Posted by
Don Nelson on
Oct 13, 2009; 5:27pm
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/IF-Output-Buffer-Gain-Mod-tp3816772p3817533.html
Ken K3IU wrote:
Ken,
I have already made this modification to my K3. But I have not tested
it. So your email triggered a curiosity to check it. Since the test gear
is in the basement and the K3 is here in the shack, I thought of
connecting my FT817 and listening to the IF output. The IF center
frequency is 8.215 MHz more or less and so you can listen above the IF
and below the IF to what stations are transmitting. The FT817 was chosen
because it is highly portable and tunes to 8.215 MHz easily. You could
do an A/B test on signal level. There were a lot of signals on 20m and
so I had a lot to hear. If you put the K3 on say 14.350 MHz, for
example, then a signal at 14.325 MHz is going to be 25 KHz above the
8.215 MHz IF or 8.240 MHz out of the IF output. This is because the IF
signal is inverted and goes up in frequency as you go down, in this case
down from14.350 MHz. The signals are going to be LSB for the same
reason. You could tune for WWV at 10 MHz to have a stable signal for the
before/after test.
By the way, this is an odd and awkward way to add a sub receiver to the K3.
Don, N0YE
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