Well then, perhaps I'll just get back to thinking as to how much effort I wish to put into it. Thank you for clearing up my confusion over your reply.
David, k3tue . --- Mike Morrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David wrote: > > >Well, that just sways me back to the 'I won't bother with a K1 > >(since I have a KX-1) position and just get a K2 next (even if > >it is not quite a unquantifyable pure sounding as a K1). > > Well, David, I'm sorry to hear about anyone foregoing a K1. It is my > favorite QRP rig of the nine that I own, eight of which were put out by three > other outfits. In fact, it's my favorite of any QRP rig I've ever heard > about. > > The first technical hurdle you'd have to overcome wouldn't be all that hard: > Re-designing the lower-frequency receiver input/transmitter output LPF so > that you could have 30m and 20m on that filter. > > The existing third-order elliptical filter rolls off steeply just above about > 10.5 MHz. You could use the "Elsie" freeware found at: > > http://tonnesoftware.com/elsie.html > > to come up with something similar that rolled off near 14.5 MHz instead. > > With a little head-scratching and thought, the re-arrangement and value > changes of fixed caps in the two other band-pass filters shouldn't be > impossible for supportting 20m and 30m as band 1 and band 2. > > My point was not that it would be impossible to do what you wanted, but just > that it would take some work and re-design. > > Good luck, what ever you decide. > > Mike / KK5F > _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
