mailman.qth.net, mike at paxsen.com
> Date: Friday, April 17, 2009, 8:31 AM
> 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-----
> From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [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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