[Elecraft] Latest on the new home for my K3...

[Gary Peterson]

I have been following this thread with interest.
Years ago, I designed a patch panel for the ham shack.
Knowing that I sometimes have a propensity to make stupid mistakes, being a retired broadcast engineer, and being a firm believer in the If anything can go wrong, it will club, I made the patch panel as foolproof as I could.

All receivers and sources of RF terminate in N female, panel mount connectors.  All loads, such as antennas or the dummy load terminate in SO239 panel mount connectors.  All patch cables have an N male on one end and a PL259 on the other end.  This prevents accidental feeding of high level RF from my K3S into my Collins 51J4 or feeding my 75A4, Viking Valiant combo into my amplified loop receive antenna.  

I love patch panels.  If anyone is planning a patch panel and does klutzy, brain fart things like I occasionally do, maybe this will help.

Gary
K0CX


>I am undertaking a full rebuild of my operating position, note the Patch 
>Panel does not say K3 on it...  That means I can replace things with a 
>K4 later...
>Dave (NK7Z)