I've been trying to decide whether or not to ask this question, because I didn't want to appear too dumb. What exactly is the advantage of diversity receive? Is it for weak signal work specifically? Can someone give me a quick run down on this? I've never had a rig that would do this before, so I am not familiar with the concept. I admit to not keeping up with the K3 feature list and manual. Go ahead and flog me now. Stan W5EWA
--- On Wed, 12/3/08, K2MK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: K2MK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Split while using Diversity To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Elecraft Reflector" <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 5:43 PM Ed: That's it. I just tried it. I wasn't holding the SUB button long enough. When it displays DIVRSTY, VFO B tracks VFO A as before. But when you activate SPLIT, you can tune VFO B to a different transmit frequency but both receivers are still tuned to the original frequency. When you turn off SPLIT, the VFO B display returns to the original frequency. Thanks for the clarification. 73, Mike K2MK -------------------------------------------------- From: "Ed K1EP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 6:14 PM To: "K2MK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Elecraft Reflector" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Split while using Diversity > At 12/3/2008 06:06 PM, K2MK wrote: > >>Here's what I am experiencing with MCU 2.67. When in diversity I have VFO >>B tracking VFO A and I am using a separate receive antenna for VFO B. To >>activate SPLIT, the only way to actually change my transmit frequency is >>to turn the VFO B dial thus loosing my diversity. >> >>Using the A/B button allows me to listen to the original frequency on >>either receiver but not both. And transmission will occur on VFO B >>requiring me to swap back before transmitting again. That's a problem. >> >>The only way I see this working is to use XIT instead of split. I'm just >>not a fan of XIT. So am I missing something? >> >>73, >>Mike K2MK > > That's basically how I operated this past weekend. But I think I realized > that I was missing something. Those in the know can correct me. It has > to do with the blinking second decimal point, which confused me. At > times, I saw A blink, B blink, and A and B blink. I believe that there > are two methods to achieve diversity. First is the way that Mike > described and that I generally did over the weekend. You enable the SUB > by pressing SUB. You press RX ANT to get AUX. Then you tap A>B twice to > get both the receivers to be the same frequency and filter settings. Then > you press and hold SUB for a second to link. In this case, I believe the > second decimal in VFO B will blink, indicating LINK. However, there is > another method for achieving diversity. If you press and hold SUB for two > seconds, first you will see LINK and then DIVRSTY. I believe in this > case, the second decimal in VFO A will blink and the settings indicated on > VFO A will control both receivers and set the sub antenna to AUX. This > allows you to use VFO B for SPLIT or a temp register. Is this > interpretation correct??? > _______________________________________________ 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
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