[Elecraft] Elecraft[K-3] K144XV

[Wayne Burdick]

On Jan 7, 2010, at 1:54 PM, Matt Zilmer wrote:

> I installed a production K144XV recently.  It's been in K3 #24 for
> about 10 days, and there haven't been any real issues with it.
>
> Mechanical installation went according to plan, and takes about 60
> minutes.  There is one power pin that needs to be soldered down to a
> pad on the RF Board to power the module.  This step take more time
> than all the rest.

This has already been added to production RF boards, but those with  
existing K3s will need to solder the pin in.

> Sensitivity is better than -125 dBm, and I think the MDS is perhaps 10
> dB better than this figure....

It's actually more like -144 dBm (500-Hz bandwidth). Maybe you were  
referring to FM sensitivity at 10 dB S+N/N? A much wider bandwidth is  
used in that case.

Wayne
N6KR