My apologies gentlemen. Although the cable is shown in the illustrations (Fig 5 and Fig 7), showing that the KPA3 was removed with cable still in place, I failed to point that out in the procedure. Also, Figure 6, showing the recommended way of loosening the KPA3 connectors, was taken of a K3 without the sub-receiver and AUX antenna input so it does not show the cable. I can see how that was confusing.
As Brian found, removing it adds a lot of steps to remove the KIO3 board along with the two pony boards from the rear panel unless it's used to connect the subrx aux input to the KAT3. The cable has enough slack to slip it around the KPA3 board as it is removed and replaced. Often that slack is in the form of a loop between the KRX3 module and KIO3 board that needs to be pulled into the KPA3 enclosure. 73, Ron AC7AC -----Original Message----- Did the +12V mod to my K3 with Sub RX yesterday. As you say the instructions did not mention the Aux cable, however I found that moving the cable to the rear of the K3 and then extracting the PA towards the front was no problem. Just needed to take care. 73 Stewart G3RXQ On Fri, 18 May 2012 19:28:51 +0000, Brian Alsop wrote: > Did two of these today. One had a subrx. One did not. > > Instructions didn't mention that the subrx aux cable interferes with > pulling the K3's amp module. At least I was concerned about bending > amp connector pins if it were tried. > > Ended up also removing the I/O board and pulling out the cable from > the subrx. There is perhaps a better way. > > Not a big deal but extra work. > > 73 de Brian/K3KO > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2012.0.2176 / Virus Database: 2425/5007 - Release Date: > 05/18/12 > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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
