Question for Wayne/Eric and anyone else familiar with the XV-50. As some of you know, my KAT-100 tuner is built flush against the bottom of my K2/100 as a solid brick with no external interface wire or power leads. This was possible due to the brilliantly conceived 2D fasteners as well as Elecraft having silk-screened and plated holes for a header assembly allowing a ribbon cable to be connected directly to the main board of the KAT-100 and back up to the KPA-100 and onto the K2 CPU board.
Some questions: 1) Is there a provision on the XV-50 for a dual pin header connector to allow the control signals from the K2/KPA-100/KAT-100 into the XV-50 as there is in the KAT-100? 2) I don't have the 60M/transverter option in my K2. I was thinking about running the old RF output of the K2 internally down through the KAT-100 and into the XV-50 while leaving it in parallel with the input of the KPA-100. I don't THINK this would hurt operation on HF nor VHF. 3) Optionally, I might consider using the ANT-2 output of the KPA-100 as the input for the XV-50 and the ANT-1 output for HF. The danger in that is the possibility of pumping 100W of 14MHz of RF into the XV-50.....wot's dat I smell? 4) I am considering taking the RX output of the XV-50 and running it into the optional RX antenna input of the 160M option and selecting EXT RX ANT when using the transverter. Good..bad..problems? The end result would be a nearly perfect cube of a radio covering 160-6M with no external cabling. Any suggestions/opinions would be appreciated. - Tom K2TA _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
