Re: [Elecraft] K3 add on kit idea
So I could imagine a useful kit would read K3 band decode and map something like 6 or 8 antennas to 2 or 3 ports and makes sure the K3 does not transmit into the other radio ports. Do you mean something like this http://www.4o3a.com/sac-x-stand-alone-antenna-controller-for-21-antennas/sac-x-stand-alone-antenna-controller-for-21-antennas/flypage.tpl.html? __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] K3 add on kit idea
This is what you need: http://k9ay.com/Products/RAS8x2data.htm ...available from Array Solutions. Bill, This is close but for selection of receive antennas only. All of my current antennas are transmit/receive and of course the two primary K3 ports will be antenna 1 and antenna 2, both are transmit capable. So this product wouldn't last long after I made the first mistake. Mike Scott - AE6WA Tarzana, CA (DM04 / near LA) NAQCC 3535 K3-100 #508 / KX1 #1311 __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] K3 add on kit idea
Recently there was a request for ideas for kits that could be useful to accompany a K3. When we use diversity mode antenna switching becomes a different problem than I have run into before. The usual antenna switch routes many antennas to one radio port. Some of us have many antennas that need routing to two or more radio ports. So I could imagine a useful kit would read K3 band decode and map something like 6 or 8 antennas to 2 or 3 ports and makes sure the K3 does not transmit into the other radio ports. Some attention to stations using two K3's or a second receiver might be useful also. Not sure what this would entail because I don't operate that way. Mike Scott - AE6WA Tarzana, CA (DM04 / near LA) NAQCC 3535 K3-100 #508 / KX1 #1311 __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] K3 add on kit idea
Partial answer to your desire is the Z1300 antenna multicoupler. One input, and either 4 or 8 outputs. Isolation between each output port and frequency range of 20 KHz to 50 MHz with very good IP2 and IP3 performance. It's still under development, but I'm on the second round of prototype PCBs, with a target ship date around the end of May. I'll have more details and photos and performance measurements and pricing at my web page when the ship date is a bit closer. Available as a kit or wired/tested, and with some options, although the early release may not have all optional boards available. Jack K8ZOA www.cliftonlaboratories.com Mike Scott wrote: Recently there was a request for ideas for kits that could be useful to accompany a K3. When we use diversity mode antenna switching becomes a different problem than I have run into before. The usual antenna switch routes many antennas to one radio port. Some of us have many antennas that need routing to two or more radio ports. So I could imagine a useful kit would read K3 band decode and map something like 6 or 8 antennas to 2 or 3 ports and makes sure the K3 does not transmit into the other radio ports. Some attention to stations using two K3's or a second receiver might be useful also. Not sure what this would entail because I don't operate that way. Mike Scott - AE6WA Tarzana, CA (DM04 / near LA) NAQCC 3535 K3-100 #508 / KX1 #1311 __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] K3 add on kit idea
Array solutions has such a product called Six Pack. You will like the product, I think, but you may choke at the price. Willis 'Cookie' Cooke K5EWJ --- On Fri, 4/17/09, Mike Scott m...@paxsen.com wrote: From: Mike Scott m...@paxsen.com Subject: [Elecraft] K3 add on kit idea To: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Friday, April 17, 2009, 7:30 AM Recently there was a request for ideas for kits that could be useful to accompany a K3. When we use diversity mode antenna switching becomes a different problem than I have run into before. The usual antenna switch routes many antennas to one radio port. Some of us have many antennas that need routing to two or more radio ports. So I could imagine a useful kit would read K3 band decode and map something like 6 or 8 antennas to 2 or 3 ports and makes sure the K3 does not transmit into the other radio ports. Some attention to stations using two K3's or a second receiver might be useful also. Not sure what this would entail because I don't operate that way. Mike Scott - AE6WA Tarzana, CA (DM04 / near LA) NAQCC 3535 K3-100 #508 / KX1 #1311 __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] K3 add on kit idea
The Array Solutions SixPak is an antenna switch, but I don't think it decodes band line input, at least the one I have doesn't. I was thinking of their DBS-1 and DBS-2 or BandMaster products. Dick, K6KR -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of WILLIS COOKE Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 8:26 AM To: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net; m...@paxsen.com Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 add on kit idea Array solutions has such a product called Six Pack. You will like the product, I think, but you may choke at the price. Willis 'Cookie' Cooke K5EWJ --- On Fri, 4/17/09, Mike Scott m...@paxsen.com wrote: From: Mike Scott m...@paxsen.com Subject: [Elecraft] K3 add on kit idea To: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Friday, April 17, 2009, 7:30 AM Recently there was a request for ideas for kits that could be useful to accompany a K3. When we use diversity mode antenna switching becomes a different problem than I have run into before. The usual antenna switch routes many antennas to one radio port. Some of us have many antennas that need routing to two or more radio ports. So I could imagine a useful kit would read K3 band decode and map something like 6 or 8 antennas to 2 or 3 ports and makes sure the K3 does not transmit into the other radio ports. Some attention to stations using two K3's or a second receiver might be useful also. Not sure what this would entail because I don't operate that way. Mike Scott - AE6WA Tarzana, CA (DM04 / near LA) NAQCC 3535 K3-100 #508 / KX1 #1311 __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] K3 add on kit idea
Actually the KRC2 should be able to do this now. It has up to 16 outputs that can be mapped to switch antennas whichever way you would like, based on the band your K2 or K3 is tuned to. You _do_ bring up some rather interesting ideas... On Apr 17, 2009, at 8:31 AM, Dick Dievendorff wrote: The Array Solutions SixPak is an antenna switch, but I don't think it decodes band line input, at least the one I have doesn't. I was thinking of their DBS-1 and DBS-2 or BandMaster products. Dick, K6KR -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of WILLIS COOKE Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 8:26 AM To: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net; m...@paxsen.com Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 add on kit idea Array solutions has such a product called Six Pack. You will like the product, I think, but you may choke at the price. Willis 'Cookie' Cooke K5EWJ --- On Fri, 4/17/09, Mike Scott m...@paxsen.com wrote: From: Mike Scott m...@paxsen.com Subject: [Elecraft] K3 add on kit idea To: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Friday, April 17, 2009, 7:30 AM Recently there was a request for ideas for kits that could be useful to accompany a K3. When we use diversity mode antenna switching becomes a different problem than I have run into before. The usual antenna switch routes many antennas to one radio port. Some of us have many antennas that need routing to two or more radio ports. So I could imagine a useful kit would read K3 band decode and map something like 6 or 8 antennas to 2 or 3 ports and makes sure the K3 does not transmit into the other radio ports. Some attention to stations using two K3's or a second receiver might be useful also. Not sure what this would entail because I don't operate that way. Mike Scott - AE6WA Tarzana, CA (DM04 / near LA) NAQCC 3535 K3-100 #508 / KX1 #1311 __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html - Jack Brindle, W6FB - __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] K3 add on kit idea
I think you are correct, it is an antenna switch that allows multiple antennas and multiple connections. Such a product that decodes what antenna you want and what connection you want would be a really ambitious product. The SteppIR antennas with a transceiver interface might be a solution. I have the SteppIR and the K3, but my antenna selection is all manual. I don't even have the Six Pack. Willis 'Cookie' Cooke K5EWJ --- On Fri, 4/17/09, Dick Dievendorff die...@comcast.net wrote: From: Dick Dievendorff die...@comcast.net Subject: RE: [Elecraft] K3 add on kit idea To: wrco...@flash.net, Elecraft@mailman.qth.net, m...@paxsen.com Date: Friday, April 17, 2009, 8:31 AM The Array Solutions SixPak is an antenna switch, but I don't think it decodes band line input, at least the one I have doesn't. I was thinking of their DBS-1 and DBS-2 or BandMaster products. Dick, K6KR -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of WILLIS COOKE Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 8:26 AM To: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net; m...@paxsen.com Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 add on kit idea Array solutions has such a product called Six Pack. You will like the product, I think, but you may choke at the price. Willis 'Cookie' Cooke K5EWJ --- On Fri, 4/17/09, Mike Scott m...@paxsen.com wrote: From: Mike Scott m...@paxsen.com Subject: [Elecraft] K3 add on kit idea To: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Friday, April 17, 2009, 7:30 AM Recently there was a request for ideas for kits that could be useful to accompany a K3. When we use diversity mode antenna switching becomes a different problem than I have run into before. The usual antenna switch routes many antennas to one radio port. Some of us have many antennas that need routing to two or more radio ports. So I could imagine a useful kit would read K3 band decode and map something like 6 or 8 antennas to 2 or 3 ports and makes sure the K3 does not transmit into the other radio ports. Some attention to stations using two K3's or a second receiver might be useful also. Not sure what this would entail because I don't operate that way. Mike Scott - AE6WA Tarzana, CA (DM04 / near LA) NAQCC 3535 K3-100 #508 / KX1 #1311 __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] K3 add on kit idea
AE6WA wrote: So I could imagine a useful kit would read K3 band decode and map something like 6 or 8 antennas to 2 or 3 ports and makes sure the K3 does not transmit into the other radio ports. This is what you need: http://k9ay.com/Products/RAS8x2data.htm ...available from Array Solutions. 73, Bill W4ZV -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/K3-add-on-kit-idea-tp2651047p2651629.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] K3 add on kit idea
Bill, We have one of these at P40L-P49Y in Aruba. It works great for switching beverage receive antennas between two radios. But it's not intended for transmitting, so it may not fill the bill. For transmitting, we use band decoders feeding a SixPak (and, as noted, the Yaesu decoder works fine with the K3). 73, andy, ae6y - Original Message - From: Bill W4ZV btipp...@alum.mit.edu To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 9:19 AM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 add on kit idea AE6WA wrote: So I could imagine a useful kit would read K3 band decode and map something like 6 or 8 antennas to 2 or 3 ports and makes sure the K3 does not transmit into the other radio ports. This is what you need: http://k9ay.com/Products/RAS8x2data.htm ...available from Array Solutions. 73, Bill W4ZV -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/K3-add-on-kit-idea-tp2651047p2651629.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] K3 add on kit idea
Hi Andy, On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Andy Faber (via Nabble) ml-user+67610-700681...@n2.nabble.com wrote: We have one of these at P40L-P49Y in Aruba. It works great for switching beverage receive antennas between two radios. But it's not intended for transmitting, so it may not fill the bill. I believe Mike's original question (not morphed) had to do with switching RX antennas for *diversity receive*...not for transmitting. See below: ### AE6WA wrote: When we use diversity mode antenna switching becomes a different problem than I have run into before. The usual antenna switch routes many antennas to one radio port. Some of us have many antennas that need routing to two or more radio ports. So I could imagine a useful kit would read K3 band decode and map something like 6 or 8 antennas to 2 or 3 ports and makes sure the K3 does not transmit into the other radio ports. Some attention to stations using two K3's or a second receiver might be useful also. Not sure what this would entail because I don't operate that way. http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/elecraft/2009-April/109172.html # You can connect up to 8 RX antennas to the RAS 8X2, and then feed the two outputs to RX ANT (Main) and AUX RF (Sub). You can then choose any combination (even including the TX antenna on ANT1 if you tapped RX ANT off on Main) without running the risk of RF being accidentally sent into the K3 during TX. This would only work for one TX antenna at a time however unless you added additional switching. Of course this also assumes you have some reasonable level of isolation between your external TX antenna and all the RX antennas. If you didn't have that, the RX antennas probably wouldn't work right in the first place due to interaction effects. 73, Bill W4ZV -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/K3-add-on-kit-idea-tp2651047p2651837.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] K3 add on kit idea
Cookie wrote Array solutions has such a product called Six Pack. You will like the product, I think, but you may choke at the price. I am not sure the Six Pack will do the job. From a review of the Six Pack I found this little piece of information: There is one scenario that the user must always be aware of. For example, if Radio A is on the 20-meter position and Radio B is also switched to 20 meters, Radio B is interlocked out and therefore is disconnected from any antenna. I am not really sure that I read this as a limitation for a single K3 or not. The price is too high anyway. Mike Scott - AE6WA Tarzana, CA (DM04 / near LA) NAQCC 3535 K3-100 #508 / KX1 #1311 __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] K3 add on kit idea
What would also be nice is to have an option to map memories 0-9 to the KIO Band Outputs. This would allow for instance, selecting remote antenna matching networks within the same band. Seventy-five and 80-meters leaps to mind. Switching directional antennas might be another possibility. Wes N7WS --- On Fri, 4/17/09, Jack Brindle jackbrin...@earthlink.net wrote: From: Jack Brindle jackbrin...@earthlink.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 add on kit idea To: m...@paxsen.com Cc: Elecraft Reflector Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Friday, April 17, 2009, 9:42 AM Actually the KRC2 should be able to do this now. It has up to 16 outputs that can be mapped to switch antennas whichever way you would like, based on the band your K2 or K3 is tuned to. You _do_ bring up some rather interesting ideas... On Apr 17, 2009, at 8:31 AM, Dick Dievendorff wrote: The Array Solutions SixPak is an antenna switch, but I don't think it decodes band line input, at least the one I have doesn't. I was thinking of their DBS-1 and DBS-2 or BandMaster products. Dick, K6KR -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of WILLIS COOKE Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 8:26 AM To: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net; m...@paxsen.com Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 add on kit idea Array solutions has such a product called Six Pack. You will like the product, I think, but you may choke at the price. Willis 'Cookie' Cooke K5EWJ --- On Fri, 4/17/09, Mike Scott m...@paxsen.com wrote: From: Mike Scott m...@paxsen.com Subject: [Elecraft] K3 add on kit idea To: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Friday, April 17, 2009, 7:30 AM Recently there was a request for ideas for kits that could be useful to accompany a K3. When we use diversity mode antenna switching becomes a different problem than I have run into before. The usual antenna switch routes many antennas to one radio port. Some of us have many antennas that need routing to two or more radio ports. So I could imagine a useful kit would read K3 band decode and map something like 6 or 8 antennas to 2 or 3 ports and makes sure the K3 does not transmit into the other radio ports. Some attention to stations using two K3's or a second receiver might be useful also. Not sure what this would entail because I don't operate that way. Mike Scott - AE6WA Tarzana, CA (DM04 / near LA) NAQCC 3535 K3-100 #508 / KX1 #1311 __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html - Jack Brindle, W6FB - __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] K3 add on kit idea
Like the antenna's...my idea has to do with a lot of paddles / keys. I like a box with 6 or so inputs (stereo plugs), in which i can plug either straight keys or paddles. It has to accept all wiring possibilities. By pressing the straight key down, or paddling first dot and than dash, the input has to recognize the proper wiring. Output has to go to two or more different transmitters. I would love such an add on!! Tried to program it in a PIC once but as i am no programmer did not succeed fully. A small display can be added to the device. What an innovation for CW, never saw such a device! Dick PA3CW Recently there was a request for ideas for kits that could be useful to accompany a K3. When we use diversity mode antenna switching becomes a different problem than I have run into before. The usual antenna switch routes many antennas to one radio port. Some of us have many antennas that need routing to two or more radio ports. So I could imagine a useful kit would read K3 band decode and map something like 6 or 8 antennas to 2 or 3 ports and makes sure the K3 does not transmit into the other radio ports. Some attention to stations using two K3's or a second receiver might be useful also. Not sure what this would entail because I don't operate that way. Mike Scott - AE6WA Tarzana, CA (DM04 / near LA) NAQCC 3535 K3-100 #508 / KX1 #1311 __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html - Dick Hissink PA3CW kx1 / k2 / k3 owner -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/K3-add-on-kit-idea-tp2651047p2652070.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] K3 add on kit idea
This is not a limitation of the six-pak - it is a design feature. The issue is - the six-pak is designed for SO2R (single operator, 2 radio) use, and is designed that way so you cannot connect two radios to the same antenna at the same time. Bad things can happen if you do that. As noted, there are different solutions for use with receive-only antenna solutions. Tom - VE3CX On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Mike Scott m...@paxsen.com wrote: Cookie wrote Array solutions has such a product called Six Pack. You will like the product, I think, but you may choke at the price. I am not sure the Six Pack will do the job. From a review of the Six Pack I found this little piece of information: There is one scenario that the user must always be aware of. For example, if Radio A is on the 20-meter position and Radio B is also switched to 20 meters, Radio B is interlocked out and therefore is disconnected from any antenna. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
