[Elecraft] ANT2 port w/o Tuner

[Edward R. Cole]

Ross, etal:

This had been discussed when I first got my K3/10 last spring.  I 
chose not to get the tuner since I was also not getting the 100w 
option and have a 300w ext. tuner.  Subsequently, I bought a 2kW 
manual tuner for future use with amps (300w sspa and possibly a HB 
8877 later on).

I have 17 antennas at my station so there are certainly more than the 
K3 can switch, but I do run separate amps/antennas on HF and 6m and 
that entails manually switching cables.  A second antenna port (call 
it ANT2) would really be useful for quick switching.  I have a 6-pos 
coax switch for selecting my HF antennas.

I kept an e-mail suggestion on how to implement a second ant (can't 
put my finger on it right now) with thoughts of building it (and if 
there was interest offering it as an aftermarket kit).

But there was some involved circuitry to handle switching so not sure 
what it would cost.  If I would guess it would likely be $100-150 so 
would anyone chose that over just installing the internal tuner?

I am really overloaded with other projects so this one will not see 
daylight for another six months, at least.

73, Ed - KL7UW

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Message: 47
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:37:56 -0500
From: Ross Primrose N4RP <n4rp at aiko.com>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] FW:  K3 Feature Request
Cc: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
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What I'd really like to see is a second antenna port that I don't have
to pay $300 for since it's bundled with an antenna tuner I don't
want/need....

73, Ross N4RP




73, Ed - KL7UW, WD2XSH/45
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