Regarding the front end saver: Is the receiver in the K3 & K3S always connected to the RX antenna?
Another very good small top band RX antenna is a pennant. It is not ground dependent like some and it is inexpensive to build. K6SE(sk) wrote an excellent article on this antenna. John KK9A from: Petr, OK1RP/M0SIS Tue Feb 9 09:57:45 EST 2016 Hi Joe, an easy and cheap starting point (weekend project) is the W2PM Mini-Diamond loop connected thru W7IUV preamplifier and KD9SV front-end saver to Ext.RX ant port of your K3. It is just 1.5m square wire loop with loading resistor and feedline transformer so it will fit anywhere even on balcony or inside of house attic. ( but I recommend to place it as far from house noise as possible) There is several other more powerful RX antennas like K9AY etc. but this is cheap and easy to try. Let me know if you want to send more instructions and help. The best but more complicate solution which need more space and effort in building is definitely 3-el. Hi-Z verticals array. It will fit to 15x15m triangle lot and it will be hard to beat I guess. GL 73 - Petr, OK1RP http://160mband.blogspot.com ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
