This discussion has made me curious -- especially when I carry my KX3 around at field day -- how much signal is safe and how much can do physical front end damage?
Brendon KK6AYI - Brendon On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 10:44 AM, Alan <n...@sonic.net> wrote: > If you're worried about burning out the receiver front end, why not test > it? Add a 20 dB (or more) attenuator in front of the receiver and have > your neighbor try transmitting on all bands and antennas. The K3 S meter > is pretty accurate. Just add 20 dB to the reading to see how much RF is > coming down the coax. > > Alan N1AL > > > > On 01/19/2016 05:17 AM, k8...@charter.net wrote: > >> >> >> My neighbor is a ham, right now I set up a webpage for us to >> coordinate what band we are on so that we are not on the same band at >> the same time. I originally set this up for field day but it also >> works good for us. >> >> >> We are both CW ops and have not ran into issues yet but, there is >> always a but, we both want to make sure we do our best to protect our >> equipment which we both have K3's. >> >> >> I have a beverage that i use for 40 through 160 and i have a front >> end protector on my rx input but what about 10 theough 30? I have a >> beam and rotatable dipole for those bands so how do i protect my >> receiver better on those bands? >> >> >> Our tx antennas are roughly 300 feet apart, he has a vertical right >> now and i have both a vertical and a beam to switch between. He plans >> on a beam this summer and it will be the same distance apart. >> >> >> Thoughts... >> >> >> 73, >> >> Jeff K8KZB >> >> >> >> Sent from Outlook Mobile >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> 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 Message delivered to >> n...@sonic.net >> >> ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > Message delivered to bren...@whateley.com > ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
