[Elecraft] K3 Diversity antenna settings - wish

Stewart stewart at baker.nildram.co.uk
Wed Dec 23 06:59:19 EST 2009


On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 03:30:27 -0800 (PST), Bill W4ZV wrote:
>
>
> Stewart Baker wrote:
>>
>>
>> As I wish to keep maximum flexibility of antenna switching I do
>> not want to use the AUX BNC  for the Sub RX as it stops me from
>> easily using either the main antenna or  loop as Sub RX input. I
>> don't want to be reconfiguring the K3 hardware as my needs change.
>>
>
Thanks for your reply Bill.

> I may not fully understand what you're doing but it sounds like you only
> transmit through the doublet.  If you feed the loop into AUX RF, and doublet
> to ANT1, you can set Sub RX to receive on either the doublet (MAIN in the
> BSET menu) or loop (AUX in the BSET menu). 

When BSET is selected I can switch between MAIN (Ant 1) and AUX (Ant 2) by 
pressing the ANT switch.  AUX is allocated to Ant 2. This means I am still able to
TX thru the loop pre-amp if I am not careful. 
Also I cannot select RX Ant input to the Sub RX when in BSET.
That switching path must not exist. 

73
Stewart G3RXQ

 This will ensure that you never
> transmit through the loop.  When in Diversity, it's very easy to switch
> between Sub RX antennas by HOLDing RX ANT which toggles the two choices.
>
> 73,  Bill




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