[Elecraft] P3

[Alan Bloom]

One trick people used to use was to wrap a wire around the mixer tube.
That picks up enough signal for the panadapter without having to tap
into the circuitry , which would likely require an IF re-alignment.

Alan N1AL


On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 11:44 -0800, Fred Townsend wrote:
> Tony and all:
> I agree it should be easy to tap off the IF but I suspect that will be a
> relatively high impedance point and will require a source follower (cathode
> follower) circuit to drive the coax without dragging down the signal.
> I seem to remember a QST article on adding a pan adapter to the KWM2 but
> that was some time ago.
> Fred, AE6QL
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Tony Estep
> Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 7:37 AM
> To: Elecraft
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] P3
> 
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Don Wilhelm <w3fpr at embarqmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I do not recall those transceivers having an IF Output....
> 
> I don't think so either, but I'm thinking it should be easy to tap off the
> 455 khz signal path and bring it out to a BNC or RCA connector.
> 
> Tony KT0NY
>