Yes of course, "however" this cable is supplied by Elecraft and is part of the "high performance" kit. My own PS has a 0.06V drop RX > TX and that is good enough!
/ SM2EKM ----------- Alan Bloom wrote: > One factor that affects IMD is power supply voltage variation under > load. The standard PS cable that comes with the K3 drops several tenths > of a volt at max power. Add that to power supply regulation and > internal voltage drop in the K. > > On my unit, the voltage reading on the K3 display goes from 13.5V to > 12.4V when I press the key on CW. (100W, 14 MHz) I could easily see > that being the limiting factor in transmit IMD performance on SSB. > > Al N1AL > > > On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 10:19, Julian, G4ILO wrote: >> Gregory Fischer wrote: >>> Not doubting your TX IMD report in PSK. But I typically see ~-32dB IMD >>> when >>> checking PSK at 50W. >>> >> You are probably right to doubt it. Such a difference made me try a test >> again, on a different band. I got a different set of results. Probably it is >> better to use a dummy load when testing the TX. The IMD Meter is designed to >> be used off-air (hence when TXing into an antenna) but it would appear that >> other factors can affect the readings. This needs further investigation. >> >> ----- >> Julian, G4ILO. K2 #392 K3 #222. >> http://www.g4ilo.com/ G4ILO's Shack http://www.ham-directory.com/ Ham >> Directory http://www.g4ilo.com/kcomm.html KComm for Elecraft K2 and K3 > > _______________________________________________ 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
