G'day, A cautionary tale.
I decided to check the total receive signal loss through my system from the coax termination in the wall to the K3, via the amp and antenna switching having had a hot switching event. I first plugged the XG1 directly into the K3 and with the agc off set the dBV reading to 0.0 with 50uV. Next moved the XG1 right to the end of the last internal coax cable. -1.7dBV....! Whilst moving the XG1 I noticed that the reading returned to the set point 0.0 dBV when I picked it up. I turned out that placing the XG1 on its rubber feet on a metallic surface (the case of the linear) resulted in this signal loss. Holding the XG1 in the air by the cable that connected it to the K3 removed this loss. I didn't check the effect of placing it on the wooden desk surface. When connected to the K3 I simply use a BNC to PL259 adapter and it sticks out the back self supported. Just an observation. Regards, Mike VP8NO ______________________________________________________________ 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