Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

On Mon 27 Feb Kevin KD5ONS wrote: > There was another layer of noise, similarly varied. There was quite a good aurora active at around 2300z, seen over this side of the Atlantic at latitudes as low as the south of England. That might have added something to the noise... -- 73, Rick, M0

Re: [Elecraft] Any KX2 or KX3 owners have experience with the IC-7300

for CW tell me if it still uses relays > or diodes for sending CW? It has a relay at least for TX/RX switching. It's nothing like as horrible as the old IC-706MK II but you'll want to be wearing enclosed headphones. It also does rather a lot via touch-screen, which can be a bit of a nuisance at ti

Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

ere's been another reported at 0748Z this morning... -- 73, Rick, M0LEP (KX3 #3281) __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.

Re: [Elecraft] Why more power-efficient at or below 3 W?

this case it's more efficient at higher power levels, at the expense > of higher current drain. -- 73, Rick, M0LEP (KX3 #3281) __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http

Re: [Elecraft] RTTY for SOTA?

of the previous datamodes week at https://reflector.sota.org.uk/t/datamodes-challenge-flavour-1st-7th-february-2020/22009 -- 73, Rick, M0LEP (KX3 #3281) __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/ele

Re: [Elecraft] Groundplane antennas (was: Re: Elecraft CW Net Announcement)

and a dipole, made rather more contacts than I did... -- 73, Rick, M0LEP (KX3 #3281) __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.

Re: [Elecraft] Groundplane antennas (was: Re: Elecraft CW Net Announcement)

trunked conifers all around... -- 73, Rick, M0LEP (KX3 #3281) __ 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

Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

_the_United_Kingdom and one or two other places try to make sense of the whole muddle, but just when it seems they've nailed it some other confusion comes along... -- 73, Rick, M0LEP (KX3 #3281) __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http:

Re: [Elecraft] OT: Australian fires

e can empathize. But the number of fires in VK as well as > their wide geographical impact appears to dwarf ours. > > Wishing you better luck in the new year-- > > 73, > Wayne > N6KR -- 73, Rick, M0LEP (KX3 #3281) ___

Re: [Elecraft] Signing "/QRP"

elsewhere in Kenya. Log me as 5Z4/M0LEP when I've signed as 5Z4/M0LEP/P (or vice versa) and you'll have a busted call. and incidentally, all the contacts I've made as 5Z4/M0LEP/P have been using my KX3 with simple in-the-field antennas. ;) -- 73, Rick, M0LEP (KX3 #3281) _

Re: [Elecraft] OT Learning Morse anew

On Sun 11 Jun Jim Sr Sturges wrote: > I think I learned code all wrong. Can't ever seem to get my speed up. > > Surely some of the astute among you _know_ The Perfect Method, and I hope > you will share? -- 73, Rick, M0LEP (KX3 #3281) The Alchemist's Guild is opposite the Gamb

Re: [Elecraft] New Super Antenna? OT ish

mileage, particularly on the lower HF bands, with a pocket dipole held up by a glass-fibre fishing rod... -- 73, Rick, M0LEP (KX3 #3281) Cat: Do you speak Bulgarian? Lister: Bulgarian? Me? I can hardly speak English. -- [Red Dwarf 3/1

Re: [Elecraft] New KX3 up & running.

, even including the telescopic pole, pegs, guy lines, etc.. If space is a bit limited then the pole can always be used to support a random wire (or whatever) and the KX3's ATU gets to do a bit of work. -- 73, Rick, M0LEP (KX3

Re: [Elecraft] increasing CW copy speed: practice slow -v- practice fast

be helpful. The W1AW "Fast Morse" exercise that starts at 35wpm and gets slower is no use to me. On Tue 08 Dec Robert Harmon wrote: > I noticed that musically inclined folks seem to learn morse quicker. > I wonder why that is ? -- 73

Re: [Elecraft] KX3 - setting sidetone pitch

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Re: [Elecraft] Portable Power

LiFePo and you'll have a battery delivering more power at a more useful voltage with rather less weight in your pack... Things get a bit more involved if you intend flying to foreign parts. Again, lots of advice on the SOTA reflector. -- 73, Rick, M0LEP (KX3 #3281

Re: [Elecraft] K3 KX3 Memory Editing Utility (revisited yet again)

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Re: [Elecraft] Miniature self-supporting HF antennas

Jul 2015 Wes N7WS wrote: If so, you are not determining the effects of loading coil loss On 21 Jul 2015 Mel, K6KBE wrote: does not tell you why one works better that the other one. -- 73, Rick, M0LEP (KX3 #3281) __ Elecraft mailing

Re: [Elecraft] Miniature self-supporting HF antennas

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Re: [Elecraft] Miniature self-supporting HF antennas

down to a length of 8 or less, do an excellent job on 20 meters and up, and earn a passing grade on 30 and/or 40 meters. -- 73, Rick, M0LEP (KX3 #3281) __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft

Re: [Elecraft] Miniature self-supporting HF antennas

, but smaller and lighter ones are available. -- 73, Rick, M0LEP (KX3 #3281) Simony's eyes gleamed with the gleam of a man who had seen the future and found it covered with armour plating. -- (Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

Re: [Elecraft] Miniature self-supporting HF antennas

is going to suck. But some of the best antennas on the market right now use coil loading very effectively. -- 73, Rick, M0LEP (KX3 #3281) __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http

Re: [Elecraft] Memory Manager for Linux?

Thanks. It seems to work well enough with my KX3 for me to fix up a few things. On Wed 15 Jul Rick M0LEP wrote: Thanks for the pointer. I'll give it a try. On Wed 15 Jul Walter K6WRU wrote: Forgot about that one. It is still in beta, but worth trying. http://dl2rum.de/rumsoft

Re: [Elecraft] Memory Manager for Linux?

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Re: [Elecraft] Memory Manager for Linux?

for Macintosh? http://www.machamradio.com/blog/2015/3/3-k3-memory-manager -- 73, Rick, M0LEP (KX3 #3281) __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post

Re: [Elecraft] OT: Last post on time subject

, but when operating away from base I figure the clock in my handheld GPSr is likely to be more accurate, and it'll tell me my QTH locator too. :) The clock in my KX3 is mainly for timing the battery charging. -- 73, Rick, M0LEP (KX3 #3281

Re: [Elecraft] KX3 na K3 Memory Editor help needed

tend to go belly-up with emulators. It's a great pity the memory editing isn't incorporated into the main utility programs for K3 and KX3, as they do work on Mac (and, I think, at least some flavours of Linux too). -- 73, Rick, M0LEP (KX3 #3281) Message ends...Engage coffee making mode

Re: [Elecraft] BNCs

, especially if you're dealing with cheap plugs and sockets. Been there, suffered the consequences. -- 73, Rick, M0LEP (KX3 #3281) __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net

Re: [Elecraft] Turning off list mail

way down there's a section headed Your Elecraft Subscription Options. The very first one is Mail Delivery, and you can enable or disable it there. 5) Click Submit My Changes at the end of the page, and then Log out. and you're done. -- ... 73, Rick, M0LEP (KX3 #3281) A tagline: Go

Re: [Elecraft] Which way to steer a new ham K2-KX3

) building their own rigs by having them to build something that's almost disposable (say a RockMite or something equally small and inexpensive) first? When that works you can raise the bar a bit... -- ... 73, Rick, M0LEP (KX3 #3281

Re: [Elecraft] QRQ CW

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Re: [Elecraft] Percentage of KX3 owners who bought a KXPA100

up in the garden *) Getting a beam on the mast in the garden *) Getting a rotator to turn the beam on the mast in the garden which saga might be twisted to fit Rattlin' Bog, but I don't think I'll bother, yet; it needs to be a far longer saga first. ;) -- ... 73, Rick, M0LEP

Re: [Elecraft] The Joy of QRP

also use my KX3 as a home rig for SOTA chasing (and other things). Sure, it'll run to 12 watts on the home PSU, so not quite QRP, but you still need to make those watts count... -- ... 73, Rick, M0LEP __ Elecraft mailing list Home

Re: [Elecraft] The Joy of QRP

trying to get another 12 metres challenge multiplier, and I could hear quite a bit of activity on the band, but wasn't able to make myself heard either when I called CQ or when I answered others' calls. -- ... 73, Rick, M0LEP

Re: [Elecraft] The Joy of QRP

work; I think I averaged fewer than two QSOs per day overall... -- ... 73, Rick, M0LEP __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft

Re: [Elecraft] KX3 display question

On Wed 11 Sep Reginald J Mackey SR wrote: I would like to see comp and alc when I transmit. I have read the book. In voice and data modes (but not in CW mode) tapping KEYER/MIC toggles the meter between SWR/RF and CMP/ALC modes. -- ... 73, Rick, M0LEP