Hello fellow 10 watt K3 owners!
As my main use for my K3s is 6 meter and 144 EME operation, I bought
the 10 watt version without the antenna tuner. I dabble a little on
HF but not a whole lot. As such, the 10 watt, no tuner version suits
my needs, although I thought it would be nice to be able to select 2
different antennas from the front panel (one for HF and the other for
6 meters). Spending several hundred dollars for the KATU seemed a bit
overkill to me just to get front panel selection of 2 antennas.
So looking at the schematic, I saw how easy it would be to modify my
KANT board to allow 2 antenna selection. I bread boarded up my
schematic and It works exactly as I expected.
So I'm debating having some pc boards made to replace the entire KANT
board but only if there is enough interest to justify doing so and I
wanted to see how y'all felt about it. I project the bare boards
would run around $20 to $25. You would take the parts from your
existing KANT and reuse them on this new board, in addition to adding
around $12 worth of new parts. So for under $40, you could have dual
antenna selection on your non-KATU equipped K3.
Any interest?
Ken
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