Chuck, LP Pan mostly is a spot and click assist to operating, it really will not be a better or different second signal channel than the K3's audio. There is, of course, no weak signal diversity improvement from running LP Pan in one ear and the K3 in the other.
Stereo diversity reception that allows significantly enhanced weak signals requires significantly different antennas for each receiver input and also requires nearly exact duplicates of phase, signal processing time delay, and bandwidth in both receiver channels for maximum effect. Average signal-to-noise of the desired signal on both antennas also has to be about the same for maximum effect. It does no good to combine mostly noise from one ear with signal and some noise from the other. There is a little improvement from antennas on each channel being different in polarization when spacing is close, but by far the most significant improvement occurs when the receiving antennas are a fairly large distance apart in wavelengths. Keep in mind "polarization" does not mean the physical layout of the antenna, but rather the actual response. For example my Beverages, although long horizontal wires, have only vertical polarization in the front lobes. If I diversity pair a Beverage with a vertical array, they must have large spatial separation (over 1 wavelength) or enhancement is far from optimum. Another use of stereo is filling in holes in receiving directional patterns, like listen west and northeast at the same time using two different directional patterns. 73 Tom ______________________________________________________________ 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
