I am posting my questions to Wayne and his reply. I hope this will help others down the road.
Mike W0MU On Mar 17, 2009, at 8:43 PM, W0MU Mike Fatchett wrote: > Let me back up and make sure I am on the right page before jumping > into the deep end so to speak. > > VFOA/Main is on 50.125 I have the PR6 installed. To turn it on I hit > the rx ant button and this will amplify the main ant in? Yes, assuming it is patched into RX ANT IN and OUT. > > Obviously if you wanted to listen to say 40 meters at the same time > you are going to need a separate receive antenna for the sub receive. Yes. > > If I have the main on 14.200 and want to listen to 6m with the sub > receiver I get the message to use the Aux antenna so I really don't > want to do that. This is because the main is on ANT1 or 2, and the LPF (20 m) is too low to get anything through on 6 m. > > I can obviously listen to the main and sub on 6m at the same time and > the preamp would be on and on the main antenna. > > Do I have this correct? Yes. > > There does not seem to be a way to select via the rx ant button Sub to > rcv antenna while Main is on main? In this case I would need to Y > the receive ant and use aux. Correct. tnx Wayne > > Sorry, Mike, I wasn't thinking about the PR6. > > If the PR6 is placed in the RX ANT IN/OUT path, then it can only be > used by > the sub RX if the sub is sharing the MAIN path, and RX ANT is turned > on. > > If you wanted to use the PR6 with a separate receiving antenna and > have it > usable with either main or sub, you'd have to connect an RX antenna to > its > input. The PR6 output could still be routed with a 'Y' cable to both > RX ANT > IN and the sub's AUX RF BNC jack in this case. > > I know there are limitations to the possible ways antennas can be used > with > the K3. We tried to think of everything ahead of time... oh well! > ______________________________________________________________ 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
