Shot in the dark, but I'm in need of an unused Ten Tec TP-41 enclosure
for a receiver project I'm working on. If anyone has one they'll part
with, (I don't care if it's scratched up, just no holes drilled in it)
please email me direct with your asking price.
Thanks,
Jim - W0EB
Memo to
AMEN! Also, Eric closed this thread at 6:30 or so California time.
Obviously a lot of you don't bother to read his posts.
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Also not mentioned in the release notes - the ability to actually assign
LINK to PF1 or PF2 by selecting the menu item and then holding the PF1
or PF2 button for a couple seconds now actually works as well. Just
tested it.
Jim - W0EB
On 26/02/2015 11:50, Wayne Burdick wrote:
K3 beta
I have a few birdies on 6, but after reading your post Jim, I checked
them out against the KPA500 and so far I can't find any that I can
attribute to the amplifier. I marked down all the ones I could hear
with the amplifier on and the LCD as bright as it will go. I then shut
the amp off and
Pete and other interested parties,
IMO, yes, it was worth it, but as previously stated by others, it
depends on what your operating style/habits are. If you are a casual CW
operator and don't really use QSK, you may never notice the changes as
they are really subtle to most ears. Most
There's are 3 calibration levels in the Utility. 50Watt, 5 Watt and 1
milliwatt. Do all 3 of them and you should have it covered.
Jim - W0EB
Memo to NSA, DHS, FBI, CIA, DIA, DEA, ATF, KGB, MI5, and any other
alphabet soup agencies that might be listening/reading/tracking my email
Roy (and others) if you're doing something wrong, I am too. I can get
PF1 to work on any other item except VFO LNK. On anything else, when
you hold PF1, it beeps and you get the message PF1 SET. This doesn't
happen with the VFO LNK menu item. Holding PF1 produces the beep, but
no PF1 SET
The narrowest filter I have in both receivers is the 400 Hz one. I
borrowed a K3 that had a 250 Hz filter in it once and tried it on RTTY.
It works, but it's right on the margin of being too narrow. If someone
is using one of the older Packet TNC's that have RTTY mode in them (they
used 200
I looked it over and the only reason you would have to remove the KRX3
is if you had it installed but were only buying one KSYN3A. You must
have the same synthesizer installed for both receivers. If you just
change out the main receiver's synthesizer, you then must remove both
the old 2nd
Just got around to installing 5.10. Good thing I remembered Wayne's
caveat to re-run the power calibration routines in the K3 Utility as I
have a tendency to forge ahead without reading the release notes that
carefully.
I had been having a few minor power output glitches when running the
Just finished a nice QSO on 40 meters and the right channel click using
NEW QSK seems to be completely gone (or so low my old ears can't detect
it). I set the 60 meter channels up in memories using the K3/KX3 memory
editor and tried running through the modes and used TUNE and ATU-TUNE
into a
I'll add to this in that I just tested my KPA500 to see what the noise
floor did with it on or off. On an antenna, I noticed absolutely no
change in noise floor on any band 160-6, but just to kill the
atmospheric noise, I connected a dummy load to the output of the KPA500.
Again, absolutely
The piglet does not need a connection to the iPad. It connects via
WiFi, either through your home wireless network or direct, depending on
how you set it up. Set up instructions are either in the Piglet's book
or in their on-line instructions on www.pignology.net I don't have one
right now,
An alternative to the Pelican is a pretty decent one offered by Marlin
P. Jones Associates, a surplus place out of Florida. I use one of their
larger size ones for the KX3. It has pluckable foam and is a tad bit
cheaper than the Pelican. No manufacturer's markings on it, but it
looks like
An alternative to the Pelican is a pretty decent one offered by Marlin
P. Jones Associates, a surplus place out of Florida. I use one of their
larger size ones for the KX3. It has pluckable foam and is a tad bit
cheaper than the Pelican. No manufacturer's markings on it, but it looks
like it
Attention CW Bug users. Just a short reminder if you're experiencing
scratchy dot problems due to contact bounce on your bug, I've
resurrected Ted McElroy's mechanical Dot Stabilizer which, when
installed and properly adjusted, helps eliminate around 90 percent of
this problem. Doesn't wear
Just finished a 15 mile CW QSO on 144 MHz using the KX3's internal 2
meter transverter. Antenna on my end was a Ringo Ranger (vertically
polarized) only 12 feet off the ground and the antenna on his end was
also a Ringo Ranger but his was on a real short (6 foot) ground mounted
mast. There
Got mine in the mail this morning. Virtually painless install that took
all of 35 minutes and another 20 or so to finish reading the
instructions and get it configured properly. Quick check on the local
2M repeater has it working on FM just fine with the repeater though I
got reports of my
Been out of touch for almost a week - latest I have installed in the KX3
is 2.25 and the PX3 is 1.12 Are there any newer Beta or Field Test
versions out yet?
Jim - W0EB
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Attention CW Bug users. Just a short reminder if you're experiencing
scratchy dot problems due to contact bounce on your bug, I've
resurrected Ted McElroy's mechanical Dot Stabilizer which, when
installed and properly adjusted, helps eliminate around 90 percent of
this problem. Doesn't wear
I have for sale a Comm Radio CR1A General Coverage SDR receiver that
covers from low BC band up through the UHF bands (unfortunately minus 6
meters). I bought this 2 months ago for a special monitoring project
and wound up using something different so this is on the chopping block.
See
CR1A Receiver has been spoken for pending arrival of funds.
Jim - W0EB
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Attention CW Bug users. Just a short reminder if you're experiencing
scratchy dot problems due to contact bounce on your bug, I've
resurrected Ted McElroy's mechanical Dot Stabilizer which, when
installed and properly adjusted, helps eliminate around 90 percent of
this problem. Doesn't wear
Finally received my 2mm diameter milling cutters so I can now use
precision tooling to machine the slot in the stabilizers for the J-36,
Lightning Bug, Champion, Japanese Coffin Bug and the European flat
pendulum bugs. I no longer need to cut them with a saw so they come out
with much
The mechanical stabilizers I've been making for bugs have been extremely
well received and I thank my customers for their kind words reviews.
The orders have finally slowed down a bit and since finally obtaining a
decent bench-top mill/drill I've been able to get a few ahead and now
have
Bug Dot Stabilizer, August 2014 update:
I currently make Dot Stabilizers (a T.R. McElroy invention from the
1930's - see www.artifaxbooks.com/dotstabilizer.htm for history
theory) for the Vibroplex, Speed-X and McElroy keys having the round
pendulum and bugs with the flat pendulum, such as
One only price drop on the Vibroplex Blue Racer bug I listed several
days ago - it's just over a year old and was purchased at Dayton last
year for almost $230. It has the blue base and jeweled pivot bearings.
I'll include an extra weight to help slow it down below 20 wpm if
desired.
It
I have for sale a current production Vibroplex Blue Racer bug - it's
just over a year old and was purchased at Dayton last year for almost
$230. It has the blue base and jeweled pivot bearings. I'll include an
extra weight to help slow it down below 20 wpm if desired.
It has become surplus
Bug users on the list - I've confirmed a design that works on the old
Japanese Skillman the newer Hi Mound coffin style bugs with the flat
pendulum plastic top cover.
I now make them to fit just about any bug out there as long as I can get
the diameter of the round pendulum, thickness of
Been there, done that one too. Hamfest in Concordia, KS back in the
early 80's just after I retired from the Army. Used an old Ten-Tec
Argonaut and loaded the entire gutter system at the motel the hamfest
was held at. There was so much corrosion in the joints that even the 5
watt Argonaut
I have for sale 1 wired aligned 40 20 meter 2 band board and one new
in the bag 17 15 meter board that's not built. I went the 4 band
module for my K1 so these are not needed here. (my K1 is not for sale,
just these 2 band modules).
Please reply off list if you're interested and we'll
Back home from vacation and again taking orders for the Dot
Stabilizers. All models of Vibroplex bugs, McElroy Bugs and the Les
Logan or Johnson Speed-X bugs as well as some others as long as you can
supply me dimensions and pictures - Email me off list please to keep the
clutter down. If
It's also good to see that Wayne AND his sense of humor survived Sea
Pac.
My wife and I are heading out to HamCom in Plano, TX this week to give
Eric his wife a hand there.
Hopefully they'll return with their wits intact as well.
W0EB
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For those operators who use bugs and were interested in the mechanical
dot stabilizer I make but were told they weren't available for the
models with the flat pendulum such as the Vibroplex Champion, Lightning
Bug and the various models of Signal Corps J-36 made by both Vibroplex
and Lionel,
When I made my initial post yesterday, I forgot to mention some very
pertinent information about the device.
The theory and pictures of the McElroy original device can be seen at
http://artifaxbooks.com/dotstabilizer.htm and Tom French, W1IMQ who owns
and maintains that historical site,
More complete information pertaining to the Dot Stabilizer for
semi-automatic Bug keys that helps eliminate the scratchy dots that
occur due to dot contact bounce in many of them.
There is a technique for using a piece of high density foam that will
cure many of the problems, but not all foam
This is kind of a feeler email to see if there's any interest for a
product I've sort of resurrected. I don't know how many list
subscribers use a Semi-Automatic Bug key for CW when most rigs have
built in keyers now, but I have been hearing more bugs on the air
lately, mainly amongst the QRO
Dennis,
What Doug said and the fact that the Chinese plagiarized the Prolific
chip a while back but didn't get an exact copy, so Prolific fixed their
drivers to recognize the fake chips and stop working. That seems to
have caused some people problems with even the legitimate ones like
Thanks to the confusion concerning the source of the KX3 Heatsink a
couple of days ago, I wound up ordering the one manufactured by Pro
Audio engineering. It arrived this morning and I installed it in less
than a half hour.
I think it deserves a quick review here as everything necessary was
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