K3: Elecraft Utility and second receiver

[K7TV]

I installed the second receiver recently, and am totally addicted to the diversity reception. Using my R5 vertical as the second antenna, with my horizontal beam for the main. The R5 is of course useless as a transmit antenna on 40, but it picks up enough signal for receive (no tuner on it). Haven't put any extra roofing filters in the second receiver, and with the lower received signal strength on the vertical I doubt that I will need to.

Now to my question: The Utility happily loaded the DSP firmware into the second receiver, but I didn't see how to set up the roofing filter configuration from the Utility, so I did it using the radio's menus. Surely I am missing something in the Utility? (Running the latest Utility and the latest firmware.)

73,
Erik K7TV
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[Iain MacDonnell - N6ML-2]

Erik N Basilier wrote:
> I installed the second receiver recently, and am totally addicted to the diversity reception. Using my R5 vertical as the second antenna, with my horizontal beam for the main. The R5 is of course useless as a transmit antenna on 40, but it picks up enough signal for receive (no tuner on it). Haven't put any extra roofing filters in the second receiver, and with the lower received signal strength on the vertical I doubt that I will need to.
>
> Now to my question: The Utility happily loaded the DSP firmware into the second receiver, but I didn't see how to set up the roofing filter configuration from the Utility, so I did it using the radio's menus. Surely I am missing something in the Utility? (Running the latest Utility and the latest firmware.)

There should be a radio buttons in the bottom-left corner of the
Cyrstal Filter COnfiguration dialog that allow you to select "Main"
or "Sub Receiver"... ?

     ~Iain / N6ML

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[Dick Dievendorff]

This is correct. The buttons will be disabled if the CONFIG:KRX3 option is
disabled.

See the K3 Utility Help page on the Crystal Filter Configuration dialog,
under the heading "Main and Sub Receiver".

73 de Dick, K6KR


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Erik N Basilier wrote:
> I installed the second receiver recently, and am totally addicted to the
diversity reception. Using my R5 vertical as the second antenna, with my
horizontal beam for the main. The R5 is of course useless as a transmit
antenna on 40, but it picks up enough signal for receive (no tuner on it).
Haven't put any extra roofing filters in the second receiver, and with the
lower received signal strength on the vertical I doubt that I will need to.
>
> Now to my question: The Utility happily loaded the DSP firmware into the
second receiver, but I didn't see how to set up the roofing filter
configuration from the Utility, so I did it using the radio's menus. Surely
I am missing something in the Utility? (Running the latest Utility and the
latest firmware.)

There should be a radio buttons in the bottom-left corner of the
Cyrstal Filter COnfiguration dialog that allow you to select "Main"
or "Sub Receiver"... ?

     ~Iain / N6ML

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