K3 options input sought

[David Beckwith]

I am upgrading the shack from a K2 to K3. I have a nice Palstar tuner and an ACOM amp.  I am mostly a SSB guy, not big on contests or FM.  Given these resources and needs my planned configuration for the new K3 is:
K3/100  KXV3A IF Out and RX Ant. General coverage RX bandpass  KDVR3-DVR  KUSB 500 Hz 5pole CW filter and 6kHz AM/ESSB 8 pole filter.  Thoughts? Am I unwise for not including the internal ATU even though I have the Palstar? Thanks and 73  Dave
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[Phil Hystad-3]

On Mar 26, 2010, at 10:16 AM, david beckwith wrote:

> I am upgrading the shack from a K2 to K3. I have a nice Palstar tuner and an ACOM amp.  I am mostly a SSB guy, not big on contests or FM.  Given these resources and needs my planned configuration for the new K3 is:
> K3/100  KXV3A IF Out and RX Ant. General coverage RX bandpass  KDVR3-DVR  KUSB 500 Hz 5pole CW filter and 6kHz AM/ESSB 8 pole filter.  Thoughts? Am I unwise for not including the internal ATU even though I have the Palstar? Thanks and 73  Dave


Dave -- I would buy the ATU, well, actually I did buy the ATU with my K3.  I do not have the auto-tuner but the main reason I did by the ATU is because I intend to use my K3 in a portable fashion too where I will not be dragging along a lot of extra equipment -- especially a big hunking Palstar auto-tuner (which is still on my list of toys to buy).

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[Matt Zilmer]

You will also need a 2.7 or 2.8 kHz filter for SSB TX.  The 6 kHz
filter is for AM.  The 500 Hz filter is a good choice for CW and Data.

The ATU is a very slick and well-integrated device.  It memorizes L/C
settings for each band, in many segments (see manual).  I added the
ATU later, but in retrospect I should have added it first.

Good Luck & 73,
matt W6NIA
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On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:16:16 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:

>I am upgrading the shack from a K2 to K3. I have a nice Palstar tuner and an ACOM amp.  I am mostly a SSB guy, not big on contests or FM.  Given these resources and needs my planned configuration for the new K3 is:
>K3/100  KXV3A IF Out and RX Ant. General coverage RX bandpass  KDVR3-DVR  KUSB 500 Hz 5pole CW filter and 6kHz AM/ESSB 8 pole filter.  Thoughts? Am I unwise for not including the internal ATU even though I have the Palstar? Thanks and 73  Dave
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[k6xt]

David
The onboard tuner is pretty handy and fast tuning. I have a couple 1KW
size outboard manual tuners but still use the K3's often. If you don't
contest much and don't plan to record off the air the KDVR3 might be
overkill. Last I heard, KDVR3 won't stream rx audio to an external
device such as your PC's HDD.

The tuner, btw, is only useful for impedance matching. Its an L section
which will not attenuate harmonics.

73 Art

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73 Art
Allison, Colorado
"Whether you believe you can do a thing or
not, you are right."  --Henry Ford.

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I am upgrading the shack from a K2 to K3. I have a nice Palstar tuner and an ACOM amp.? I am mostly a SSB guy, not big on contests or FM.? Given these resources and needs my planned configuration for the new K3 is:
K3/100? KXV3A IF Out and RX Ant.?General?coverage RX bandpass ?KDVR3-DVR? KUSB 500 Hz 5pole CW filter and 6kHz AM/ESSB 8 pole filter.? Thoughts? Am I unwise for not including the internal ATU even though I have the Palstar? Thanks and 73? Dave

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