I have 6 elements on 10, and the K3 s-meter rests at S-0. When I turn the K3's preamp off, I can barely hear a change in antenna noise.
Do you have a good choke at the Hex Beam feed point? If not, maybe noise on the outside of your coax is going onto the antenna. Dave Hachadorian, K6LL Yuma, Arizona -----Original Message----- From: Dale Boresz Sent: Friday, October 26, 2012 3:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3-PR10 Fred, You must have an enviably quiet QTH (or a very poor antenna) if you find that the K3 can benefit from a preamp on 10m. I work a lot of weak signal CW on 10m with a simple Hex Beam up about 45 feet. Even with the Hex Beam's low gain, I can see the noise floor drop by about 9 dBm when I disconnect the antenna from the K3 with the antenna pointed to the quietest part of the sky in the early morning hours when the band is clearly not open. These measurements were taken using both the P3 and the K3's built-in AFV amd dBV measurement functionality. Based upon the above measurements, the band noise is already one and a half S-Units above the receiver's noise floor, so it seems to me that in terms of improving the signal to noise ratio, a preamp would be of little value. What am I missing here? (perhaps a quieter location ;-) ) 73, Dale WA8SRA On 10/26/2012 4:51 AM, Fred Smith wrote: > Tim > > I can address this a little comparing my FTDX-5000MP and my > K3's the k3's > receivers are not up to the level of the Yaesu 5000 on the high > bands. But > quite the other way around on the low bands in IMHO but 6/10m > really needs a > good preamp for sure. > > 73, > Fred/N0AZZ ______________________________________________________________ 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
