[Elecraft] K3 V3.03 Two band receive question

[wayne burdick]

Hi Joel,

You can only use VFO B for transmit when you're in split mode, at 
present. You found a clever work-around, but I don't recommend doing it 
this way. Be sure to monitor your TX signal if you do; the synth or 
filters may not be set up correctly on TX.

As someone else already posted, it is possible to get a buffered I.F. 
output from the sub receiver, but this has not been tested by Elecraft. 
It'll probably work, based on what I read, and we did provide a 
connector for it on the sub RX itself.

73,
Wayne
N6KR

Joel R. Hallas wrote:

> A big plus would be to be able to communicate on one band, using the 
> VFO B
> for transmit and the sub-receiver for receive,... and then use the main
> receiver IF output to view a second band on the IF connected 
> panadapter.
> Since there seems to be no way to get to the sub receiver IF. (?)
>
> The only way that I can seem to get the K3 to transmit on the VFO B
> frequency is in split mode. If I'm in split mode and change the bands 
> on VFO
> A, it drops out of split and transmit goes back to VFO A. If I try to 
> go to
> split mode while on different bands, it says "split N/A."
>
> I have found a way to do it. If I start up with VFO A and B on the 
> same band
> with the sub rcvr on, I can engage split mode and then manually spin 
> the VFO
> A dial until I get to the second band. Even with course tuning, this 
> takes a
> lot of spinning.
>
> Am I missing something here??
>
> Regards, Joel
> Joel R. Hallas, W1ZR
>
>
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