Ah, okay Mike, I missed that this was already universally rejected by
everybody...
I assumed TenTec and Yeasu tried to implement this for a good reason, but
weren't succesfull, and I had the illusion Elecraft could be the first to
come up with a good solution.
But ofcourse I won't stand up to a
Hi all,
Just finished part II of the RF board assembly. (If it makes any
difference, this is a ~6-year old never opened kit that I'm assembling, ser
#5441, with the thermistor board mod and the PLL stability mod on the bottom
of the board). PLL reference OSC stable at 12084.34Khz when in CAL
Somewhere I pushed the wrong button.
When I change modes (SSB to CW and nice-versa) the filter bandwidth is not
retained. As an example I set the HI cut to 2.35 and the LO cut is at .15.
If I change modes to CW and then go back to SSB the HI cut is at 2.70 and
the LO cut is at .10. And if I
For a moment, consider that what the LDG rep says may be true.
I suspect that it is, given the incredible advertising promotional budgets
that Icom and Yaesu apparently have from sales of their products.
While Elecraft is clearly doing well and they're growing, it is also clear
that these
There appears to be more demand for this than we thought, so we're
looking into it again.
This is excellent news and I'm sure will be much appreciated, especially with
the number of
surplus Thunderbolt GPS and Rubidium 10MHz standards available at the moment.
I have no idea of the amount of
Hello all,
when I try to edit CW Memories I get this:
An exception of class OutOfBoundsException was not handled. The
application must shut down.
If I hit OK utility goes out.
Any help will be welcome here.
Best 73.
CT1DRB
David Quental
Gil,
Your troubleshooting should start in the middle. Monitor the voltage at
RF board U5 pin 7 while in the CAL FCTR menu. You should see 4 volts
there when you tap BAND+ and zero volts when you tap BAND-. If that
does not happen, your problem will be found bact toward the
microprocessor,
I am not going to writte again about the K3,its enough said in this site but
this time there is something I want to say about Elecraft technical support.
A week ago by mistake I plug a mono plug at the speakers stereo jack at the
rear without changing the config menu to 1 to avoy
Perhaps you were unaware of this mod:
http://www.elecraft.com/K3/mods/AF_Output_Mod_Rev_C.pdf
I believe that it was specifically designed to protect against what you
did for pre DEC '08 K3's.
Is your's this old?
It would be nice to know if this mod did not work for a newer K3.
73 de
I agree with our good fortune in having such a responsive manufacturer that
provides such excellent support.
Addressing the specific issue of damage caused by inadvertently inserting a
mono plug instead of a stereo one, is it feasible to develop a circuit
modification that would eliminate the
Oops, I didn't realize that it had been fixed in January 2009.
Jim N7US
-Original Message-
I agree with our good fortune in having such a responsive manufacturer that
provides such excellent support.
Addressing the specific issue of damage caused by inadvertently inserting a
mono
The recent posts on QRQ CW and the new CW+ option on the K3 were of special
interest to me. A few years ago,during the sunspot low, I decided to improve
my CW skills as I could not hear much on the bands out here on Maui with no
sunspots! I really got interested in QRQ as a consequence.
On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:07:58 -0700 (PDT), Leigh L. Klotz Jr WA5ZNU
le...@wa5znu.org wrote:
Yes, that is true, but the rest of the advertisement that led to the sale of
them (the auto temperature correction) has not been implemented. Which concerns
me and others that bought them.
That's one of
On a new build KX1 last night I noticed that when the LED went off as
designed, there was a faint outline of 88 in the first two digits. I
had not noticed this prior, but it was the first time I had used the KX1
in a very dark environment. I could set the LED to three levels as
designed, the
After looking at the specs for the new LDG 600 watt tuner and their existing
KW tuner, I bought the KW model for my Ameritron ALS-600.
I need it to tune my 80 meter open-wire-fed dipole antenna on 80, 75, 60,
40, and 30 meters. I also have a hexagonal beam connected as antenna 2, but
all of a
Although I haven't changed the TCXO settings, after a very short warmup
period, my K3 stays within 1.5 Hz or less, mostly within about 1/2 Hz
with the main source of errors being what I assume are integer rounding
errors in the frequency generation chain which shouldn't be affected by
the auto
Well, after getting a handful of replies, I'm opting to NOT put the low pass
filter in the line. Had totally forgotten about most of 'em having a cutoff
at 30 MHz, and sooner or later I'm gonna give six meters a try. Thanks for
the replies folks!
73, Jim / W6JHB
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On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 02:27:39 -0700 (PDT), pd0psb sailor...@hotmail.com wrote:
In line...
Ah, okay Mike, I missed that this was already universally rejected by
everybody...
I assumed TenTec and Yeasu tried to implement this for a good reason, but
weren't succesfull, and I had the illusion
I will agree with the below email.
I have a Ameritron ALS600 and an MFJ 998 autotuner. I
bought this combo for use with my former TS850. When I
purchased the K3, I continued to use the tuner, albeit with
no rig control, as the tuner was connected to the TS850's
tune button with a home made
I'll add my endorsement of the MFJ998. Mine is located remotely in my
garden shed so I never actually see it or hear it but it works as
advertised.
I swallowed hard before buying it but so far ( 2 months) it has not
disappointed. I treat my system gently, rarely running over 500 watts from
If you wish to continue this discussion with me please, let's do it through
private emails, not on the reflector.
Tom, I'v sent you the qwerty link privately.
But this topic was about a query, not qwerty :-)
The query was about a scalable IF gain/AGC threshold, compensating the
higher
No worries about that.
Ease your mind, that is normal, but only seen when the ambient light is
VERY low.
73,
Don W3FPR
Schindele, William wrote:
On a new build KX1 last night I noticed that when the LED went off as
designed, there was a faint outline of 88 in the first two digits. I
had not
Great news and I would second Don, WB5HAK, suggestion of an internal antenna
switch for the K# without the tuner.
Any guidance on price levels, particularly for the external tuner? Pre-order
list?
Cheers,
Julius
-
Julius Fazekas
N2WN
Tennessee Contest Group
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:12:53 -0700 (PDT), pd0psb sailor...@hotmail.com wrote:
Paul,
Thank you for the correction. After reading the wiki link I realized that my
graphic artist and typesetter father was wrong when he told me that!
BT 73 ES GUD LUK
DE N5GE,
QCWA LIFE MEMBER 35102 AR SK
Way too early for that. My best guess is probably some time Q1 of this
next year.
73, Eric WA6HHQ
On 6/17/2010 10:19 AM, Julius Fazekas n2wn wrote:
Any guidance on price levels, particularly for the external tuner? Pre-order
list?
Cheers,
Julius
-
Julius Fazekas
N2WN
Tennessee
So you bought the TCXO because you wanted to be able to say that it
was further temperature compensated by firmware? Because what was
promised was that it would get to 0.5PPM via additional firmware
correction. Well it turns out that the oscillators already do that
out of the box. Thus
I encountered an interesting situation building a new control panel
box for my station that controls all the radio equipment: antenna
relays, preamps, transverters, amplifiers and switches between two
radios: FT-847 and the K3/10. I used opto-isolators to separate the
radio side from the
G'day,
Remote version some thoughts:
Power feed and signalling up the coax
Integrated remote antenna switch
Regards,
Mike VP8NO
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Brett is correct in that we ultimately determined that the TCXO3-1 parts
already met our 0.5ppm spec, so additional temperature correction in f/w
was not necessary. We only planned on using the f/w correction if we
needed it to get to the 0.5ppm level. I apologize if we have not made
this
FB Eric, will watch for future announcements...
Julius Fazekas
N2WN
Tennessee Contest Group
http://www.k4ro.net/tcg/index.html
http://groups.google.com/group/tcg1?hl=en
Tennessee QSO Party
http://www.tnqp.org/
Elecraft K2 #4455
Elecraft K3/100 #366
Elecraft K3/100 #1875
--- On Thu,
Hi Mike,
This looks like it went to me only, you may want to confirm it went to the
reflector.
Sounds like a couple good ideas!
73,
Julius
Julius Fazekas
N2WN
Tennessee Contest Group
http://www.k4ro.net/tcg/index.html
http://groups.google.com/group/tcg1?hl=en
Tennessee QSO Party
To get to the next significant level of precision, that's a reasonable
priority. Even though the new reference board may not resolve to the
precision offered by a rubidium or GPS-DO standard, at least there's comfort
in knowing that lock is occurring to such a unit and that excellent
Thanks ever so much for the response Don.
Bill KJ6BVV
-Original Message-
From: Don Wilhelm [mailto:w3...@embarqmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 10:17 AM
To: Schindele, William
Cc: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KX1 LED Display Issue
No worries about that.
Ease
First off my K3/10 is what most consider QRP. I use a used MFJ-945E
tuner on 80-6m (also used when I ran my FT-847 on HF). Supposedly
rated to 300w (?) but I do not have anything that runs that high built.
But, mainly, I want to respond to the K3 types are devoted and
loyal, we're just a
With all the functions admirably performed by my K3 why is the clock so
inaccurate. It looses time with startling glee and, considering WWV/WWV-H
are just a buttom push away, you'd think there would be some way to connect
the two the clock to the source. While I am certainly not the only one
Hi all,
I'm putting my K2 (Serial No. 2448) up for sale on here, as I've not been able
to play radio for a few years now and I'd like to see it go to a good shack!
Quite frankly, I'd like to use the funds raised to build up a workbecnh and
start homebrewing my own gear.
Details are below
One more thought:
Ability to tune balanced antennas
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:52:57 -0400
Mike Harris mike.har...@cwimail.fk wrote:
G'day,
Remote version some thoughts:
Power feed and signalling up the coax
Integrated remote antenna switch
Regards,
Mike VP8NO
You can't argue with the numbers. And while Eric and company would like to
be a $100 million company, I think they have some way to go to reach that
level.
The reason you run into others with the K3 is that you are here in the
U.S. and many of those folks are like-minded with you and I, looking
Same problem here and a replacement crystal did nothing to correct the problem.
Mel, K6KBE
--- On Thu, 6/17/10, John j...@t6ee.com wrote:
From: John j...@t6ee.com
Subject: [Elecraft] Clock
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Date: Thursday, June 17, 2010, 12:07 PM
With all the functions admirably
I would like to be able to calibrate it according the manual and Method 3
73 de M0XDF
--
Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are
putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.
-Mark Twain, author and humorist (1835-1910)
On 17 Jun 2010, at 19:37, Brett Howard
You can input the information via the K3 utility. It is then stored in the
radio...
~Brett
On Jun 17, 2010 1:16 PM, David Ferrington, M0XDF m0...@alphadene.co.uk
wrote:
I would like to be able to calibrate it according the manual and Method 3
73 de M0XDF
--
Sometimes I wonder whether the
Has anyone used a Heil Goldline mic with a K3? I would like to use the Heil
with my soon-to-arrive K3. It works great with my soon-to-be-replaced Drake
TR7A. I was just wondering whether I should invest in another adapter cable.
Robert N9EF
Actually the K3 can sell a LOT less than 100Million and be on par with
the number of IKY's sold. While Elecraft is a Ham Radio only
organization IKY make a lot of money selling communications products
to completely unrelated sectors.
~Brett
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:32 PM, w...@w5ov.com
It would be nice to have a built-in frequency standard that receives its signal
from WWV and maybe other known time signals around the world. This frequency
standard might also provide the source for an accurate clock in the K3. I'm
dreaming---just a thought! Roy W4WFB
Yep just get the Kenwood adapter cable and it'll plug right in and
work like a champ!
~Brett (N7MG)
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Robert Mitilieri rc...@yahoo.com wrote:
Has anyone used a Heil Goldline mic with a K3? I would like to use the Heil
with my soon-to-arrive K3. It works great
The goldline mic works great on the K3. If you are going to use it on the FP
connection you will need the kenwood heil adapter or roll your own. If using
the
RP mic connector you can just terminate using a 3.5mm stereo plug with mic+ on
the
tip and mic- on the sleeve. If you want to use
Is it then used - I thought I saw a post saying you can input it, but it's not
used.
And I wonder if that works in the OSX version ?
73 de M0XDF
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As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy
death. -Leonardo da Vinci, painter, engineer, musician, and scientist
You said you wanted to be able to calibrate it via the data that came
with the device. You can calibrate it by inputting the data to the
radio and you will get the 0.5PPM accuracy you were promised. Does
that mean that the data is used? No. But you CAN input it and you
WILL get the accuracy you
It may be stored, but it isn't used. Hardly matters. It's a radio sold to
amateur radio operators for use as a radio, not a NIST field office.
My suspicion is that if this feature were implemented, we'd have the entire
cadre of guys who insist on measuring everything measuring the radio in
You're not dreaming -- you're delusional :-)
On Jun 17, 2010, at 4:04 PM, Roy Morris wrote:
I'm dreaming---
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The current OS X version of Utility does not have the feature. YOu have to use
the Win(doze) version.
The RADIO -- you know, the K3 -- does not support Mode 3 calibration. You can
key anything in there you like -- your mom's birthday, lucky numbers, the
angular momentum of Uranus, or even
Brett, I think after all this time, I may have misunderstood the Reference
Oscillator calibration instructions.
I had always read the following:
Reference Oscillator
The K3’s reference oscillator is a TCXO, or temperature-compensated crystal
oscillator. It is normally calibrated at assembly
See http://fermi.la.asu.edu/w9cf/articles/balun.pdf by one of our intrepid
qrp foxes (W9CF) for an excellent technical discussion of balun placement
and requirements.
See http://audiosystemsgroup.com/RFI-Ham.pdf (K9YC's paper) which includes
excellent recipes for baluns. A balun of proper design,
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:55:30 -0500, Robert Mitilieri wrote:
whether I should invest in another adapter cable.
Own a soldering iron? Why not (gasp!) MAKE an adapter cable?
73, Jim K9YC
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Thats a feature. No matter what you enter you'll always get the
0.5PPM that you paid for. ;)
~Brett
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Grant Youngman n...@tx.rr.com wrote:
The current OS X version of Utility does not have the feature. YOu have to
use the Win(doze) version.
The RADIO -- you
Understood. That makes a lot more sense. I'd bet you probably did
better than you think but I understand the FUD (Fear, Uncertainty,
and/or Doubt) that you may have messed it up. Perhaps you could
borrow a MFJ259B from a local club or elmer to get the job done. I
used the zero beat function
Hi Don and Gary,
Thanks for the quick replies and you both nailed it. U6 pin1 was being
pulled down by a solder bridge on the thermistor board between the lower pad
of the thermistor and left pad of R-D. Strand of solder no more than 1/10th
the thickness of a hair. Even with the magnifier I
Sorry for the error. The general website for QRQ is:
http://qrqcwnet.ning.com/
and the iCW website is:
http://groups.google.com/group/i_cw?hl=en
in response to Peter on 17 June, 2010
Your two urls seem to be the same. What's the QRQ general web site?
Peter W0LLN
On Thu, Jun 17,
I also have one and run 1.5 kw without an issue.
Bill
K9YEQ
-Original Message-
From: Don Ehrlich [mailto:ehrl...@clallambroadband.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 11:53 AM
To: lrom...@ij.net; k9...@live.com
Cc: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] LDG AND MFJ998
I'll add
Exactly.
I'd believe $100M in the amateur (HF and VHF/UHF), commercial, maritime,
and aviation markets combined.
I'd love to know how many HF rigs they sell per year.
On 6/17/2010 4:04 PM, Brett Howard wrote:
Actually the K3 can sell a LOT less than 100Million and be on par with
the number of
Gil,
Great to hear you found it.
73,
Don W3FPR
Gil Bishop wrote:
Hi Don and Gary,
Thanks for the quick replies and you both nailed it. U6 pin1 was being
pulled down by a solder bridge on the thermistor board between the lower pad
of the thermistor and left pad of R-D. Strand of solder
Bob Naumann wrote:
What this tells us is that while us K3 types are devoted and loyal, we're
just a drop in the bucket of the world-wide amateur market compared to the
big two. (Kenwood doesn't count until they come out with a real radio -
then it once again may be the 'big 3').
Actually, I
I had the pleasure of helping out at the Elecraft booth at SeaPac
recently and I also took a bit of time to go and listen to how Icom's
booth was going...
The Icom booth guys seemed to be marketing guys who don't really do a
lot of ham stuff. The Elecraft booth was being assisted by customers
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