Count me in!!! Lew N6LEW
> On Jun 19, 2016, at 11:56 AM, Ken Arck <k...@arcomcontrollers.com> wrote: > > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > President and CTO - Arcom Communications > Makers of repeater controllers and accessories. > http://www.arcomcontrollers.com/ > Authorized Dealers for Kenwood and Telewave and > we offer complete repeater packages! > AH6LE/R - IRLP Node 3000 > http://www.irlp.net > "We don't just make 'em. We use 'em!" > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 l...@n6lew.us > Lew Phelps N6LEW Pasadena, CA DM04wd Elecraft K3-10 / KXV144 / XV432 Yaesu FT-7800 l...@n6lew.us www.n6lew.us Generalized Law of Entropy: Sooner or later, everything that has been put together will fall apart. ______________________________________________________________ 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
