[Elecraft] Sub-receiver or 2 k3's

[Jerry Flanders]

A few weeks ago on this reflector I mentioned that I was using my two 
K3s for diversity. I have two full station setups (primarily for RTTY 
contesting), and one is connected to 80/20/10 antennas and the other 
to a 40/15. Also, each separate station feeds a different side 
earpiece in my headphones, so it was very easy for me to implement 
diversity just by linking the VFOs together through N8LP's LP-Bridge 
program. Even though the "other" K3 is on the "wrong band" antenna, 
it all works FB. I have not tried to link the master oscillators in 
the K3s, but I did carefully tweak the freq calibration so they are 
on the same freq (within tenths of a Hz, I think).

Since I already had the two radios here, it made sense for me to do 
diversity with them when the second radio was not busy, but maybe not 
so sensible to buy one solely for this.

Go back through the archives and search for my posts both here and 
also the LP-Pan reflector.

Jerry W4UK

At 18:17 1/25/2009, N1IX wrote:
>
>I was going to install the sub-receiver in my K3.
>Then I thought it might me advantageous to have a second K3 instead.
>I need a back up radio also. Are there any opinions?
>
>Dave N1IX