On the air with the Elecraft K3

After about 14 hours of assembly time, my K3/100 + KRX3 (2nd receiver), KXV3 and KAT3 transceiver is now ready and on the air. I had a few issues with output power on 6m, but that has been solved by the K3 Support crew and diagnosed as a bad mixer board. A new mixer board has been received already and will be put in the 2nd RX mixer board (the original KRX3 mixer board is in the main K3 and delivering the needed signal for sufficient output on 6m).

So far, results are excellent. Because this transceiver is DSP based there are many options controlled by firmware and I still need to explore them all.

I have also the beta version of the 6 meter pre-amp, the PR6, which I consider a must for serious weak signal reception on 6 meter.

PF5X's K3 # 1263 in action