[Elecraft] K3 Seperate Rx Antenna

[Brett Howard]

When you say that it didn't work what did it do?  If you have an
RX_ANT_IN on the back of your K3 then you do have the KXV3 or KXV3A
installed in your radio.  When you pressed the button did you get an
RX on the display?  Also make sure that you have enabled the KXV3 in
the config menu.  If you've used it before then you've probably
already done this...

~Brett (N7MG)

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 2:15 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.
>
> Please don't tell me my memory is wrong.  I'm too young to face the
> possibility of having become delusional.
>
> Don K7FJ
>
>
>
>
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