Re: [Elecraft] HELP! XFINITY SHUT OFF INTERNET DUE TO HAM ANTENNAS
On 10/21/2021 1:10 PM, Ron Bell via Elecraft wrote: Unless you have no alternatives, find another ISP. Comcast is not a great or consumer focused company. If you have a lot of time and energy, you can fight this and may win. If you dont have Verizon or an alternative wireline company in your area, look into Starlink, still in Beta but I am hearing great reviews from those who have it. All well and good in an ideal situation, but knowing the area that Eric lives in (Silicon Valley) there are all sorts of "alternatives" that may be available but in reality are vendors based on getting service (as it is popularly called "bandwidth") from Comcast and/or Verizon "behind the curtain". Up here (suburban Portland) I did lots of research on features, service and reliability before settling on the Comcast bundle of internet, voice phone, and Xfinity cable. Living in an already-wired apartment I didn't have much of a choice. I was fortunate enough to talk the management into letting me put up my VHF/UHF j-poles - I didn't want to press my luck by having more wire/cable run in. I had (where did I put it?) the direct phone number of the regional service manager but fortunately never had to use it. My one and only problem was resolved locally to my satisfaction the first time without "sturm und drang". In sum - you get what you pay for. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] HELP! XFINITY SHUT OFF INTERNET DUE TO HAM ANTENNAS
On 10/21/2021 6:35 AM, Julia Tuttle wrote: Seriously though, did you find out if they're actually kicking you off or if this was just a grumpy local tech misguidedly trying to fix a problem by threatening you? One more comment - be aware that the "technicians" that you see driving around in those white "Xfinity" trucks are not Comcast employees - they are "job shop" contractors who have no authority to speak for the company on policy matters. Did they really shut your service off? Read your contract - you my have arbitration rights before a shut-off. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Suggestion re dealing with Xfinity and similar
On 10/20/2021 5:19 PM, Steve Stutman wrote: Write a certified letter, return receipt requested, to the CEO or president of the involved entity and cc: via the same method to head of your Public Utilities Commission, or whatever you have in 6, as suggested by Ken. Eric -- Before you do that, call their Customer Service desk and say - word for word in a gentle tone - "Please tell me the name and address of your Registered Agent for Service of Process". When they finally understand what you are asking, that usually strikes fear into any corporate entity that they may face litigation, and then they start to listen to you. As a communications attorney I have had to use that tactic for several clients with success. I would have loved to jump in to support you on this case but I am on medical leave as several folks here know fighting serious cancer. I can still answer questions as needed and as my health situation allows. 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane ARRL Volunteer Counsel __ 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] TVI and More
On 9/22/2021 5:24 PM, Richard wrote: All help will be gratefully received. I second what Jim Brown posted earlier. It's a problem of front-end overload and/or audio rectification within the affected devices, not of the transmitter. Those devices should be ignoring your signals, not reacting to them. As an engineer and attorney assisting amateurs who have to deal with those problems, I advise strongly to not make any modifications to the neighbors' devices themselves. Offer advice such as the clamp-on ferrite chokes or referral to the manufacturers of those devices. It's THEIR problem. Offer to make a reasonable number of on-the-air tests of your station as necessary to reveal the effectiveness (or non-) of any remedial measures. Otherwise any any problems with the affected deices will land on you. Just some valuable advice. 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 ARRL Volunteer Counsel ARRL Volunteer Consulting Engineer (Electrical) __ 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] KX144 (kind of)
On 9/21/2021 11:35 AM, Julia Tuttle wrote: As someone who's firmly in the small apartment + portable target market for the KX3, I'd be interested in such a radio*if* it had 70cm as well so it could do double duty working local repeaters too. Will it / can it replace my ICOM IC-2720 mobile and IC-2830 "base"? Doubtful 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Ground Wire & Coax
On 8/25/2021 9:38 AM, Dave wrote: Humor: The real question here is why does the Kindle Edition weigh in at .7 pounds! How many electrons can dance on the head of a PIN diode? :) 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Ground Wire & Coax
On 8/23/2021 9:45 PM, James Bennett via Elecraft wrote: Luckily we’ve got no Telco line coming into the house, nor CATV - it is all fiber here. Even more reason to have it Located...ditto for your water, gas, and electric services. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Ground Wire & Coax
On 8/23/2021 6:42 PM, James Bennett via Elecraft wrote: Anyway, the path from that coax entrance panel to the antenna is about 100’. The first 50’ of it is the same path that the #4 copper wire would take. Since the ground here in SW Idaho doesn’t freeze up, I’m looking at digging a 4-6” deep trench for these wires. Is there any reason why I cannot place the coax and the #4 copper wire in the same trench? Electrical reasons? RF reasons? For safety reasons it is advisable to separate the perimeter ground wire from any "utility" cables, including antenna cables. I would dig the trench to 12" or more, bury the ground wire, fill the trench halfway, bury the antenna cable, put a layer of some bright-colored heavy plastic over the cable (to identify it if necessary to dig it up again) and fill the rest of the trench. Put marker stakes around the perimeter. If you don't want to dig it by hand, rent a Ditch Witch. Do not forget to call Locating Services (8-1-1) to mark buried utility pipes and lines on your property before you dig - they are funded by the utilities. Stuff I learned from my colleague Tom Croda (SK) who was the national expert on communication site power and grounding. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] K2 Buyers remorse
On 8/7/2021 6:35 PM, jerry wrote: Not sure if I'll actually be using this PA... The fan is just so LOUD! It's like a mini turbine engine running on my desk. For those of us who grew up with dynamotor-powered mobiles. that was a sign that the transmitter was activated! My K2 has a muffin fan in top of the heat sink activated by the PTT circuit - serves the same purpose..not loud at all. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] K2 / ESD / Diodes D16 7 D17 replaced
On 6/29/2021 11:16 AM, Ray wrote: In the Early days we used a NE-2 for front end Protection….. Are NE-2s still available?? :-) 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] HOA Crap
On 6/28/2021 8:52 PM, Gwen Patton wrote: I've got a Kenwood D-Star HT, but there are only a few repeaters I can use it on, and they get all grouchy if I change what reflector it's talking to. I've had them reset it in mid-QSO. Our ARES group fell for the ICOM D-STAR story about 10 years ago, even got the county to spring for several repeaters. One is on the air unused for the most part except by one or two diehards and the other sits in the warehouse in the original boxes. That's why I was hesitant when the local SAR group (not affiliated with ARES) went with DMR lately and several of our ARES leadership tried DMR. Long story short - I've been active on DMR for the last month or so, split time between nets and QSOs on various TalkGroups using both the one repeater that I can reach using a 5-w hand-held inside my apartment and the SkyBridge HotSpot where I can talk to the world. My first QSO was with a ham in the UK! There are plenty of DMR repeaters on the West Coast that are all linked up. I wish that I could do that with my K2 and I miss doing so. But I'm still keeping it and occasionally see who I can contact with a dummy load... :-) (There's one guy in the neighborhood who claims that he can read me when I use 100 W into MFJ's "finest".) 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Old DOS computers
On 6/28/2021 6:09 PM, Dick wrote: I will never understand how those in the Amateur radio hobby can spend thousands of dollars on equipment, yet they keep old PC’s that are not very efficient at all, nor are they secure. It just defies logic ! Believe it or not, there are still good programs that will not run on the "newer" operating systems. I'm wrestling with one now (a configuration program for a classic ICOM V/U transceiver) that will not run on a 64-bit machine nor will it be recognized when loaded on a CD on a Windows 98 machine (yes, I have access to one of those as well). The next try will be on a 3-1/2 inch floppy (have one of those floating around??) 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] HOA Crap
On 6/28/2021 12:27 PM, Jerry wrote: The secret? The Board has the power to approve pretty much anything, regardless of the CC And I'm on the Board. I'm also on the architecture commmittee. When I moved here in 2011, there was no HOA. But it was in the deed. When the HOA was formed, I ran for the Board, got elected ( not much competition ), and made d*mn sure I was on the architecture committee. That's where I was when we moved into a brand-new condo in California in1988. At the time the "Board" was the developer, and I scored a meeting with their VP-engineering. Spoke to him engineer-to-engineer and got approval for several VHF/UHF antennas on the roof. When the Board was turned over to the owners I made sure that I was on the new Board and I drafted a Memorandum of Ratification that covered more antennas including a long wire with secured access to the roof. The other two Board members were too dumb to do anything but approve it. Even after I was off the Board in a power play the antennas stayed there until we moved in 1999. Note - I have no intention of serving on a Condo or HOA Board again even for a sack of gold. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] K2 initial impressions
On 6/26/2021 10:47 AM, Bob McGraw wrote: Frankly, signal strength means little to me. The "copy-ability" of a signal is how I determine signal quality. A CW signal with a clean tone, no clicks, no chirps, no warbles is a great signal. On the other hand, one with any of those artifacts will be a lousy signal. Your K2 should allow you to give and receive outstanding quality signal reports both on transmit and receive. Be it from 10 watts or 1500 watts, there should be NO Difference in signal quality, only signal strength. A very important point. We should be teaching that to every new (and not-so-new) ham. 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 Same call since 1952 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] OT Need copy of "Antenna Zoning and the Radio Amateur " second edition
I'm putting this on the Reflector to let folks know that help is at hand. We've been in conversation earlier. On 5/26/2021 3:27 PM, Kurt Holbrook wrote: Thanks Phil. There is no HOA. It only took 18 months to find an electrically quiet neighborhood that wasn't truly in the middle of nowhere and no HOA. I will go to the county and see what there require. Most places we have looked at had a 35 foot height restriction so at this point I'm planning a special use permit or exemption and a building permit. I will start gathering info and the tower and the beam for submittal and get back to you. Thank you so much for offering to help. Further info - Utah does not have a "by right" statute such as other states have, specifying a height at or below which the jurisdiction cannot restrict height. It does have a PRB-1 type statute that requires local administrations to grant "reasonable accommodation" by "least restrictive means" - which are legal terms that can vary amongst jurisdictions. I am a great fan of getting those limits adopted, which involvs hard work with legislatures. I don't know what your local zoning codes specify, but in those cases where I have written or reviewed local zoning codes, I have tried to get ham radio antennas exempted from Conditional Use Permits or Special Variances by a process called Administrative Permits that don't involve neighborhood hearings, notifications and fees, especially if there's a "by right" statute. Something that you need to check into. If you are required to get a Conditional Use Permit or to apply for a Variance and you need legal assistance - check out Kenneth D. Lougee, K7AAO in Sandy, who like myself is an ARRL Volunteer Counsel but is licensed in Utah. He is listed in the ARRL website for Volunteer Counsels. A building permit is a different kettle of fish. Cross that bridge after the :Land Use permit business is settled. Let me know how things go. 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane ARRL Volunteer Counsel __ 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Microphone Jack Cover
On 5/10/2021 1:57 PM, PATRICK HICKS wrote: I made several covers from discarded PL239 shells left from replacing old connectors. Simply cut the shell down above the knurled area and glue or solder a plate in the hole. This was before 3D printing was widely available. If I recall, covers for SO-239 sockets are available commercially with a little searching. Here are three examples: <https://www.hamradio.com/detail.cfm?pid=H0-011331> <https://www.hamradio.com/detail.cfm?pid=H0-010844> <https://www.amazon.com/CablesOnline-2-Pack-Protective-Covers-RF-UND3-2/dp/B081DCJ136/ref=sr_1_15?dchild=1=so-239+cap=1620755738=8-15> Much as I love building and scrounging, sometimes buying is more direct and timely, especially when, like myself, one does not have shop facilities or a decent workbench to make stuff any more. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Speaker upgrade
On 4/27/2021 7:53 PM, neil weisenfeld wrote: I couldn’t tell if you wanted native Bluetooth or just something to connect to a Bluetooth dongle. I originally wanted a "one box" solution - a BT "receiver" and auxiliary-channel input and low-level output to feed my amplified speakers. After a search - with thanks to all who responded - I did not find one. My options are: Door Number One - two boxes - BT "receiver" and mixer feeding my amplified speakers. Door Number Two - BT "receiver" and another set of amplified speakers. Door Number Three - BT "receiver" and simple 10 dB resistor matrix feeding existing amplified speakers. Door Number Four - forget about the BT "receiver" and live with the sound BT from the HT into my hearing aids and the sound from the computer feeding the existing amplified speakers. One or two less boxes on the crowded desktop. Right now Door Number Four sound the easiest. Thanks to everyone for their suggestions. Project Closed. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] OT: High school drafting class
On 4/27/2021 3:22 PM, n0...@juno.com wrote: OK, so I gotta chime in and tell this brief story Circa 1958, HS mechanical drawing class. Some kid was screwing off. Distruptive! Mr Gersic, went back to the kid, picked him up off his stool by the seat of his pants/belt with one hand, the other on his shoulder, and carried him out door. Never saw the kid in class again!! :D) Try doing that today and the lawsuits will go on until the kid is out of college (paid for by the school district, of course). :) 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] OT: High school drafting class, ~1975
On 4/26/2021 11:18 AM, Bill Frantz wrote: Or PDP-8 on paper tape after toggling in the boot loader through the front panel switches? Sorry, mine was a Varian 620/i (8K of 16 bit words) used for nodes in a circuit switched data network (Tymnet). :-) Memories of a USAF Message Center (mid-1960s) with a 100-line data switch that took up a whole floor of the building. Today such a switch would be the size of a big refrigerator. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] OT: High school drafting class, ~1975
On 4/24/2021 6:11 AM, Barry wrote: High school in 1975? You're just a kid in ham circles, Wayne:-) Barry W2UP (HS class of '74) Mere infants. HS '53 didn't have drafting but that fall in first year EE we had a whole year of it. The instructor was a graduate of the US Merchant Marine Academy and he was a nit-picker. As for slide rules - I still have my K Log Log Duplex Vector - sits in its orange case on a shelf behind me. I take it out every few years just to gaze upon it. My step-son who is an IT engineer says that it's best use is to slay saber-tooth tigers! :) 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Speaker upgrade
Really OT but where else can I ask and get good replies? I am looking for a small mixer that will handle two inputs: the wired low-level audio output from my computer as well as a blue-tooth connection to my HT. I have a pair of small amplified speakers that do a good job on the computer output. I can find several blue-tooth "receivers" that would do that job except that they don't have a second input. I'm not in any shape to build a mixer - it has to be plug-and-play. Any ideas? 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] best grounding technique
On 3/21/2021 1:58 AM, Jim Brown wrote: Note that commercial communications is VHF/UHF, with vertical antennas at the top of towers, often on mountaintops. Our antenna systems and site locations are often rather different. Take these differences into account when applying them to our stations, which may be VERY different. Their antennas, for example, are all vertical sticks on a tower. Point well taken. and the vast majority of our LMR clients' sites are a mixture of vertical antennas, corner reflectors, small yagis, and microwave dishes. The cost of the ground system is a fraction of the costs of the infrastructure and equipment including labor. As hams, we do what we can. especially those of us who live in areas where it's rare to get lightning more than once a year if that much. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] best grounding technique
On 3/19/2021 5:47 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote: Home runs from each piece to the bus bar. If mounting in a metal rack, bond each piece to the rack and then home runs from each rack to the bus bar. Commercial communication site practice is to have a "halo" - large-diameter wire or bus bar - all around the walls and tie each rack, stand-alone box, conduit, cable ladder, etc. to the "halo". This is then connected to a similar grounding system buried around the perimeter of the building tied to ground rods per code. Sounds tedious but that's what keeps the facility safe. With thanks to my late colleague, Tom Croda, the recognized national expert in the field of comm site power and grounding, who came to work for my firm after retiring from Sprint and proceeded to teach us the right way to do those things. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Can I rent a K4?
On 2/3/2021 9:44 AM, Eric Garner wrote: isn't that why most expensive things require a deposit to rent them? Some 50-60 years ago Henry Radio in California used to "rent" used transceivers by requiring a deposit of full sale price, which would be refunded less a nominal charge when the gear was returned in the same shape as when rented. I took advantage of that several times. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Headphones for Hearing Loss
On 1/26/2021 11:40 AM, David Bunte wrote: The option of piping your rig into your hearing aids might be the solution if you have that option. My aids are Phonak Audeo as well - high priced devices that are behind the ear with receivers in the outer canal. I also use a Phonak CommPilot device with a loop that hangs around my neck and feeds signals to the aids by induction. The Comm Pilot is Bluetooth paired with my mobile phone for hands-free operation and has a 3.5 mm "Audio Jack" that permits me to feed audio from external devices with a suitable cable. The audio feels like it's inside my head, and the aids' primary function of boosting external sounds is reduced slightly but not eliminated. Batteries in the aids last about a week if disconnected while I sleep, and the CommPilot is put on charge at that time as well. Not much of a learning curve. Works well with my computer and radios. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Automatic lightning protection for radios
On 1/24/2021 11:17 AM, Edward R Cole wrote: I happen to live in such a location. We hear thunder every other year and see.see/hear lightning about once out of four years. Ditto here in the Portland, OR area and in the San Francisco Bay Area where we formerly lived. When I loved in Washington, DC it was like ever day or two in the summer. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Subject: Waaay OT: A new kind of QRM to be aware of ... warning issued by FCC today
On 1/18/2021 10:36 AM, Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-717-1197 wrote: There was a case a while back where a ham had his license pulled because he was convicted of telecom fraud. IIRC, the FCC said it was evidence that he was unwilling to follow the rules. And I think it only came visible because he protested, or filed to get it reinstated. I suspect Phil can recall more details. It's been a while. For a while, the FCC declined to take action against criminal (like "convicted") violators if the crime did not involve telecommunications law. I don't remember the actual case that Doug mentioned other than it wasn't one of mine :) but I do remember that there have been several. For other violators, there is a provision in the Communications Act that requires the FCC to determine if the conviction bears on the moral qualifications to become or remain an FCC license holder, and there are provisions in other statutes that bar someone from holding or receiving a license if in arrears to court-mandated payments.. As far as the present situation, what the notice said (in plain language) is using a radio while planning or committing a crime is a crime itself. Has nothing to do with the content as long as it does not involve planning or committing that criminal act. Yes, there are limits to First-Amendment-protected speech. (Pardon me if I'm teaching first-year Constitutional Law.) 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Subject: Waaay OT: A new kind of QRM to be aware of ... warning issued by FCC today
On 1/18/2021 6:10 AM, Steve Hall wrote: During my hamming of over 50 years, the FCC has never felt it necessary to threaten hams not to break the law, that is not until we have this new administration coming into control. My concern is what they will define in the future as criminal acts. That's because up to now it was unthinkable that licensed hams would use amateur radio in the commission of crimes. The law and the enforcement apparatus always was there, though, and was used without any publicity. We're going through violent times now and it's sad that such a notice had to be issued. Violators can't say that they weren't warned. 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 (30 year veteran of FCC Field Enforcement) __ 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] tip of 3.5 mm plug remains in key jack
On 1/15/2021 9:25 AM, Eugen Bauknecht via Elecraft wrote: Any idea how to remove the tip without destroying or replacing the key jack? I don't mean to belittle the problem, but it's the same as when the flexible part of my hearing aid (earbud) broke off in my ear canal - use the proper tools and work *very* gently. If the diameter was larger I would recommend a tool set used for screw extraction but I don't think that you could find one for that size that outside of a dental office. The suggestion of using a small drill bit and pin vise sounds like a reasonable thing to try. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Nifty K2 manual
On 1/5/2021 8:55 AM, Neil wrote: I have been in touch with Dave at Radio World UK and he has informed me they do _*NOT*_ have the Nifty K2 manual Oh well, we tried! Thanks, Neil. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Nifty Manuals - Elecraft K2
On 1/4/2021 11:07 AM, Mick Hall via Elecraft wrote: These are still available new in the UK at Elecraft K2 Plus Options Nifty Mini Manual I found their web site (https://www.radioworld.co.uk) and have inquired as to the availability in non-PDF form and the price mailed to the US. I will post the results when they reply. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Long messages
On 1/4/2021 4:11 AM, Lyn Norstad wrote: I have never used Thunderbird, but it sounds like what I am doing with Outlook. I have it set up with Folders and in some cases, Sub-folders, where everything goes as per established sort rules. In addition, because I have so many folders, I have a "Favorites" section of the display where I can see certain folders in addition to in their proper location in the main list. Does Thunderbird do something special? I could use some email magic. Yes, T-Bird does all that and more. It is far more stable and secure, and includes provisions for Dual-Key Encryption in current versions. It even has a routine to transfer your file structure and address book from Outlook into T-Bird "hands-free". Totally customizable. I've been using it ever since I switched from IBM OS/2 to Windows almost 15 years ago. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] WTB: Nifty K2 Manual
On 1/1/2021 7:35 PM, John Mcclun wrote: Looking for a Nifty K2 manual. If you have please let me know the cost, thank you Ditto for me as well. Serious sellers only, please. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] External sound card advice needed to attach to K3
On 1/1/2021 5:11 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote: Just make sure your OS does not set the external soundcard as default. Windows often does that when you first install it - check the soundcard settings. The Winlink VARA setup instructions make this very clear, although I have never experienced a Win 10 update turning my OS sound selection on after I have turned it to "No Sounds". 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] External sound card advice needed to attach to K3
On 1/1/2021 2:14 PM, Bill Frantz wrote: I think there has even been an official ruling that these incidental sounds, that come along for the ride with legal communication, won't get you a notice from the FCC. Now transmitting voice in the CW bands is a different story. For starts, it's not incidental to legal communication. You hit the nail on the head. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] External sound card advice needed to attach to K3
On 1/1/2021 1:57 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote: The number of amateurs using some kind of DX alerting system and/or streaming music while waiting for someone else to find them "a new one" to work in significant and you can hear most of their alerts or music on the air from time to time. Bad form. They should know - or be taught - better. Forgive me, I'm and old f*** who's only been licensed 69 years. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] External sound card advice needed to attach to K3
On 1/1/2021 10:58 AM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote: That doesn't prevent other sounds - particularly VoIP (Zoom/Skype) and steaming audio (Pandor, Podcasts, etc.) from reaching the rig (and being transmitted if the digital program is running and/or the VOX is enabled). Why would one keep these programs running while one is using ham radio on the computer? "Multi-tasking" has its limits. Thank Bill Gates et. al. for the concept of "Windows" being able to run everything all at once. Make up your mind - make a choice. We have an old ethnic saying - you can't sit in two chairs with one bottom. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] External sound card advice needed to attach to K3
On 1/1/2021 10:33 AM, Rick Bates, NK7I wrote: On 1/1/2021 10:20 AM, Wes wrote: Turn off Windows sounds in Control Panel and operate. I disagree, most users are not adept at the trivia in the drivers, so > the chances of errant audio (monitor the microphone locally check mark) > increases the risk of transmitting 'garbage'. And these are the people that we trust to operate a radio transmitter capable of causing harmful interference that can cause serious health and welfare damage? How much skill is necessary to turn off a function the procedure of which can be defined in four or five short easy-to-follow sentences? Maybe this should be included in license review classes. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] External sound card advice needed to attach to K3
On 1/1/2021 10:22 AM, Rick Bates, NK7I wrote: While I'm not an attorney, I've read the rules (subject to interpretation of course). That's always a good start. Considering the general apathy of the FCC lately (US of course), I'm not surprised that this has never been tested by citation. Why should it be? Don't poke the sleeping bear. Some may be see it as apathy, some may see it as common sense. My decades in FCC enforcement taught me to differentiate the two after one Division Chief asked me "don't you have anything better to do with your time.. " :) I'd much rather err on the side of caution. Turning off the OS sounds is not a complete solution. Sounds like pretty much a solution - if the sounds don't get generated they don't get into the audio chain. Of course the sounds generated by the programs need to be turned off as well. That's the job of the operator. Using a sound card, specific and limited to the radio use, is a vast improvement over using the OS sounds device to maintain legality. I go one better - I use a specific computer only for ham radio use. Happy New Year. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] External sound card advice needed to attach to K3
On 1/1/2021 8:56 AM, Rick Bates, NK7I wrote: A generically 'bad' idea and is the reason that voice, operating system sounds (all illegal) and poor audio are often in the digital portions of the bands. Please explain your comment "all illegal" concerning "operating system sounds". As both a telecommunications engineer and a communications attorney I have never had to deal with the legality or illegality of "operating system sounds". 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Genius vs. Stupidity
On 12/23/2020 4:35 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote: I really like that quote from Albert Einstein. Ignorance can be cured with information, but stupidity lives on in its dismissal of facts and information. My favorite quote from Einstein that he never said is: "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft Kit Assembly
On 12/2/2020 1:56 PM, Harry Yingst via Elecraft wrote: Looks like Jenson Tools sells them Look Here https://www.jensentools.com/menda-35120-four-way-nut-starter/p/758ie351 You made me do it! I couldn't find mine from my Heathkit days, so I ordered two - one to use, one to lose. :) 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] K3- Replacement 12-Volt Power Cable
On 11/28/2020 5:20 PM, Jim Brown wrote: BTW -- the red/black zip cord is NOT ideal for use around RF. Twisted pair is FAR better, because twisting strongly resists differential mode RF pickup. What I have been doing for already-constructed Zip-cord leads with APP connectors already installed is to secure one end of the cable, un-mate the APP housings at the other end, separate the parallel conductors, and twist them together again one over the other as "DIY" twisted pair, then remate the housings. Works fine albeit shortens the cable a bit. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Sorry
On 11/27/2020 4:37 PM, w...@w2xj.net wrote: So how would we know that without context? Blank content usually indicates that it contains HTML, not text. From the original subject it appeared to be a mis-posting of his congregation's Synagogue Bulletin. I would be interested in seeing how other synagogues than mine are handling the pandemic spacing problem, but that doesn't apply to Elecraft... 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] K2 purchase considered
On 11/20/2020 7:16 PM, Jim Brown wrote: No question, Robert. But the original post gave me the impression he was expecting to use a local builder, which is why I responded as I did. Because of my limited eyesight (macular edema with retinal scarring resulting in blurry monocular close-up eyesight) I was fortunate to have a local builder (now moved away) assemble my K2 with all the bells and whistles 15 years ago. Even though I can't use it much for the last 8 years (antenna restrictions) I still love it. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Smoke detectors
On 10/30/2020 2:49 PM, K9ZTV wrote: > For what it’s worth, the American Red Cross is recommending > installation of units that have 10-year lithium ion batteries which > are sealed and not replaceable. History has shown that kids tend to > remove the batteries for their toys and games. The sealed batteries in the ones that we have are replaceable but the cells within them are not. Experience with the "10-year" batteries is that they start getting flaky at about 7-8 years, but the building management is very cooperative about replacing them when they start chirping. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Question about shipping.
On 10/9/2020 9:03 AM, Nr4c wrote: > I take it you didn’t save the one they sent it in. Or you bought a pre-loved > item Or it was built from a kit, as mine was. But I do save shipping boxes, to the chagrin of my wife-- 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] OT: W vs K broadcast station callsigns
On 10/6/2020 1:04 PM, Mike Morrow wrote: > Another interesting fact about US broadcast station callsigns is that > back before U.S. maritime radioTELEGRAPHY ended (except for rare > historical exercises) in 1999, most US-flag merchant ships with > radiotelegraph stations were assigned four-letter callsigns beginning > with K or W. As others have posted, the convention was that Broadcast stations east of the Mississippi were given W call letters and west of the Mississippi were given K call letters (with noted exceptions). Ocean-going ships had the opposite according to their home port of registration. > There are no longer many such calls that are still assigned to > merchant shipping. When I started doing ship safety radio inspections in 1967 there were 600+ such vessels in the US registry, not counting the WW-II-era Victory ships that were owned by the U S Maritime Commission and were being pulled out of "Red Lead Row" (deep storage Reserve Fleets) and operated under contract to support the Vietnam War going on at that time. New ship radiotelegraph stations will be licensed as part of the ship's radio station license under the now-standard XXXnnnn call letters. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] OT: W vs K broadcast station callsigns
On 10/6/2020 11:48 AM, John Harper wrote: > Folks, the correct way to read this reflector is to turn of email from it > entirely. Instead look at it here, only clicking on the links of interest > to you: Maybe correct for you, not for me and many others. The minimum time I have to work the mouse, the happier I am. As we children of the '50s would say "Whatever works". > If you try to set up email filters to improve the S:N ratio, you'll soon > come to the conclusion that 'that way lies madness'. Albert Einstein is widely credited with saying, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results." 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Something to discuss other than K4
On 9/24/2020 4:21 PM, David Haines wrote: > One of my engineer sons sent me the following link about Furniture ESD. > Is it for real? Is this something else we have to worry about while > using our new K4's? The document said in part "The only clue to the problem was that the malfunction seemed to be related to a person rising from a chair" Tell me something that I don't know. In the 1950s (when I was first licensed) my parents' dinette set was of the then-popular chrome-and-vinyl construction, and every time I got up from the chair I would get zapped in the back of my knees. Static electricity generated by cloth sliding on the plastic. I cured the problem by touching a table fork or spoon to the metal chair rung to discharge the spark. I was under the impression that this was cured by switching to an anti-static type of plastic or fabric some time ago. It's "great" that all that time and brain power was spent on rediscovering the wheel. Are chrome-and-vinyl dinette sets still being sold? 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Status of Add-ons for K3?
On 9/20/2020 11:41 AM, hawley, charles j jr wrote: > Remember those colored plastic things people put over the screen to add a bit > of color? My buddy's family had one of them over their round-screen DuMont TV. We had a rectangular RCA in a genuine wood console with AM receiver and 78 record player. We never "colorized ours.. Late 1940s. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Why predistortion ?
On 9/14/2020 9:52 AM, Dave B via Elecraft wrote: > Pre-distortion is often used in modern cellular base-station > transmiters, and perhaps digital broadcast systems where they have to > handle multiple carriers simultaneously, "at power". At the beginning of this discussion I was confusing "predistortion" with "pre-emphasis" which in the FM broadcast field refers to the intentional introduction of nonlinear audio frequency response of the transmission chain, recovered by "de-emphasis" in the receivers. Now I understand better what the discussion is all about. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] [OT] A Very Quiet Day
On 9/10/2020 4:19 PM, David Gilbert wrote: > Malaysia gets a lot of rain, things are wet much of the time, and back > then (at least 30 years ago) many of the electrical insulators on the > overhead power lines were dirty with pollution. I could see constant > arcing across dozens of insulators. Yet one of the "cures" of QRM from electrical lines is to wash the insulators. Many large utilities have a specialized vehicle for that. We have buried utilities here so there's no insulators to wash.... 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] [OT] WWV Time Transmissions
On 8/31/2020 7:11 PM, Scott Manthe wrote: > A ploy to keep funding? From who? The president of the United States > recommended defunding WWV in his 2019 budget recommendation submitted to > the Congress. So, you're saying that the president threatened to cut > funding to WWV as a ploy so that Congress would maintain this funding? > Clever of him. Stir, stir, stir. Glad that smarter heads prevailed. But that "de-funding" and "re-funding" is old news. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] KX3 microphone nut size
On 8/29/2020 5:16 AM, Rich NE1EE wrote: > Even that would be easier if the country just bit the bullet and set > a time limit on moving to metric. Then we'd all be on the same page. The Metric Conversion Act goes back to the Ford administration in 1974 (*). It is enforced slightly less than the Uniform Spitting on the Sidewalk Act that predates it. The main reason that we see it at all in the US is than manufacturers dealing in world-wide markets do not want to have two different production lines, * My Ford sedan is built to metric standards... :) During my tenure, FCC rules and standards were rewritten to express dimensions in metric, but the conversion from USCU wasn't smooth. For instance, one specification for certain antenna heights was "20 feet above ground". So what did the FCC do? Changed it to "6.1 meters (20 feet) above ground". Why not an even 6 meters?? Everyone still refers to it as the "20 foot rule". The neglected metric unit, although not past of the SI, is the gradian (grad). 100 grads to a quadrant. 400 grads to a full circle. 1 grad = 0.9 degree. It is used mainly in European surveying, but since May 2020 is legal for use in the US. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] KX3 microphone nut size
On 8/28/2020 1:49 PM, hawley, charles j jr wrote: > Metric 6 mm is close enough to thread on but wrong threads per inch? Remember that US electronics is slowly going Metric inch by inch :) 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] KX3 microphone nut size
On 8/28/2020 1:34 PM, Mooneer Salem wrote: > Tried some normal 1/4"-20 hex nuts from Lowe's too (much too thick mind > you, but should at least confirm if the diameter/TPI are correct) and no > such luck. Sometimes the easiest fix is to buy another jack and just use the nut. Then you will have a spare jack when the time comes to replace it. We all learn the hard way sometimes (I plead guilty to that). 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] OT: RF interference from grow lights (maybe).
On 8/21/2020 10:36 AM, ab2tc wrote: > Thanks for your response and I did receive several private E-mails as well. > It sounds like a phone call to the power company should be my next move. If > I just could find a way to get to a live person without going through a > million automated responses and interminable waits! In another life when I was with the San Francisco office of the FCC, I used to refer IX calls to Pacific Gas & Electric in California and my contact there was Jim Gillespie in General Construction. Jim was a great help, and I used to kid him that if this was too much work for him he could always go back to washing insulators! His counterpart at Southern California Edison was also well-known as an IX-finder. We're all retired from IX-chasing now and I wouldn't have any idea who to refer such calls to today. As Ken Brown (W2KB) has pointed out over the years, it's to the advantage of the utility to find and fix such leaks (if that is the problem) because it loses money to have energy delivered to a non-paying load. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] OT construction question
On 8/17/2020 4:13 AM, Victor Rosenthal 4X6GP wrote: > Here is my Power Pole holder. It is just a piece of 1.6mm thick aluminum > with a notch in it. The notch is sized precisely to fit the groove in > the sides of the APP. I just drilled a few holes and filed it to size. > Then you make a slightly larger rectangular hole in the panel that will > pass the back part of the APP. All that's left is the mounting holes. > > Here's a picture (link is case-sensitive): > <https://www.qsl.net/k2vco/APP_Holder.jpg> Nice job! 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane (ex-4X4UQ - Ramat Gan, ISR) 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] K2 transmit limitations
On 8/11/2020 5:17 AM, Peter Eijlander (PA0PJE) wrote: >> and they have a right to be strict. > > Sorry Pierre, "they" don't... Not for radio amateurs. I am a legal professional in the communications regulatory field having spent many decades on both the governmental side and the private-industry side and in the past have written revised rules for amateur operation for a small Region 1 country as well as rules for licensing and siting for antenna towers in several jurisdictions here in the United States. Sorry, Peter, every Administration has not only the right but the obligation to set whatever standards for their country. The only way to change that is to put pressure on that Administration to change through whatever legal means are possible. Radio amateurs do not have any special privilege to conduct themselves except in conformance with whatever license and regulations the Administration prescribes - right or wrong. Some Administrations still license amateur operators to use a specific transmitter at a specific location and under specific conditions. Many don't but apparently the New Caledonia's Administration that Pierre is dealing with still does. I'm not saying it's right or wrong - I'm saying that's what it is. 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane (Esq / P.E.) 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] [K2] Alinco EMS-14 mic with K2?
For the 15 or so years that I have used my K2 the mic I used was an Adonis AM-308, a Kenwood-compatible desk mic. It gave me good service but failed recently, and is no longer available. It was replaced with the Alinco EMS-14 desk mic which appears to be a re-branded AM-308 (to the point where the pc board in the mic base carries the "AM-308" label). The cable pin-out on the 8-pin "Foster" connector is identical. The only difference appears to be that the Adonis mic used two AA batteries while the Alinco mic draws its power from the rig's +V on the mic connector. It should be plug-and-play compatible using the cables that worked with the Adonis mic but unfortunately the mic does not activate the K2. Does anyone have any experience using the Alinco EMS-14 mic? 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] what tripod to use?
On 8/1/2020 12:24 PM, CUTTER DAVID via Elecraft wrote: > Still quite popular over here, though not as expensive: > https://www.wilko.com/en-uk/wilko-rotary-airer-40m/p/0432698 Will it work for bands other than 40m :) 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] what tripod to use?
On 7/31/2020 2:26 AM, CUTTER DAVID via Elecraft wrote: > A cheap and exceedingly sturdy tripod is a re-cycled/re-purposed rotary > washing line. With all due respect, I had to re-read that several times to picture that device. Are you referring to the inverted pyramid upon which one hangs washing out to dry? As a suburban dweller who has used an electric clothes dryer all of my adult life I haven't seen one of them for many decades. :) 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Reliable PL-259 UHF connector engagement
On 7/29/2020 12:02 PM, George Danner wrote: > > In the 60s & 70s, we had a screwdriver like tool for removing and > inserting PL-259 connectors in patch-bays in TV stations. It was a > screwdriver handle and shaft with a steel tube slightly smaller than the > pl-259. The tube had a longitudinal slot that was big enough for the > cable to slip through. The side of the tube away from the slot was > welded to the screwdriver shaft. That's a standard tool in the cable industry for installing and removing "tamper-proof" F-connectors that have a shroud around them to prevent a subscriber's fingers from loosening them. It also works on non-"tamper-proof" connectors that are difficult to reach. I have one in my collection. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Waterproof SO-239 covers
On 7/16/2020 11:31 AM, KENT TRIMBLE wrote: > > The "quarter turn" idea most often refers to the trick of backing-off a > screw "a quarter turn" and then re-tightening in order to break up > corrosion. More than one restorer has brought vintage equipment to life > by doing nothing more than that. I apologize to all - I did mis-speak. Just a good "past snug" is about what I meant. And yes, a proper wrap if Rescue Tape will keep it dry - or so my experience has shown. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Waterproof SO-239 covers
On 7/16/2020 5:35 AM, Mike Harris via Elecraft wrote: > A great selection of bits. Unfortunately when I tried to order a couple > of microphone connector dust caps for my K2 and K3. The system took the > order but they refused to post them. Sometimes the vendor refuses to send to a post office box. What works then, at least in the USA, is to specify the street address plus the PO Box as if it was an apartment number. I always get a laugh when UPS refuses to accept the PO Box as a delivery address, but their Big Brown Truck pulls up to the PO loading dock anyway. This, of course, does not apply to items that the Postal Service will not handle, such as batteries and corrosive liquids. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Waterproof SO-239 covers
On 7/15/2020 6:50 PM, Drew AF2Z wrote: > I would use Coax Seal. Same idea as duct seal but it's more pliable, > more wx resistant and a little stickier. It will last forever, never > hardens and can be peeled off when needed. Might want to screw pl-259 > shells onto the socket threads first, then seal them. The sockets & > shells will be pristine when you go to use them. Don't forget to tighten the connector 1/4 turn after "finger tight" with a pair of pliers to make a real seal. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] [K2] Interfacing a DTMF Pad
I need to interface a DTMF pad to the mic input for special-purpose signaling but I have not yet found a desk mic that has DTMF capability built-in. Has anyone had any experience doing that? If an external pad is required (I have one floating around here somewhere), how can it be done?Will a simple Y connection suffice? 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] WTB: *****NIFTY MANUAL FOR K2*****
On 7/6/2020 2:02 PM, Wes wrote: > Stopping after your first sentence would have been a good idea. But is it still available from Nifty? I don't think so. If I am wrong I will get one for myself. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Requesting help with computer issue -
On 6/28/2020 1:48 PM, Lynn W. Taylor, WB6UUT wrote: > The Cinnamon desktop is more windows-like than Windows 10. It took some doing but I made Win 10 look and feel like "real windows" (Win 7). 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] KX2 power cable polarity?
On 6/27/2020 5:12 PM, Jay Rutherford wrote: > You really need to check before connecting a power supply. My Tecsun PL600 > charger shows positive on the outside shell. Who ever dreamed that one up?! Telephone industry standards have the negative 48V as the "hot" side. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Requesting help with computer issue -
On 6/27/2020 7:27 PM, Dauer, Edward wrote: > Why it should need that after having worked flawlessly for a couple > of years is beyond me – unless Windows’ latest update messed it up. > I choose to blame that. I have to do that every so often with my laptop that I use only for ham radio stuff - W10 has a will of its own, it seems. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] KX2 power cable polarity?
On 6/27/2020 2:22 PM, hawley, charles j jr wrote: > Measure which wire goes to the outside shell of the connector, that’s ground. That's about the only way. Unfortunately I have found two standards for "zip cord" markings - white stripe on positive, and white stripe on negative. Your multi-meter is your friend. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Requesting help with computer issue -
On 6/27/2020 2:01 PM, Dauer, Edward wrote: > Maybe a bit OT but I need counsel from someone adept with either > Windows 10 or with MS Surface laptop or, possibly, both. > I must have messed up some setting - or Windows did when it > "updated" the OS (g. . . .) I've had to bail out my wife's Surface and my own Dell tower and laptop over issues like this. It's a driver problem. Sometimes it needs an updated driver (from ACES on your case) but sometimes all it takes is to reinstall a fresh copy of the existing driver as if it never existed. Using any Surface or laptop without a big screen is a pain. I just up-sized to a 27" - the largest that would fir the geometry of my operating position. Let us know what happens, Ted. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Computer control software
On 6/20/2020 10:45 AM, John Dorson wrote: > Is anyone using computer control programs for the K2 that they have > downloaded. I have the cabling to connect the K2 to my computer. I too would be interested. I have a serial port and a USB port that are still unused on my computer. > Have a great weekend all. And to you all as well. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Data protection and recovery techniques
On 6/13/2020 3:40 PM, Fred Jensen wrote: > And, do any of you ever check the backups to make sure they really have > anything there? Yes. Each morning I check to see if the backup ran overnight and if the file size is appropriate for what it should be. If it's Zero I start looking why. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Data protection and recovery techniques
On 6/13/2020 12:11 PM, kevinr wrote: > The tool I use for this third method of data protection is a command > built into Linux but available to Windows and Mac users too. My regular backup program is NovaBACKUP PC from NovaStor. It is a commercial program that I have been using for many years on all my computers, making a daily incremental backup and a weekly full backup using external drives for storage of the compressed files. It has a GUI that permits restoration (both overwrite and write elsewhere) of files and folders. It has saved my backsplash several times in the recent past.There is a linux version called NovaBACKUP Data Center that is distro-independent. (No, I don't own stock in NovaStor.) 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Computer Monitor Recommendations
On 6/13/2020 11:20 AM, Jim Brown wrote: > > Did you unplug the wall wart (or the monitor) from the wall? That PSU, > whether external or built into the monitor, usually a major noise source. In a two-word answer from an experienced RFI chaser -- of course! :) 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Computer Monitor Recommendations
On 6/13/2020 8:54 AM, Mark Goldberg wrote: >> I went with a 50" 4K TV (LG from Costco ~US$300) mounted to the wall >> behind the operating desk. If your computer can manage 4K video (or >> even HD), LOADS of space to see (don't need my readers) > > I also installed a slightly smaller (43") LG 4K monitor from Costco on the > wall. No EMC issues I can detect. I recently had to replace my 6-year old failed monitor and I settled on a 27" LG HD monitor (the largest size that could fit on the desk) because I didn't need 4K. $159 at Costco. It was the next-to-last on the shelf. The guy there said that large screen monitors were going very fast because the work-at-home folks were realizing that a 15" laptop screen just doesn't cut it for all-day use. No EMI that I can detect by on-off testing (there's plenty from other nearby sources). 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Q codes
On 6/11/2020 2:52 PM, Andy Durbin wrote: > "Who knew there were so many Q-codes :)" [QUQ] > Either way, not a code that comes up in most QSO. For those of us who were subjected to passing Element 5 to get the FCC Radiotelegraph Operator License, we had to recognize a whole slew of Q-Signals that pertained to commercial message traffic procedure, which also would not come up in our ham QSOs. I forgot most of them by now. :) 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Fwd: K3 on motorboat.
On 6/9/2020 10:53 PM, Jim Brown wrote: >> EE is an art and not science > > That is NOT even slightly true. ART did not put us on the moon or build > the Mars rovers. Engineering is the thoughtful application of scientific > principles and knowledge to solve practical problems. Without science as > a base, it's little more than the infinite number of monkeys and > typewriters producing Shakespeare. Nearly all practical designs involve > some compromises. Great engineering is selecting (sometimes innovating) > those solutions which work well for the particular problem at hand. There is an ongoing discussion group of the National Society of Professional Engineers postulating over the differences between curricula in Engineering (more emphasis on why it works) and Engineering Technology (more emphasis on how it works). I refuse to get into that "food fight". I had - and still have to some extent - no problem getting my hands dirty (to the limit of my disabilities, that is). Philip M. Kane Esq / P.E. - K2ASP VP - General Counsel & Executive Engineer CSI Telecommunications, Inc. - Consulting Engineers San Francisco, CA - Beaverton, OR (Main Office moving to Hamilton Landing, Novato, CA) __ 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] K3 on motorboat.
On 6/9/2020 4:46 PM, Fred Jensen wrote: > Hmmm ... "Isotropic spherical?" "Proven to broadcast over 4,000 miles > with 1 watt?" Actually, it looks like one of the driven elements of the > Russian Duga ["Woodpecker"] antenna. $6K+ seems a little steep. If it lives up to its claims, I would consider it as a replacement for my ineffective mag-loop -- until I saw the $6K+ price tag. I have to look over my shoulder (or my checkbook's shoulder) to even scrape up 500 bucks to replace my standby batteries 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] OT Bluetooth Serial adapters
On 6/7/2020 12:02 PM, Gwen Patton wrote: > I DO use a 2.4GHz dedicated RF dongle to a wireless keyboard, Maybe you can answer my question, then. A while ago I came into possession of a Dell "wireless" mouse and keyboard set (Logitec ?) for a desktop computer where I elected to use wired accessories. The mouse and the dongle are now being used with a Surface. That leaves the keyboard "stranded". Are "replacement" dongles available so that keyboard can be used with another computer or is the keyboard usable only with that dongle? 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] [OT] Birds and DX
On 6/7/2020 9:11 AM, k...@juno.com wrote: > Contact the Audobon Society to see if you can have a nest for a bird of > prey (falcon perhaps). Hopefully, it is one that will like crows as > well... If you think hams are fanatics about ham radio things like DX or contesting, birders exhibit the same reaction about messing with their birds. The wife of one of my ham colleagues is very much a birder and that leads to do some interesting interaction. He put all of his antennas on his van - and no birds perch on it. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] [OT] Birds and DX
On 6/7/2020 7:44 AM, Mike Short wrote: > Make a cage using non-conducting mesh and pvc pipe to put over the antenna. My loop is set on a covered porch. Birds don't rest on it - neither do radio signals (big disappointment documented elsewhere in this reflector). 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] [OT] Birds and DX
On 6/7/2020 7:19 AM, Dave wrote: >> So how to keep birds of a mag loop without lowing the Q? > Somehow figure out how to mount a fake owl on top? I had a "fake owl" (from the HRO catalog) mounted on the peak of the A-frame roof over the doorway of my former "House of 13 Antennas". The crows loved to dive-bomb and perch on it while ignoring all the other places provided by the antennas and left us plenty of "souvenirs" as a token of their affection.. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Self-fusing liquid electrical tape
On 6/5/2020 12:01 PM, Bob McGraw K4TAX wrote: > I agree with Jim, K9YC on this. Grounding is for lightning > protection. To be effective, it should be outside of the > structure/house and be very low resistance. And all driven grounds > must be bonded back to the AC Mains ground. This is per NEC. Your > equipment, your house, and your life may depend on it being done correctly. Another thing that we do is to bond all of the ground rods in an outside ring which is buried in a trench filled with conductive concrete. A layer of the concrete, than the ground ring, and then another layer of that concrete. Expensive? You betcha, but cheap insurance for sites costing well over a million dollars just for the infrastructure. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Self-fusing liquid electrical tape
On 6/5/2020 9:05 AM, Grant Youngman wrote: > Cad-weld isn’t expensive — $11-15 per weld depending on where you buy > the stuff. Typically sold in kits of 6 one-shot crucibles, and > available for varying ground wire sizes on 1/2” or 5/8” ground rods. Agreed, but how many of us would go through that exercise? 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Self-fusing liquid electrical tape
On 6/4/2020 8:50 PM, Ed Tanton wrote: > I should have mentioned that. I strip 5 or 6 inches of insulation. That > was why I cleaned the top of the ground rod and sprayed it with > electrical lubricant. I used a stainless steel hose clamp to hold the > stripped wires against the ground rod at each end of the stripped wire > portions. The next part is what I wrote about to start with. Thank you for explaining that. For our commercial and public safety communication site grounding systems our firm insists on cad-weld at all exposed and buried connection points but I would suspect that very few hams, let alone residential or even commercial electricians, would go to that length. My mentor in that area, the late Tom Croda, who during his lifetime was the national expert in comm site power and grounding, would not settle for anything less. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Self-fusing liquid electrical tape
On 6/3/2020 10:31 PM, Ed Tanton wrote: > I mention all this as a response to the question about the use of liquid > tape. > I did all this working on the ground rods and radials connected under my > HyGain HyTower. What do you use to attach the ground wire(s) to the ground rod? Buckeyes? 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] FIXED--was NOT the feedline
On 6/4/2020 7:59 AM, Dave Cole wrote: > I have that same problem, maybe 1 in 10 or 2,0 I slice the cable or my > hand... ;) I have to introduce you to my cousin the eye surgeon who can teach you to avoid things like that! :) One of the stunts that he does to show off is to peel the red skin off an apple and leave the green under-skin intact. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] FIXED--was NOT the feedline
On 6/3/2020 9:17 PM, Jim Brown wrote: > It's also FAR easier than 3M mastic tape to open up if you need to > change something. That's what they make X-acto knives for. I never reuse "taken off" tape. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] FIXED--was NOT the feedline
On 6/3/2020 8:35 AM, Peter Dougherty wrote: > No, and I wasn't sure how to accomplish this. It's stainless hardware, but > I'm guessing I should probably wrap the feedpoint up in self-annealing tape > and Scotch 88 just to be safe. Rescue Tape to the rescue. - also available from the Amazing place. Originally developed as a repair tape, it's stretchable, self-sealing, high insulation rated, UV resistant, comes in several colors for easy ID, and no residue when removed. I had several antenna feed points wrapped with it and after 10+ years the connectors underneath were as bright and shiny as they were when first installed. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] RE; How well does the K3 work with lower power supply voltage . . .
On 5/30/2020 11:42 AM, Lynn W. Taylor, WB6UUT wrote: > I mention this, because I saw that Costco has 8 volt lead-acid batteries > from Interstate Batteries. > > An 8 volt and a 6 volt will give you 14 volts, and no boosters necessary. Ah, but are they the same cell type and are they AGM or gel-cell, the only type to use in standby communication battery service? 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Quiet Ductless HVAC System
On 5/27/2020 10:23 AM, Rick Bates, NK7I wrote: > Getting any manufacturer to routinely add filtering (even if under $1), > won't happen without a lot of customer noise in return. ;-) Of course the pressure should be at the design stage, not the retrofit stage, but good luck getting that to happen. The first thing is to get the manufacturer - or the industry as a whole - to admit that there's a problem. Good luck on that one, too. We've fought that on the susceptibility-to-unwanted-pickup aspect for decades with very spotty results. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Field Day
On 5/25/2020 10:09 AM, JP Douglas wrote: > I bought an 75 amp/hr AGM deep cycle battery a couple of years ago > for $138.00 with free shipping from epay, works fine. That was a decent price "a couple of years ago". It's gone up since then. It's almost time to renew my Trojan 27AGM (75 AH) batts. We're planning to move a year from now and I hope that the existing ones will hold out until then. Makes swapping them easy (local pickup from the wholesaler). 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] New Astron Switching PS RFI?
On 5/17/2020 2:27 PM, Bob McGraw K4TAX wrote: > I have 2 of the Astron SS-30M supplies on my desk for my 2 stations. I > have observed no evidence of RFI issues. I find them to be very > reliable power supplies. I have an Astron SS-50M and the only noise is the fan - no RFI. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Fwd: Establishing A New Station
On 5/13/2020 12:42 PM, brianchapn...@rogers.com wrote: > Im thinking of a loop. I've had good luck with them. Any thoughts? I've been using a loop on the porch of our ground level apartment. At 15 watts. It is useless - can't get it to tune properly and I often think that I would have a better signal with my dummy load at 100 watts. If you are getting good luck you must be doing something right. At east you have the advantage of 34 stories - good for you. 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Headphones
On 5/10/2020 8:14 AM, Gwen Patton wrote:
> I didn't stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
Neither did I, but I am a lawyer who deals in this area.
Part 15 sets the minimum standard for RF emissions from devices that do
not require individual or blanket station licenses. If they don't
comply, they can't be used legally or be marketed (a "term of art" that
covers manufacture, sell, offer for sale, ship, modify, and in some
cases, use). Compliant devices must be certified by the manufacturer
and labeled as meeting those standards. There are certain exemptions
for home-brew ham equipment and school projects.
Regulatory law is clear - even if the emissions from a device comply
with the levels mandated in Part 15, if they cause harmful interference
(another "term of art") to licensed/authorized communications, the
operator of the Part 15 device is required to cease such operation until
the interference is abated.
Conversely, as many have noted, if the Part 15 device gets interfered
with by signals from a licenses/authorized station or device, it's
"tough". What part of "must accept" is not clear?
A good part of my early legal career was devoted to assisting and
defending hams against claims of interference to consumer-level
entertainment equipment. Much of that has gone away, because the
European Union has regulations about how such equipment must reject
outside signals and reputable manufacturers are adhering to those
standards if they want to sell in the worldwide market. The FCC has
kicked around establishing similar standards for decades with no action,
relying on the broad "must accept" to protect the public.
When is the last time that we here have had to deal with a substantial
claim of causing TVI ("Tennessee Valley Indians)? Not since I have been
running my K2.
73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
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Re: [Elecraft] Headphones
On 5/9/2020 7:08 PM, Nr4c wrote: > Beg to differ. Part 15 devices have no legal protection from interference. You use at your own risk. That's what I said. We deal with that professionally. >> (2) this device must accept any interference received, including >>> interference that may cause undesired operation.-- Philip M. Kane Esq / P.E. - K2ASP VP - General Counsel & Executive Engineer CSI Telecommunications, Inc. - Consulting Engineers San Francisco, CA - Beaverton, OR __ 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
