[Elecraft] [K3, k3S] Panadapter for the Sub Receiver

[Bill Frantz]

Thanks Don.

Part of my reasoning for posting was that this feature might 
increase sales of P3s. Given the relative lack of interest, I 
think it remains a user mod. (But my K3 might look nice with 2 
P3s on top of it. :-)

73 Bill AE6JV

On 7/1/16 at 5:28 AM, donwilh at embarqmail.com (Don Wilhelm) wrote:

>Bill,
>
>Getting the IF output from the subRX is not a problem, but 
>adding the 'new protocols' would likely be a problem.
>
>So if you just want to monitor the band around wherever the 
>subRX is tuned, that part is easy, just add an IF output to the 
>subRX. I have done that to one customer's K3, it is not difficult.
>
>73,
>Don W3FPR
>
>On 7/1/2016 1:49 AM, Bill Frantz wrote:
>>One of our field day operators announced that while he was 
>>making QSOs on active bands, he was going to use the sub 
>>receiver in his K3 to scan for 10M CW activity. It occurred to 
>>me that this kind of scanning would be a lot easier if you 
>>could attach a second P3 to the K3 sub receiver.
>>
>>It seems simple. You would need an IF out from the sub 
>>receiver, and some new protocols on the aux bus. e.g. QSY on 
>>the sub P3 QSYs the sub receiver. etc.
>>
>
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