[Elecraft] Configuring a K3 for the PR6-10

[wb6rse1 at mac.com]

Re: Pin 11 problem:

http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/KPA500-PR6-AUX-Cable-Pin-11-td7558085.html

73 - Steve WB6RSE

> On Jun 15, 2014, at 11:44 AM, Mike K2MK <k2mk at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> 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 elections and internal configurations I originally made in the K3 are not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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