Re: [Elecraft] KX3 Behavior with Brick Amplifier

2017-03-09 Thread Mel Farrer via Elecraft
going on.. Mel, K6KBE From: Jim Brown <j...@audiosystemsgroup.com> To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Thursday, March 9, 2017 1:49 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KX3 Behavior with Brick Amplifier On Thu,3/9/2017 1:11 PM, Richard Lawn wrote: > Or am I missing something? I'm

Re: [Elecraft] KX3 Behavior with Brick Amplifier

2017-03-09 Thread Jim Brown
On Thu,3/9/2017 1:11 PM, Richard Lawn wrote: Or am I missing something? I'm guessing that that amp is a POS. You can filter harmonics, but you can't filter IMD. I'd throw it in the trash. The SWR issue is likely because the input circuit is tuned for 11M and doesn't pass whatever frequency

[Elecraft] KX3 Behavior with Brick Amplifier

2017-03-09 Thread Richard Lawn
I took an old Palomar solid state "broadband" amp and added a band pass filter to the output to clean things up. I then tried it with my KX3 and to my surprise the SWR was showing high at the KX3. The filter alone attached to a dummy load shows a near perfect 52 ohms so the problem isn't on that