[Elecraft] Diversity receive with ant1 and ant2?

Don Wilhelm w3fpr at embarqmail.com
Sat Oct 8 00:08:11 EDT 2011


If you hear the COR relay clicking while transmitting, you do not have 
enough isolation between the TX and RX antennas (or your power is 
greater than the isolation of the antennas will permit).

73,
Don W3FPR

On 10/7/2011 11:31 PM, tomb18 wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a question about the diversity mode where you use ant1 on the main
> receiver and ant2 on the sub.  IN the manual it says "This requires that the
> two antennas connected to the KAT3 be well isolated from each other. If not,
> the sub receiver’s carrier-operated relay may turn on during transmit."
>
> How does one know that this is the case?  I am currently using this and it
> seems to operate as always.
> My antenna 1 is a dipole in the attic and antenna 2 is a vertical separated
> about 30 feet apart.


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