I would like to share information on a product I ran into that does just what I needed with my K3. I love my Diversity receive and think I must rate it the best feature of the radio. My 2nd receive antenna is just a floor to ceiling wire fed to the K3 through a little MFJ tuner. Believe it or not, it does a great job controlling QSB. Together with my main 200’ LW at 35’, I can often hear the propagation move the signal from ear to ear. I dislike operating without it.
My problem was that my main antenna also starts at a tuner in the shack on its way to the roof, so coupling between antennas often caused the safety relays in the K3 to energize on 40/80/160. To control this I used to detune the 2nd antenna until the relays went quiet. Not the best solution since that also reduced the receive capability of the 2nd receiver. Array Solutions has a passive I.C.E product, the AS-196 that has cured my problem by only allowing a maximum of .3V to the radio. No more relay action. And as far as I can tell, it introduces no attenuation to signals. I have a local QRN power pole problem that I’m trying to minimize with the MFJ phase noise cancelling unit, and it’s RF bulb fuse was blowing out on the lower bands. No guarantee that that’s going to work, but it’s fun trying. Now it’s happy also with no more bulbs blown. Wayne, WA9VEE ______________________________________________________________ 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
