[Elecraft] K3 Antenna static bleed

[Dick Dievendorff]

I see them on the KAT3 schematic, at the top left.  There's a 560K resistor
to ground as well as a carrier operated relay (COR) to deal with high input
for each of the two antenna connectors.

The KANT3 has a similar COR (and a similar resistor), again at the top left
of the KANT3 schematic.

73 de Dick, K6KR


-----Original Message-----
From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Fred Jensen
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 7:26 PM
To: Elecraft Reflector
Subject: [Elecraft] K3 Antenna static bleed

Forgive me, I'm having a hard time with the schematic:

Does my K3 have an RF choke or a high value resistor across the antenna
input[s] to bleed the static charge?  For some reason, I'm getting more
precip static than I usually do.  At N6A in Alpine County for the 2009 Cal
QSO Party, we managed to fry the front ends of two ICOM 756 PRO II's from
what seemed to be inconsequential snow static.  Don't want that to happen to
my K3.

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2011 Cal QSO Party 1-2 Oct 2011
- www.cqp.org
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