[Elecraft] K3: General Coverage Receive Filter

2008-07-28 Thread Joe Word
What is the General Coverage Receive Filter, how does it work? If it is just another roofing filters, why not just use the 6.0 filter? ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber

Re: [Elecraft] K3: General Coverage Receive Filter

2008-07-28 Thread S Sacco
Joe - You're confusing the band pass filtering (allow 20 meter band into the radio) with roofing / IF filters (allow this narrow slice of spectrum into the radio). On 7/28/08, Joe Word [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the General Coverage Receive Filter, how does it work? If it is just

RE: [Elecraft] K3: General Coverage Receive Filter

2008-07-28 Thread Ron D'Eau Claire
Joe asked: What is the General Coverage Receive Filter, how does it work? If it is just another roofing filters, why not just use the 6.0 filter? --- It's not, Joe. The KBPF3 provides additional receiver input bandpass filters. The input

Re: [Elecraft] K3: General Coverage Receive Filter

2008-07-28 Thread Iain MacDonnell - K6IAM
I'd been meaning to ask for a while; what is the motivation for those of you who have ordered the general coverage receiver option? i.e. what makes it worth the extra $129 ?? ~Iain Ron D'Eau Claire wrote on 07/28/08 07:35: Joe asked: What is the General Coverage Receive Filter, how does

Re: [Elecraft] K3: General Coverage Receive Filter

2008-07-28 Thread Bob Tellefsen
: [Elecraft] K3: General Coverage Receive Filter I'd been meaning to ask for a while; what is the motivation for those of you who have ordered the general coverage receiver option? i.e. what makes it worth the extra $129 ?? ~Iain Ron D'Eau Claire wrote on 07/28/08 07:35: Joe asked

[Elecraft] K3: General Coverage Receive Filter

2008-07-28 Thread Mark Volstad
In my case the motivation was simple: I wanted to save the $1000+ it would otherwise have cost me to purchase a second-hand Drake R8B or JRC NRD-545! Now if only we could get the synchronous AM detection upgrade, I'd be happier than a pig in poop. (Nudge, nudge...) Mark

Re: [Elecraft] K3: General Coverage Receive Filter

2008-07-28 Thread Iain MacDonnell - K6IAM
Hi Mark, Can you be more specific? What function of the Drake or JRC could you not replace without the general coverage receiver option ? ~Iain Mark Volstad wrote on 07/28/08 11:38: In my case the motivation was simple: I wanted to save the $1000+ it would otherwise have cost me to

RE: [Elecraft] K3: General Coverage Receive Filter

2008-07-28 Thread Brett Howard
11:57 AM To: Mark Volstad Cc: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3: General Coverage Receive Filter Hi Mark, Can you be more specific? What function of the Drake or JRC could you not replace without the general coverage receiver option ? ~Iain Mark Volstad wrote on 07/28/08

Re: [Elecraft] K3: General Coverage Receive Filter

2008-07-28 Thread Mark Volstad
MacDonnell - K6IAM [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, July 28, 2008 14:57 Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3: General Coverage Receive Filter To: Mark Volstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Hi Mark, Can you be more specific? What function of the Drake or JRC could you not replace without

RE: [Elecraft] K3: General Coverage Receive Filter

2008-07-28 Thread Brett Howard
: [Elecraft] K3: General Coverage Receive Filter The Drake and JRC models I mentioned are not amateur transceivers; they are highly-regarded shortwave receivers. Like many others, I became a ham only after developing a strong interest in shortwave and AM broadcast band DXing during my teens. You

Re: RE: [Elecraft] K3: General Coverage Receive Filter

2008-07-28 Thread Mark Volstad
] Date: Monday, July 28, 2008 16:46 Subject: RE: [Elecraft] K3: General Coverage Receive Filter To: 'Mark Volstad' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Mark when you do this are you using the RX ANT jack or are you using the standard input? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL