> .5 volts peak, which is the approximate conduction limit of a silicon > rectifier like a 1N4007, is only 4 dBm!!!! That will turn your K3 into a > Yaesu FT-101 for IM and even order performance.
Reminds me of my first Field Day in 1975 while in high school. Multiple stations, one per band, no amps. We couldn't understand why an incandescent lamp on the back panel of my friend's FT-101B was glowing brightly when stations on other bands were operating. As I recall, we had a reasonable distance between antennas. Of course, the lamp was there for overload protection and it didn't take much RF coupled back to the antenna to activate it. The FT-101B was absolutely unusable for FD. Being new into this at the time, we had not let discovered stub and filtering concepts but it was an important learning moment. Looking back, I cannot think of a receiver I've used that had poorer overload performance than the FT-101. For us K2/K3 owners, glad those days are long gone... Paul, W9AC ______________________________________________________________ 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
