Re: [Elecraft] K? for remote rx only

2012-12-29 Thread David Cutter
Thanks for those notes, Geoff. It did cross my mind that I would probably need some home to site link to avoid continuous transmission and switch between the amplifier front end filters or complete amplifier/TRF. For a start this would be an additional challenge for the battery supply and

Re: [Elecraft] K? for remote rx only

2012-12-28 Thread Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy
David, My XYL and I have been away, so my apology for being slow to make a comment. If your remote Beverages are to be used on 160m, 80m and 40m, and a remote TRF is used on each band to provide selectivity and gain, then unless their outputs are combined before up-conversion then obviously

[Elecraft] K? for remote rx only

2012-12-22 Thread David Cutter
I want to place Beverages at remote sites (for rx only), for 160m (useable on 80 and 40m), but it's not viable to use a K0 at each site. Is there a way to use a simpler system: perhaps a TRF on each band, up-converted to, say, 2.3/2.4GHz then down-converted to each band for my K3 at home. The