[Elecraft] Diversity Reception

[Arie Kleingeld PA3A]

Bob,

This is how I often use the diversity of my K3 (it has the sub RX, and 
similar filters in Man and Sub RX)
- on 20m: one 3-el beam to NW on Main and a 5-el mono to NE on Sub
- on 160m: vertical on Main and receive 4-square on Sub
- on 40m: 3 el beam on Main, vertical on Sub
(It depends a bit on the antennas I can use at that time.)
If there's a weak station on one ear that I want to work, and loud 
signals come battering on my other ear, I'd like to concentrate on one 
channel to make it easier. Than I switch the audio to the channel I 
want. After finishing the QSO I switch back to diversity.

Yes, the antenna's are not more than 50m apart but they have a totally 
different receive pattern. I remember that during a DXpedition I was 
working with a beam and had a vertical on the other RX. The guys I heard 
on the vertical were copyable very well on the vertical. On the beam 
they were buried under the pile-up in the beam direction.

Diversity is such a nice feature of the k3.

73
Arie

Bob McGraw - K4TAX schreef op 3-8-2015 om 22:31:
>
>
> >>>  However, in my world, "true diversity" is attained from 2 
> identical receivers,  each having a separate antenna in two different 
> locations.  The source signal is a single transmitter. <<<
> 73 Bob, K4TAX