K3/100 Diversity receive

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K3/100 Diversity receive

KU2C-2


New (ish) owner of a K3/100 with KAT3 and sub receiver. When I assembled it I fed the sub receiver from the KAT3.


I have a vertical and a wire loop connected to ANT1 and ANT2 respectively. Given the numerous warnings in the manual I'm wondering if this a safe configuration for diversity receive mode ? I'm thinking I'm behind the T/R relay and therefore I'm safer this way than using the AUX input or the REC ANT input ?


Hope so as I want to be able to use either antenna for transmit and/or receive.


Thanks for your comments,


Pete // KU2C



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Re: K3/100 Diversity receive

Jim Bennett
Pete - that sounds pretty much like what I'm doing. I have the sub-rx; Ant1 normally goes to main, Ant2 to the sub-rx. My Ant2 is a ground mounted Hustler 5BTV vertical, Ant1 is switchable to an 88 foot doublet, an 80 meter Inverted L, or a 160 meter Inverted L. Also am running an AL811 amp at times with about 500 watts out - have not had any issues with this config. However, when I'm on 80 or 160 with the two L antennas, I'm not using diversity mode. When I'm on 40-10 however, I do use diversity.

Jim / W6JHB


On   Monday, Jul 1, 2013, at  Monday, 9:08 AM, [hidden email] wrote:

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> New (ish) owner of a K3/100 with KAT3 and sub receiver. When I assembled it I fed the sub receiver from the KAT3.
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> I have a vertical and a wire loop connected to ANT1 and ANT2 respectively. Given the numerous warnings in the manual I'm wondering if this a safe configuration for diversity receive mode ? I'm thinking I'm behind the T/R relay and therefore I'm safer this way than using the AUX input or the REC ANT input ?
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> Hope so as I want to be able to use either antenna for transmit and/or receive.
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> Thanks for your comments,
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> Pete // KU2C
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