Re: [Elecraft] High pitched hum after installing KXBC3?
I finally had the chance to put my KX3 together over the weekend! Yay! I don't know if it's the same thing you're hearing, but there is a high pitched whine in the audio on my unit (it transfers from the speaker to the headphones when they're plugged in). Sounds like a G/G# ... maybe something in the 12.8 khz range? I don't have access to anything right now that can actually measure it. The volume of the tone doesn't change with AF gain -- tho what AF Gain mean in this radio is non-obvious :). It also doesn't change with band or mode, nor with a change of power supply (three different external supplies), nor location, nor presence or absence of antenna. I have the ATU and filter, no battery charger. I can easily hear it using the internal speaker, but I'm hoping I can fix that with a judiciously chosen capacitor across the speaker leads. I essentially can't hear it on my Heil cans, so I'll be fine this Field Day, but it turns up clearly on ear buds, so I'd like to fix that side as well. I don't recall having heard it on anyone else's KX3, but stuff in this range is pretty easy to either miss or misattribute unless you have good high frequency hearing and you're by yourself in a quiet room, and it could also vary from unit to unit. Finally, I won't claim to be pitch accurate up there, but until I can measure it on something, a good guess is better than nothing :). -kb7psg On Fri, 2 Nov 2012, David F. Reed wrote: I notice a high pitched hum (low level) when my KX3 is on, after installing the KXBC3; has anyone else noticed this? What might be causing it? Is it possible to eliminate? Other than the hum, everything seems to be normal and working fine. Thanks and 73 de Dave, W5SV __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] the net
That's been my experience here in west suburban Chicago, Richard. Every couple of weeks I listen for the CW nets. On a few occasions I’ve been able to hear the NCS signal in the noise but not well enough for any kind of sustained copy. It's also rare that I can copy the stations checking one. Every now and then, one of them is a little ways above the noise but not by much. Maybe there could be a Western Elecraft net and an Eastern or Midwestern Elecraft net. Dave K9SW On Jun 9, 2013, at 12:29 PM, Richard Neese kb3...@gmail.com wrote: I have been listening and not hearing a thing. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] Troubleshooting dead subRX after adding filter
I just finished installing an 8-pole 400 hz factory filter in the subRX of my K3, and was congratulating myself on a straightforward and easy process ... until I reinstalled and tried the subRX. It is not receiving anything at all - I can hear internally generated noise but that is it. There is no change in the sound or level of the band noise when I switch between filters. I've checked and rechecked the crystal filter setup, the TMP cables, etc. Before I tear it open again, is there anywhere in particular I should be looking? 73, Pete N4ZR Check out the Reverse Beacon Network at http://reversebeacon.net, blog at reversebeacon.blogspot.com. For spots, please go to your favorite ARC V6 or VE7CC DX cluster node. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Troubleshooting dead subRX after adding filter
Pete, If all tmp cables are fitted right and the menu settings are OK, how about the bottom-connectors to the K3 main-board? 73 Arie PA3A Op 10-6-2013 13:08, Pete Smith N4ZR schreef: I've checked and rechecked the crystal filter setup, the TMP cables, etc. Before I tear it open again, is there anywhere in particular I should be looking? 73, Pete N4ZR __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Troubleshooting dead subRX after adding filter
Thanks, Arie. I found the problem. the TMP connector on the cable running from J5 on the KREF3 board to J82 on the KRX3 had worked loose at the J5 end, where I couldn't see it until I removed the sub-RX again and the cable came away with it. All is well. 73, Pete N4ZR Check out the Reverse Beacon Network at http://reversebeacon.net, blog at reversebeacon.blogspot.com. For spots, please go to your favorite ARC V6 or VE7CC DX cluster node. On 6/10/2013 7:21 AM, Arie Kleingeld PA3A wrote: Pete, If all tmp cables are fitted right and the menu settings are OK, how about the bottom-connectors to the K3 main-board? 73 Arie PA3A Op 10-6-2013 13:08, Pete Smith N4ZR schreef: I've checked and rechecked the crystal filter setup, the TMP cables, etc. Before I tear it open again, is there anywhere in particular I should be looking? 73, Pete N4ZR __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Troubleshooting dead subRX after adding filter
Didja remember remember to change the menu filter settings? de jimK3SW On Jun 10, 2013, at 7:08 AM, Pete Smith N4ZR n...@contesting.com wrote: I just finished installing an 8-pole 400 hz factory filter in the subRX of my K3, and was congratulating myself on a straightforward and easy process ... until I reinstalled and tried the subRX. It is not receiving anything at all - I can hear internally generated noise but that is it. There is no change in the sound or level of the band noise when I switch between filters. I've checked and rechecked the crystal filter setup, the TMP cables, etc. Before I tear it open again, is there anywhere in particular I should be looking? 73, Pete N4ZR Check out the Reverse Beacon Network at http://reversebeacon.net, blog at reversebeacon.blogspot.com. For spots, please go to your favorite ARC V6 or VE7CC DX cluster node. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] K3 and Mutek Transverter combo?
Hi, Bit of a long shot this but has anyone any experience of using a K3 with a Mutek transverter? I run the K3 (#7218) with the internal transverter but during a 2m contest yesterday the front end capability of the internal transverter was found wanting when exposed to strong adjacent signals. I already have a Mutek transverter but it was bought (cheaply) as untested and therefore I do not know if it is working. The strong signal capabilities of these transverters were legendary in their day. Therefore, I was hoping that someone on this site has successfully mated the 2 boxes together. Basically what I want to know is at the rear of the transverter there are 2 BNC sockets marked 'rx out' and 'tx/rx'. To what sockets on the I/O board to I need to connect these? And secondly, what do I need to ensure that the K£ is suitably programmed to communicate with the transverter (the instructions seem to be unclear to me...). Any help would be appreciated. If the Mutek transverter is no good anyone got a decent Demi or completed Elecraft 2m transverter they wish to sell??!! __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] K3 and Mutek Transverter combo?
Hi, Bit of a long shot this but has anyone any experience of using a K3 with a Mutek transverter? I run the K3 (#7218) with the internal transverter but during a 2m contest yesterday the front end capability of the internal transverter was found wanting when exposed to strong adjacent signals. I already have a Mutek transverter but it was bought (cheaply) as untested and therefore I do not know if it is working. The strong signal capabilities of these transverters were legendary in their day. Therefore, I was hoping that someone on this site has successfully mated the 2 boxes together. Basically what I want to know is at the rear of the transverter there are 2 BNC sockets marked 'rx out' and 'tx/rx'. To what sockets on the I/O board to I need to connect these? And secondly, what do I need to ensure that the K£ is suitably programmed to communicate with the transverter (the instructions seem to be unclear to me...). Any help would be appreciated. If the Mutek transverter is no good anyone got a decent Demi or completed Elecraft 2m transverter they wish to sell??!! Many thanks for reading this plea. Any replies will be gratefully received (which is more than I can say for the internal transverter performance yesterday!!) Peter G4URT __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] [K3} P3 Failure? fixed!
Thanks, Alan! That did the trick. (actually, I found that procedure in the P3 manual). I wish I had written down the transfer gain that I had setup during my amplitude calibration a year or two back. The gain is set to -7 dB now, which I believe is the factory default. I t was strange, though, tuning the bands for even a few minutes without the P3. I hadn't realized how much I have grown to depend on it! 73 thanks again. Chuck Guenther NI0C N1AL wrote: It sounds like a configuration parameter got corrupted somehow in non-volatile memory. Try doing a Parameter Initialization as described in the Troubleshooting section of the manual. That is, write down your FN key assignments and MENU parameters, then hold the LABELS key while turning on the P3 with the POWER switch. Wait until the CONFIGURATION RESET message appears on the screen and release then release the LABELS key. (If you have the power-on jumper in the P3 configured to always-on, then just hold LABELS and tap POWER.) Then re-enter the FN key assignments and MENU parameters. Alan N1AL __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] [Dx4win] K3 .Rig file from the RADIOS Folder of Ver 8.05
Dave, Attached is the file you need. This is the only one that works for me with Windows 7 / 64 bit O/S. Enjoy! - Tony, N3ME - 118 Ashwood Street Bethany Beach, DE 19930-9699 (302) 539-5638 Grid: FM28lm http://www.n3me.net Elecraft K3 # 2462 PVRC Member -Original Message- From: dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Dave Perry, N4QS Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2013 20:46 PM To: 'k1uo Larry'; dx4...@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Dx4win] K3 .Rig file from the RADIOS Folder of Ver 8.05 Is there an X5 file for the K3? I only have the X4 file. Can someone please let me know if there is a new one? Thank you. Dave, N4QS -Original Message- From: dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of k1uo Larry Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2013 2:39 PM To: dx4...@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Dx4win] K3 .Rig file from the RADIOS Folder of Ver 8.05 WOW..you guys are fast... The K3 files are received and I believe it was the X5 version that worked best with Win7/64 here. Thanks to Tony N3ME for being here to help! Could someone please send me the latest K3 Rig file. I think its K3 X5.rig but I don’t have it after reloading everything. Thanks Larry K1UO __ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:dx4...@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:dx4...@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] the net
Greetings, I too can not hear the nets at my QTH 50 miles south of San Francisco. Only once did I hear a station down in Southern California who was able to relay for me, but other than that, nada. I know it's not my antenna (okay maybe it is a little) because I work and can hear other states and dx regularly. One day ill get a nice beam and maybe that will help. Happy Monday and 73, Steve KS6PD On Sunday, June 9, 2013, Dave Moorman wrote: That's been my experience here in west suburban Chicago, Richard. Every couple of weeks I listen for the CW nets. On a few occasions I’ve been able to hear the NCS signal in the noise but not well enough for any kind of sustained copy. It's also rare that I can copy the stations checking one. Every now and then, one of them is a little ways above the noise but not by much. Maybe there could be a Western Elecraft net and an Eastern or Midwestern Elecraft net. Dave K9SW On Jun 9, 2013, at 12:29 PM, Richard Neese kb3...@gmail.comjavascript:; wrote: I have been listening and not hearing a thing. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net javascript:; This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net javascript:; This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] K3 and Mutek Transverter combo?
That very topic is being discussed today, at: http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/uk-vhf-contesting/ 73 from Ian GM3SEK -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft- boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of PETER HUTCHISON Sent: 10 June 2013 14:58 To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: [Elecraft] K3 and Mutek Transverter combo? Hi, Bit of a long shot this but has anyone any experience of using a K3 with a Mutek transverter? I run the K3 (#7218) with the internal transverter but during a 2m contest yesterday the front end capability of the internal transverter was found wanting when exposed to strong adjacent signals. I already have a Mutek transverter but it was bought (cheaply) as untested and therefore I do not know if it is working. The strong signal capabilities of these transverters were legendary in their day. Therefore, I was hoping that someone on this site has successfully mated the 2 boxes together. Basically what I want to know is at the rear of the transverter there are 2 BNC sockets marked 'rx out' and 'tx/rx'. To what sockets on the I/O board to I need to connect these? And secondly, what do I need to ensure that the K£ is suitably programmed to communicate with the transverter (the instructions seem to be unclear to me...). Any help would be appreciated. If the Mutek transverter is no good anyone got a decent Demi or completed Elecraft 2m transverter they wish to sell??!! Many thanks for reading this plea. Any replies will be gratefully received (which is more than I can say for the internal transverter performance yesterday!!) Peter G4URT __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] RMR and C net TMW 14.0625 2045z
Have noticed all the member numbers lately. I wonder, is there anyone that wants to swap #s with anyone else? We can do that during the net. When you check in, just say want to swap numbers with... (callsign.. or anyone) and you will be directed to call your station And that you will do. Then.. the net will continue, and I will check for additional calls.. during the net to pick up anyone that wants to make more calls. This might work well.. and we can all have fun!! See you on the net. 14.0625 at 2:45pm MDT, TUES. Have a great day, --... ...-- Dale - WC7S in Wy __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Has the KX3 rescued Ham radio?
A few years back, someone posted a suggestion to help spread the word about our hobby. Take old copies of your amateur radio periodicals and drop them off in the waiting rooms of your health care providers, car care centers, state license offices, etc. Six months ago I put retired copies of CQ and QST on the table in my company's customer waiting areas among the usual reading. Today they are all gone. Disappeared. Stolen (and shared I hope). I will replenish the supply. I did not report the disappearance. ;o) I guess the added good news is that our customers didn't have to wait very long and therefore had to take the ham mags home with them to finish reading what had caught their interest. Terry, W0FM -Original Message- From: Howard Evans [mailto:hevans1...@woh.rr.com] Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2013 3:49 PM To: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Has the KX3 rescued Ham radio? My experience has been similar to yours, Dan. Off the air since 1967, I became licensed again April 1, 2013, bought a KX3 with all the trimmin's, and am now proud to be a part of the Elecraft community. Ham radio didn't die between 1967 and 2013. If anything, it has expanded. More bands, more modes, more everything except new young amateurs. The amateur radio community is all about having fun and communicating with each other via radio. The younger generation is all about having fun and communcating with each other too, except their medium of choice is the Internet and cell phones. We can introduce them to HTs and repeaters, but how do you compete with Facebook and Youtube? Maybe we can't. So instead of competing we offer alternative ways to have fun and communcate and use Facebook and Youtube to promote the alternatives. Ham radio doesn't need to be resecued. It just needs more participation from a younger group of people to really thrive and grow against the competition for more bandwidth. Use it or lose it, as they say. Coordinated efforts from all involved are necessary: ARRL, clubs, and local publicity in schools and colleges can all be helpful. Kit building seems to be driving a resurgance of interest in electronics and computers, and that can lead to an interest in amateur radio. Mentoring youngters who might want to become Hams works too. QRP CW is yet another avenue to attract new Hams with low-cost rigs and simple antennas. There are endless possibilites for recruitment to rescue amateur radio, much more than when I got my Novice ticket forty-seven years ago. But it will take more than just on-the-air ragchewing and posting to the choir in Ham radio forums such as this one. It will take a concerted effort. Join a club. Join the ARRL. Participate in high-profile community services that involve amateur radio. Become involved. Thank you for your revival in interest and your post. Hop - AC8NS __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] [K3} P3 Failure? fixed!
Alan N1AL, (If you have the power-on jumper in the P3 configured to always-on, ) I don't remember reading a reference to 'the power-on jumper'. I do remember something in the menu settings. Is this what you are referring to? Dick, n0ce - Original Message - From: Chuck Guenther To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 9:05 AM Subject: [Elecraft] [K3} P3 Failure? fixed! Thanks, Alan! That did the trick. (actually, I found that procedure in the P3 manual). I wish I had written down the transfer gain that I had setup during my amplitude calibration a year or two back. The gain is set to -7 dB now, which I believe is the factory default. I t was strange, though, tuning the bands for even a few minutes without the P3. I hadn't realized how much I have grown to depend on it! 73 thanks again. Chuck Guenther NI0C N1AL wrote: It sounds like a configuration parameter got corrupted somehow in non-volatile memory. Try doing a Parameter Initialization as described in the Troubleshooting section of the manual. That is, write down your FN key assignments and MENU parameters, then hold the LABELS key while turning on the P3 with the POWER switch. Wait until the CONFIGURATION RESET message appears on the screen and release then release the LABELS key. (If you have the power-on jumper in the P3 configured to always-on, then just hold LABELS and tap POWER.) Then re-enter the FN key assignments and MENU parameters. Alan N1AL __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] K3 and Mutek Transverter combo?
Well .. I just spent the weekend integrating a K3 with a set of transverters for 144/222/432MHz .. Assuming you have the KIO3 and the KXV3, it's a piece of cake. You'll have to bust open your transverter to determine whether it's been configured for split or combined IF and what drive level it's expecting (your description of the connectors tells me it can be configured either way). If it's split you'll need the KXV3, if not you can likely use the HF output connector (possibly with a switched attenuator for TX). PTT can be had on the ACC connector if you're using 0dBm IF levels, else it can be taken from the rear panel PTT OUT jack. If you need to do more complicated things, there are a few other handy open-collector outputs on ACC (like DIGOUT0 and 1) that can come to the rescue .. de w1rt/john On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 9:54 AM, PETER HUTCHISON peter.hutchi...@btinternet.com wrote: Hi, Bit of a long shot this but has anyone any experience of using a K3 with a Mutek transverter? I run the K3 (#7218) with the internal transverter but during a 2m contest yesterday the front end capability of the internal transverter was found wanting when exposed to strong adjacent signals. I already have a Mutek transverter but it was bought (cheaply) as untested and therefore I do not know if it is working. The strong signal capabilities of these transverters were legendary in their day. Therefore, I was hoping that someone on this site has successfully mated the 2 boxes together. Basically what I want to know is at the rear of the transverter there are 2 BNC sockets marked 'rx out' and 'tx/rx'. To what sockets on the I/O board to I need to connect these? And secondly, what do I need to ensure that the K£ is suitably programmed to communicate with the transverter (the instructions seem to be unclear to me...). Any help would be appreciated. If the Mutek transverter is no good anyone got a decent Demi or completed Elecraft 2m transverter they wish to sell??!! __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] [K3} P3 Failure? fixed!
Dick, No, it's a hardware jumper. See the Configuration section (page 24) of the P3 Manual. 73, ~iain / N6ML On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Richard Fjeld rpfj...@embarqmail.com wrote: Alan N1AL, (If you have the power-on jumper in the P3 configured to always-on, ) I don't remember reading a reference to 'the power-on jumper'. I do remember something in the menu settings. Is this what you are referring to? Dick, n0ce - Original Message - From: Chuck Guenther To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 9:05 AM Subject: [Elecraft] [K3} P3 Failure? fixed! Thanks, Alan! That did the trick. (actually, I found that procedure in the P3 manual). I wish I had written down the transfer gain that I had setup during my amplitude calibration a year or two back. The gain is set to -7 dB now, which I believe is the factory default. I t was strange, though, tuning the bands for even a few minutes without the P3. I hadn't realized how much I have grown to depend on it! 73 thanks again. Chuck Guenther NI0C N1AL wrote: It sounds like a configuration parameter got corrupted somehow in non-volatile memory. Try doing a Parameter Initialization as described in the Troubleshooting section of the manual. That is, write down your FN key assignments and MENU parameters, then hold the LABELS key while turning on the P3 with the POWER switch. Wait until the CONFIGURATION RESET message appears on the screen and release then release the LABELS key. (If you have the power-on jumper in the P3 configured to always-on, then just hold LABELS and tap POWER.) Then re-enter the FN key assignments and MENU parameters. Alan N1AL __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] K3/P3 frequency offset
In the VHF Contest this past weekend, I frequently noticed a frequency offset between the P3 cursor, and where signals actually appeared in the headphones. I tried to reproduce the condition this morning, and think I succeeded. The following describes what was happening. I was flipping between SSB and CW, using quick-memory buttons M1 and M2. M1 and M2 were memorized with RIT OFF. If the RIT is manually turned on, and an RIT offset is dialed in, and then you hit M1 or M2, the P3 cursor becomes offset by the amount of the RIT offset, even though RIT has now been turned OFF by hitting M1 or M2. The only solution that I could find during the contest was to cycle power on the P3. That was pretty aggravating. Experimenting further this morning, I see that if M1 and M2 are programmed with RIT ON, any RIT offset carries over when modes are switched, and there is no frequency error when the RIT is zeroed. I'll do it that way from now on, but it was driving me batty during the contest. Dave Hachadorian, K6LL Yuma, Arizona __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] K3 Location of saved MACRO files?
After I write new macros to my K3 with the K3 Utility I always click the 'SAVE' button. The K3 Utility help file indicates: The Save button stores Macro Labels and Macro Commands on your Personal Computer. Click Write Macros 1-8 to K3 to send macros to your K3. However I have looked all over the computer in various Elecraft folders but can't find any file which has the saved macros. Also, there is no SAVE AS option available in the K3 Utility to save the macro file(s) into a specific folder. During this past weekend I had to write some new macros for use in the ARRL VHF contest with the K8GP Grid Pirates multiop station. I now need to restore the old, saved, K3 macros used for the home station operation. Where might I find the old ones? By using SAVE in the K3 Utility did I write over the old macros? Or does the K3 Utility save them with a unique file name for each 'SAVE', possibly with the date embedded in the file name? What is the default folder location of 'SAVED' macros and what is/are the file name(s)? What really is needed is a new option in the 'Command tester/K3 Macros' section of the K3 Utility. This option would give the K3 user the capability of copying saved macro data back into the K3 Utility 'Macro Label' and 'Macro Commands' boxes. This capability should be available for both the Macros assignable to K3' tab as well as the 'Additional Macros' tabs in the K3. Fortunately I save each MACRO in a text file, so I can copy and paste each one into the 'K3 Utility'. But doing it manually is really a pain. We should be able to copy the saved data back into the K3 Utility. I hope that this capability can be implemented in a future version of the 'K3 Utility'. 73, Rich - K1HTV __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] K3 Location of saved MACRO files?
The macros are stored in the registry as named values under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Elecraft\K3 Utility. You can export that register key with REGEDIT, save it as a .reg file with a file name you choose, and import it again to restore the macros (and other K3 Utility settings). You can also prune the .reg file so that it contains just CommandCaption1-16 and CommandTest1-16 if you don't want all the other settings overwritten when you restore. If you wrote macros 1-8 to your K3, you can read them out of the K3. 73 de Dick, K6KR -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Rich - K1HTV Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 10:50 AM To: Elecraft Reflector Cc: k3supp...@elecraft.com Subject: [Elecraft] K3 Location of saved MACRO files? After I write new macros to my K3 with the K3 Utility I always click the 'SAVE' button. The K3 Utility help file indicates: The Save button stores Macro Labels and Macro Commands on your Personal Computer. Click Write Macros 1-8 to K3 to send macros to your K3. However I have looked all over the computer in various Elecraft folders but can't find any file which has the saved macros. Also, there is no SAVE AS option available in the K3 Utility to save the macro file(s) into a specific folder. During this past weekend I had to write some new macros for use in the ARRL VHF contest with the K8GP Grid Pirates multiop station. I now need to restore the old, saved, K3 macros used for the home station operation. Where might I find the old ones? By using SAVE in the K3 Utility did I write over the old macros? Or does the K3 Utility save them with a unique file name for each 'SAVE', possibly with the date embedded in the file name? What is the default folder location of 'SAVED' macros and what is/are the file name(s)? What really is needed is a new option in the 'Command tester/K3 Macros' section of the K3 Utility. This option would give the K3 user the capability of copying saved macro data back into the K3 Utility 'Macro Label' and 'Macro Commands' boxes. This capability should be available for both the Macros assignable to K3' tab as well as the 'Additional Macros' tabs in the K3. Fortunately I save each MACRO in a text file, so I can copy and paste each one into the 'K3 Utility'. But doing it manually is really a pain. We should be able to copy the saved data back into the K3 Utility. I hope that this capability can be implemented in a future version of the 'K3 Utility'. 73, Rich - K1HTV __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] P3 Sensor port
I understand the sensor port is for an inline sensor to allow the P3 to monitor the TX signal from the K3. A long time waiting for the release of this has not dampened my enthusiasm but the lack of information on timing of the release is disappointing. I think i read it is on 'someones' list but that is all I have read. Perhaps somebody in the know will chime in here? 73 Gary On 10 June 2013 00:43, Rob Gault kc2...@gmail.com wrote: Anything in development to fill the sensor port hole on the P3? 73 kc2vmp __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html -- *Gary - VK1ZZ Skype: Gary.VK1ZZ Motorhome Portable The Shack* *Elecraft K3 P3 Panadapter KPA500FT KAT500FT** KX3-K * __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] Capital letters on reflector
Sorry About the caps, seems like i'm always saying i'm sorry about the use of capital letters. I have a vision problem, so i'm going to increase the size; hope this will show up! i like the color blue, but don't know if this will go to the reflector the way i see it. Wish i cold see better, its just a habit for me. Thanks for letting me know it may bother some people, i don't really understand why it should, but may someone explain to me about the caps? thank you all, god bless you all and god bless ham radio. vincent wb2pdw 73 love the kx3 !! wha hoo! __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Has the KX3 rescued Ham radio?
This is a great idea. When I was a kid growing up in a small midwest town, the local doctor would leave put his old copies of Flying and AOPA Pilot in his waiting room. I loved to go to the doctor (well, not quite) just to read those magazines. It led to an 43 year career in Aviation. If he would have been a ham, I suspect it would have led to a career in electronics. Sometimes the little thing have a big influence. Mark KE6BB From: Terry Schieler w...@swbell.net To: 'Howard Evans' hevans1...@woh.rr.com; Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 7:58 AM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Has the KX3 rescued Ham radio? A few years back, someone posted a suggestion to help spread the word about our hobby. Take old copies of your amateur radio periodicals and drop them off in the waiting rooms of your health care providers, car care centers, state license offices, etc. Six months ago I put retired copies of CQ and QST on the table in my company's customer waiting areas among the usual reading. Today they are all gone. Disappeared. Stolen (and shared I hope). I will replenish the supply. I did not report the disappearance. ;o) I guess the added good news is that our customers didn't have to wait very long and therefore had to take the ham mags home with them to finish reading what had caught their interest. Terry, W0FM -Original Message- From: Howard Evans [mailto:hevans1...@woh.rr.com] Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2013 3:49 PM To: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Has the KX3 rescued Ham radio? My experience has been similar to yours, Dan. Off the air since 1967, I became licensed again April 1, 2013, bought a KX3 with all the trimmin's, and am now proud to be a part of the Elecraft community. Ham radio didn't die between 1967 and 2013. If anything, it has expanded. More bands, more modes, more everything except new young amateurs. The amateur radio community is all about having fun and communicating with each other via radio. The younger generation is all about having fun and communcating with each other too, except their medium of choice is the Internet and cell phones. We can introduce them to HTs and repeaters, but how do you compete with Facebook and Youtube? Maybe we can't. So instead of competing we offer alternative ways to have fun and communcate and use Facebook and Youtube to promote the alternatives. Ham radio doesn't need to be resecued. It just needs more participation from a younger group of people to really thrive and grow against the competition for more bandwidth. Use it or lose it, as they say. Coordinated efforts from all involved are necessary: ARRL, clubs, and local publicity in schools and colleges can all be helpful. Kit building seems to be driving a resurgance of interest in electronics and computers, and that can lead to an interest in amateur radio. Mentoring youngters who might want to become Hams works too. QRP CW is yet another avenue to attract new Hams with low-cost rigs and simple antennas. There are endless possibilites for recruitment to rescue amateur radio, much more than when I got my Novice ticket forty-seven years ago. But it will take more than just on-the-air ragchewing and posting to the choir in Ham radio forums such as this one. It will take a concerted effort. Join a club. Join the ARRL. Participate in high-profile community services that involve amateur radio. Become involved. Thank you for your revival in interest and your post. Hop - AC8NS __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Capital letters on reflector
Hi Vincent, There are two reasons that all caps bother people. The first is internet convention where words in all CAPS are considered to be LOUD or SHOUTING. That means all caps emails are seen as yelling at the reader by most. The second is much more important, and that is that all caps is much more difficult to read. It removes many visual clues that people use to read quickly. Here is a link that explains the issue of shape contrast: http://uxmovement.com/content/all-caps-hard-for-users-to-read/ My wife also has bad eyesight and sets her Mac to default to very large font sizes. I hope you can find a solution that works for you. Regards, - Brendon KK6AYI On Jun 10, 2013, at 12:08 PM, Vincent Diak wrote: Thanks for letting me know it may bother some people, i don't really understand why it should, but may someone explain to me about the caps? __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] KX3 and 2 Meters
I am the new owner of a slightly used (only on Sundays that didn't conflict with baseball or football, according to the previous owner) KX3 and just beginning to understand how it works. I am slowly reading each page of the operator's manual and checking each function of each knob and button so I can make contacts without messing up everything. I notice that 60 meter frequencies are not programmed and I will have to do that. One question I have, the answer to which I can't find anywhere in the operator's manual, is why 144.000 (fully tunable to 148.000) comes up after 6 meters if the module to do this has not been produced. Is this just there as a default and actually is an inoperative band for later use or . what?? Just wondering why this is not mentioned anywhere nor have I seen this question on the reflector (of course, with the tons of e-mails, I may have missed it. Tnx 73, Steve, N4EUK K2/100, KX3 __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Capital letters on reflector
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Vincent Diak uncleb...@optonline.netwrote: Sorry About the caps,... === Vince, an easy way to make text bigger and easier to read is to press Control-+ (the Control key and the + key at the same time). You can make the letters huge, but it won't affect outgoing emails. 73, Tony KT0NY -- http://www.isb.edu/faculty/facultydir.aspx?ddlFaculty=352 __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] KX3 and 2 Meters
On 6/10/2013 4:08 PM, Steve wrote: I am the new owner of a slightly used (only on Sundays that didn't conflict with baseball or football, according to the previous owner) KX3 and just beginning to understand how it works. I am slowly reading each page of the operator's manual and checking each function of each knob and button so I can make contacts without messing up everything. I notice that 60 meter frequencies are not programmed and I will have to do that. One question I have, the answer to which I can't find anywhere in the operator's manual, is why 144.000 (fully tunable to 148.000) comes up after 6 meters if the module to do this has not been produced. Is this just there as a default and actually is an inoperative band for later use or . what?? Just wondering why this is not mentioned anywhere nor have I seen this question on the reflector (of course, with the tons of e-mails, I may have missed it. Tnx 73, Steve, N4EUK K2/100, KX3 __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html you might want to update the firmware . depending on what ver it is currently running __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Capital letters on reflector
Note that Capital letters are slower to transmit in the PSK family of modes due to the way Varicode http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varicode is defined. While sending all caps makes PSK look like RTTY, it is noticeably slower than using mixed case or all lower case. Cheers - Bill, AE6JV - Bill Frantz| The first thing you need when | Periwinkle (408)356-8506 | using a perimeter defense is a | 16345 Englewood Ave www.pwpconsult.com | perimeter. | Los Gatos, CA 95032 __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] K2 Cosmetic Upgrade
My Elecraft K2 which is now more than 11 years old is still cosmetically in mint condition, except for that single item which sticks out like a sore thumb: The tuning knob. I therefore ordered a new one and the difference is really striking. I feel like I have a new K2 now, well worth the price! A picture is here: http://la3za.blogspot.no/2013/06/cosmetic-k2-upgrade.html - Sverre, LA3ZA K2 #2198, K3 #3391, LA3ZA Blog: http://la3za.blogspot.com, LA3ZA Unofficial Guide to K2 modifications: http://www.qslnet.de/member/la3za/K2/mod.html -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/K2-Cosmetic-Upgrade-tp7575014.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Capital letters on reflector
But it doesn't work in all email software when you are composing. I use Thunderbird and it works to read incoming email, but it doesn't when Writing or Composing an email. Good idea and worth experimenting, though. If I were Vincent, I'd make it as large as I need to compose and let others hit Ctlr+- to make it small enough to their liking. hi. Do what you need to do to be heard, Vincent. Eric KE6US On 6/10/2013 1:12 PM, Tony Estep wrote: On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Vincent Diak uncleb...@optonline.netwrote: Sorry About the caps,... === Vince, an easy way to make text bigger and easier to read is to press Control-+ (the Control key and the + key at the same time). You can make the letters huge, but it won't affect outgoing emails. 73, Tony KT0NY __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Capital letters on reflector
Vince, The reflector accepts only plain text, and I believe the HTML used to form large size letters and color are stripped off, so everyone sees only the plain text of your message. 73, Don W3FPR On 6/10/2013 3:08 PM, Vincent Diak wrote: Sorry About the caps, seems like i'm always saying i'm sorry about the use of capital letters. I have a vision problem, so i'm going to increase the size; hope this will show up! i like the color blue, but don't know if this will go to the reflector the way i see it. Wish i cold see better, its just a habit for me. Thanks for letting me know it may bother some people, i don't really understand why it should, but may someone explain to me about the caps? thank you all, god bless you all and god bless ham radio. vincent wb2pdw 73 love the kx3 !! wha hoo! __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] the net
Well ... probably not, at least on 20. I'm in Auburn 35mi NE of Sacramento and the only time I can hear Kevin on 20 is during the Es season [August-ish] and then it's hit and miss. I have a tribander. In the winter, 40 is already going long at net time. When Tom was still alive, he'd call the net from the middle of the country after Kevin got as many as he could, which got all of us west coasters. A low dipole on 40 [NVIS] might work better between N Cal and N OR. 73, Fred K6DGW - Northern California Contest Club - CU in the 2013 Cal QSO Party 5-6 Oct 2013 - www.cqp.org On 6/10/2013 7:19 AM, Stephen Selberg wrote: Greetings, I too can not hear the nets at my QTH 50 miles south of San Francisco. Only once did I hear a station down in Southern California who was able to relay for me, but other than that, nada. I know it's not my antenna (okay maybe it is a little) because I work and can hear other states and dx regularly. One day ill get a nice beam and maybe that will help. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Capital letters on reflector
Here on the Elecraft reflector the text is transmitted as plain ASCII, meaning that all of the formatting (font size, etc.) is stripped. That won't fix all caps since capitals and lower case are all individual ASCII coded characters and go through the system as such. But, if you increase the font size at your end to read it more easily it won't show up any differently at the reader's end. As others noted, all caps in e-mails is shouting, Hi! When I want to emphasize a word politely, I use asterisks like *this*. For me, that's the ASCII equivalent of boldface type. 73 Ron AC7AC -Original Message- Sorry About the caps, seems like i'm always saying i'm sorry about the use of capital letters. I have a vision problem, so i'm going to increase the size; hope this will show up! i like the color blue, but don't know if this will go to the reflector the way i see it. Wish i cold see better, its just a habit for me. Thanks for letting me know it may bother some people, i don't really understand why it should, but may someone explain to me about the caps? thank you all, god bless you all and god bless ham radio. vincent wb2pdw 73 love the kx3 !! wha hoo! __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Capital letters on reflector
Isn't it amazing that we, as a society, have come to such a cushy existence that we have time to worry about such things? I guess 'hunting and gathering' is no more. John T. Gwin jtg...@comcast.net judgejohng...@wilsoncountytn.com - Original Message - From: Vincent Diak uncleb...@optonline.net To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 2:08 PM Subject: [Elecraft] Capital letters on reflector Sorry About the caps, seems like i'm always saying i'm sorry about the use of capital letters. I have a vision problem, so i'm going to increase the size; hope this will show up! i like the color blue, but don't know if this will go to the reflector the way i see it. Wish i cold see better, its just a habit for me. Thanks for letting me know it may bother some people, i don't really understand why it should, but may someone explain to me about the caps? thank you all, god bless you all and god bless ham radio. vincent wb2pdw 73 love the kx3 !! wha hoo! __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.3345 / Virus Database: 3199/6398 - Release Date: 06/10/13 __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Capital letters on reflector
Heh Ya, what you said. From: w...@comcast.net To: uncleb...@optonline.net; elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 17:01:25 -0500 Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Capital letters on reflector Isn't it amazing that we, as a society, have come to such a cushy existence that we have time to worry about such things? I guess 'hunting and gathering' is no more. John T. Gwin jtg...@comcast.net judgejohng...@wilsoncountytn.com - Original Message - From: Vincent Diak uncleb...@optonline.net To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 2:08 PM Subject: [Elecraft] Capital letters on reflector Sorry About the caps, seems like i'm always saying i'm sorry about the use of capital letters. I have a vision problem, so i'm going to increase the size; hope this will show up! i like the color blue, but don't know if this will go to the reflector the way i see it. Wish i cold see better, its just a habit for me. Thanks for letting me know it may bother some people, i don't really understand why it should, but may someone explain to me about the caps? thank you all, god bless you all and god bless ham radio. vincent wb2pdw 73 love the kx3 !! wha hoo! __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.3345 / Virus Database: 3199/6398 - Release Date: 06/10/13 __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Capital letters on reflector
It is also VERY difficult to read with speed. I prefer normal text to help me get through at least 200+ emails a day. So I beg of the all caps typers to use normal case. Please do capitalize when typing sentences as well. I am one of those who can read mistyped semi scramble text and understand it. All caps kills my brain. 73, Bill K9YEQ -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Ron D'Eau Claire Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 4:45 PM To: 'Vincent Diak'; elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Capital letters on reflector Here on the Elecraft reflector the text is transmitted as plain ASCII, meaning that all of the formatting (font size, etc.) is stripped. That won't fix all caps since capitals and lower case are all individual ASCII coded characters and go through the system as such. But, if you increase the font size at your end to read it more easily it won't show up any differently at the reader's end. As others noted, all caps in e-mails is shouting, Hi! When I want to emphasize a word politely, I use asterisks like *this*. For me, that's the ASCII equivalent of boldface type. 73 Ron AC7AC -Original Message- Sorry About the caps, seems like i'm always saying i'm sorry about the use of capital letters. I have a vision problem, so i'm going to increase the size; hope this will show up! i like the color blue, but don't know if this will go to the reflector the way i see it. Wish i cold see better, its just a habit for me. Thanks for letting me know it may bother some people, i don't really understand why it should, but may someone explain to me about the caps? thank you all, god bless you all and god bless ham radio. vincent wb2pdw 73 love the kx3 !! wha hoo! __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Capital letters on reflector
On 6/10/2013 12:41 PM, Brendon Whateley wrote: There are two reasons that all caps bother people. The first is internet convention where words in all CAPS are considered to be LOUD or SHOUTING. That means all caps emails are seen as yelling at the reader by most. Sometimes the writer wants to speak loudly The second is much more important, and that is that all caps is much more difficult to read. It removes many visual clues that people use to read quickly. Those of us who started in the telecom business with classic teleprinters are very used to reading upper case only. Even into today, HF marine safety and press bulletins and traffic are transmitted in upper case because Baudot and SITOR RTTY use International Telegraph Alphabet Number 2 which does not have lower case. Those of us who are fluent in languages that do not use Latin characters are comfortable with a single-case alphabet. 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Capital letters on reflector
True, Phil, but IMX teleprinters used a sans-serif typeface (e.g. Arial or Helvetica for the computer crowd ;-), just like the mills (all upper case typewriters) we used to copy CW. Maybe it's that experience, but I find typical serif fonts such as Times much harder to read in all caps. 73 Ron AC7AC -Original Message- Those of us who started in the telecom business with classic teleprinters are very used to reading upper case only. Even into today, HF marine safety and press bulletins and traffic are transmitted in upper case because Baudot and SITOR RTTY use International Telegraph Alphabet Number 2 which does not have lower case. Those of us who are fluent in languages that do not use Latin characters are comfortable with a single-case alphabet. 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Capital letters on reflector
On 6/10/2013 1:57 PM, EricJ wrote: But it doesn't work in all email software when you are composing. I use Thunderbird and it works to read incoming email, but it doesn't when Writing or Composing an email. Good idea and worth experimenting, though. Look into a T-Bird add-on called External Editor which is free from http://globs.org. This enables you to use your preferred text editor for composing e-mail using any font and size that you desire. The text editor exports standard ASCII to the T-Bird compose window when the latter is set for text-only messages. (I experienced a glitch in downloading it into Win 7 - I found the workaround if anyone has any problems.) 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Capital letters on reflector
YOU SURE IT'S NOT JUST BAUDOT? RYRYRYRYRYRYRY On Mon, 10 Jun 2013, Vincent Diak wrote: Sorry About the caps, seems like i'm always saying i'm sorry about the use of capital letters. I have a vision problem, so i'm going to increase the size; hope this will show up! i like the color blue, but don't know if this will go to the reflector the way i see it. Wish i cold see better, its just a habit for me. Thanks for letting me know it may bother some people, i don't really understand why it should, but may someone explain to me about the caps? thank you all, god bless you all and god bless ham radio. vincent wb2pdw 73 love the kx3 !! wha hoo! __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html -- Hisashi T Fujinaka - ht...@twofifty.com BSEE(6/86) + BSChem(3/95) + BAEnglish(8/95) + MSCS(8/03) + $2.50 = latte __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Capital letters on reflector
When in the Signal Corps from '69-72 the TTY machines were all caps, it wasn't any easier to read then, than it is today. I read faster with standard text. All CAPs adds emphasis in my brain. Yes, like yelling; however, it is very common for some e-mailers. While it seems like yelling, I don't think that is the intention of the sender, so I am not offended... just have trouble reading it. 73, Bill K9YEQ -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Hisashi T Fujinaka Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 6:04 PM To: Vincent Diak Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Capital letters on reflector YOU SURE IT'S NOT JUST BAUDOT? RYRYRYRYRYRYRY On Mon, 10 Jun 2013, Vincent Diak wrote: Sorry About the caps, seems like i'm always saying i'm sorry about the use of capital letters. I have a vision problem, so i'm going to increase the size; hope this will show up! i like the color blue, but don't know if this will go to the reflector the way i see it. Wish i cold see better, its just a habit for me. Thanks for letting me know it may bother some people, i don't really understand why it should, but may someone explain to me about the caps? thank you all, god bless you all and god bless ham radio. vincent wb2pdw 73 love the kx3 !! wha hoo! __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html -- Hisashi T Fujinaka - ht...@twofifty.com BSEE(6/86) + BSChem(3/95) + BAEnglish(8/95) + MSCS(8/03) + $2.50 = latte __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] the net
I listen almost every week and can only get in (or hear it) about once every 4-6 weeks. Joe w9jc On Jun 10, 2013, at 2:33 AM, Dave Moorman wrote: That's been my experience here in west suburban Chicago, Richard. Every couple of weeks I listen for the CW nets. On a few occasions I’ve been able to hear the NCS signal in the noise but not well enough for any kind of sustained copy. It's also rare that I can copy the stations checking one. Every now and then, one of them is a little ways above the noise but not by much. Maybe there could be a Western Elecraft net and an Eastern or Midwestern Elecraft net. Dave K9SW On Jun 9, 2013, at 12:29 PM, Richard Neese kb3...@gmail.com wrote: I have been listening and not hearing a thing. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] K3 Location of saved MACRO files?
Dick, Thanks for the information on where the K3 Utility macro data is stored. I successfully exported the data then edited the '.reg' file. I deleted all lines except the top line [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Elecraft\K3 Utility] and the CommandCaption and CommandText lines, then saved the file. I was able to import it successfully to the registry using regedit. HOWEVER, I believe that you will find that most K3 users will be reluctant to mess with the Windows registry with regedit. Most of us have read and heard the warnings about what can happen if the registry gets corrupted. I think that you will find that K3 users who want to easily save and edit K3 macros, then reload them back to the 'K3 Utility' would want to be able to do so USING the K3 Utility. I don't believe that users should have to export macro data from and import macro data to the Windows registry. The chance of corrupting the registry might be too risky for most K3 users. I still feel that the suggestions for incorporating the capability of saving and loading files through the 'K3 Utility' should be given serious consideration. 73, Rich - K1HTV = = = - Original Message - From: Dick Dievendorff die...@comcast.net To: Rich - K1HTV k1...@comcast.net, Elecraft Reflector elecraft@mailman.qth.net Cc: k3supp...@elecraft.com Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 6:04:03 PM Subject: RE: [Elecraft] K3 Location of saved MACRO files? The macros are stored in the registry as named values under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Elecraft\K3 Utility. You can export that register key with REGEDIT, save it as a .reg file with a file name you choose, and import it again to restore the macros (and other K3 Utility settings). You can also prune the .reg file so that it contains just CommandCaption1-16 and CommandTest1-16 if you don't want all the other settings overwritten when you restore. If you wrote macros 1-8 to your K3, you can read them out of the K3. 73 de Dick, K6KR -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Rich - K1HTV Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 10:50 AM To: Elecraft Reflector Cc: k3supp...@elecraft.com Subject: [Elecraft] K3 Location of saved MACRO files? After I write new macros to my K3 with the K3 Utility I always click the 'SAVE' button. The K3 Utility help file indicates: The Save button stores Macro Labels and Macro Commands on your Personal Computer. Click Write Macros 1-8 to K3 to send macros to your K3. However I have looked all over the computer in various Elecraft folders but can't find any file which has the saved macros. Also, there is no SAVE AS option available in the K3 Utility to save the macro file(s) into a specific folder. During this past weekend I had to write some new macros for use in the ARRL VHF contest with the K8GP Grid Pirates multiop station. I now need to restore the old, saved, K3 macros used for the home station operation. Where might I find the old ones? By using SAVE in the K3 Utility did I write over the old macros? Or does the K3 Utility save them with a unique file name for each 'SAVE', possibly with the date embedded in the file name? What is the default folder location of 'SAVED' macros and what is/are the file name(s)? What really is needed is a new option in the 'Command tester/K3 Macros' section of the K3 Utility. This option would give the K3 user the capability of copying saved macro data back into the K3 Utility 'Macro Label' and 'Macro Commands' boxes. This capability should be available for both the Macros assignable to K3' tab as well as the 'Additional Macros' tabs in the K3. Fortunately I save each MACRO in a text file, so I can copy and paste each one into the 'K3 Utility'. But doing it manually is really a pain. We should be able to copy the saved data back into the K3 Utility. I hope that this capability can be implemented in a future version of the 'K3 Utility'. 73, Rich - K1HTV __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] Default tuning rate on the Pigknob
Just installed the Pigknob on my K3 and it works great. I would like to speed up the default tuning rate from 100hz per rev to 1khz per rev. Is there a K3 command to change the encoder tuning rate? -- Howard Sherer __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] K2 Cosmetic Upgrade
I added the 73CNC heavy knob to my K2, and that added soo much to the look and feel of the radio. It's a real tuner with the heavy knob. I have no financial/other interest in the knob's maker. ...robert On 6/10/2013 20:49, Sverre Holm (LA3ZA) wrote: My Elecraft K2 which is now more than 11 years old is still cosmetically in mint condition, except for that single item which sticks out like a sore thumb: The tuning knob. I therefore ordered a new one and the difference is really striking. I feel like I have a new K2 now, well worth the price! A picture is here: http://la3za.blogspot.no/2013/06/cosmetic-k2-upgrade.html - Sverre, LA3ZA K2 #2198, K3 #3391, LA3ZA Blog: http://la3za.blogspot.com, LA3ZA Unofficial Guide to K2 modifications: http://www.qslnet.de/member/la3za/K2/mod.html -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/K2-Cosmetic-Upgrade-tp7575014.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html -- Robert G Strickland, PhD ABPH - KE2WY rc...@verizon.net.usa Syracuse, New York, USA __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] How to reply to specific post on the reflector?
I am sure it is super easy, but I seem to be blind to the solution. How can I reply on the reflector to a specific post within a thread? I am in the mail-archive.com/elecraft. site, looking at a post, seeing the threaded view of all the other posts. I have a screen print of what I see here: http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/Sharpshooter1/HAM%20Radio/reflector_z ps2430ecf0.jpg Please have a look and tell me where I need to go to respond specifically to the post marked with the blue arrow, so my post appears under his in the threaded list. Thank you, Arno kg7bjm __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] VE7BQH 50, 144 and 432 MHz Antenna Comparison Charts Update #24
The very popular VE7BQH Antenna Comparison Charts have just been updated again. The most recent version is posted here on my website: http://www.bigskyspaces.com/w7gj/6mTable.htm GL and DX! VY 73, Lance -- Lance Collister, W7GJ (ex WA3GPL, WA1JXN, WA1JXN/C6A, ZF2OC/ZF8, E51SIX, 3D2LR, 5W0GJ, E6M, TX5K) P.O. Box 73 Frenchtown, MT 59834-0073 USA TEL: (406) 626-5728 QTH: DN27ub URL: http://www.bigskyspaces.com/w7gj Windows Messenger: w...@hotmail.com Skype: lanceW7GJ 2m DXCC #11/6m DXCC #815 Interested in 6m EME? Ask me about subscribing to the Magic Band EME email group, or just fill in the request box at the bottom of my web page (above)! __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] How to reply to specific post on the reflector?
Arno, Typically you would just use the Reply button in your email client when viewing the message, and the necessary headers would be included to link to the existing thread but it looks like you are using Microsoft Outlook, so logic may not prevail ;) GL, ~iain / N6ML On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Arno Dienhart a...@broadweave.net wrote: I am sure it is super easy, but I seem to be blind to the solution. How can I reply on the reflector to a specific post within a thread? I am in the mail-archive.com/elecraft. site, looking at a post, seeing the threaded view of all the other posts. I have a screen print of what I see here: http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/Sharpshooter1/HAM%20Radio/reflector_z ps2430ecf0.jpg Please have a look and tell me where I need to go to respond specifically to the post marked with the blue arrow, so my post appears under his in the threaded list. Thank you, Arno kg7bjm __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] the net
Well, I can't speak much about propagation with the CW nets; but I can talk about the SSB net on Sunday at 1800z. I am net control from western Oregon, about 100 miles south of Kevin. From my QTH, it is hard to work on 20 meters from northern California up through Washington. Southern California and Alaska is fine. I see the same thing in SOTA hamming. It is just too close for 20m (I have the same problem with Idaho). I seem to do fine on 20m from the Rocky Mountains east to the Atlantic. New England generally is good. Sometimes my signal back east is not as strong as on other times. I use the K3/KPA500 to a 2 el cubical quad at 75'. When I don't hear a station well enough, John, N6JW in Riverside, CA usually can get them. We typically use one or two stations back east who seem strong to me (often Jim, W4RKS, in AL) to look for west coast or other stations that John or I can't get as well. If you are outside of that 500 mile circle from the net control, you should usually get through. If it is always hard to get heard, take a look at your antenna or terrain - or? The K2/3/X3 receivers are great for pulling in the weak ones! Keep in mind that we are not in the best of propagation times. 73, Phil, NS7P On Jun 10, 2013, at 4:39 PM, Joseph Carter j...@case.edu wrote I listen almost every week and can only get in (or hear it) about once every 4-6 weeks. Joe w9jc On Jun 10, 2013, at 2:33 AM, Dave Moorman wrote: That's been my experience here in west suburban Chicago, Richard. Every couple of weeks I listen for the CW nets. On a few occasions I’ve been able to hear the NCS signal in the noise but not well enough for any kind of sustained copy. It's also rare that I can copy the stations checking one. Every now and then, one of them is a little ways above the noise but not by much. Maybe there could be a Western Elecraft net and an Eastern or Midwestern Elecraft net. Dave K9SW On Jun 9, 2013, at 12:29 PM, Richard Neese kb3...@gmail.com wrote: I have been listening and not hearing a thing. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] mmtty and k3 setup
Hello All- I have had all of this setup before and using MMTTY and my K3 working good. But now trying to get it all working again with new computer running Windows 7 Ultimate. My problem is: when I have mmtty running and try to move up and down the band every few khz my rig will key up briefly and I can not move freq. while it is keyed up or other functions on rig will not work either, which is probably because it is keyed up. When I men briefly it like a fraction of a second and do it several times before it stops. I am just wondering what the bar graph on windows several audio mixer should be and what the bar graph setting should be under the mmtty setting in the sound mixer? If I go above 50 on the speakers, the rig keys a a lot. There is also a gray line that runs all the way across my mixer window so you can not raise the mmtty bar higher than the speaker bar graph. My Vox setting on the rig is at .40 and running 50 watts of power and my mic line is set to 7. To me its almost like the vox setting is wrong, like when you have the microphone on and set too lightly and make a noise and it keys the rig. Any suggestions would be great. Thanks John __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] the net
I agree with Phil - propagation has not been helpful lately. The second problem we have had is the loss of N0SS in the middle of the country. Tom would call for check ins after I had run through a few stronger stations. Then, if possible, he would pass net control to the East Coast. My reach on twenty meters, like Phil's, starts in Wyoming and thence to Michigan. Colorado is on again off again as is Texas. However, ECN is very close to WAS lacking only Delaware. Check ins from as far as Hungary, South Africa, New Zealand, and Australia are in the log. Japan and Russia are also in there. Even though we are somewhere in the middle of this solar cycle propagation does not mirror this. Once again: I would dearly love to have an alternate net control in the Midwest and one on the East Coast. I, too, need a look back at my area on the West Coast to glean all the check ins from those areas too close to me. I have worked a few local stations via ground wave. But when you don't have a straight shot at me the signal must bounce off the not always reliable ionosphere. I can get folks south and east of San Francisco but only when the propagation is correct. I can also work into Texas on both twenty and forty meters. Florida occasionally with Georgia slightly more often. Since I can only work those I hear I am stuck with certain patterns of contacts reflected in my years of reports. We really miss Tom Hammond, N0SS. I know no one can replace him but I am sure he would like someone to try. The skill level required is not very high. There is a speed limit on the net control, set by Tom (of course), of 21 wpm. Folks reply at their comfortable speed and I try to adjust. I am sure there is someone in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, or Louisiana who could help. You will get the very same pay as Tom; once you prove yourself of course :) And there will be a lot of very happy people who are able to check in with their Elecraft (or other) rigs. While we do exchange weather reports we try to give accurate signal reports with readings of strength, variability, and noise level. If you want to talk about camping, birding, hiking, canoeing, etc. please do so. Just because they call me net control does not mean I have control over much of anything :) The position is very casual so if you feel like trying please do. If you want to start regional nets please do that too. The main thing is to enjoy yourselves. 73, Kevin. KD5ONS Net Control Operator 5th Class - On 6/10/2013 6:42 PM, Phil Shepard wrote: Well, I can't speak much about propagation with the CW nets; but I can talk about the SSB net on Sunday at 1800z. I am net control from western Oregon, about 100 miles south of Kevin. From my QTH, it is hard to work on 20 meters from northern California up through Washington. Southern California and Alaska is fine. I see the same thing in SOTA hamming. It is just too close for 20m (I have the same problem with Idaho). I seem to do fine on 20m from the Rocky Mountains east to the Atlantic. New England generally is good. Sometimes my signal back east is not as strong as on other times. I use the K3/KPA500 to a 2 el cubical quad at 75'. When I don't hear a station well enough, John, N6JW in Riverside, CA usually can get them. We typically use one or two stations back east who seem strong to me (often Jim, W4RKS, in AL) to look for west coast or other stations that John or I can't get as well. If you are outside of that 500 mile circle from the net control, you should usually get through. If it is always hard to get heard, take a look at your antenna or terrain - or? The K2/3/X3 receivers are great for pulling in the weak ones! Keep in mind that we are not in the best of propagation times. 73, Phil, NS7P On Jun 10, 2013, at 4:39 PM, Joseph Carter j...@case.edu wrote I listen almost every week and can only get in (or hear it) about once every 4-6 weeks. Joe w9jc On Jun 10, 2013, at 2:33 AM, Dave Moorman wrote: That's been my experience here in west suburban Chicago, Richard. Every couple of weeks I listen for the CW nets. On a few occasions I’ve been able to hear the NCS signal in the noise but not well enough for any kind of sustained copy. It's also rare that I can copy the stations checking one. Every now and then, one of them is a little ways above the noise but not by much. Maybe there could be a Western Elecraft net and an Eastern or Midwestern Elecraft net. Dave K9SW On Jun 9, 2013, at 12:29 PM, Richard Neese kb3...@gmail.com wrote: I have been listening and not hearing a thing. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list:
Re: [Elecraft] Capital letters on reflector
Uncials (lower case letters) were invented by the Carolingians to allow people to read faster and increase literacy. It is odd that an unlettered king (later Emperor) started a wave of literacy in the early middle ages. The same follk also designed the italic font style. It was named italic by later scribes who wanted to invoke the prestige of Rome. When I get my messages from MARS I put them through a script which changes them to all lower case. Even though they knew lower case letters were more easily read they insisted on all caps because they look more official. Go figure. 73, Kevin. KD5ONS On 6/10/2013 3:21 PM, Phil Kane wrote: On 6/10/2013 12:41 PM, Brendon Whateley wrote: There are two reasons that all caps bother people. The first is internet convention where words in all CAPS are considered to be LOUD or SHOUTING. That means all caps emails are seen as yelling at the reader by most. Sometimes the writer wants to speak loudly The second is much more important, and that is that all caps is much more difficult to read. It removes many visual clues that people use to read quickly. Those of us who started in the telecom business with classic teleprinters are very used to reading upper case only. Even into today, HF marine safety and press bulletins and traffic are transmitted in upper case because Baudot and SITOR RTTY use International Telegraph Alphabet Number 2 which does not have lower case. Those of us who are fluent in languages that do not use Latin characters are comfortable with a single-case alphabet. 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] How to reply to specific post on the reflector?
Okay, let's try this then. I am reading your message in outlook, hit reply, change the TO address to elecraft, and send it. Let's see where it is positioned in the thread. It should be under your post in the list, (which is my main objective) and not just as one more response to the OP. Hitting send. From: Lynn W. Taylor, WB6UUT [mailto:k...@coldrockshotbrooms.com] Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 19:39 To: Arno Dienhart Subject: Re: [Elecraft] How to reply to specific post on the reflector? Depends on your mail client, but if the list address () is in the to: list somewhere, your message will go back to the list. Reply usually goes to the sender and skips the list. Some mail programs (Mozilla Thunderbird) recognize mailing lists and have a reply list button. On 6/10/2013 6:20 PM, Arno Dienhart wrote: I am sure it is super easy, but I seem to be blind to the solution. How can I reply on the reflector to a specific post within a thread? I am in the mail-archive.com/elecraft. site, looking at a post, seeing the threaded view of all the other posts. I have a screen print of what I see here: http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/Sharpshooter1/HAM%20Radio/reflector_z ps2430ecf0.jpg Please have a look and tell me where I need to go to respond specifically to the post marked with the blue arrow, so my post appears under his in the threaded list. Thank you, Arno kg7bjm __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] How to reply to specific post on the reflector?
Iain, If I hit reply in Outlook, it will go to your email address only. So if I change the TO address to elecraft@mailman.qth.net, it should go back to the list. However, where will it be positioned? Under your post, or under my OP? We will see... -Original Message- From: dse...@dseven.org [mailto:dse...@dseven.org] On Behalf Of iain macdonnell - N6ML Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 19:26 To: Arno Dienhart Cc: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] How to reply to specific post on the reflector? Arno, Typically you would just use the Reply button in your email client when viewing the message, and the necessary headers would be included to link to the existing thread but it looks like you are using Microsoft Outlook, so logic may not prevail ;) GL, ~iain / N6ML On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Arno Dienhart a...@broadweave.net wrote: I am sure it is super easy, but I seem to be blind to the solution. How can I reply on the reflector to a specific post within a thread? I am in the mail-archive.com/elecraft. site, looking at a post, seeing the threaded view of all the other posts. I have a screen print of what I see here: http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/Sharpshooter1/HAM%20Radio/refle ctor_z ps2430ecf0.jpg Please have a look and tell me where I need to go to respond specifically to the post marked with the blue arrow, so my post appears under his in the threaded list. Thank you, Arno kg7bjm __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Capital letters on reflector
Hi Kevin, This is probably off-topic^2 (way off-topic). I heard on the 9A1A (AZ admin net) that there is a move afoot to allow lower case in MARS messages. This will make things a lot easier to handle for regular people, but still seems like it's a long ways off. 73, matt W6NIA / NNN0UET SCA - On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:40:40 -0700, you wrote: Uncials (lower case letters) were invented by the Carolingians to allow people to read faster and increase literacy. It is odd that an unlettered king (later Emperor) started a wave of literacy in the early middle ages. The same follk also designed the italic font style. It was named italic by later scribes who wanted to invoke the prestige of Rome. When I get my messages from MARS I put them through a script which changes them to all lower case. Even though they knew lower case letters were more easily read they insisted on all caps because they look more official. Go figure. 73, Kevin. KD5ONS On 6/10/2013 3:21 PM, Phil Kane wrote: On 6/10/2013 12:41 PM, Brendon Whateley wrote: There are two reasons that all caps bother people. The first is internet convention where words in all CAPS are considered to be LOUD or SHOUTING. That means all caps emails are seen as yelling at the reader by most. Sometimes the writer wants to speak loudly The second is much more important, and that is that all caps is much more difficult to read. It removes many visual clues that people use to read quickly. Those of us who started in the telecom business with classic teleprinters are very used to reading upper case only. Even into today, HF marine safety and press bulletins and traffic are transmitted in upper case because Baudot and SITOR RTTY use International Telegraph Alphabet Number 2 which does not have lower case. Those of us who are fluent in languages that do not use Latin characters are comfortable with a single-case alphabet. 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Capital letters on reflector
Interesting! Back in the day if one did not have a mill for copying (often one wasn't available) we hand printed block letters -- all caps. Indeed, I passed my 20 WPM Commercial and Amateur Extra CW tests with them. I just assumed that was how it started back in the early days of Morse that later led to mills and radioteletype printers. 73 Ron AC7AC -Original Message- When I get my messages from MARS I put them through a script which changes them to all lower case. Even though they knew lower case letters were more easily read they insisted on all caps because they look more official. Go figure. 73, Kevin. KD5ONS __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] How to reply to specific post on the reflector?
Looks fine to me, Arno. Doesn't Outlook have a Reply to all button somewhere? 73, ~iain / N6ML On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Arno Dienhart a...@broadweave.net wrote: Iain, If I hit reply in Outlook, it will go to your email address only. So if I change the TO address to elecraft@mailman.qth.net, it should go back to the list. However, where will it be positioned? Under your post, or under my OP? We will see... -Original Message- From: dse...@dseven.org [mailto:dse...@dseven.org] On Behalf Of iain macdonnell - N6ML Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 19:26 To: Arno Dienhart Cc: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] How to reply to specific post on the reflector? Arno, Typically you would just use the Reply button in your email client when viewing the message, and the necessary headers would be included to link to the existing thread but it looks like you are using Microsoft Outlook, so logic may not prevail ;) GL, ~iain / N6ML On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Arno Dienhart a...@broadweave.net wrote: I am sure it is super easy, but I seem to be blind to the solution. How can I reply on the reflector to a specific post within a thread? I am in the mail-archive.com/elecraft. site, looking at a post, seeing the threaded view of all the other posts. I have a screen print of what I see here: http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/Sharpshooter1/HAM%20Radio/refle ctor_z ps2430ecf0.jpg Please have a look and tell me where I need to go to respond specifically to the post marked with the blue arrow, so my post appears under his in the threaded list. Thank you, Arno kg7bjm __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Default tuning rate on the Pigknob
Hi Howard, There isn't a command to change the rate that the encoder built into the K3 operates, what we can do is send a command to the radio to move the VFO frequency up or down at different distances from the current frequency. When the PigKnob encoder pulses, the microcontroller first determines which direction the knob is spinning, then consults EEPROM to get the configured command to be sent and then writes those characters out the serial port to the radio. The knob has two states, normal tuning and alternate tuning. The factory config will send the UP; command for clockwise and DN; command for counter-clockwise. When the knob is toggled into the alternate tuning mode, by depressing the knob once, the default commands sent are UP4; and DN4;. The 4 in these commands tells the radio how far it should move up or down, 4 is 1 kHz. When there is no number defined, it will move 10 Hz. All four of these commands are configurable. The K3 Programmer's Reference says that the command DNn; and UPn; has options for n defined as: 0=1 Hz; 1 or not used=10 Hz; 2=20 Hz; 3=50 Hz; 4=1 kHz; 5=2 kHz; 6=3 kHz; 7=5 kHz; 8=100 Hz; 9=200 Hz Following these specifications if you wanted to have the clockwise encoder pulse move the VFO up 5 kHz, for example, you would send the UP7; command. To address your question, if you wanted the default tuning state to move up/down 1 kHz per pulse of the encoder and you wanted the alternate state to move RIT up or down, the following configuration commands would accomplish that. cw UP4; cc DN4; fcw RU; fcc RD; 73, Nick N3WG On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Howard Sherer h...@lehigh.edu wrote: Just installed the Pigknob on my K3 and it works great. I would like to speed up the default tuning rate from 100hz per rev to 1khz per rev. Is there a K3 command to change the encoder tuning rate? -- Howard Sherer __**__**__ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/**mailman/listinfo/elecrafthttp://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.**htmhttp://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:elecr...@mailman.qth.**net Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] How to reply to specific post on the reflector?
Yes it does, in the drop down under reply Have a great day, --... ...-- Dale - WC7S in Wy Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 20:22:21 -0700 From: a...@dseven.org To: a...@broadweave.net CC: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] How to reply to specific post on the reflector? Looks fine to me, Arno. Doesn't Outlook have a Reply to all button somewhere? 73, ~iain / N6ML On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Arno Dienhart a...@broadweave.net wrote: Iain, If I hit reply in Outlook, it will go to your email address only. So if I change the TO address to elecraft@mailman.qth.net, it should go back to the list. However, where will it be positioned? Under your post, or under my OP? We will see... -Original Message- From: dse...@dseven.org [mailto:dse...@dseven.org] On Behalf Of iain macdonnell - N6ML Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 19:26 To: Arno Dienhart Cc: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] How to reply to specific post on the reflector? Arno, Typically you would just use the Reply button in your email client when viewing the message, and the necessary headers would be included to link to the existing thread but it looks like you are using Microsoft Outlook, so logic may not prevail ;) GL, ~iain / N6ML On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Arno Dienhart a...@broadweave.net wrote: I am sure it is super easy, but I seem to be blind to the solution. How can I reply on the reflector to a specific post within a thread? I am in the mail-archive.com/elecraft. site, looking at a post, seeing the threaded view of all the other posts. I have a screen print of what I see here: http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/Sharpshooter1/HAM%20Radio/refle ctor_z ps2430ecf0.jpg Please have a look and tell me where I need to go to respond specifically to the post marked with the blue arrow, so my post appears under his in the threaded list. Thank you, Arno kg7bjm __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] How to reply to specific post on the reflector?
Yep. In Outlook under reply in the upper left corner of the screen you have Reply, Reply to All and Forward. I just used Reply to All. It is necessary to edit out the direct e-mail responses if you don't want to send the message direct as well as via the reflector. It's a small nuisance to avoid overloading people. Sometimes if someone is asking a question and clearly wants a quick answer, I'll leave both the direct e-mail address and the reflector (so other's know it's been answered) address intact. 73 Ron AC7AC -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of iain macdonnell - N6ML Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 8:22 PM To: Arno Dienhart Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] How to reply to specific post on the reflector? Looks fine to me, Arno. Doesn't Outlook have a Reply to all button somewhere? 73, ~iain / N6ML On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Arno Dienhart a...@broadweave.net wrote: Iain, If I hit reply in Outlook, it will go to your email address only. So if I change the TO address to elecraft@mailman.qth.net, it should go back to the list. However, where will it be positioned? Under your post, or under my OP? We will see... -Original Message- From: dse...@dseven.org [mailto:dse...@dseven.org] On Behalf Of iain macdonnell - N6ML Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 19:26 To: Arno Dienhart Cc: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] How to reply to specific post on the reflector? Arno, Typically you would just use the Reply button in your email client when viewing the message, and the necessary headers would be included to link to the existing thread but it looks like you are using Microsoft Outlook, so logic may not prevail ;) GL, ~iain / N6ML On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Arno Dienhart a...@broadweave.net wrote: I am sure it is super easy, but I seem to be blind to the solution. How can I reply on the reflector to a specific post within a thread? I am in the mail-archive.com/elecraft. site, looking at a post, seeing the threaded view of all the other posts. I have a screen print of what I see here: http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/Sharpshooter1/HAM%20Radio/refl e ctor_z ps2430ecf0.jpg Please have a look and tell me where I need to go to respond specifically to the post marked with the blue arrow, so my post appears under his in the threaded list. Thank you, Arno kg7bjm __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Capital letters on reflector
It is not a rumor. The Navy, at least, is moving to the brave new world of mixed case. Who knows what perversion will be next, probably that communist Unicode stuff. http://www.dodbuzz.com/2013/06/06/navy-scuttles-all-cap-messages/ wunder K6WRU On Jun 10, 2013, at 8:04 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote: Interesting! Back in the day if one did not have a mill for copying (often one wasn't available) we hand printed block letters -- all caps. Indeed, I passed my 20 WPM Commercial and Amateur Extra CW tests with them. I just assumed that was how it started back in the early days of Morse that later led to mills and radioteletype printers. 73 Ron AC7AC -Original Message- When I get my messages from MARS I put them through a script which changes them to all lower case. Even though they knew lower case letters were more easily read they insisted on all caps because they look more official. Go figure. 73, Kevin. KD5ONS __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html -- Walter Underwood wun...@wunderwood.org __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] How to reply to specific post on the reflector?
I use Thunderbird which has a Reply (only to sender), a Reply All (goes both to sender and the list unless edited), and a Rely to List (goes only to the list and this is one example). Usually I use Reply to List for those responses that are not directed at the original poster. OTOH, if a poster seems to be having a problem that I might help with, I use Reply All because I perceive that a quick response may be wanted, and some receive only the digest form, so they do not have the wait until the next digest for an answer. If a private response is warranted, I choose Reply. Note that Yahoo Groups is different - there a Reply goes to the group only, Reply All goes to the group and the sender. Be aware of which type list you are responding on, and choose accordingly. 73, Don W3FPR On 6/10/2013 11:39 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote: Yep. In Outlook under reply in the upper left corner of the screen you have Reply, Reply to All and Forward. I just used Reply to All. It is necessary to edit out the direct e-mail responses if you don't want to send the message direct as well as via the reflector. It's a small nuisance to avoid overloading people. Sometimes if someone is asking a question and clearly wants a quick answer, I'll leave both the direct e-mail address and the reflector (so other's know it's been answered) address intact. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] KX3 firmware with CW-in-SSB feature ready for testing
If you'd like to try CW transmit in SSB mode on the KX3, please email me directly and I'll send you the latest field-test firmware. The usual application for CW-in-SSB is when you're running QRP, or conditions are poor, and the other station can't copy your SSB signal. CW can often still be copied. This feature is often used on 6 meters where operators are very savvy and won't be surprised to hear you switch modes when the band fades. And they probably know CW :) When you hit the key in SSB modes, and CW-in-SSB is enabled, the other station will hear a CW signal at your sidetone pitch. This means you don't have to change modes or futz with XIT, etc. (One caveat: CW-in-SSB doesn't work in split mode, at present. If you hit the key in split mode, you'll see SPL N/A, i.e., split not applicable.) CW-in-SSB must be enabled by tapping '1' (PRE) while in the CW WGHT menu entry. You'll see SSB +CW when it is on, and SSB -CW when it's off. By default this feature is off. 73, Wayne N6KR __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] How to reply to specific post on the reflector?
Elecraft sets up the mail list in a somewhat unusual way. (Why do hams call it a reflector?) The normal way is to rewrite the reply-to header so that REPLY goes back to the list without the need for Reply All and an extra copy to the previous sender. The ordering is done by the recipients email client, assuming they are using a recent email client that supports threading. The Digest folks are in for a world of hurt :) - Brendon KK6AYI On Jun 10, 2013, at 8:53 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote: I use Thunderbird which has a Reply (only to sender), a Reply All (goes both to sender and the list unless edited), and a Rely to List (goes only to the list and this is one example). Usually I use Reply to List for those responses that are not directed at the original poster. OTOH, if a poster seems to be having a problem that I might help with, I use Reply All because I perceive that a quick response may be wanted, and some receive only the digest form, so they do not have the wait until the next digest for an answer. If a private response is warranted, I choose Reply. Note that Yahoo Groups is different - there a Reply goes to the group only, Reply All goes to the group and the sender. Be aware of which type list you are responding on, and choose accordingly. 73, Don W3FPR On 6/10/2013 11:39 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote: Yep. In Outlook under reply in the upper left corner of the screen you have Reply, Reply to All and Forward. I just used Reply to All. It is necessary to edit out the direct e-mail responses if you don't want to send the message direct as well as via the reflector. It's a small nuisance to avoid overloading people. Sometimes if someone is asking a question and clearly wants a quick answer, I'll leave both the direct e-mail address and the reflector (so other's know it's been answered) address intact. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] How to reply to specific post on the reflector?
On 6/10/2013 8:39 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote: I just used Reply to All. It is necessary to edit out the direct e-mail responses if you don't want to send the message direct as well as via the reflector. It's a small nuisance to avoid overloading people. Sometimes if someone is asking a question and clearly wants a quick answer, I'll leave both the direct e-mail address and the reflector (so other's know it's been answered) address intact. The current version of Thunderbird has the options Reply, Reply to List, Reply to All when replying to messages on this type of reflector. Reply sends it only to the poster. Of course, this assumes that one reads individual; e-mails, not a digest. All bets are off on the latter. 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] How to reply to specific post on the reflector?
Because Hams were around in the very early days of the internet, before listserv was trademarked, and reflector was a one of several commonly used terms for a list server. On 6/10/2013 9:56 PM, Brendon Whateley wrote: (Why do hams call it a reflector?) __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] How to reply to specific post on the reflector?
That isn't at all unique to hams ... it's simply an older term that has been in use by many early adopters.The address you send messages to reflects that message to a predetermined list of addressees, so common terminology said that you sent your message to the reflector. Dave AB7E On 6/10/2013 9:56 PM, Brendon Whateley wrote: (Why do hams call it a reflector?) - Brendon KK6AYI __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Capital letters on reflector
Phil, You said: Even into today, HF marine safety and press bulletins and traffic are transmitted in upper case because Baudot and SITOR RTTY use International Telegraph Alphabet Number 2 which does not have lower case. I'm having a problem with this. I had a Baudot machine, and as I remember it, we sent either an upper, or a lower, case signal (character) to place the machine at the far end in that case position and it would stay there until we sent a corresponding character to change it back again. I'm not familiar with ITA Number 2. Baudot was a five bit code (plus a stop bit) for 32 characters. That was long ago. Dick, n0ce - Original Message - From: Phil Kane To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 5:21 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Capital letters on reflector On 6/10/2013 12:41 PM, Brendon Whateley wrote: There are two reasons that all caps bother people. The first is internet convention where words in all CAPS are considered to be LOUD or SHOUTING. That means all caps emails are seen as yelling at the reader by most. Sometimes the writer wants to speak loudly The second is much more important, and that is that all caps is much more difficult to read. It removes many visual clues that people use to read quickly. Those of us who started in the telecom business with classic teleprinters are very used to reading upper case only. Even into today, HF marine safety and press bulletins and traffic are transmitted in upper case because Baudot and SITOR RTTY use International Telegraph Alphabet Number 2 which does not have lower case. Those of us who are fluent in languages that do not use Latin characters are comfortable with a single-case alphabet. 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] How to reply to specific post on the reflector?
Yes Iain, it worked, and yes, there is Reply To All. With it, this time elecraft is in the CC line. When I tried this earlier, elecraft did not appear at all, I had to manually insert it. So, let's see where this one appears, with elecraft in CC. (and thank you for bearing with me) Arno kg7bjm -Original Message- From: dse...@dseven.org [mailto:dse...@dseven.org] On Behalf Of iain macdonnell - N6ML Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 21:22 To: Arno Dienhart Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] How to reply to specific post on the reflector? Looks fine to me, Arno. Doesn't Outlook have a Reply to all button somewhere? 73, ~iain / N6ML On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Arno Dienhart a...@broadweave.net wrote: Iain, If I hit reply in Outlook, it will go to your email address only. So if I change the TO address to elecraft@mailman.qth.net, it should go back to the list. However, where will it be positioned? Under your post, or under my OP? We will see... -Original Message- From: dse...@dseven.org [mailto:dse...@dseven.org] On Behalf Of iain macdonnell - N6ML Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 19:26 To: Arno Dienhart Cc: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] How to reply to specific post on the reflector? Arno, Typically you would just use the Reply button in your email client when viewing the message, and the necessary headers would be included to link to the existing thread but it looks like you are using Microsoft Outlook, so logic may not prevail ;) GL, ~iain / N6ML On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Arno Dienhart a...@broadweave.net wrote: I am sure it is super easy, but I seem to be blind to the solution. How can I reply on the reflector to a specific post within a thread? I am in the mail-archive.com/elecraft. site, looking at a post, seeing the threaded view of all the other posts. I have a screen print of what I see here: http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/Sharpshooter1/HAM%20Radio/refl e ctor_z ps2430ecf0.jpg Please have a look and tell me where I need to go to respond specifically to the post marked with the blue arrow, so my post appears under his in the threaded list. Thank you, Arno kg7bjm __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
