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n1ix

Sub-receiver or 2 k3's

I was going to install the sub-receiver in my K3.

Then I thought it might me advantageous to have a second K3 instead.

I need a back up radio also. Are there any opinions?

Dave N1IX

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Jerry Flanders

Re: Sub-receiver or 2 k3's

A few weeks ago on this reflector I mentioned that I was using my two
K3s for diversity. I have two full station setups (primarily for RTTY
contesting), and one is connected to 80/20/10 antennas and the other
to a 40/15. Also, each separate station feeds a different side
earpiece in my headphones, so it was very easy for me to implement
diversity just by linking the VFOs together through N8LP's LP-Bridge
program. Even though the "other" K3 is on the "wrong band" antenna,
it all works FB. I have not tried to link the master oscillators in
the K3s, but I did carefully tweak the freq calibration so they are
on the same freq (within tenths of a Hz, I think).

Since I already had the two radios here, it made sense for me to do
diversity with them when the second radio was not busy, but maybe not
so sensible to buy one solely for this.

Go back through the archives and search for my posts both here and
also the LP-Pan reflector.

Jerry W4UK

At 18:17 1/25/2009, N1IX wrote:
>
>I was going to install the sub-receiver in my K3.
>Then I thought it might me advantageous to have a second K3 instead.
>I need a back up radio also. Are there any opinions?
>
>Dave N1IX

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WILLIS COOKE

Re: Sub-receiver or 2 k3's

In reply to this post by n1ix

Two K3s would be better than one Dave, but would not give you the automatic muting you need for diversity receive and the benefits of two receivers. With two K3s I think I would want one or both to have two receivers. I am happy with one K3 and two receivers with a couple of Kenwoods for backup, but I would trade a well used TS 850 or a lightly used TS 440 for a second K3 without hesitation

Willis 'Cookie' Cooke
K5EWJ

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> I was going to install the sub-receiver in my K3.
> Then I thought it might me advantageous to have a second K3
> instead.
> I need a back up radio also. Are there any opinions?
>
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wayne burdick

Re: Sub-receiver or 2 k3's

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"I have a dream...."

:)

Wayne

Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:

> Perhaps it's time to revisit that concept with a K3 for each band, or
> at
> least a K3 for each mode...

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