Non-standard XV-50 installation...

[Tom Althoff]

Question for Wayne/Eric and anyone else familiar with the XV-50.

As some of you know, my KAT-100 tuner is built flush against the bottom of my K2/100 as a solid brick with no external interface wire or power leads.   This was possible due to the brilliantly conceived 2D fasteners as well as Elecraft having silk-screened and plated holes for a header assembly allowing a ribbon cable to be connected directly to the main board of the KAT-100 and back up to the KPA-100 and onto the K2 CPU board.

Some questions:
1) Is there a provision on the XV-50 for a dual pin header connector to allow the control signals from the K2/KPA-100/KAT-100 into the XV-50 as there is in the KAT-100?

2) I don't have the 60M/transverter option in my K2.  I was thinking about running the old RF output of the K2 internally down through the KAT-100 and into the XV-50 while leaving it in parallel with the input of the KPA-100.  I don't THINK this would hurt operation on HF nor VHF.

3) Optionally, I might consider using the ANT-2 output of the KPA-100 as the input for the XV-50 and the ANT-1 output for HF.  The danger in that is the possibility of pumping 100W of 14MHz of RF into the XV-50.....wot's dat I smell?

4) I am considering taking the RX output of the XV-50 and running it into the optional RX antenna input of the 160M option and selecting EXT RX ANT when using the transverter.  Good..bad..problems?

The end result would be a nearly perfect cube of a radio covering 160-6M with no external cabling.

Any suggestions/opinions would be appreciated.

- Tom K2TA

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[Don Wilhelm-3]

Tom,

Answers:
1) No provision for such connections in the XV-50
2) Don't try this - 'strange happenings' will occur (usually Hi-Cur and
inadequate drive to the KPA100)
3) Risky
4) The K60XV is a more elegant solution - you do not have to swap antenna
connectors - I recommend it highly. Two short RG174 cables plus the
connection to the AUX I/O are all you need to connect the K2 and the XV-50.
You can still arrange it in a 'cube' with just three external cables.

73,
Don W3FPR

> -----Original Message-----
>
> Question for Wayne/Eric and anyone else familiar with the XV-50.
>
> As some of you know, my KAT-100 tuner is built flush against the
> bottom of my K2/100 as a solid brick with no external interface
> wire or power leads.   This was possible due to the brilliantly
> conceived 2D fasteners as well as Elecraft having silk-screened
> and plated holes for a header assembly allowing a ribbon cable to
> be connected directly to the main board of the KAT-100 and back
> up to the KPA-100 and onto the K2 CPU board.
>
> Some questions:
> 1) Is there a provision on the XV-50 for a dual pin header
> connector to allow the control signals from the
> K2/KPA-100/KAT-100 into the XV-50 as there is in the KAT-100?
>
> 2) I don't have the 60M/transverter option in my K2.  I was
> thinking about running the old RF output of the K2 internally
> down through the KAT-100 and into the XV-50 while leaving it in
> parallel with the input of the KPA-100.  I don't THINK this would
> hurt operation on HF nor VHF.
>
> 3) Optionally, I might consider using the ANT-2 output of the
> KPA-100 as the input for the XV-50 and the ANT-1 output for HF.
> The danger in that is the possibility of pumping 100W of 14MHz of
> RF into the XV-50.....wot's dat I smell?
>
> 4) I am considering taking the RX output of the XV-50 and running
> it into the optional RX antenna input of the 160M option and
> selecting EXT RX ANT when using the transverter.  Good..bad..problems?
>
> The end result would be a nearly perfect cube of a radio covering
> 160-6M with no external cabling.
>
> Any suggestions/opinions would be appreciated.
>
> - Tom K2TA
>

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