Simultaneously listening to 2m and 6m

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Simultaneously listening to 2m and 6m

Sverre Holm (LA3ZA)
We seem to experience what appears as a software anomaly when trying to listen to 2m on the Main VFO and 6 m on the Sub.

Our club station has a K3 with a sub-rx, a K144XV interal 2 m option and an extermal XV432. A 6 m antenna is connected to Ant2, and HF-antenna to Ant1. The 2m option works fine by itself, as well as HF/6m.

When we set it up to listen to a 6 m beacon on the Sub-rx and switch bands through HF/6m/2m/70 cm on the Main rx, then sometimes all works fine. Other times the input signal seems to disconnect from the 6 m sub rx when we come to 2 meters on the main rx, all other combinations are fine (HF/6m/70 cm on the main). We try to use Bset and switch Ant1/Ant2 on the sub, but it does not help, neither does holding RX ant for antenna switching.

It is a problem which is kind of hard to reproduce, but it appears often enough to be annoying. So far we cannot predict what combinations of settings that cause this. But I wonder if others have experienced anything similar?

Sverre, LA3ZA

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