[Elecraft] KX3 AM breakthrough (&KX2)

[Philip Anderson]

opps that should be a 3Mhz HIGH pass filter!

On 12/08/2017 08:02, Philip Anderson wrote:
> Many thanks for all the thoughts and information people have offered 
> on this issue! If in addition to the extra high pass filtering the KX2 
> has RX SHIFT permanently enabled, that certainly explains why it's 
> immune to AM breakthrough.
>
> It sounds like it might be worth trying a 3Mhz low pass filter to sort 
> out 80m and above and accepting that RX SHIFT will need to be used on 
> top band (which I rarely use anyway). Because the local broadcast 
> station is quite close to top band (around 1.6Mhz), I doubt a high 
> pass filter that allowed top band through would reject the broadcast 
> transmitter sufficiently to sort the problem.
>
> It seems like there might be a few commercial products which could 
> work - or I could just get out my soldering iron!
>
> Phil G4PWO
>
>
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