Re: [Elecraft] balanced tuner

2008-08-17 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
could have serious radiation problems (depending on feeder length). -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more general topics related ham radio List Guidelines http://www.elecraft.com/elecraft_list_guidelines.htm

Re: [Elecraft] K3 and SM20

2008-08-16 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
Jim Brown wrote: On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:04:31 +0100, David Woolley (E.L) wrote: Condenser microphones, that were historically used as broadcast microphones, Condenser mics have historically been used for MUSIC, both recording and broadcast (and they still are). Most broadcasters use

Re: [Elecraft] K3: anticipated date for next normal FW update?

2008-08-16 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
as a marketing ploy. With all betas, you should only become a beta tester if you are prepared to provide detailed feedback on any failings. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more general topics related ham radio List Guidelines

Re: [Elecraft] K3 and SM20

2008-08-15 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
their field from the electret. Electret bias voltages are far too small to be used directly to provide the field in the microphone. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more general topics related ham radio List Guidelines

Re: [Elecraft] KAT2: Power Calibration Problem

2008-08-11 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
the diode is series or parallel. To get true RMS, you either have to assume a sine wave, and use a voltage divider, or you need to integrate the square of the instantaneous voltage, by using thermal effects, using square law detectors, or by integrating digitally. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list

Re: [Elecraft] Beta Software Download Problem

2008-08-04 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
: - Use Firefox - Obtain an FTP program (there are a number of them out there, including Core FTP). Windows comes with a usable command line ftp program. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more general topics related ham

Re: [Elecraft] bandwidth question of K2

2008-08-04 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
on the SSB card, not the variable width filter on the main board. The specification for that is in the manual for the SSB option, although it varies with the vintage of the K2. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more general

Re: [Elecraft] New K3 Manual

2008-08-03 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
the copyright owner to do so. (I believe that permission to print a single copy for personal use does exist.) -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more general topics related ham radio List Guidelines http://www.elecraft.com

Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft Antennas in trees

2008-07-28 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
there is whether or not it could cause serious injury. Batton rounds, with less than 4 times the muzzle energy have killed people, e.g. recently during a firearms training exercise in the UK. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more

Re: [Elecraft] Off Topic RG-174

2008-07-27 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
. This is not perfect, because the attenuation will include dissipation in the dielectric and the shield, which might be closer to the surface and therefore dissipate more easily. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more general topics

Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft Antennas in trees

2008-07-27 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
limb. The throw bags are tough bags filled with around 12oz of ball bearings and the slick link is typically a 5mm rope made from slippery plastic. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more general topics related ham

Re: Re: [Elecraft] Question - for Educational Purposes

2008-07-25 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
2 additions per sample, whereas the FIR style one requires n.) -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more general topics related ham radio List Guidelines http://www.elecraft.com/elecraft_list_guidelines.htm

Re: [Elecraft] [OT] Hilberling PT-8000 cancelled.

2008-07-25 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
wasn't reproducible and could not be rescued by production engineering. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more general topics related ham radio List Guidelines http://www.elecraft.com/elecraft_list_guidelines.htm

Re: [Elecraft] K2: Help, I messed up the dial calibration!!!

2008-07-16 Thread David Woolley
is slightly off, you can work out how much to over/under-correct, and therefore considerably reduce the number of iterations. It's sufficiently long since I did this that I cannot remember the exact details. -- David Woolley Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may

Re: [Elecraft] K3: is it SDR?

2008-07-15 Thread David Woolley
Steve Kallal wrote: For example, early SSB rigs used a balanced modulator that nulled the carrier. Then a filter selected LSB or USB. I think true SDR would do that entirely in software. How does the K3 generate SSB? In software. -- David Woolley Emails are not formal business letters

Re: [Elecraft] Switching supplies and the K3

2008-07-08 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
anything useful in terms of radiated RFI. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more general topics related ham radio List Guidelines http://www.elecraft.com/elecraft_list_guidelines.htm

Re: [Elecraft] K3: KRX3 question

2008-07-07 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
be introducing significant distortion. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more general topics related ham radio List Guidelines http://www.elecraft.com/elecraft_list_guidelines.htm

Re: [Elecraft] truble contacting elecraft

2008-07-05 Thread David Woolley
, as it might be something other than a spam filter, and even if it is, they might indicate which filter rules are causing problems. qth.net is probably well enough known to BTInternet, that they mark it as a safe sender. -- David Woolley Emails are not formal business letters, whatever

Re: [Elecraft] [K3] UTILITY Improvements

2008-07-04 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
that is the standard for dates in XML schemas. It also manages to represent a single, rather complex microformat, as though it were two different ones. In my view, that second case should have been structured with XML. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics

Re: [K3] [Elecraft] Transmit AM through FM Filter?

2008-06-30 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
unbalanced first local oscillator at 15kHz offset. Again, it may be far enough down the skirts not to be too much of a problem. (However the suppression requirements are much higher than for an SSB carrier.) -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft

Re: [Elecraft] K3 Key-down on power-up

2008-06-28 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
at the input. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more general topics related ham radio List Guidelines http://www.elecraft.com/elecraft_list_guidelines.htm ___ Elecraft mailing

Re: [Elecraft] [K3] Transmit AM through FM Filter?

2008-06-28 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
Don Wilhelm wrote: The 'without issue' part is important here. While it could possibly work, to work with spurs and other 'bad things happening' is not likely. Did you, instead, really mean without spurs... here? -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics

Re: [Elecraft] K3 AM feature request

2008-06-20 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
with 5kHz channels; why would 1kHz steps be useful? -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more general topics related ham radio List Guidelines http://www.elecraft.com/elecraft_list_guidelines.htm

Re: [Elecraft] K3 USB option

2008-06-20 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
, there are advantages in having a more directly connected serial card, e.g. - you will need it for accurate time synchronisation to a hardware clock; - you will need it for certain sorts of, timing critical, simple hardware interfaces, such as PIC programmers. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list

Re: [Elecraft] K3 AM feature request

2008-06-20 Thread David Woolley
Alan Bloom wrote: Outside of ITU Region 2 (the Americas) 9 kHz channel spacing is used on the AM band. Which is medium and long wave, not short wave. (I remember when the 200kHz standard frequency became 998kHz!) -- David Woolley Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses

Re: [Elecraft] SDR Adapter

2008-06-19 Thread David Woolley
seem to be infomercials, as the RSGB shop then (acting as an order taking agent) sells the products at a discount.) -- David Woolley Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam, that is no longer

Re: [Elecraft] SDR Adapter

2008-06-18 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
understand it, the difficulty is not in feeding the IF into a Softrock, but in preventing the Softrock feeding its local oscillator into the K3 and compromising that's performance. Incidentally, the K3 *is* an SDR! -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related

Re: [Elecraft] K3 #1029 Build

2008-06-16 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
that it only caused a tingle. Only with the serial cables engaged was it actually grounded, and inserting the cable risked doing the initial grounding through a signal lead. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more general

Re: [Elecraft] K2 - frequency control

2008-06-08 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
to recalibrate the filters, as your 4MHz may have been wrong. Normally you only need to move them up one notch and then back down, so that the firmware senses a change and re-reads the frequency. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products

Re: Re: [Elecraft] K2 - signal loss in band-pass filter

2008-06-05 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
receiver. control board (Gary from Elecraft suggested this for me). This works great and I now see 3.8V but it doesn't really make much of an audible difference. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more general topics related

Re: [Elecraft] K2 KAT100 and BL2 questions

2008-06-03 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more general topics related ham radio List Guidelines http://www.elecraft.com/elecraft_list_guidelines.htm ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft

Re: [Elecraft] K3 Band changing...Devils Advocate...

2008-05-31 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more general topics related ham radio List Guidelines http://www.elecraft.com/elecraft_list_guidelines.htm ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft

Re: [Elecraft] K3 Band changing...

2008-05-30 Thread David Woolley
of the phasing design (although note that I am not an ESSB believer). (They might just be third method, but that is still a phasing design.) -- David Woolley Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam

Re: [Elecraft] K3 Filter selection

2008-05-29 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
units may achieve that shape factor by going flat to a higher frequency and then cutting off much more sharply. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more general topics related ham radio List Guidelines http://www.elecraft.com

Re: [Elecraft] K3s in WPX M/S - WOW!

2008-05-28 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
of the previous output with (1 - that proportion) times the current input. A simple FIR filter would be a rolling average, where you average the last n samples. Note that this requires n calculations, whereas the exponential average only requires a couple. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list

Re: [Elecraft] dead transistors at the K2

2008-05-27 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
, that would indicate that the originals really were damaged, or at least some of them where. If its still didn't work, that would indicate that the originals were probably OK. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more general

Re: [Elecraft] [K3] Logging programs and internal keyer

2008-05-25 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
. The advantage of the parallel port is that you can set a pin to +5 V to power your paddle input circuit.) As it's not a priority, you wouldn't expect many choices. However, stealing supply voltages from RS232C outputs is no problem. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion

Re: [Elecraft] K3 IF Design

2008-05-24 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
IF is that the synthesizer must cover a much larger range relatively speaking, but it appears that the K3 synthesizer performs admirably in spite of this challenge. The advantage of being able to offer excellent filters at the 1st IF is undisputable. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum

Re: [Elecraft] OT: Want USB Output Keyer Info.

2008-05-23 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
), it seems to me that it is on topic, and some people find the most interesting thing about mailing lists is what they learn from threads that are near the edge of the charter (or drift off charter). -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related

Re: [Elecraft] RTTY filter for K3

2008-05-20 Thread David Woolley
that should work. My impression was that that was the expected way of handling RTTY signals. Transmitter circuits from 1968 simply switched between two oscillators to key the signal; they didn't try to make a smooth transition in the frequency domain. -- David Woolley Emails are not formal business

Re: [Elecraft] RTTY filter for K3

2008-05-19 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
systems, like PSK, but I would have thought it must be possible to train a filter off an asynchronous signal as well, although one might have solve for the signalling unit centre position after receiving the whole character. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion

Re: [Elecraft] Re: Zero beat hint and why 800hz maximum?

2008-05-17 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
) or a near logarithmic scale, with rational frequency ratios (natural (is this well tempered?) semitones). -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more general topics related ham radio List Guidelines http://www.elecraft.com

Re: [Elecraft] K3 BETA FIRMWARE RELEASE -- MCU rev 1.94

2008-05-17 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
against a signal that is being 100% amplitude modulated at about 10 to 30 baud (12 to 36 wpm). It gets quite difficult to separate the amplitude modulation from the keying from that from the beating. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related

Re: [Elecraft] K2 - KIO2 stop bit oddity

2008-05-15 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
baud is normally sent with one stop bit. As noted elsewhere, it is only really for mechanical devices that one needed longer ones, so it tends to be 110 and below (maybe 300) that uses 2, or for, 5 unit, Baudot, 1.5. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics

Re: [Elecraft] Very Dissatisfied With Elecraft Support

2008-05-15 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
to pay a couple of hundred bucks, Mouser are claiming to have 9,170 in stock, for immediate delivery! http://www.mouser.com/Search/ProductDetail.aspx?qs=A09egTk0tbXMpOf3uR8i2Q%3d%3d -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more

Re: [Elecraft] Antistatic mat without electrical ground

2008-05-14 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
is bonded to 'ground', no potential (!) exists for electrocution. Until, that is, a ham decides to ground his equipment 'properly' outside. Then large amounts of current can potentially flow! -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products

Re: [Elecraft] Copyright images used on YouTube The Elecraft Band without permission

2008-05-14 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
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Re: [Elecraft] Antistatic mat without electrical ground

2008-05-12 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
to protect against static during assembly of the K3 kit? Ground the mat to a ground rod outside? Or to a metal gas pipe (for grounding me, not as RF ground!)? There are no water pipes accessible my build location. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related

Re: [Elecraft] K3 Band switch

2008-05-09 Thread David Woolley
), a consumer SWL receiver with SSB capability, does it and it has been common in mouse and trackball drivers for three or so decades. -- David Woolley Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam

Re: [Elecraft] K3 Band switch

2008-05-09 Thread David Woolley
after the last band switch press. If the K3 doesn't already do it, couldn't it defer sending any signals that would normally cause external switching in the same way? -- David Woolley Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. RFC1855 says there should be an address here

Re: [Elecraft] K3 - Roofing filter for SWLing

2008-05-06 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
built in, but that will not be designed to provide adequate image rejecting and elimination of other close in aliases. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more general topics related ham radio List Guidelines http

Re: [Elecraft] K3 - Roofing filter for SWLing

2008-05-06 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
David Woolley (E.L) wrote: This has already been covered, more than once. Without the filter, one will get image responses at 30kHz less twice the DSP IF filter Sorry, I meant twice the audio bandwidth. For AM it is the IF bandwidth. bandwidth. You will also, probably, get aliasing

Re: [Elecraft] K3 FM filter required for full AM receive width

2008-05-05 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
a filter at all is not an option, becuause of the image response. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more general topics related ham radio List Guidelines http://www.elecraft.com/elecraft_list_guidelines.htm

Re: [Elecraft] K3 FIRMWARE UPDATE: MCU 1.87, DSP 1.69 (Finally!)

2008-05-05 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
designed for wide bandwidths. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more general topics related ham radio List Guidelines http://www.elecraft.com/elecraft_list_guidelines.htm ___ Elecraft

Re: [Elecraft] K3 FM filter required for full AM receive width

2008-05-05 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
to 10kHz, the adjacent channel will be an issue. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more general topics related ham radio List Guidelines http://www.elecraft.com/elecraft_list_guidelines.htm

Re: [Elecraft] 80M on KX1

2008-05-03 Thread David Woolley
to have one antenna to do all bands, but if not a separate wire for 80M is okay too. -- David Woolley Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam, that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding

Re: [Elecraft] K3 - Linking the VFOs for CW - SSB switching

2008-05-03 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
stocking up on blank parts, in case the source is ever opened. Icom rigs (don't know about Kenwood). The paddle/key would be in parallel with the microphone (so to speak). Hitting the paddle would -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related

Re: [Elecraft] K3 - Linking the VFOs for CW - SSB switching

2008-05-03 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
behaviour would be an advantage. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more general topics related ham radio List Guidelines http://www.elecraft.com/elecraft_list_guidelines.htm

Re: [Elecraft] K3 wish list - option to turn off display

2008-04-30 Thread David Woolley
, G3YIQ ___ **Need a new ride? Check out the largest site for U.S. used car listings at AOL Autos. (http://autos.aol.com/used?NCID=aolcmp0030002851) -- David Woolley Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses

Re: [Elecraft] K3 Unlocking Tx limits

2008-04-26 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
purity compliance, so you need instrumentation that can actually measure spurious outputs, whereas, when operating in band, the system is certified not to violate such limits. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more general

Re: [Elecraft] Buddipoles and KX1

2008-04-18 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
, the longer of the two would dominate. Over a good ground, things get more complicated, and I'm not sure I can give a good intuitive analysis. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more general topics related ham radio List

Re: [Elecraft] K3 - FSK hookup to ACC connector

2008-04-11 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
to less than 5 volts. I'd suggest the simplest approach is to use a resistor and an opto-isolator, with a reverse diode across the isolator input, to avoid reverse breakdown of the LED. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products

Re: [Elecraft] OT - End of the line for XP

2008-04-11 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
on people continually updating, and one way of achieving this is to make sure that the copy is obsoleted when the computer is obsoleted. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more general topics related ham radio List Guidelines

Re: [Bulk] Re: [Elecraft] Import duties on amateur radio items

2008-04-11 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
of the goods look low? For that sort of reason, the UK tactic of considering shipping for commercial transactions, and ignoring it for gifts, makes sense. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more general topics related ham

Re: [Elecraft] Import duties on amateur radio items

2008-04-09 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
legislation, that duty and VAT are based on the bottom line price, including shipping and insurance. Shipping and insurance is not counted for gifts sent directly from one individual to another, and the limit is GBP 36, rather than GBP 18, but that is not relevant for a company. -- David Woolley

Re: [Elecraft] KUSB to Serial

2008-04-06 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
of Windows drivers aren't really drivers, but rather parameter files that tell the real driver that a particular USB ID requires, for example, a USB serial driver.) -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more general topics

Re: [Elecraft] ktcx03-1 and phase noise

2008-04-06 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
. [ Very long line re-wrapped ] -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more general topics related ham radio List Guidelines http://www.elecraft.com/elecraft_list_guidelines.htm

Re: [Elecraft] K2 KAT2 Lo P

2008-04-06 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
. The reset position is the last remembered one for the band and antenna, so, if you last used the dummy load on the band and antenna, you would not expect any activity, as the reflected power will already be low enough. [ Single, very long line, paragraphs, re-wrapped. ] -- David Woolley

Re: [Elecraft] K2: onboard speaker connector

2008-04-06 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
for the Elecraft parts, but I think they are pretty much commodity parts. You may also find that Elecraft will supply them by letter post. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more general topics related ham radio List

Re: [Elecraft] K3: PC boards - lead free?

2008-04-06 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
Brett Howard wrote: Well lets put it this way if you are in Europe and you buy an electronic product its made with lead free solder unless its been on the shelf for a good long while. Or its intended for use in a server computer or as a network infrastructure device. -- David Woolley

Re: [Elecraft] K2: Transmitting a little low

2008-04-05 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
hertz (w/o using XIT!) would be appreciated. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more general topics related ham radio List Guidelines http://www.elecraft.com/elecraft_list_guidelines.htm

Re: [Elecraft] K3 DSP shape factor?

2008-04-02 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
have constant group delays (whereas symmetric FIR ones do). -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more general topics related ham radio List Guidelines http://www.elecraft.com/elecraft_list_guidelines.htm

Re: [Elecraft] K2 fails to start - partial Elecraft display, no signal(was:Problems with my K2 --- can anyone help??)

2008-04-01 Thread David Woolley
between the main micro-controller and the display controller. -- David Woolley Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam, that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding may not work

[Elecraft] K2 fails to start - partial Elecraft display, no signal (was:Problems with my K2 --- can anyone help??)

2008-03-31 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
. Unfortunately, the codes for this are not published. (There could be other reasons for a partial display,) -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more general topics related ham radio List Guidelines http://www.elecraft.com

Re: [Elecraft] K3 60m ERR TXG

2008-03-30 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
can't be CE approved. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more general topics related ham radio List Guidelines http://www.elecraft.com/elecraft_list_guidelines.htm ___ Elecraft

Re: [META] [Elecraft] test

2008-03-30 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
a real article and that one does have a character that is in neither ASCII nor ISO 8859/1 (U+2122). This worked in both the digest and the qth.net web interface, with my viewers and fonts. (The ASCII encoding of ASCII characters is identical to the UTF-8 encoding of them.) -- David Woolley

Re: [Elecraft] K2 High Current

2008-03-28 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
monitoring diodes on the 100 watt PA. I believe they are 1N5711's. There are many examples of this in the list archives. The K2 isn't EMP hardened! Any ideas please? [ Single line paragraphs have been wrapped and interparagraph spacing added ] -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum

Re: [Elecraft] K3 - EQ on CW TX

2008-03-28 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
the tone? [ Single line paragraph re-wrapped. ] -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more general topics related ham radio List Guidelines http://www.elecraft.com/elecraft_list_guidelines.htm

Re: [Elecraft] K2 VFO linearization sequence

2008-03-26 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
memory. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more general topics related ham radio List Guidelines http://www.elecraft.com/elecraft_list_guidelines.htm ___ Elecraft mailing list Post

Re: [Elecraft] [K3] Passband flatness for FSK441

2008-03-21 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
variation from the IF filters). If the decoder is good, it will have an adaptive filter that will automatically equalise the signal for good digital decoding. [ Single line paragraphs have been arbitrarily wrapped.] -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related

Re: [Elecraft] K3 2.7kHz filter DSP FC

2008-03-20 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
) is. That's basically the strategy used by telephone modems (except 56kbs ones, which play tricks with the digitisation of the signal). The faster ones use a carrier of about 1800Hz (nominal channel centre is 1850 Hz). -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related

Re: [Elecraft] KAT2 without balun - which doublet length is better?

2008-03-18 Thread David Woolley
antenna or feeder lentgh or maybe adding/removing a piece of feeder on some bands? Are there some proven length to use? The G5RV was designed to have a relatively good match on all the pre-WARC bands. -- David Woolley Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. RFC1855

Re: [Elecraft] K2 #6425 low/no sensitivity - suggestions?

2008-03-17 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
it under warranty, and doing so will get it formally recorded as a quality failure. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more general topics related ham radio List Guidelines http://www.elecraft.com

Re: [Elecraft] posting links

2008-03-16 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
closed down.) Doing this with a dynamic IP address is probably even more likely to result in the mail being filtered. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more general topics related ham radio List Guidelines http

Re: [Elecraft] [META] Nabble threads?

2008-03-16 Thread David Woolley
. Outlook is possibly a particular problem, as it can thread Usenet but not email. -- David Woolley Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam, that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding may

Re: [Elecraft] [K2] : Laptop UPS

2008-03-16 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
knowledge, to do quality control. Governments also have a responsibility. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more general topics related ham radio List Guidelines http://www.elecraft.com/elecraft_list_guidelines.htm

Re: [Elecraft] [META] Nabble threads?

2008-03-16 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
Rick Kunath wrote: David Woolley wrote: Outlook is possibly a particular problem, as it can thread Usenet but not email. Outlook can thread email messages. It isn't set to do that by default though. And most people don't have it set that way. Many people use back versions of Outlook

Re: [Elecraft] posting links

2008-03-15 Thread David Woolley
, if mail is not getting through because it contains full URLs I would suspect the real problem is a spam filter somewhere down the line, as URLs in email are a spam indicator. -- David Woolley Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. RFC1855 says there should

Re: [Elecraft] VP6DX -- the true story ?

2008-03-15 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
from the signal path; i.e., operate only with the crystal filters. The product detector (or FM discriminator) is implemented in the DSP firmware, so, if you could bypass the DSP, you would have a signal at the final IF frequency (15kHz?), not a baseband one. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list

Re: [Elecraft] Printing manuals

2008-03-10 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
for the difference is a post-sales one. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more general topics related ham radio List Guidelines http://www.elecraft.com/elecraft_list_guidelines.htm

Re: [Elecraft] Exciting manual to match exciting K3

2008-03-09 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
suspect there are a significant number of operators who are blind or partially sighted, and would therefore benefit from screen readers or reflowed, enlarged text. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more general topics related

Re: [Elecraft] OT: How to reply to a thread, and why it's important

2008-03-07 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more general topics related ham radio List Guidelines http://www.elecraft.com/elecraft_list_guidelines.htm ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft

Re: [Elecraft] [K3] Noise Reduction Recording

2008-02-28 Thread David Woolley
is dominated by adjacent spectral peaks. In general, noisy signals are difficult to compress. Sound will show a bias towards zero, so will be partially comprssible. -- David Woolley Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. RFC1855 says there should be an address

Re: [Elecraft] [K3] Noise Reduction Recording

2008-02-26 Thread David Woolley
, noise reduction has to be more of an operator comfort thing than really improving the signal. If the noise is so strong that you cannot make out the speech, the noise reduction isn't going to be able to find it anyway. -- David Woolley Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses

Re: [Elecraft] Not All Hams are Technicians (WAS: Microphones)

2008-02-15 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
would prefer that services not be provided for free on the basis of cheap amateur radio licences. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more general topics related ham radio List Guidelines http://www.elecraft.com

Re: Re: [Elecraft] Wrong Filter Question - 8 pole vs. 5 Pole Filters

2008-02-05 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
, they don't actually have to be measured. = -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more general topics related ham radio List Guidelines http://www.elecraft.com/elecraft_list_guidelines.htm

Re:[Elecraft] K3 filter performance

2008-01-28 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
filters that can be implemented in modern fast DSPs, combined with the relatively fixed distortion the the receive filters, cannot compensate for non-synchronous signals. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more general

Re: [Elecraft] L34 on K2 tuning question?

2008-01-26 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
, will have very little bandwidth. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more general topics related ham radio List Guidelines http://www.elecraft.com/elecraft_list_guidelines.htm

Re: [Elecraft] L34 on K2 tuning question?

2008-01-23 Thread David Woolley
Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy wrote: David Woolley wrote: I am pretty sure that the birdy is a harmonic of the main microcontroller instruction rate and is entering before the mixer. I agree that this is one source, and one point of entry for this signal.is K16 / K17. Why do you say

Re: [Elecraft] L34 on K2 tuning question?

2008-01-22 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
of the adjacent chips reduces the internal generated noise voltage at the the chip interface - I'm not sure why people should be saying that one should be specifically optimising for noise above the birdy. -- David Woolley The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft

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