Mike,
The Prolific cable always worked for me on Windows XP but when I
upgraded to Win 7 I could not find a driver that would not blue-screen
the system. The new FTDI cable works great with all software I've
tried, including N1MM.
73,
Steve AD7OG
When I enable QRQ mode, the SHIFT control is locked at the center of the
passband (*0.60).
o If I disable QRQ through the Config menu, functionality of the SHIFT
control is restored.
o If I disable QRQ mode by turning on an incompatible VFO mode -- RIT, for
example -- functionality of
Hello all,
A simple question I hope: How do I see whether my K3 has the KTCXO3-1 High
Stability Reference Oscillator installed or not?
I believe I ordered this add-on for my factory built K3 but now I am not
sure.
Thank you in advance.
OZ1CCM, Kjeld
Bill,
No bug - that is the way it is.
If you check the firmware release notes for MCU 4.03 you will find it
stated that you cannot use shift while QRQ is active. Yes, it does not
explicitly say that the shift is locked to the passband center.
In firmware MCU 4.22 release notes, you will
Kjeld,
It should be listed on your invoice.
If the paperwork with your K3 included a calibration data chart, you
have the KTCXO3-1 - there is no calibration data chart for the stock TCXO.
If you have misplaced your invoice and/or calibration data sheet, an
email to sa...@elecraft.com may be
As Don has said, this is normal.
The reason why some of this is done is because the items which are
disabled in plus mode require settling time and are users of CPU
budget during RX/TX/RX transitions. Blinding QSK doesn't have any
time to mess around. There is an as yet only outlined intention
Any word on implementation of the TCXO correction data for those of us who
bought the optional unit...or has it already been done
and I missed it?
John
On Mon Jul 18 4:59 , Don Wilhelm sent:
Kjeld,
It should be listed on your invoice.
If the paperwork with your K3 included a
64 bit Windows 7 drivers seemed to have the problems (true for many
things other than Prolific USB chips). The newest drivers for 64 bit
W7 work for my old Elecraft Prolific cable, and I now use it for
various chores. Before the problems were solved though, I gave up and
put in a PCI express
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 1:25 AM, Fred Jensen wrote:
On 7/16/2011 6:46 PM, Ken - K0PP wrote:
In that service, INT [di di dah dit dah sent as one character] was
the interrogatory, and preceded the question you were about to ask.
[INT QRL] The Morse question mark is di di dah dah di dit]
Hi Chuck,
I was faced with the same questions last winter when I added the second RX.
There was some concern that diversity reception would suffer if the two
recievers were not filtered exactly the same. Since I considered diversity
reception to be a bit of a gimmick I went with just two
Hi Chuck,
I was faced with the same questions last winter when I added the second RX.
There was some concern that diversity reception would suffer if the two
recievers were not filtered exactly the same. Since I considered diversity
reception to be a bit of a gimmick I went with just two
In my response to Jim late yesterday, I got things reversed in the part
copied below. The RTTY BFO frequency will be lower than the RTTYr BFO.
Sorry!
73,
Don W3FPR
---
Check the BFO frequencies for RTTY and RTTYr - normally the RTTY BFO
frequency will
Hello Bob,
I did not see anything on the reflector that answered your question.
You should be able to get the full 100 watts out of the K3 on six
meters
without any problem. Have you done the TX gain calibration? In any
case
I would call support and see what they say.
I get over 100 watts out
NAQCC Sprint Wednesday night!
Our July sprint is this coming Wednesday evening local time (8:30-10:30 p.m.
E.D.T.), which is Thursday, July 21, 0030-0230z.
I will refer you to the proper URL:
http://naqcc.info/sprint201107.html
There you will find all the details as to time, frequencies and
I think the reason 73's came about is that many of us, myself included, repeat
it twice at the end of a CW QSO.
Gary, N7HTS
On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 19:46:41 -0600
Ken - K0PP kengk...@gmail.com wrote:
Q signals were established to facilitate communication
between stations that don't
I built a K1 four band about one and a half years ago.
Today, for the first time, I fired it up on 15 meters.
I loaded it into my 40 mtr. dipole by way of a T1 external antenna tuner.
With five watts selected in the K1 menu I have an indication of two watts
output on a WM2 wattmeter.
When I
I have always wondered why it is written in the possessive form. Why not
write it 73s instead if you want to make it a plural and not possessive?
Kevin. KD5ONS
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 08:57:43 -0700, Gary D Krause n7...@bresnan.net
wrote:
I think the reason 73's came about is that many
Hi Kevin:
Because an 's is the standard way to create a plural of a digit or
digits in English? (at least historically) :-) It doesn't indicate a
possessive in this usage.
See, for example,
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/marks/apostrophe.htm:
An apostrophe is also used to form
However, we refer to the '60s without a second apostrophe.
Kevin. KD5ONS
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 09:29:26 -0700, Mark mebly5...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Kevin:
Because an 's is the standard way to create a plural of a digit or
digits in English? (at least historically) :-) It doesn't
Hi Kevin:
Depends on your style guide... :-)
Apparently, both usages are common. Wikipedia says that years are a
special case. :-) I don't think '60's is universally considered
incorrect - though the Chicago Manual of Style would.
73,
Mark
On 7/18/2011 12:32 PM, Kevin Rock wrote:
My editor would have blue penciled that is a NY second :) But this is so
far off topic as to be squashed rapidly.
Kevin. KD5ONS
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 09:34:42 -0700, Mark mebly5...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Kevin:
Depends on your style guide... :-)
Apparently, both usages are common.
Mike,
Looks like Don was right. I haven't done an on air test with another station
yet but comparing my K2 K3 they now are the same after I changed the
sidebands. Hopefully, I can get an on air test in a day or so with a friend to
confirm all is well. In spite of my best effort I guess I
Bud,
That is not normal - you should have at least 5 watts out on all bands -
but test that into a dummy load instead of an antenna - explanation follows:
Without the internal tuner installed, the power calculation in the K1
requires a good 50 ohm resistive load to be accurate. What that
Jim,
You have both the K2 and the K3, so you don't have to wait for an actual
on the air test. Connect the K2 to a dummy load, and connect a short
antenna to the K3 - place the antenna close enough to the dummy load to
give about an S-9 indication on the K3. Transmit with the K2 and listen
Because an 's is the standard way to create a plural of a digit or
digits in English?
I can't let this go unchallenged.
It may be common, but it's wrong, wrong, wrong.
The apostrophe indicates possesive.
Your english teacher would thank me for this.
Worst I ever saw refered to a bunch of
John,
As I recall, Wayne had promised a firmware routine that will compensate
to 0.25 ppm (or some other number much better than the spec'ed 0.5) at
some time, but I think it is now way down on the list.
I believe there are two reasons for it being low on the list. First,
the present high
Ralph wrote,
The apostrophe indicates possesive.
Among other things! Its most common use is probably in forming a contraction,
isn't
it?
Your english teacher would thank me for this.
Maybe. Mine would have made a deduction for not capitalizing English.
Worst I ever saw refered to a
Don,
Thank you for the suggestion. I've already done that and it looks like both
are now the same. I want to do an on air test before getting near another RTTY
contest so I will have to time tweak anything before I have another panic
during a contest.
I still don't understand why 15 meters
As I am (almost exclusively) a cw operator, I had not noticed this until
recently. On 6 meters (and only 6 meters), when I first turn on the K3,
if I am in ssb mode, the audio level (output) seems to be very low.
However, as I continue to speak, it gradually (a few seconds) builds up
to normal
Sometime in the last week or so someone was asking about this. Last
year, in preparation for a DX trip, I bought a Powerwerx SS-30DV from
Ham Radio Outlet for about $110-$120. It's quite compact -- 5 inches x
6 1/2 inches x 2 1/2 inches and light weight, and is rated to run a 100W
rig. As
I remember the '60s as a time of anything goes so it is fair to use your
apostrophes in any way your creative mind can dream up.
On Jul 18, 2011, at 9:32 AM, Kevin Rock wrote:
However, we refer to the '60s without a second apostrophe.
Kevin. KD5ONS
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 09:29:26
My K2 sits in the shadow of my K3 and is hardly ever used. She needs a
new home.
`Fully loaded` K2/100 plus KAT100 for sale UK / EI only.
Please contact me off list if interested.
Terry
G4AMT
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Home:
Are audio (mic) settings are band specific?
No, but the power (gain) calibration is band specific. You might be
able to eliminate the problem by running the power calibration process
in the K3 Utility (or doing a manual single band calibration on just
six meters).
73,
... Joe, W4TV
On
I'm of the opinion that it started in the early CB days when all the CBer's were
putting Seventy Thirds on each other when signing off or going to their next
harassment frequency. ;o)
73's or 73s, whichever it is, is still incorrect. Would you say best
regardses to someone?
73 is the number
Hi Bob -
It is not an operator error problem, and it is not a microphone level or
compression problem.
I have experienced the same problem you are describing with my K3 on 6m.
The cause of the slow ramp-up of SSB audio (RF output) is due to the K3's
internal RF power automatic gain control. The
73's appears to go back farther than that:
http://www.mikezulu.com/73s.htm
See esp. the QSL cards at the bottom, signed by the old man himself.
73s, Wayne Conrad KF7QGA
On 07/18/11 13:01, n...@n5ge.com wrote:
I'm of the opinion that it started in the early CB days when all the CBer's
It seems that 73's predates any of us by quite a bit, but complaining about it
just dates back to the start of Internet reflectors.
Willis 'Cookie' Cooke
K5EWJ Trustee N5BPS, USS Cavalla, USS Stewart
--- On Mon, 7/18/11, Wayne Conrad wcon...@yagni.com wrote:
From: Wayne Conrad
OK, Before Wayne slams the door on this one...
The Old Man was a newbie once, too. (and he may very well not have printed
or designed the cards he used). They may well have been a generic design.
Another historical perspective that goes back 60 years before those old QSL
cards can be found here:
Bruce, note that T.O.M. hand wrote 73's on his cards.
Newbie? T.O.M. was T.O.M. when still in diapers! The radiomen of his time
had an almost clean slate on which to scribe their rules.
You are quite right. We go with what we are taught, and language, perhaps
more than anything else, evolves
I'm surprised no one has mentioned this...
73 means best regards and is sufficient without an s.
If you say 73s, it is like saying, best regards's.
However, I admit that it has become rather common practice in recent times.
73, Greg-N4CC
Msg sent via CableONE.net MyMail -
I have posted on www.ke7x.com a change note for The Elecraft K3:
Design, Configuration, and Operation that describes the new L-MIX-R
audio mix choices and how to program a function key to change from one
to another.
73,
Fred, KE7X
Fred Cady
fcady at ieee dot org
www.ke7x.com
Bruce, note that T.O.M. hand wrote 73's on his cards.
Newbie? T.O.M. was T.O.M. when still in diapers! The radiomen of his time
had an almost clean slate on which to scribe their rules.
Point well taken, Ron. The early pioneers of Amateur Radio did indeed make
their own rules and develop
Thanks, Fred.
This begs the question- for those of us who purchased the PDF version, is
there any mechanism for obtaining an updated file as revisions are released?
It's easy enough to write in the margins of a paper edition, but not so with
the PDF.
73,
Bruce, N1RX
On 7/18/2011 2:24 PM, Greg - N4CC wrote:
However, I admit that it has become rather common practice in
recent times.
Common practice doesn't make it right. It started in the CB
world, where it morphed into Threes and Eights for 73 and
88. Sometimes I even hear my first personal meaning
On 7/18/2011 9:29 AM, Mark wrote:
An apostrophe is also used to form some *plurals*, especially
the plural of letters and digits. Raoul got four _A's_ last term
and his sister got four 6's in the ice-skating competition.
Of course, the Chicago Manual of Style disagrees... :-)
As does
OMGmy Handlenow that get(s) up my nose.Grin
73
Gary
On 19 July 2011 08:49, Phil Kane k2...@kanafi.org wrote:
On 7/18/2011 2:24 PM, Greg - N4CC wrote:
However, I admit that it has become rather common practice in
recent times.
Common practice doesn't make it right. It
Hi Jim,
Are the front panel APP sockets the 30 AMP variety? Seems like they
should be, given the output current spec.
73,
matt W6NIA
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:14:07 -0700, you wrote:
Sometime in the last week or so someone was asking about this. Last
year, in preparation for a DX trip, I
Hi,
As a follow up I tested my K2 on the air with a friend. Now both receive
and transmit for all four filters are on the same frequency (sideband) on 15
and 40 meters. That issue is resolved. However, in the process we found
that on both bands his radio (FT-950) is receiving and transmitting
Pray tell, why must we do better?? And what on earth is better
about it??What was right for formal message handling doesn't mean
diddly for social, casual conversation. Getting all rigid and anal
about a friendly signoff just makes our hobby look silly, old, and
intolerant.
Dave
Thanks Fred, that's what I call service.
Earl N5ZM..
On 7/18/2011 5:15 PM, Cady, Fred wrote:
I have posted on www.ke7x.com a change note for The Elecraft K3:
Design, Configuration, and Operation that describes the new L-MIX-R
audio mix choices and how to program a function key to change from
Jim,
I don't know about the FT-950, but the K2 and K3 display the frequency
of the (suppressed) carrier - unless the K3 is used in AFSK or FSK data
submodes when it displays the mark frequency.
Check the specifications and dial display caharacteristics of each
transceiver before drawing
!-- HTC Mail Separation --
!-- HTC Mail Separation --Not so fast there, Phil. 73's was in use before
11-meter CB (Pse see previous posts.)
I must say that I've always made a conscious effort to us 73 as a result of
simple reasoning; 73 is already plural, i.e. Best regards, no need to
On 7/18/2011 1:19 PM, Wayne Conrad wrote:
73's appears to go back farther than that:
http://www.mikezulu.com/73s.htm
I wonder whether the Walter Howell in the first card was the
same Walter Howell who was the Assistant Engineer in Charge at
the FCC New York Office in the early
I noticed that there seems to be only a PC Windows version of the KPA500
Utility software. Is a Mac OS X version in the works? I think I remember
seeing that the XG3 driver update software was Windows only as well. So,
another question: is Elecraft planning to eventually support both Windows
I suspect that at least part of the discrepancy is due to the following
fact: The frequency on the radio's display and the frequency actually
being transmitted on in RTTY are not always the same, depending on the
radio and the mode it is being used in.
K3: In FSK D and AFSK A modes, the K3's
While the moderator may kill this thread shortly, I enjoy reading all the
messages. English is not my mother language and I'm just pleased to learn more.
TNX 73,
Johnny VR2XMC
從︰ Bert Craig wa...@arrl.net
收件人︰ k2...@kanafi.org; Elecraft elecraft@mailman.qth.net
傳送日期︰ 2011年07月19日 (週二) 8:21
Hello Group,
Again, it is 'off-topic'
A local amateur radio club is considering setting up a 432MHz beacon. It could
be a part of the spectrum defence exercise to get back that portion of amateur
radio spectrum from local telecommunication authority.
Funds available are limited in the set
They are the same connector as used on the K3. There are two pairs.
73, Jim
On 7/18/2011 4:20 PM, Matt Zilmer wrote:
Hi Jim,
Are the front panel APP sockets the 30 AMP variety? Seems like they
should be, given the output current spec.
The way I look at it, 73 doesn't translate specifically to any
particular words (in English, or any other language). It's a
language-independent expression of good will to the other operator,
akin to verbal expressions in English like all the best, cheers,
etc. Given that, I don't think it's
The way I was taught it, the literal translation is Best regards. This was
also validated by some independent research by a curious young op - yours
truly. Check it out, there is much on the subject on the web.
73 de Bert
WA2SI
...and all the pieces matter.
-- Det. Lester
* On 2011 18 Jul 18:05 -0500, Gary Gregory wrote:
OMGmy Handlenow that get(s) up my nose.Grin
The handle here is loose...
And FP sounds a little...too...personal for my taste.
73, de Nate N0NB
--
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all
possible worlds. The
Btw, know that this is pretty much academic for me as I very rarely use the
spoken word ota as I operate 99.99% CW. I've yet to hear --... ...-- ... sent
- hihi
73, Bert
WA2SI
...and all the pieces matter.
-- Det. Lester Freamon, BPD
Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4GLTE
Had a nearby lightning strike last week. The computer attached to the K2 had
considerable damage. The only apparent problem with the K2 is it will no
longer communicate through the serial connector. The U4 abnormal voltages are
(with normal voltages in parens) Pin 5 -14(-22)Pin 7
On 7/18/2011 3:15 PM, Cady, Fred wrote:
I have posted on www.ke7x.com a change note for The Elecraft K3:
Design, Configuration, and Operation that describes the new L-MIX-R
audio mix choices and how to program a function key to change from one
to another.
OK, this is really working out for
You /remember/ them?
On 7/18/2011 12:21 PM, Phil Hystad wrote:
I remember the '60s as a time of anything goes so it is fair to use your
apostrophes
in any way your creative mind can dream up.
--
Vic, K2VCO
Fresno CA
http://www.qsl.net/k2vco/
sounds good to me...AR
On 19 July 2011 13:04, Mike Morrow k...@earthlink.net wrote:
Bert wrote:
I've yet to hear --... ...-- ... sent - hihi
Don't you mean --... ...-- .. ... ? :-)
My pet peeve is use of that damned BK. KN doesn't make much sense
either...that's actually an open
Working out very nicely for me too!
I use Preview (a built in program in OSX) to open the PDF manual, open the
updates, drag them to the appropriate part of the manual in the sidebar and I'm
golden!
If I feel the need I can also put a sticky note in the PDF in the appropriate
parts of the
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