[Elecraft] K3s RX Out and IF Out

[Michael Blake]

My K3s kit should arrive next week and I have not been able to discover the answer to these two questions in either the manual or by studying the schematics.  The purpose of these questions is to help me integrate my current SDR Receiver (SunSDR2 NANO) with the K3s to use as a panadapter.

Also, this is a hardware question relative the k3s only.

1.  When using the K3s in the normal fashion as a transceiver is the signal that is present at the ANT1 or ANT2 (whichever is being used) also available at the RX Out jack?  Is this a viable source of a connection to the RF input of the SDR?

2.  If the SDR is connected to the buffered IF Out jack what will the level of the 8215 kHz IF output be?  Stated either as maximum level, dB above the signal level available at the antenna connector or dBm relative to a -73dBm signal at the selected antenna connector.

Michael Blake
k9jri at mac.com <mailto:k9jri at icloud.com>