On 6/20/2013 10:25 AM, Edward R Cole wrote:
I would dispute the advantage of mast mounting a preamp on 6m.
It all depends on how much loss is in your run of coax, and how quiet
your location is. The run to my SteppIR is 350 ft of 7/8-in hard line,
just under 1 dB at 50 MHz, and my QTH is not
Jim
Mine seems to be as good as any radio that I have owned except for the K3
without the external one. I have been making many 6m QRP contacts SSB with
my KX3 to date 47 total in the last several weeks, using a small yagi.
If I were going to work weak signal usually not much done QRP a mast moun
Typical MDS on 6 meters with the 30 dB preamp setting is around -140 dBm. This
should suffice for all but the most stringent low-noise applications.
73,
Wayne
N6KR
On Jun 19, 2013, at 7:43 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
> We may use a KX3 in a very quiet mountaintop QTH on FD. Does it need a preamp
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