[Elecraft] PR6 6 meter antenna connections

[Elliott Lawrence]

Or it you have a dedicated 6M antenna and the ATU....connect it to Ant-2 and 
make sure that ant position is selected for 6M!
73
Elliott WA6TLA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lew Phelps K6LMP" <k6lmp at me.com>
To: "Elecraft" <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Cc: "Gil WA5YKK" <WA5YKK at centurytel.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 12:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] PR6 6 meter antenna connections


> Don't feel alone, Gil.
>
> I went through the same head-scratching several months ago, when I bought 
> my PR6.
>
> connection is actually quite simple.
>
> Your 6 m antenna connects to the HF antenna jack on the back of the rig 
> ( ANT-1.)
>
> Connect the 6 m preamp to the "receive only" bnc jacks on the transverter 
> interface.  connect  12 V power to the preamp using the supplied RCA plug 
> that goes into the auxiliary 12  RCA-style 12 V jack on the back of the 
> rig, enter connects to the preamp with the small 3-pin  connector attached 
> with red and black wires to the RCA plug. Make sure it is oriented 
> properly; the red wire goes toward the rig and the white wire away from 
> it. The plug is not polarized, so it is possible to put it in backwards. 
> No harm if you do, but the preamp won't work.
>
> You have one additional setup question to deal with. Do you want to preamp 
> to be powered whenever the rig is on, or only when the rig is tuned to the 
> 6 m band? If "always on" is your preference, your setup is done. If you 
> want the preamp to be powered only when the rig is tuned to 6 m, then you 
> need to remove the jumper from J2  (see  instruction manual),  and connect 
> the supplied db-15 connector with one  white wire coming out of it to the 
> AUX
> DB-15 jack on the back of the rig. Go into the config menu  and set 
> DIGOUT1  to "on" with the rig tuned to 6 m, and to make sure that DIGOUT1 
> is set to "off" for all other bands. That  configuration will power up the 
> preamp when you switch the rig to 6 m.
>
> To engage the preamp,  simply tune your  rig to the 6 m band and press the 
> RX ANT button on the front of the rig,  (near the power button). When you 
> do that, the K3  will automatically route the receive signal to the RX ANT 
> module,  through the  6 m preamp, and back to the front to end of the K3 
> receiver.  When you transmit, the  rig  will automatically bypasses the 
> receive  antenna circuitry, and sends the transmit signal directly out 
> through the ANT-1  connector.
>
> For normal use on 6 m, you don't connect anything to the "outboard" pair 
> of bnc jacks on the preamp.   those basically exist to provide the receive 
> only antenna functionality for every band other than 6 m,   since the 
> preamp is bypassed when the preamp is  powered off.   in this mode, a 
> receive only signal goes directly from the "outboard" pair of BNC jacks to 
> the "inboard" pair that are connected to the rig itself.
>
> When you first hook this thing up, it's natural to assume that the 6 m 
> antenna ought to connect to the 6 m preamp, but it doesn't. The 6 m 
> received signal simply takes a little detour from  the main antenna input 
> jack through the preamp, and then back into the receiver. It's like 
> stopping at Starbucks for an espresso to give yourself a boost before you 
> go on a long trip (through the receiver).
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Lew  k6lmp
>
>
>> For the six meter PR6 owners and users;
>>
>>  I've followed the factory guides on the PR6, no problems with
>> installing it, but I'm totally befuddled about where the 6 meter antenna
>> itself is connected! All the text does is refer to different K3
>> connections, in terms that are fuzzy to me at best, bearing in mind that
>> my brain is still "fuzzed over" from a case of the flu, and a lot of
>> items aren't making sense right now anyhow.
>>   Would the experts in the group kindly give me an explanation of what
>> cable goes where, to make this system work? The Elecraft tech support
>> goes into a vernacular which makes little to no sense to a late '50s era
>> beginner, "before logic gates and bypass modes".
>>   Sorry for sounding like a babe in the woods, but I have almost no
>> time for thinking things through, too many work items to accomplish with
>> a spine that's telling me I'm nearly headed for a wheelchair!
>>
>
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