[Elecraft] Dramatic improvement in K3 RX sensitivity below 500 kHz -- looking for testers

Wayne Burdick n6kr at elecraft.com
Wed Apr 29 23:29:06 EDT 2015


On Apr 29, 2015, at 7:22 PM, Tony Estep <esteptony at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 8:23 PM, Wayne Burdick <n6kr at elecraft.com> wrote:
> 
>> ....the changes required:
>> 
>>  RF board:              Add one leaded capacitor
>>  KRX3 (if applicable):  Add one leaded capacitor
>>  KBPF3:                 Remove two inductors; parallel three new
>> capacitors
>> 
>> 
>> =============
> Could these mods have any effect on the BPF performance at higher
> frequencies?

No; this is strictly an issue below 500 kHz. All of the K3's band-pass filters already work exactly as they should.

73,
Wayne
N6KR




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