[Elecraft] KPA500 - Rx Attenuation

AG0N-3055 mcduffie at ag0n.net
Sun Feb 10 19:06:15 EST 2013


On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 18:08:15 -0500, Eric Swartz WA6HHQ - Elecraft wrote:

> This is normal as the KPA500 is designed to attenuate signals the further
> you go below the 160M band in order to protect the T/R switching diodes 
> from BC band overload. 

Thanks, Eric.  Interesting.  Is there a way to eliminate the small loss
that remains in the ham bands?  I haven't measured it in db yet, but it
does exist.  I need to see if I can find any of my fixed attenuators to
compare.

Gary
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