[Elecraft] Elecraft K144XV 2-m module design change

[Grant Youngman]

I suppose the rest of us (non-high-power high band multi-station  
contesters) shouldn't care.

But it seems this is one of those things that benefits a very few  
users at the expense of adding a bit of operational clunkiness for the  
bulk of K3 users  and to what was originally a pretty clean design  
idea with single band coverage.   Heavy hitting contesters, do, after  
all, have other options such as high performance external  
transverters, etc., which they most likely already have on the table.

Grant/NQ5T


On Jul 22, 2009, at 5:31 PM, Wayne Burdick wrote:

> Our prototype K144XV 2-m module for the K3 used a 6 meter IF (50-54
> MHz). However, a number of K3 owners were concerned with this. In
> multi-transmitter installations, such as during high-band contesting,
> stations typically standardize on a 10-m IF to avoid interaction with
> high-power 6-m transmitters.
>