K3 & MW broadcast nearby

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K3 & MW broadcast nearby

Jeff F6AOJ
Hi,

i am a recent K3 owner and i live at 15 km from a 300 kW AM station on 864 kHz,
on 80m dipole S-meter rise up to S9+55 with 10 dB attenuator ON.
On dummy load i can read S1 in AM or SSB, without BPF option.
With jumper between pins 1 and 3 P44E RF board, no change.

80 WAS poor and 160 unusable until i put a common mode choc in DC cable.
i got my best result with 8 turns on 4x FT-240-43 stacked.

Is anyone with experience in chocs on DC line ?

73  Jeff  F6AOJ

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