[Elecraft] 600 meters

[Ken Alexander]

Right!  Thaaaat's what I remember reading!  Thanks Wayne.

I assume the highpass filter starts working just below 160m?

73 - Ken



On 12/01/2012 10:13 PM, Wayne Burdick wrote:
> Hi Ken,
>
> I appreciate your enthusiasm for coverage of this range. There's not 
> quite a free lunch here, though. The KX3 will receive down to about 
> 300 kHz, but there's a moderate-slope high-pass filter in the T/R 
> switch to prevent PIN-diode IMD due to high-amplitude LF signals. So 
> the sensitivity decreases as you go down in frequency. When we get a 
> chance we'll put some numbers on it.
>
> 73,
> Wayne
> N6KR
>
>
> On Jan 12, 2012, at 7:07 PM, Ken Alexander wrote:
>
>> Hi Bob,
>>
>> I wasn't paying close attention, but I thought I read that the KX3 will
>> cover the upper half of the MW band and could be made to cover the rest
>> of the band in the future.  Hopefully, somebody with a better memory
>> than mine will jump in and correct me.  The thought of receiving the
>> mediumwave band with something as good as an Elecraft leaves me
>> breathless.  Being able to transmit on the 600m band with an Elecraft is
>> just too cool to contemplate!
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Ken Alexander
>> VE3HLS
>>
>>
>> On 12/01/2012 9:24 PM, riese-k3djc at juno.com wrote:
>>> Gang
>>>
>>> with all the traffic that goes through this list I thought I spotted
>>> something
>>> is it true that the KX3 will be able to rcv/tx in the new ( when we get
>>> it )
>>> 470 Khz band
>>>
>>> WOW
>>>
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