[Elecraft] K3 Seperate Rx Antenna

[Iain MacDonnell - N6ML]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Don Ehrlich
<ehrlich at clallambroadband.com> wrote:
> My K3 has no KRX3 subreceiver and no KXV3 transverter and I want to use a
> seperate receive-only antenna for general HF operation.
>
> Today I tried to use the RX-IN for the seperate antenna, switching to the
> seperate antenna for receive-only by pressing the RX ANT  button on the K3,
> and found that it did not work.  So I read the manual and discover that use
> of a seperate receive antenna in this way is  possible only when a KXV3 is
> installed and is only for use with the KXV3.  Am I reading the manual
> correctly?
>
> I clearly remember having done this before successfully on HF bands with my
> stock K3 and still have the BNC-S0239 adapter that I used before to connect
> my receive-only antenna to the RX-IN BNC connector on the back of the K3.
> The only antenna-related change in the K3 since that time is the
> installation of the autotuner.

The "RX ANT" BNC connectors are part of the KXV3 module - are you sure
you don't have one?

There's a section in the K3 manual, starting on page 41, that covers
antenna routing possibilities...

    ~Iain / N6ML