[Elecraft] KX3 use for broadcast reception

Don Wilhelm w3fpr at embarqmail.com
Fri Aug 14 19:17:24 EDT 2015


John,

The T/R switch PIN diodes are protected against strong AM BC stations by 
a high pass filter.  You will have better luck if you use the RX ANT 
input (assuming you have the KXV3 option as well as the KBPF3 installed).

73,
Don W3FPR

On 8/14/2015 6:47 PM, John Klewer wrote:
> Just got around to measuring RX sensitivity on my KX3 and, boy, does it
> drop off severely (about -30 dB) at 1 MHz....playing with the ATU settings
> as others have mentioned here doesn't help
>
>



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