When loosening screws that have split lock washers underneath, the washer
often turns with the screw initially and scores (or worse) the
underlying copper earthing ring; earthing could be affected but also
there may be copper 'filings' floating around the rest of the board.
I've just replaced
Hello, this is Karsten, DL1QC,
I´m slightly handicaped in hearing on left ear, so I hear CW with K3
always a litte bit out of the middle. Is there an option or procedure to
adjust the level of the stereo phones left/right separately?
vy 73 es tnx for all
de Karsten - DL1QC
Mike,
The universal color codes that PC's use on their cound card plugs are:
Red=Mic in
Green=Line out
Blue=Line in
This is assuming your sound card is set up for analog sound out and not 6
channel digital.
On some sound cards there are additional plugs for rear speakers and digital
output
It seems we need to find a set of colored LED's that give similar output as
the reds With the research done so far, doesn't look at that likely. I
wonder if there are other resources. I wonder if a resistor pack of a
slightly higher value than 470 might be a better compromise and change the
I'm in the process of building the W1 and have substituted the colored LED's
on the SWR readout as has been discussed.
I really haven't been following this thread closely and I haven't finished
the W1 build yet so this may have already been covered.
I include myself when I say that it seems
Good Morning Bill,
There has been a lot of back and forth on this, so let me share the
direction I'm going to take on this.
I ordered red, yellow and green LED's made by Luxen that all have very
similar specs. My guess is that they will be significantly less bright
than the existing red LED's
The frequency is plus or minus the QRM. Note the
start time of 1000 hours to try and minimise
European QRM.
73 Dave, G4AON
K3/100, Acom 1000, dipole
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Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy wrote:
Hi Doug,
This certainly happens with the K2.
The cause in the K2 case is that the CW sidetone oscillator signal gets into
the VCO's varicap circuit and frequency modulates the VCO. The sidebands
that I can see coming from my K2 in CW mode are
I don't think anyone ignored you, Jim. According to the time stamps on the
e-mails I got yesterday morning, your answer to the question arrived *after*
Tom, I, and at least one other fellow answered all within a few minutes.
That happens sometimes because there may be a significant delay in the
Hi all. New K3 #2717 here, and thought you old timers might be amused, and
you yet-to-be old timers might be interested in the rig's 1st impressions.
I ordered on Monday, and it arrived in 7 days last Monday, a full week ahead
of when I expected it. I would say it took working on and with it all
Karsten Beyer wrote:
Hello, this is Karsten, DL1QC,
I´m slightly handicaped in hearing on left ear, so I hear CW with K3
always a litte bit out of the middle. Is there an option or procedure to
adjust the level of the stereo phones left/right separately?
Not sure if you have the
Hi all.
My K2 is working fine on 160m, 80m, 30m and 20m but not 40m. I have
switched between ANT1 and 2. RANT is OFF. Nothing helps...
What went wrong for me?
Any settings to check or could it be a hardware failure?
73,
Svend OZ7UV
Well I did learn something today. Like many I waited until the 2nd receiver
was available adding it to my K3 and had not even attempted to use it for
dual receive split operation until yesterday. On 20 meters working the K5D
when I would turn the sub on I would hear an increase in noise a
Tom: Most of this has already been covered to some degree, but let me try
to summarize.
I got from Digi-Key some of the green LEDs from the same mfr (Avago) as the
red ones provided with the W1 kit. Yellow and amber / orange are also mf'd
by Avago but are not available in reasonable quantities
Vic K2VCO wrote on Saturday, February 21, 2009 3:32 PM
The cause in the K2 case is that the CW sidetone oscillator signal gets
into the VCO's varicap circuit and frequency modulates the VCO. The
sidebands that I can see coming from my K2 in CW mode are symmetrical
above and below carrier,
Is there a red LED with similar characteristics to the other colors so that
increasing the current will not result in the increase in red output
relative to the rest?
I brought all current contributors into the address in the event we move off
list. I am also collecting into a single file by
Doug, Perhaps we should all by additional units just for experimenting. A
bit of fun, don't you think?
73,
Bill
K9YEQ
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From: Dave Van Wallaghen [mailto:w8...@comcast.net]
Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 8:53 AM
To: Bill Johnson
Cc: 'Doug Joyce'; 'Jack Smith';
I have had success in eliminating birdies using Waynes new program. I think
the existing approach is sufficent in that you only have to do it
once/birdie. So its no big deal. As Wayne noted some birdies requie more
than one shift and its not clear [to me] when to shift up or down. Would
guess
Svend,
Chack the bandpass filters. Especially check the capasitor values in the
BP-filters. I bet that you will find the soultion of your problem there.
73!
Hans / LA2MOA
2009/2/21 Svend Spanget span...@privat.dk
Hi all.
My K2 is working fine on 160m, 80m, 30m and 20m but not 40m. I have
Svend,
Is this a newly built K2, or one that used to work and has now failed.
Do you have the K60XV option?
If it is newly built, check to be certain you have installed C6 (on the
bottom of the RF Board near the rear panel) correctly. Its leads should
be in the outer holes of the set of 3
Dear group,
Just finished building my K3! It took me about 10 hours from start to
finish. I ran into a few problems, but thankfully nothing major.
My K3 is a 100w version with sub receiver and full complement of filters on
both sub and main receivers. A transverter board and voice
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:59:38 +, Dave Van Wallaghen wrote:
Has anyone else using DM780 with a K3 noticed that very strong psk sigs
produce other images on the waterfall? It is about 2k further up or down from
the original signal and can be decoded on the screen although weaker. I'm
also
Don,
thank you for answering! This K2 used to work, but after I got my K3, it
was left in the background...
It will tune to a good SWR.
The K60XV option is not installed.
73
Svend, OZ7UV
- Original meddelelse -
Fra: Don Wilhelm w3...@embarqmail.com
Til: Svend Spanget
Its quarter to three,
Theres no one in the place cept K3 and me
So set em up joe
I got a little story I think you oughtta know...
73,
Drew
AF2Z
On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 14:10:15 -0500, James KC2UEE wrote:
Dear group,
Just finished building my K3! It took me about 10 hours from start to
Svend,
In that case, try the Cheap and Dirty Signal Tracing in the K2 that
you can download from the Elecraft website Builder's Resource page then
Troubleshooting Tips link.
The direct link is
http://www.elecraft.com/TechNotes/SigTr/K2%20Cheap%20%27n%20Dirty%20Signal%20Tracing.pdf.
That
Thanks for the suggestion Steve. I usually default the NB and NR off
until I need them and I rarely use them. But that makes sense.
As an update to this topic, first, thanks to everyone here who made
suggestions. It was a great learning experience for me.
I did go back and adjust the input to
I'm moving through the bands just fine until it is supposed to nove to 14 mhz.
Instead it shows as 13? This must be something simple. Did not have this
problem last night.
Thanks
Russ
Kd7mpk
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Elecraft: my vote is yes, please!
As Bill mentioned, there is a balance control only if you are using the
subreciever.
I also have a hearing imbalance and would greatly appreciate a left/right
balance control that operates regardless of whether the subreceiver is on or
off. With subreceiver on,
Just built my K3. first, the speaker vibrates even with the foam donut on
the end of the shield. also, the sub receiver doesn't seem to have the same
volume output as the main even if both RF and AF pots are set the same.
Suggestions?
73,
James KC2UEE
Hi Russ,
What you see when changing bands is the MHz value that you're tuned to
on each band. You must have the VFO tuned below 14 MHz on 20 m.
73,
Wayne
N6KR
On Feb 21, 2009, at 1:08 PM, Garrett, Russ wrote:
I'm moving through the bands just fine until it is supposed to nove to
14 mhz.
I also have a slight difference between my two ears, and have the K3, but no
SubRx (yet!).
I found a very nice pair of stereo headphones at Radio Shack that have separate
volume controls. I'm not sure of the part number-- the only number I can find
on my set is 06A08. MFJ makes a monaural
Hi gang,
The weekly Elecraft SSB net will meet tomorrow (Sunday, 2/22/09) at 1800Z.
We will start at 14.316 MHz, and QSY if needed. The net control is in
western Oregon, but we will need a good east coast or midwest station to
relay a few west coast signals that may be too close to net control.
Just posted a review on eham of my new ZN-QRP paddle.
Very, very nicely executed. Form follows function and it functions
beautifully.
http://www.eham.net/reviews/review/78283
I'm completely spoiled now with this beauty plugged into my K3/10.
73
jim ab3cv (just a very satisfied customer)
Thanks. I rotated the vfo first thinking that was it. Didn't rotate it far
enough. Now I'm back. Thanks Wayne.
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Bullivant|Houser|Bailey PC
805 Broadway Street, Suite 400
Vancouver, WA 98660-3310
Dear group,
I've been playing around with the sub receiver with a goal to SWL. The way
I have my K3 set up is to have the general receive module on the sub. The
main has a 13k, 6k, 2.7k, and .5k filter in FL1, Fl2, FL3, and FL4
respectively. The sub receiver has a 13k, 2.7k, and .5k in FL1,
Jim,
Did you set the sub preamp to on? If not, you would have a different volume
level in the sub versus the main RX.
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Help:
I'm trying some new things and I've run into a problem. I'm trying
to use the CW to Data for RTTY feature and I don't get any
results. If I'm on CW, I can send CW via the paddles, and if I try
DATA/PSK D (31 bPS) the CW to PSK31 works correctly (outputs
PSK 31).
If I try to set up DATA/AFSK
Jim,
You need to use FSK-D, not AFSK-A, to do CW-to-RTTY. AFSK-A is an
audio-transmit mode, like DATA-A, while FSK-D is for direct input
from either a computer or the K3's keyer paddle.
This is covered pretty well in the owner's manual, around page 34
(CW-to-DATA).
73,
Wayne
N6KR
On Feb 21,
Thanks Wayne --
That's the area in the book I'd been looking at and I thought I'd
tried them all but obviously not. Sure enough, that works.
Thanks for you help. Perhaps now I can get those guys at K5D
on RTTY.
Hey, you do good work!
73,
Jim - K5LAD
On 21 Feb 2009 at 15:21, wayne burdick
I have firmware version 2.67/1.96.
In this version it is still not possible to use CW to RTTY when using SPLIT.
Has this been fixed in the newer firmware version?
I now use XIT, but this is not so powerfull.
73's, Evert PA2KW
for others that may have been as confused as I was,
here are some additional links:
http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/7169
http://www.n3znkeys.com/
just a confused link follower g
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KA5OAI
Sam Morgan
Jim Miller wrote:
Just posted a review on eham of my new ZN-QRP paddle.
Very,
I just received the W2ENY headset.
After trying them out I was very disappointed.
This headset is a Frisby brand FHP-100. After doing a bit of research this
headset can be purchased online for under $10.00. He has added the
conversion mic cables that go to various radios. He sells them for
Mike:
Thank you for your report.
I would have mailed off an order tomorrow. Thanks again.
Now will hold off.
I bought the Warren Gregoire headset, very comfortable, good reports on sound
quality. BUT it is not stereo, therefor the AFX in the K3 is not working.
I do have stereo speakers that
I don't think you said which model you purchased.
Just out of curiosity, I checked the eHam reviews -- all pretty good,
and looked at the info on his website. While I've never touched one
of these, he advertises the microphone element as being wide
range (100Hz-16Khz) , so that shouldn't
I like these from Micro Innovations:
http://tinyurl.com/d8rsc4
I run them on the K3 with the EQ set flat and get unsolicited compliments on
the audio all the time. I've had them for 6 months so far and they seem
durable enough. For less that $20, you can't go wrong. I wear them backwards
so
Sorry about that.
This is the premium headset
A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may
never get over. Ben Franklin
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From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net
[mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Grant Youngman
Sent:
Headset... headset... that's so I can hear cw better... what's that thing in
front for?
*LOL*
duckin, and runnin for the safety of the paddles..
--... ...-- Dale - WC7S in Wy
From: roblitesp...@hotmail.com
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:08:51 -0600
1. Don't drink while putting this kit together. without realizing, I
ended up getting pretty drunk during the course of assembly just sipping on
beer. Mistakes can and will happen when you're tired AND drunk.
Agreed - That's the down side. On the plus side, if you attach the ground clip
from
Don,
My beer cans were large, but not well grounded...
I have the 2.7k filter for both receivers; didn't bother with the 2.8's, and
so far no complaints.
I ordered matched filters for diversity and all 5 pole filters were -.73
with no deviation. (sweet)
Now I just have to figure out if I
James Sarte wrote:
Now I just have to figure out if I can adjust filters for the sub with the
main controls instead of having to go into the SUB-B menu.
How about A/B, adjust filters, A/B?
This seems to work here. You can set the filters using the main controls,
then the A/B transfers them
Good Evening,
It was a nice, sunny week here on the mountain. There is still snow but the
sun helps. I have received a couple reports concerning 40 meters near net time
but they are not promising. The time change next week may help so please keep
sending reception reports to me. I will
Hi,
Is there a way to read the L and C settings of the KAT3 after auto-tune
cycle? Either computer command or control panel readout would work for me.
73,
Marian
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Evert,
Are you sure you are engaging FSK-D rather than FSK-A? Also, if you are trying
to use an external keyer, it won't work. You have to use the internal keyer.
I've been working RTTY split, using paddle input, with no problem and through
all the updates.
Dave W7AQK
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Sure, Marian. Just set CONFIG:KAT3 to LCSET, then exit the menu. Next,
tap ATU TUNE. Instead of starting ATU tuning, this will display the L
and C settings (Ct/Ca configuration and C value on VFO A, L on VFO B).
In fact you can then tap ANT to change Ct/Ca, and rotate VFO A and B to
change C
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