[Elecraft] Configuring a K3 for the PR6-10

[Mike K2MK]

Hi Ted,

If you are using a KPA500 and a PR6 you will have to remove pin 11 from the
cable that goes to the KPA500. It has popped up on this reflector once or
twice but it is not mentioned in either the PR6 or the KPA500 instructions.
If you wonder if this will work just pull the 15 pin cable off of the KPA500
and you'll see that the PR6 works as you would expect it to work.

73,
Mike K2MK


Dauer, Edward wrote
> I need to ask for help configuring a PR6-10 on the K3.  Installed OK,
> removed the internal jumper per instructions and am using the control line
> on a Y splitter to allow the KPA and KAT to connect to the K3 as well.
> Physically, all seems fine, and the K3, P3, KPA and KAT work just as they
> always did.
> 
> Then to operate the pre-amp I configured digout1 to ³on² for 28 Mhz on the
> K3, per instructions.  OK so far.
>  
> 
> The PR6-10 manual says ³Tap RX ANT to enable preamplifier.²  When I do so
> the noise level goes way down and the signals disappear, as if there were
> no antenna connected to the receiver.   Removing the power plug from the
> preamp made no difference in either mode ­ RX ANT on or off.
>  
> 
> I recall when building the K3 that there were elections to be made about
> antenna configurations when installing the sub receiver and/or
> the KXV3.  I also remember that there are a myriad of ways the antennas
> can be routed via the configuration menus.  I have a feeling that the
> elections and internal configurations I originally made in the K3 are not
> compatible with getting the PR6-10 to work simply by pressing RX ANT, but
> I can¹t reason my way through it all.
> 
> 
> Ted, KN1CBR





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