Wayne acknowledges the improvement in shielding, and all new synth boards go out with the stiffener.
AND if you had your TX synth go down and had the KRX3, I think most people would but the other in it's place, reinstating the problems if you did not modify both. Modifying only one is a dead-end tactic and booby-trapping a new owner if you ever sell it. 73, Guy. On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 11:11 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > There must be some point, as putting it on the sub vco is still mentioned in > multiple places on the elecraft web site... > > from http://www.elecraft.com/order_form_parts.htm#K3 Parts:- > > "K3STFNR K3 Synthesizer Stiffener Plate Kit Included on all new K3s > (***one ea. per synthesizer board***)" > > and > > http://www.elecraft.com/manual/ELECRAFT%20KSYN3%20Stiffener%20Mod%20Rev%20D. > pdf > > "If your K3 is equipped with the KRX3 subreceiver it will have two KSYN3 > synthesizers. Both boards should bemodified if the user chooses to make this > modification". > > As you say you only transmit on the "main VCO" so putting the shield on the > main vco would deal with speaker rumble issue so putting it on the subvco > maybe to improve shielding? > > Dave > > ww2r > > > Message: 36 > Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:31:52 -0700 > From: Vic K2VCO <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 Synthesizer Stiffener Plate Mod > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > On 9/6/2010 4:45 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > There is no point to installing it on the synthesizer that's used for the > subreceiver. > This synth is never used for transmitting. The purpose of the plate is to > keep > vibrations > from the internal speaker from causing a change in tx frequency. > > It is known that sometimes changing the routing of the cables that go to the > synths will > affect the strength of birdies, so that may be why you noticed an > improvement! > -- > Vic, K2VCO > Fresno CA > http://www.qsl.net/k2vco/ > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
