Re: [Elecraft] Succumbing to temptation
Lloyd Lachow wrote: Before I could really think through the implications, I had reached out and cranked that power to 11...So I got a 339... But at what cost to my soul? Who was it, really, at the controls just then? Well, we can hazard a guess: --- Nigel Tufnel: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and... Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten? Nigel Tufnel: Exactly. Marty DiBergi: Does that mean it's louder? Is it any louder? Nigel Tufnel: Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where? Marty DiBergi: I don't know. Nigel Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do? Marty DiBergi: Put it up to eleven. Nigel Tufnel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder. Marty DiBergi: Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder? Nigel Tufnel: [pause] These go to eleven. ---This is Spinal Tap -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order.-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: FW: [Elecraft] MicroHam microkeyer
Don Wilhelm wrote: One should not assume that any particular connector implies any kind of standard. As an example, the 25 pin DB25 connector is used both for a real RS232 serial port and on most PCs as a printer port. And to make matters worse, the real RS-232 standard calls for DB-25P (the plug or male connector) on cables and DB-25S (female/socket) on equipment, on the plausible theory that if a pin is broken it's easier to repair/replace a cable than a device. When IBM belatedly decided to design a serial port card on the first PCs, the engineers discovered that using DB25-Ss on PC cards was already preempted by the printer port card people, who had already discovered that the parallel port standard Centroncis connector was too wide to fit on a standard PC card. Unfortunately they chose to use the -S connector on the card. Since it was felt that a typical PC user couldn't be relied upon to not plug their modem cable into their printer port if the connectrors would fit, DB-25P was adopted as the connector on serial port cards for PCs. So much for standards. There *is* a commonly used convention for DB-9 pinouts for serial ports on PCs...which imitates the serial card (pardon me, asynchronous communications adapter card) selection of the male connector. But its more a convention than a standard. Certainly the plug fits so it must work was never a safe assumption even with the original RS-232, because there were two ends to the conversation: DCE (read modem) and DTE (read terminal)...leading to the widespread need for break-out boxes, modem eliminators and gender changers. Guess which end the IBM card implemented? Of course Don (who worked for IBM at that time) knows this little bit of history, but I figure some of you young-uns might not... 73 de Maggie K3XS, who will be presenting her K2 talk at the R.F.Hill club in Perkasie next month -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order.-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] POW Receiver
Fred Jensen wrote: 2. Razor blades and campus don't sound like they belong in the same sentence. Any suggestions for substitutes that would pass the campus security test? Things sure have changed since I was on the rifle team in college. I don't recall the men shaving much back then though. Or the women, come to think of it. You could always take a Dremel and dull the edge; they don't have to be sharp to rectify. Further resources: http://www.midnightscience.com/ http://www.schmarder.com/radios/crystal/ Maggie K3XS K2 1641 -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order.-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] Detaching the K2 Faceplate
James Kern wrote: Check in the Elecraft photo archives on Elecraft's website. Someone detached the front faceplate (as well as some other things) to make the K2 bicycle mobile. Perhaps you can get in contact with that person and get some tips. Good luck! also see http://www.qsl.net/n8mx/bike.html -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order.-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] long-haired, dope-smoking, free-software hippie
NZ0R wrote : I'm not a long-haired, dope-smoking, free-software hippie so if I have to spend some money for good software I don't mind. (As a professional programmer I've never understood why the product of my hard work should be free when I have to pay for the product of everyone else's work.) Any recommendations? Second Craig's recommendation. I've been a software professional myself as long as you've been a ham (and you started when you were 12), and in my experience there's room for both free (as in either free beer *or* free speech or both) and for-profit software in the the world. I've used free code that was of excellent quality. I've also encountered allegedly professional programming that was utter garbage. And while I use free tools quite a bit, I just spent $500 for a Java development environment because it will help me do a better job than the equivalant free products, some of which are quite good. I suppose it would be nice if the quality of software could be judged soley on its price. But Elecraft owners know that rule doesn't apply to radios either. Deprecating comments about free-software advocates associate you with the likes of the scoundrels at SCO. Consider that it does not do you credit. 73 de Maggie Leber K3XS Elecraft K2 s/n 1641 Editor, the Phil-Mont Mobile Radio Club Blurb -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order.-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] If you were to do it all over again
Lee Buller wrote: If you were going to build another K2 (and I know there are many of you who have built quite a few) what things would you do differently from the first build? I'd buy the KAT2 kit also. :-) Good news: I finally (after four years essentially on the bench (now have a job, and will have the money to buy one, and a KIO2 too. Bad news: I won't have as much building time available as I did this winter. :-) 73 de Maggie K3XS Editor, Phil-Mont Mobile Radio Club Blurb - http://www.phil-mont.org Elecraft K2 #1641 -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order.-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] For SSB op's only, T/R delay K2
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you release the PTT switch, do you hear audio instantly or is there a small delay. As a comparison, there is virtually no delay when I use my ICOM radio. On S/N 1641 there is no perceptable delay whatsoever. Perhaps you might want to check stuff in the AGC section? 73 de Maggie K3XS -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order.-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
[Elecraft] Back to the Future - Morse Code and Cellular Phones
Published on The O'Reilly Network (http://www.oreillynet.com/) http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/7016 Back to the Future - Morse Code and Cellular Phones by Brian McConnell Jun. 28, 2005 I've spent most of the past five or so years thinking about handheld devices, their limitations and how to work around them. Having worked with telephones since I was in high school, this has been something of an obsession. The hot trend today is to cram every feature imaginable into mobile telephone handsets. This has led to some cool things like camera phones, mobile gaming, and such. The problem is that a lot of designers overlook some basic limitations in these devices, and more importantly, the situations in which people use them. Cellular phones are all about mobility. Good mobility applications recognize that the user is often in motion (walking, driving, etc). Safety and convenience require that the application should demand as little visual attention as possible. Badly designed applications force the user to stare at the telephone's display instead of paying attention to surrounding environs. This is why speech user interfaces work so well for mobile users. They allow the user to interact with a service in a heads up stance, without looking at the phone. Unfortunately, most mobile applications are of the badly designed let's take a PC interface and shrink it down category. Text messaging is an enormously popular service, but it too suffers from this basic user interface conflict. Sending and receiving text messages requires the user to look at the display. Receiving messages can be done at a glance, so this is not such a burden. Sending them is another story. Some people are adept at tapping messages on numeric keypads, but doing so requires the user to pay attention to the display. Try writing a text message without looking at the phone. Not easy. Tapping Morse Code, or a derivative of it, could be one way to solve this problem. With Morse Code, one could tap text messages out without looking at the telephone, and without having to fumble with ever smaller keypads. I'll admit that the idea of resurrecting Morse Code seems improbable, but then it's worth remembering that only a few years ago, the idea of people typing with their thumbs also seemed absurd. How might Morse be incorporated into a telephone handset. I sketched out a fairly simple interface. Here's what I came up with. The telephone would have a fairly large pressure sensitive panel on its back side, big enough that you would not have to look at the phone to locate it. It might also be possible to use the telephone's existing microphone to sense taps (although discriminating between short and long pulses could be a problem). You'd send messages in a couple of different ways depending on how you were carrying the phone at the time. I devised a couple of tweaks to make the process of sending messages faster. When carrying the phone at your side, you could send messages with one hand by tapping on the back of the phone in the convention dot (short) and dash (notation). The panel would interpret a brief pulse as a dot, a longer pulse as a dash. Timing is important, so this method of sending messages takes more practice. With both hands free or with the phone resting on a surface, you could use a slightly different method to tap messages. Holding the phone in one hand and tapping with the other, you'd tap the panel with your fingernail to send a dot, and with your whole fingertip to send a dash. Timing is much less important here, so this method will be easier for people to learn. Receiving messages is less of an issue, since they'll arrive as text messages. The sending telephone will convert the tapped dots and dashes into alphanumeric messages to be sent via SMS or IP. The receiving telephone will display these in the usual way (an option to play messages via text to speech synthesis would be a nice add-on, and as mobile phones become more powerful, should be easy enough to do). Hands-Free Mobile Phone Features Incorporating a Morse Code key into the back of a telephone handset has other uses besides tapping text messages. One of the things this enables you to do is to make it easier to control a telephone in hands-free mode. For example, you could design the phone so that it recognizes certain codes as keypad commands, primarily for deciding how to deal with incoming calls. .. = answer call ... = send call to voice mail = forward call to preprogrammed number So while you're driving along, you could dispatch incoming calls as desired by tapping on the back of the handset, something you could do heads up, without taking your eyes off the road. While this isn't Morse Code per se, it's the same idea, and it should be easy to train users to learn a handful of short two or three digit codes as in the example above. This is probably more realistic
Re: [Elecraft] Battery vs Ultracapacitor
wayne burdick wrote: There are also bacteria that produce hydrogen, when properly trained. The problem with that so far has been the feasibility of the nanotech-based whip and chair. :-) 73 de Maggie K3XS -- K2 1641 -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order.-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft Kit suggestion and other stuff
Margaret Leber wrote: Oh, yeah...that part that was missing during inventory phase 1? I found it stuck to an envelope flap later on... Just in case anybody thought this was an argument in favor of *not* doing the inventory, when I finished the RF board inventory I came up shy one shoulder washer, one of the ones that keeps the final transistors from shorting out. By discovering this early during the inventory I was able to request a replacement from [EMAIL PROTECTED] soon enough to avoid holding up construction. Still not sure if it was left out or I managed to lose it, but what *is* certain is 1) I couldn't find it 2) I needed it 3) trying to do without it would probably have been disasterous. 73 de Maggie K3XS S/N 1641 -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order.-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] Maggie's Presentation
Steven Pituch wrote: PLEASE! I need to use your presentation at my club soon. Is that OK? I can send you back the add ons that I will do to it. I need to add pictures to the end of your report on the KAT/KPA100 in the EC2 enclosure, and also the KPA100 in the K2 chassis version. Also I need to show the radio performance comparison chart... Well, it's ceratinly OK with me if you use *my* stuff. Of course I can't clear you to use the images that *I* used without permission; so you're kind of on your own there. Most of them came from the Elecraft site, but others came from other ham radio websites--- the sequence dealing with the history of amateur radio building in particular...a total of three or four images, as I recall. Also, to make changes you probably need to understand that this was *not* a Microsoft Powerpoint presentation. It was done with Huckster, a very lightweight open-source slideshow tool written in Java. So if you're happy to use what's posted on the web, that's fine. If you need to alter the Huckster scripting, you'll need the script, the Huckster JAR file (kind of a portable Java executable package, downloadable from the Huckster site) and you'll need to install the Java runtime on your computer (if it isn't there already). The laptop I built the presentation on is currently in the shop for service (backlight quit on me)...so the backup of the Huckster script I have immediately available here on my Linux server isn't *quite* the one I used to generate the slides you see online. When I get the laptop back (assuming HP hasn't found it necessary to clobber the hard disk to fix the backlight) I may be able to track down the source of the images from my browser history and retroactively ask for permission to republish...or at least know who to ask. That will be at least a week from today, maybe two. So that's the situation. Summary: () Use what I wrote, fine. () Use the images: you're on your own as to intellectual property issues...*I* think illustrating my lecture with them was within fair use but your milage may vary. () Modifying the presentation could be tricky. 73 de Maggie K3XS -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order.-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report for June 6th, 2005
Kevin Rock wrote: On 7045 kHz at 0200z:... K3XS - Maggie - PA - K2 - 2847 ?? checked in with a Yaesu device however. My K2 is S/N 1641, but as you note, I was running a Yaesu FT-847 at 50w or so, both to make sure I penetrated the substantial QRN and also so I could use my KAMPlus to back up my RX follow the net. Here's a diagram of the station I used: http://voicenet.com/~maggie/k3xs_diagram.jpg 73 de Maggie K3XS Editor, Phil-Mont Mobile Radio Club Blurb - http://www.phil-mont.org Elecraft K2 #1641 -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order.-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
[Elecraft] Finally managed QNI on ECN on 40m
...although I really had oodles of artificial help on a very noisy night. Ended up using my FT-847 at 50 watts CW (a real light-dimmer around here) and KAMPlus on RX to decode the other traffic I could hear--because my CW RX skills just really aren't net quality as yet. Apparently I send OK because Tom N0SS checked me in (after I remebered to retune my recently repaired G5RV antenna system from 75m to 40m :-) ) with me sending using one side of my Bencher paddle as a straight key...the keyer still tends to run away on me a bit when my attention wanders momentarily. (I *am* practicing my CW RX and I don't use the KAM for CW RX--except here where I think my inability to copy faster would interfere with net operations.) So it was nice to finally manage to be heard on ECN, even if it wasn't with the K2. Earlier today with the K2, I had a long phone QSO with a local ham after signing into our local club's 75m phone net (3.993 MHz @ 10:20am et Sundays) and he was quite impressed with the K2 (although apparently at max power he could hear some key chirp when I tested my CW signal). On the club's Ten-on-ten net (28.383 MHz 10:00am et Sundays) I could barely copy signals that the FT-847 heard easily, so obviously I still have some work to do on the 10m or 10m-12m sections of the radio; on 20m and lower this K2 clearly way outperforms the FT-847 on RX using the same antenna system. 73 de Maggie K3XS -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order.-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] Preamp, Attenuator on K2 #4901
W3FPR - Don Wilhelm wrote: Other than a faulty solder connection or an incorrect resistor value (R74, R75, R76, R77), I can think of only 2 things that might cause the PreAmp to not work - T6 could be connected incorrectly or the windings shorted together, or C146 may be faulty. Try tacking a 0.01 uF capacitor across R77 (bottom of the board) as a check for an open C146 and if that doesn't fix things, try rewinding T6. -Original Message- I just finished K2 #4901 and it works great. The only thing I have a question on is the preamp setting. When the annunciator is on over the preamp, it seems as though background noise goes down and the signal strength is reduced. Jim-- Definately what Don said. I was in exactly the same situation as you: Margaret Leber wrote: After reworking a couple of suspect joints in the preamp section and removing and reinstalling T6, the preamp in K2 1641 is now working. 73 de Maggie K3XS Editor, Phil-Mont Mobile Radio Club Blurb - http://www.phil-mont.org Elecraft K2 #1641 -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order.-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft Net Report for May 15-16th, 2005
Kevin Rock wrote: Once again the Elecraft net was not skunked. Conditions were rather weak but a few folks braved them and were recognized. I am sure there were others out there under the noise but I was not able to hear you. Well, I was faithfully listening but heard exactly zero...afraid the conditions weren't quite a match for last time. Next time I'm able to hear you, I'll check in with my FT-847 @100W for the initial contact, and if you can hear me I'll switch to the K2 on the same antenna system and we'll see if that makes the trip. 73 de Maggie K3XS Editor, Phil-Mont Mobile Radio Club Blurb - http://www.phil-mont.org Elecraft K2 #1641 -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order.-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] Morse on the Tonight Show, Tonight, Friday the 13th
Tim Jones wrote: I caught the segment you guys smoked em Great job of staying with the message even thru the crowd noise When you raised your hand that you were done the kids expression was amazing He could not believe you guys were already done Thanks for the great exposure about morse code Oh and the telegrapher outfits were great !! -Original Message- On Behalf Of Ken Miller, K6CTW It's a great chance for us to plug Morse, telegraphy and ham radio! Thanks. It *was* a great segment... But speaking from our experience working with publicity and media relations for the Pink Pistols ( http://www.pinkpistols.org ) over the last few years, I just think it's sad that the Leno people managed to almost completely bury the ham radio connection, although one of you (I missed which one) managed to punch up that point despite the overall spin of the segment. I wonder how many people watching even knew that radios were being used? I also think the costumes (and they *were* really cute) helped contriubute to the perception that Morse is something that's not done outside museums anymore. When you only have two or three minutes to work with it's hard to do everything you might want to. But a valiant effort nontheless! Congratulations es 73 de Maggie K3XS -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order.-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] A Morse PDA/communicator and other uses for Morse code [was: Tonight Show]
wayne burdick wrote: It worked quite well, and some day (in my copious spare time) I hope to pack it into a keychain-sized device. This PDA would be the world's smallest, would go with you everwhere, and would cost almost nothing since it would need no display or keyboard. It would have a small audio transducer so you could hold it up to your ear when using it, or an inductively-coupled wireless link from the keychain unit to a lightweight earbud. The rest of the device requires just one chip -- an MCU with a lot of EEPROM and/or flash memory. (If anyone wants to help me prototype or write firmware for this unit, let me know. I'm a bit busy!) I just have this voice whispering to me as I read this that keeps saying bluetooth, J2ME, cellphone... After all, the smallest chip is no chip, and the next smallest is one you're already carrying and powering for another reason. Maybe I'll create some Java classes that translate between Morse and character strings for starters. 73 de Maggie K3XS -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order.-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] QST: CW vs Text Message Contest on NBC's Tonight Show Friday
Art - W6KY wrote: I know Chip. Why do I think the 'CW' will easily beat the cell phone message system... Because it already has: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-2-1571664,00.html And in other news, would you believe broadband over gas line? http://www.nethercomm.com Ya can't make this stuff up... 73 de Maggie K3XS -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order.-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft Net Report for May 8-9th, 2005
Kevin Rock wrote: 20 meters was almost like cotton batting in my ears but I worked across the continent. Ray, as always had a great signal. But who should start the net but my old (not really so old) friend Carter. Reminds me, I owe him a note ;) His signal from PA was running hot. But then he had his linear cranked up to 100 watts so the ionosphere did not stand a chance! You had a solid signal into my QTH in Jeffersonville (about 8 miles from Carter's in Paoli) when the net opened. But by the time you two finished your exchange, you had pretty much disappeared into a deep QSB as heard from here, about an hour before local sunset. Hope to have my speed up enough to participate soon, this time I was using the CW function of my KAMplus to follow the goings on. 73 de Maggie K3XS editor, The PMRC Blurb http://www.phil-mont.org K2 #1641 -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order.-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] WTD: Hi-Mound BK-100 Manual
Andy GM0NWI wrote: Was at a rally this weekend in the town of Irvine (Scotland). Picked up one of the above keys, in good shape, for the fantastic sum of ?10.00 (British Pounds) at the bring n buy/junk sale seems to be all in working order, Was wondering if anyone has a manual for this little babe...?I'm new to bug type keys of any kind, and not sure on how to set her up for operation properley would also like to check out that there are no defective, or missing parts Some adjusting information available at http://www.morsex.com/misc/keyadj.htm 73 de Maggie K3XS -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order.-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] start with straight key or paddles?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Comrades, I'm working on my code to get my licenses soon. I will want to do CW with the k2 I will buy and build on board our trawler. 1st mate and CFO watches expenses like a hawk and will catch me if I (gasp) buy two things which appear to do same thing. You can't hide much from her on the 36 boat we live on. Once again, we see the wisdom of lifepartnering with someone with compatible interests (not to mention separate finances). Mine (NG3P) wanted in so bad after we went on a picnic with K2 #1641 yesterday that she's now building the KSB2. If I ultimately intend to use paddles as most of you appear to be doing, why is it a bad idea simply to start with a set? While I'm still working on getting my own speed up, I suspect that the keyer vs. straight key argument is a bit of a red herring. The important/central/difficult thing is building receive skills, and once you have that rhythm down I can't see the keying method making much difference...except that a keyer might make it possible for someone to try to send much faster than he's able to send well. Or recieve, for that matter. Those who hew to the no pain no gain school of thought will insist you start with a straight key because it will improve your character. But if the thought of starting out wrong worries you, and having both a straight key and paddles is an issue, get paddles, set the menu INP HAND and send straight key with one paddle. I hope your CFOs anti-redundancy policy doesn't apply to other parts of your ship's gear. Life jackets, oars, rudders, etc. :-) 73 de Maggie K3XS -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order.-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] Audio Volume
W3FPR - Don Wilhelm wrote: In my quick reply earlier, I failed to mention the AGC setting - even if it is set for the manual recommendation of 3.8 volts, it may be too high and hold the gain down. Test by turning the AGC off and on with no signals on the band (if band noise is present, disconnect the antenna), and make certain the DSP de-noiser is not running. If you hear a change in the noise level, the AGC Threshold is set too high. Imagine my surprise in discovering that later K2s have an adjustable AGC threshold. ;-) *My* control board R1 is a 51K ohm fixed resistor ;-) For those following the saga of K2 1641, it's pretty much completely in operation. I need to retweak the 20m BPF a bit, but otherwise it's rockin' out. Doing Don's AGC on/off test above might give an almost-perceptible change in noise level, I'm not sure. Doesn't seem like an issue. It works better than my CW does, anywaygotta work on that. Now I have the battery and SSB mods to work on. We'll see how well the battery has weathered several years storage; it may well need to be replaced. 73 de Maggie K3XS -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order.-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] New Amp??
W2AGN wrote: All I can say is, Sure hate to see so many going over to the Dark Side... I'm sure they said that about the KSB2. :-) 73 de Maggie, K2 1641 (almost finished, some small bugs yet to squash) -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order.-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] FORTH
Chris wrote: Are there any decent modern RPN calcs?...I have soft RPN calc on my palm... Don't forget Quartus ( http://www.quartus.net ), a complete FORTH implementation for Palm. By the way, the on-board computer on the AMSAT/Oscar-40 amateur radio satellite (may it rest in peace) ran IPS, a multithreaded version of FORTH that used German keywords. 73 de Maggie K3XS, who will be looking closely at her K2's T6 when she gets home from flying today -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order.-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] K2 1641 -- first signals received, preamp working
Margaret Leber wrote: One thing though...I'm certain I heard somebody here on the list recently who had louder signals with the preamp *off*. After reworking a couple of suspect joints in the preamp section and removing and reinstalling T6, the preamp in K2 1641 is now working. Gawd...there sure are a lot of signals on 40m I've been missing on my Yaesu FT-847. ;-) 73 de Maggie K3XS -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order.-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] VCO Oscillator Test Problem
W3FPR - Don Wilhelm wrote: I can understand Q1 and Q2 getting hot from a shortcircuit somewhere on the 8T and 8R lines, but I just don't understand how Q3 and Q4 would get hot - they are just switches and should be fully conducting or fully non-conducting (and therefore should dissipate very little heat). Yes, I recently was dealing with a shorted 8R and was quite convinced that all four transistors were hot. In fact it was just that Q2 was so hot it was heating up the other transistors nearbyand it was hard to tell Q2 was hotter than the others because it was too hot to touch for long enough to tell. 73 de Maggie K3XS -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order.-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
[Elecraft] K2 1641 -- BFO now OK at TP2, but no 8R
Margaret Leber wrote: Margaret Leber wrote: There's just plain no signal that CAL Fctr can find at TP2, even though there *is* a 4918 kHz or so signal at U11 pin... ...becuse there was no V ALC. J7 pin 32 wasn't soldered correctly, so now that's fixed. One more observation for the detecK2ives out there: On the control board Q1-Q4 seem to be running quite warm... And furthermore although RX is high, 8R is floating. Looks like something's keeping Q4 on the control board from turning on Q2. The audio is awfully quiet with no 8R voltage. :-) Suggestions welcome... 73 de Maggie K3XS -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order.-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
[Elecraft] K2 1641 update - alignment and test II, no BFO at TP2
Well, I thought it might be time to update you folks on where my K2 build stands. Yesterday I began Alignment and Test Part II. Things were nominal until it came time to do the VCO voltage readings, some of which were fine and some were way out of wack. Following the helpful guidance in the book, I discovered that C73 on the RF board was occupied with that 4.7pf cap I couldn't find (as opposed to the 47pf cap that's supposed to be there). With that corrected, the VCO voltage readings on each band fell into line, and I'm now up to the BFO test. There's just plain no signal that CAL Fctr can find at TP2, even though there *is* a 4918 kHz or so signal at U11 pin 6, and even at the ungrounded side of C169. Q24 *looks* OK, but what can you tell by looking? :-) I've just started squinting at the schematic to see where I should be looking for other possible sources of the problem. Of course, I'm looking for the perpetual prime suspects: solder bridges and cold-soldered joints, but haven't found any yet. I also noted that something has the S-meter calibration in an uproar; it set up with completely nominal values originally but now requires extreme settings to unpin it from the top end and the RF gain doesn't move the lit bar around like it used to. Suggested avenues of investigation are welcome... 73 de Maggie K3XS -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order.-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] Resistor Color Code Guide
Thom R Lacosta wrote: On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, Sandy wrote: Color code is easy! Remember the rhyme we learned in radio school: Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly! May not be Politically Correct! Clearly not politically correct...but I still use it anyway :-) But bless Elecraft for printing part codes in the manual. -Maggie- -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order.-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] RS wire
Jeremiah McCarthy wrote: The wire RS sells will not heat strip if heat stripping is your method... Thanks...that's good information. Generous and helpful folks have volunteered off-list to provide me any replacement wire I should need, so I should be in good shape. Thanks again es 73 Maggie K3XS -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order.-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] K2 manual suggestions
Mike Markowski wrote: It's also helpful to know how much extra you have so that when you make a mistake, you have the info to know whether to cut a fresh piece or conserve and work with what you've got. Ain't that the truth. Just before I succumbed to the flu last month my last act in building K2 1641 was to wind T7 and T6. In my foggy mental state I ended up installing T7 in the location for T6, and didn't realize my error until I went to install T6. I got T7 out without damaging the board (I think), but had to cut the red leads fairly close to the toroid, then downed-tools before I ended up doing any more negative work. I'm just now emerging from my post-flu funk enough to want to resume work. I may have to rewind T7. I'm not sure whether there's enough red 26ga wire left to get away with that without reusing what's left of the 20 I used on the first incarnation of T7 on one of the smaller LPF inductors later on. (The good news is Radio Shack has 26ga magnet wire. The bad news is it comes in a pack of three gauges but the 26ga is only in one color. :-) I suppose I should just suck it up and press on, and throw myself on the mercy of [EMAIL PROTECTED] should I come up short. (My experience so far has been that cutting the wire to the recommended length leaves about three inches of extra wire when done winding.) 73 de Maggie K3XS -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order.-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] The d at 7038 is growing
V Cortina wrote: I've been meaning to ask about this for months. Not continuously, but consistently, there is a CW signal which just sends the letter d over and over, with an occasional other letter. This goes on day and night literally at any time. Now today at about 7038 I hear my old d friend, and now somebody else at nearly the same frequency sending p. Does anyone have any idea what the heck is going on? You're probably hearing Russian military HF channel marker or propigation beacons. More information at: http://www.smeter.net/propagation/beacons/7039.3-k-Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy.php or use http://tinyurl.com/6puag ..if the other URL is mangled in the email... 73 de Maggie K3XS, who has only been a ham since 1999, but was a SWL long before that -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order.-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] The Linus Special
Dave, W7AQK, wrote: Notwithstanding my dog Linus's efforts to the contrary (trying to eat my parts), the T1 is up and running. Still running tests though, but it tunes fine. That's good...the dog ate my tuner excuse is way overused. :-) 73 de Maggie K3XS -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order.-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] Re: magnetic fields and phase noise?
Earl W Cunningham wrote: It has been suggested that mu-metal shielding might alleviate the problem. I'm considering making mu-metal bottom and side covers for my K2. If I were having that problem, I'd be thinking about shielding the *source*...because it would likely affect other equipment in my shack. 73 de Maggie K3XS -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order.-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] Re: magnetic fields and phase noise?
N2TK, Tony wrote: My K2/100 sits on top of my TS950SDX. If I go above about 30-50W with the K2 on 80 and 160M I have to reset my router. Was using a Belkin router. Now using a Netgear wireless router. Both cutout. This doesn't happen all the time - maybe 50% of the time. Been wrapping ferrite on everything, but no difference so far. Good friend of mine who's triple DXCC (only a few shy of honor roll), and runs QRO a lot used to have serious trouble with her DSL modem when transmitting. After a lot of playing with ferrites she discovered that the path of RF entry was through the wall wart outlet transformer powering the DSL box. Easy to overlook... -Maggie- -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order.-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
[Elecraft] Re: Acrobat and K2
Pepperdine, Brien (CAB) wrote: Using Acrobat search function on the PDF of the parts layout is in my opinion a stroke of genius. The time I spent looking for component placements yikes. Everyone who can do this, should. They will be much less stressed... One of the list residents did warn me that not every part label is searchable...that some of the rotated ones are drawn as vectors. Nontheless, it worked every time I needed it. 73 de Maggie K3XS -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order.-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] Re: K2 assy: oops: threw out filter bag with alignment # on it
Allen C. Ward wrote: Several times I have found small parts clinging to the paper debris after they came up missing. So true...one small inhibiting factor acting against me starting K2 1641 (for five years!) was that one resistor pack came up missing during the initial inventory. While completeing the (much delayed) inventory, I found the errant RP stuck under the flap of one of the envelopes. 73 de Maggie K3XS -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order.-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement
Roger Stein wrote: Well, that was fun! I can hardly wait to see the results.Bob operating at W0SOC sure was pounding the key on 20 meters!!! While my K2 is still under construction I did listen in on my FT-847 for Tom DK0SU since he was on the #elecraft IRC channel. While I did not hear Tom, I sure as heck heard W0SOC...who sounded like he was in my front yard, utter gangbuster signal. 73 de Maggie K3XS -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order.-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] CW
Phil LaMarche wrote: My last proficient operating time was in 1958 at the North Pole on a IGY expedition, Drift Station Alpha. Haven't used CW since. I have a K2 and KX-1. Have been listening and attempting to get the CW back. Biggest problem is concentration at age 67. It will come, I'm sure. Are there tapes at different speeds that can be purchased. Perhaps that would help me. Phil-- While there are audio CDs (and, I'm sure, tapes) available from ARRL, there is also Morse Academy, a CW training/practice tool that runs under MSDOS (and Windows). It's extremely flexible, and free. http://www.speroni.com/AH0A.html A hint for Windows XP/NT users: I've been unable to get the program to drive a sound card under these OSs, but PC speaker output works fine. 73 de Maggie K3XS -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order.-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] K2 S/N 4786 Just Arrived
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have plans tonight already, but my XYL is away for the rest of the week... No connection between those two facts, of course. :-) 73 de Maggie K3XS - K2 #1641 (under construction) -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order.-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] K1/K2 Paint Color
David Katinsky wrote: My assumption has been that it's an anti-graffiti measure. Both that, and, sad to say, fighting huffers, kids addicted to inhaling the vaporized solvents to get high. Remeber glue sniffing? 73 de Maggie K3XS, who has just about figured out how to work the mod kits into the build of the RF board for K2 1641 -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order.-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] K2 S/N 4787 Build In Progress
Jim Harris wrote: On the front panel board while trying to add SSB components after the fact I managed to slightly burn the edge of a push button. Wish the instructions had mentioned to put the low SSB components in before the higher and vulnerable parts were added. Having just been through that part of the build too, I agree with Jim... the top-of-board soldering for the KSB2 connector is is just the dickens to do with the plastic pots and buttons in place; I made it through without toasting anything but it would have been *so* much easier to do before the top got crowded with tall meltable things. Is there a reason this is where it is in sequence other than Uh-oh, they're about to mate the FP board to the panel and wire the enccoder; drop in the KSB2 parts now because it will be inconvenient later? If not, I say move it to someplace earlier. Another suggestion: Whenever you cue the installation of the KSB parts on the FP, repeat the warning about component height/lead length for Q3 that was issued for Q3 and Q2...I forgot about it and I had to monkey with Q3 after installation to allow the FP board to fit properly against the metal panel. I'm still delighted with the kit, of course... 73 de Maggie K3XS (K2 S/N 1641), who needs to go get more solder in the morning; that no-lead stuff with silver in it stinks. -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order.-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
[Elecraft] K2 S/N 1641 first power-up
Good news department: K2 S/N 1641 was powered up for the first time today. Everything in the initial tests (buttons, optical encoder, relays, voltmeter etc) worked fine. Onward and upward tomorrow... 73 de Maggie K3XS, who's delighted to see her new baby waking up -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order.-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
[Elecraft] K2 upgrade mods tactical planning [was:Re: Return of the prodigal daughter]
I hope Don doesn't mind me bringing part of this private correspondance back onto the reflector; I'm interested in hearing some discussion on my own somewhat unique situation. W3FPR - Don Wilhelm wrote: ...they pay me for NOT working - it is called retirement, and I'm busier than I ever was when I was working. I'd be pleased to call this retirement, and I'm quite sufficiently busy, between keeping up with tech stuff, job hunting, running our household, and keeping up with ham activities (I edit the Phil-Mont Mobile Radio Club monthly newsletter, The Blurb, see http://www.phil-mont.org ) I just don't have that getting paid for it thing worked out, and I've still got one more daughter to put through college. You may want to consider a few of the no cost (or low cost) upgrades while you are working on that K2 - a couple that come to mind are the AF Gain mod... Hmmm. That one sure is a no-brainer. When I first got my kit back in 2000, that issue was just surfacing on the reflector; some people were trying all kinds of component cleaners, etc. and the 2nd crystal filter flattening mod - the AF Gain mod takes only wire and the 2nd crystal mod takes only a transistor, a cap and a resistor. I know there are others, but I just don't recall them at the moment. Take a look at the K2 A to B upgrade instructions and see what you can do with the parts you may have on hand. Poop. I thought I knew exactly what I was gonna do, now I've got to make *decisions* again. ;-) Let's see... XFILMDKT (the flattening mod) is only $10; I'm not *that* poor. If you can spare $15, I would recommend you buy a new set of crystals (a set of 14 for both the base K2 and the KSB2) rather than using the ones in your kit - the crystal specs were improved and result in a much better filter. That would be K2KSB2XTLS? I think I can squeeze that much out too. So now I should consider the Temperature Compensated PLL Reference ($20)...which requires BFOMDKT ($10), and calls for FWK2MCIO for full benefit. So far we're up to $50 total...($51 when I add the speaker cloth. :-) ) I guess the real cost item among all the upgrades is FWK2MCIO. Ironically, one of the first things I want to do when the kit is done (and I have a job again) is to add a KIO2...especially since I have a rig-control software project of my own. (see: http://jhamtune.netfirms.com/ and http://jhamtune.dev.java.net/ And if I read the Elecraft site correctly, a KIO2 includes the firmware upgrade when ordered for an earlyish S/N K2 like mine. (Naturally, once I'm working enough to pay for the KIO2, I probably won't have as much time to build it, or write a K2 jHamTune driver. :-) ) So I think I'm going to rationalize deferring the firmware upgrade for now...even though it gripes me to be nickle-and-dimeing a project this way. But since the cost is nearly equal, I wonder if it would make sense to simply order the K2BCOMPKT instead of XFILMDKT, K2KSB2XTLS and BFOMDKT? I would have done that already except K2BCOMPKT says it *requires* FWK2MCIO...which nearly doubles the cost. Furthermore, I'll probably finish the Rev A control board todayI wonder if a Rev A control board plays nice with Rev B RF and/or Front Panel? 73 all de Maggie K3XS -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order.-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] K2 upgrade mods tactical planning [was:Re: Return of the prodigal daughter]
Wayne wrote: Where are all these mods? At the Elecraft website. For those of you who tuned in late, I have a fairly early S/N (1641) K2 kit that's been languishing in my closet for about four years. I've just resumed work on it, and the K2 design has evolved a bit over that period of time. I beleive all of the mods that are being discussed are already incorporated in modern K2s as shipped; this discussion is only about what it makes sense to do with my antique kit that's a-building now. 73 de Maggie K3XS -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order.-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] K2 upgrade mods tactical planning
designer wrote: when we reach 70 he says that us guys still chase women, but we'll only chase 'em downhill. Problem is, short term memory is the first to go - and you have that name remembering thing in the morning. Yeah, but that problem starts around age 22 in guys. 73 de Maggie K3XS -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order.-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
[Elecraft] Return of the prodigal daughter
Just thought you folks might like to know that I've resumed construction of K2 S/N 1341, after more than four year's hiatus. Stuff happens. Oh, my callsign is now K3XS...ex-KB3DXS. 73 to all -Maggie- (Yes, I know there have been a lot of improvements to the kit in the intervening years...but I'm currently unemployed and can't see spending nearly $100 to upgrade it. Resume at http://voicenet.com/~maggie/mslresume.html ) -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order.-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] Return of the prodigal daughter
W3FPR - Don Wilhelm wrote: Welcome back and have fun building. The upgrades are nice, but not required - you will still have a fine working K2 when you are finished. -Original Message- Just thought you folks might like to know that I've resumed construction of K2 S/N 1341, after more than four year's hiatus. Thanks. :-) Oh, before somebody freaks, the actual serial is #1641, not #1341. (I've made that mistake before. 1341 was my SAT score. Don't ask when that was.) -Maggie K3XS, who is almost done the Control Board (start on the ICs tomorrow) -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order.-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
