K3: will the P3 require the KXV3 option?--Maybe not?

[dhhdeh]

Hi All,

Happy New Year 2010.

I own an early K3 that I purchased in Feb 2008 without the KXV3 option.  
As I was planning to purchase the LP-Pan for the K3, I recalled reading
back then that obtaining a signal form the K3 for the LP-Pan could be
achieved without the KXV3 option installed.

So I purchased from Elecraft the  KXV3A TMP Cable Assembly Part# E850292
planning to route that coaxial cable TMP from the KXV3A blank panel on
the back of my K3 to connector P86 on the bottom of the RF board as
shown in Figure 11 of the KXV3 manual. I was then planning to terminate
the TMP into BNC connector into a hole that I would drill in the blank
KXV3 panel escutcheon on the back of the K3.
 
By the time I got around to the LP-Pan project the P3 was announced so I
never followed through on this process.

So why wouldn't this work as an alternative to buying an entire KXV3
which I have no other need to use?

Am I missing something else that the KXV3 is doing to the IF signal for
interfacing with the upcoming P3.

Thanks for any thoughts.

73 de N1LQ-Dave


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