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MaverickNH

KPA500/KAT500 & K3S 2nd Subreceiver Diversity

I getting to setting up my my K3S/100 with internal ATU with a KPA500/KAT500.
I presently have antennas on the K3S ANT1 & ANT2 and use the K3S 2nd
subreceiver for diversity receive. Does that work with the antennas
connected to KTA500?

Bret/N4SRN

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Richard Ferch-2

Re: KPA500/KAT500 & K3S 2nd Subreceiver Diversity

If all of your antennas are connected via the KAT500, then no, you cannot
do diversity receive that way, because there is only a single RF connection
between the K3S and the KAT500. You need to have a separate (receive only)
antenna connected directly to the subreceiver's auxiliary antenna input,
which I believe in your case is the K3S's ANT2 jack (depends on how you
have chosen to configure the subRX's aux RF input).

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Rich VE3KI

N4SRN wrote:

I getting to setting up my my K3S/100 with internal ATU with a
KPA500/KAT500.
I presently have antennas on the K3S ANT1 & ANT2 and use the K3S 2nd
subreceiver for diversity receive. Does that work with the antennas
connected to KTA500?
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Re: KPA500/KAT500 & K3S 2nd Subreceiver Diversity

I thought that might be the case. I did see an old thread where an option was
mentioned by Wayne to do that, but perhaps that never transpired. Thank you
for the advice.

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Re: KPA500/KAT500 & K3S 2nd Subreceiver Diversity

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Well think about it. The KPA500 has one cable to the radio. So it can't very well do things with two antennas like the radio does. Yes you can put your antennas on separate ports on the KAT500 (and a port left over) but only one amp to radio link is the problem.

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> On Sep 2, 2017, at 7:10 AM, MaverickNH <[hidden email]> wrote:
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> I getting to setting up my my K3S/100 with internal ATU with a KPA500/KAT500.
> I presently have antennas on the K3S ANT1 & ANT2 and use the K3S 2nd
> subreceiver for diversity receive. Does that work with the antennas
> connected to KTA500?
>
> Bret/N4SRN
>
>
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