K3 Diversity Receive is too quiet

[Mimi and Steve]

My receive antenna, when plugged into ANT 1, produces much louder signals
and much less noise than plugged into AUX RF/BNC during diversity receive.
    I am unable to locate anyone addressing this issue in the past 3 years
of archives.
    The K3 does have a sub receiver, but, no antenna tuner.
The sub receiver and main are set for:
 PRE is on
ATT is off
AF is turned up
RF is full on
L-MIX-R appears to be unavailable during diversity.
Tuned in signals are heard, but they are very weak when the receive antenna
is plugged into AUX RF/BNC during diversity receive compared to the receive
antenna being plugged into ANT 1.

Steve, NU7T

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[Guy, K2AV]

Note that the PRE/ATT setting for AUX RF BNC is separate from PRE/ATT for
the RX ANT on the main RX.

To set this correctly, first do a HOLD on RX ANT button to make sure the
subRX is listening on the AUX RF BNC.  You will have to repeat the HOLD if
it already was on AUX RF and you just switched it to MAIN, but you must
check this.  Do this BEFORE using B SET.  You can't switch this once you
are inside B SET.

Do a HOLD on A/B button.  You will see "b SET" come up on the display.  The
PRE/ATT state displayed is now that of the sub RX.  TAP/HOLD on the PRE/ATT
button will now set these conditions for the sub RX.

On 160m I always have ATT on the "MAIN" antenna (TX antenna) and PRE on RX
and AUX RF inputs.

Diversity on the K3 is awesome.

73, Guy.

On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Steve <[hidden email]> wrote:

> My receive antenna, when plugged into ANT 1, produces much louder signals
> and much less noise than plugged into AUX RF/BNC during diversity receive.
>     I am unable to locate anyone addressing this issue in the past 3 years
> of archives.
>     The K3 does have a sub receiver, but, no antenna tuner.
> The sub receiver and main are set for:
>  PRE is on
> ATT is off
> AF is turned up
> RF is full on
> L-MIX-R appears to be unavailable during diversity.
> Tuned in signals are heard, but they are very weak when the receive antenna
> is plugged into AUX RF/BNC during diversity receive compared to the receive
> antenna being plugged into ANT 1.
>
> Steve, NU7T
>
> ______________________________________________________________
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