[Elecraft] Trying to gauge interest

[Ken Arck]

Hello fellow 10 watt K3 owners!

As my main use for my K3s is 6 meter and 144 EME operation, I bought 
the 10 watt version without the antenna tuner. I dabble a little on 
HF but not a whole lot. As such, the 10 watt, no tuner version suits 
my needs, although I thought it would be nice to be able to select 2 
different antennas from the front panel (one for HF and the other for 
6 meters). Spending several hundred dollars for the KATU seemed a bit 
overkill to me just to get front panel selection of 2 antennas.

So looking at the schematic, I saw how easy it would be to modify my 
KANT board to allow 2 antenna selection. I bread boarded up my 
schematic and It works exactly as I expected.

So I'm debating having some pc boards made to replace the entire KANT 
board but only if there is enough interest to justify doing so and I 
wanted to see how y'all felt about it. I project the bare boards 
would run around $20 to $25. You would take the parts from your 
existing KANT and reuse them on this new board, in addition to adding 
around $12 worth of new parts. So for under $40, you could have dual 
antenna selection on your non-KATU equipped K3.

Any interest?

Ken
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