Re: Re: [Elecraft] K3 wih - PA3AKE High Pergormance Front End

2008-04-14 Thread d.cutter
I would like to consider this front end and the K3 as tunable IF, does that sound do-able? David G3UNA Thanks Gian. It might be of interest to people in Europe who homebrew as well as buy rigs that contrary to popular wisdom and based on 'on air' use, the high IMDDR3 at 1 kHz spacing of

Re: Re: [Elecraft] K3 wih - PA3AKE High Pergormance Front End

2008-04-14 Thread Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy
David, May I get back to you later this evening off-list with some thoughts about this approach. An advantage gained by using a variable IF is that the close-in phase noise of the first mixer's fixed frequency LO injection can be very low indeed, but there are other disadvantages. The gain