The good news is that I'm close to having a second TX/RX antenna (hexbeam) to add to my dipole and a K9AY RX antenna mainly for 80/160 but also for whatever diversity uses I can get when using the main antennas. I have KAT3 and KXV3a. The bad news is I'm a bit confused and could use some help/review.
My "dipole" is switchable between dipole (20m-40m) and a hatted vertical configuration (80, 160). The hexbeam is for 20-6m. My plan is to have the "dipole" connected to ANT1 and the HB connected to ANT2. The dipole has a remote tuner so the coax from the tuner to the shack is always ~1:1 SWR. >From repeated readings of the K3 manual, ANT1/2 for main selects the TX ANT always. It also selects the receiving ant for the main *unless* RX is selected in which case the main receiver would listen to my K9AY connected to that jack. So selecting ANT1 for dipole and RX would be the setup for 80/160. Now if I want diversity I want the K9AY to feed the subrx while the main gets either dipole or HB. For this it looks like I need to move the antenna connection on the rear panel to the AUX RF input. I'd only be using diversity on 40-10 since both my 80/160 and K9AY are both vertically polarized. I didn't see a way to have a RX ant and diversity without moving the BNC antenna among the back panel AUX and RX connectors. Do I have this right? Thanks Jim ab3cv ______________________________________________________________ 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
