[Elecraft] 600 meters

[Wayne Burdick]

On Jan 12, 2012, at 7:46 PM, Ken Alexander wrote:

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

Correct.

Wayne

>
> 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
>>>>
>>>> Bob K3DJC
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