Bob Tellefsen wrote:
Hi Fred
Any antenna heavily loaded with coils will show a narrow bandwidth.
In effect, the coils and the capacitance of the antenna elements
across them form a tuned circuit. The higher the Q of the tuned
circuit (meaning the lower the coil losses) the narrower the
Ralph Tyrrell wrote:
7040 KHz is one place for me to find new states or rag
chews. Have noticed racket there sometimes. Tuned
across the band and found this racket about every
10.66 KHz across all I can tune of 40 M (6998 - 7084)
with my K1. 7040.6 KHz is the center of one signal.
Seems to be
Gary McKelvie wrote:
Hi to the List,
I'm thinking of buying the kit for the K2 with the 100 watt PA. I will
mainly be operating on Digital modes such as PSK 31 MFSK 16 RTTY and
Hellschreiber. I will be using a Tigertronics SL 1+ interface but was
wondering if there are any known problems
David Wilburn wrote:
Do the kits come with everything to make a Y cable
Yes
Be sure to read [and understand] the warnings about the IO connector.
It is **NOT** a standard RS-232 serial port!
Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2007 CQP Oct 6-7
- www.cqp.org
Don Wilhelm wrote:
Should your filters/BFOs need changed, I recommend you use Spectrogram
to give a visual display of your filter passbands.
FWIW: I've found that the waterfall display in MMTTY or MixW is easier
for me when doing the CAL FIL. No markers, but the display is much
crisper for
Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
Living here in N.W. Oregon in a town of 20K people who owns its own
electric company, it's unusual for us to see an electric bill that tops
$25/month even though my XYL and I both work at home and we run an electric
hot water heater and A/C in the summer in addition to
I like the people on this list a great deal. Please be careful.
Someone said you could eat mercury. Don't. Don't even handle it. It
is a heavy metal like lead and as a vapor is extremely toxic. And
mercury vaporizes slowly at room temperatures. Like all heavy metals,
once it is inside
Ken Kopp wrote:
The question of how to apply it to the inside of a K2 remains Maybe
put it in an infant's sock and put that inside a K2. There are some very
transparent, finely woven fabrics that could be sewn into an appropiately
sized baggie that would allow visual insprection to know
2300Z 14050 nil ... no one heard. Checked and antenna seems to be
connected, heard some EU DX down low, but no ECN.
I'll try and make 40, don't hold your breath. Our #1 grandson is
marrying the love of his life on 5 May, she's a bit over the top at this
point, and we think they may be
I don't seem to be able to get to the main announcement page. I'd like
to know the cost range planned for the K3. [How about we let the
Elecraft folks answer me to keep the reflector BW down :-) ]
73,
Fred K6DGW
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Jozef Hand-Boniakowski wrote:
Here's my contribution:
K3 by Elecraft: It's not your father's radio.
Jozef WB2MIC
Wells VT
I claim prior rights: see www.foothill.net/~andreaj/Ham41.htm 11/18/2004
... just in case a K3 is the prize in this contest :-)
Fred K6DGW
- Northern California
John Harper wrote:
John, I wasn't happy with the compromise between having internal
batteries or having a decent RF output. 6 internal AA cells provide
*significantly* less than half the power the KX1 is capable of but I
liked not having to carry an external battery pack, so I installed two
Dave G4AON wrote:
Adam
a friend has a
well maintained Racal RA1792 military receiver which is hopeless
compared to even moderately good amateur gear such as his Kenwood
TS-850, I appreciate the 1792 wasn't one of the better Racal receivers
but they weren't cheap.
If things in the Mother
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Still, someday in some future rom upgrade it
would be nice to have Ultimatic keying on board in the K*
rigs.
If anyone would like to refresh my memory on Ultimatic keyers, I'd be
happy to read it. I remember a QST article at least 200 years ago about
it, I think it
A long thread. As it moved on and sometimes morphed, I was hoping
someone would explain what an H-mode mixer was, how it differed from
other mixers [a diode? Product detector? Double balanced? Don't ask
me to name any more], and why I should care. Inquiring minds would like
to know. In
Thanks to all for the URL's and descriptions, most of which were direct
and not on the reflector ... thanks for that too :-)
I now know way more than I understand about H-mode mixers [and A thru Z
mode too + names I've never heard of]. I believe I am going to leave
the mixer business to
I finished the W1 computing wattmeter, and put it in W8FGU's nifty
polycarbonate enclosure. It was an easy build, some tidbits and links
can be found at www.foothill.net/~andreaj/Ham45.htm
While fooling with the KX1 and BuddiPole on the deck on a balmy evening,
I discovered that if I remove
Brian Lloyd wrote:
CW remains a mainstay because it is an efficient mode. You can
communicate with very low power levels which makes QRP reasonable.
Don't know about others, but I get much more enjoyment from listening
to the guy I'm in QSO with rather than looking at the screen as he
Brian Lloyd wrote:
Yes, we are talking about the same thing. They take the voice and
digitize it and then put the data stream into multiple PSK carriers that
fill up the entire voice bandwidth (2.7KHz).
Ever see a digital TV signal on a spectrum analyzer? A UHF FM group I
belong to has a
Ken Kopp wrote:
We Yanks have always resisted the world order when it comes to
measurements . Lessee, the last I knew it was just us and Libya
holding out ...
Quite the contrary, Ken. We Yanks are going metric all right ... inch
by inch.
73,
Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest
Simon Brown (HB9DRV) wrote:
I do *not* hug tress, I just talk to them..
The real question is, Do they talk back?
Fred I hope the voices stop soon K6DGW
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Toby Deinhardt wrote:
I belong to the QRP, kit builder, tree hugging, QRO, contesting crowd.
That would also be me. Whatever floats your boat is fine with me, lots
of things in ham radio float mine :-)
73,
Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2007 CQP Oct 6-7
-
Toby Deinhardt wrote:
My other rig is... For Sale.
.
The difficult bit will introducing them to each other. #885 is still a
bit jealous of #3248... How's that for anthropomorphising?
I name mine:
KX1: Squirt
K2: Clark [able to leap tall pileups with a single bound]
TS-850: Tubby
Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
Much has been written on this reflector about the sound of the sidetone,
particularly the K2's sidetone, and about stability and narrow band
clickless keying, stable signals, with today's operators asking for
razor-sharp selectivity in order to copy signals in a crowded
Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
Before software like CW GET was around I recorded my own sending, working
down a page in a phone book with addresses and numbers or at least a page
out of a magazine. Then I played it back, preferably the next day. If it was
a fist I was happy to copy, I was happy.
John Wiener wrote:
I just worked KJ5XF who suggested that running 50W PSK would fry the
finals. I thought 50 was about max for safe PSK.
What's the latest on this?
My KPA100 top got too hot to leave your hand on at 50W in a RTTY
contest. I put a square of sticky backed velcro on it, the
Kevin Rock wrote:
Do people really use a meter to give signal reports to people? I thought RST
was to be honest reportage.
Kevin. KD5ONS
It's context dependent, Kevin. If it's a DXpedition or a contest,
everyone is 5NN. If it's a QRP contest or QSO, everyone is 56N. If you
get a
AFAIK, a conker in the Mother Country is a buckeye or horse
chestnut here in the Colonies. Likewise, chuffed loosely translates
to stoked -- at least out here on the western frontier.
Andrea is attending a needlepoint retreat at Asilomar later this year.
Given our Equal Hobby Allowance
Stuart Rohre wrote:
Hi Fred,
Yes, I remember Gabriel Heater news; but the all the ships at sea was
the tag line of gossip commentator Walter Winchell. Remember him? He
also had the snappy code burst at the start of his broadcasts.
Can you believe, Andy Rooney of CBS 60 minutes was a
Well, this has strayed way off the original post, and I do intend to
find the book and read it, but ... speaking from a little battle experience:
Fred (FL) wrote:
In a battle war situation - the last thing a
operator military person needs to have to do,
is dial in an exact frequency.
Donald Kerns wrote:
No:
Field Day isn't a real contest
Whereas FD has rules; and
Whereas the FD rules are found on ARRL's web site under Contests; and
Whereas we keep score and submit logs in FD; and
Whereas the sponsor publishes the standings from FD; and
Whereas those standings include
For the record, local hams have been supporting the Western States
Endurance Run (the very first 100 miler) with communications for many
years. Starts in Squaw Valley CA (~6,000) feet, climbs over the summit
at 9,000', and finishes at the stadium at Placer High School in Auburn
at 1,200'.
FWIW: Officially (whatever that means), history records that the Morse
code plain text receiving champion is Ted McElroy, of tape
perforator/keyer and bug fame at 75.?? WPM, counting 5 chars as a word.
(Urban?) legend has it that he was standing as the test began and the
code began blasting
Well, as the propagation gods would see to it, Kevin was 589 on 20m when
he started to call the net and announced his need to QRT and ground his
antennas due to large electrical displays overhead.
On the other hand, he was 439 on 40m when I was about to QNI. I've got
some problem in the
Well, that was a confirmation of the K2 RX! Heard Kevin at the noise
but readable on the K2. Unfortunately, I screwed something up while
making the 40m parasitic mod to the KPA100, and I can't transmit on the
K2 right now. Called on the TS-850, and found I couldn't hear him at
all. I
All you right-coast, and especially G/EU/TA Elecrafters: Look for Drew,
9K2/KB9LLO on 20m with his new KX1. We got an email from him and he's
just about ready to hit the airwaves ... may already have. I don't know
his work schedule (probably a lot!), but he should have some time to ham.
Well, actually there is one case. Zero is a long dash which I can't
send with my K1EL keyer or my K2.
www.chss.montclair.edu/~pererat/percode.htm
As a teen in the mid-50's, my friends and I learned American Morse just
so we could get on 80m at night with each other and confuse others on
the
Fred Jensen wrote:
Well, actually there is one case. Zero is a long dash which I can't
send with my K1EL keyer or my K2.
Ooops, there are two cases, I forgot about L. I can't send that with
a keyer either.
Fessing up to that error, I remain,
Fred K6DGW
Nick Waterman wrote:
I have the dummy load in ANT1 of my KPA100, and the real ant in
ANT2. I have this crazy idea that ANT1 is selected when powered
down, so I have just a teeny tiny bit more lightning protection
with the real ant disconnected, even if it's only a fraction of
a mm gap in a
for the basement and forget about the rig.
Fred K6DGW
Auburn CA CM98lw
Ian Stirling wrote:
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 19:50, Fred Jensen wrote:
Disconnect your K2. Disconnect all your gear. Unplug it from the surge
protectors in a thunderstorm.
Fred,
I agree on the first two
Steven M. Knapp wrote:
I've found a few generic brand Li AA's. I know the Energizer's are the
preferred battery for the KX1, but am curious if anyone has tried these
off-brands that seem to save a couple bucks?
Only one data point: For a trip thru the Canal a year ago, I wanted
something
Gil Stacy wrote:
Don't know whether this is apocryphal or not,
It is
but I had heard from a former USAF EW tech that the VC in Viet Nam in
he early days figured out how to make U.S. field superhets' LO howl,
giving away qth, causing some units to switch to TRF technology.
but I haven't
Subject was pexiglass
John D'Ausilio wrote:
when the cops break down the door and drag away dad, the VO comes
in Have you renewed your television license?
Yes indeed, and a little frightening for us Colonists, what with all
that pursuit of happiness babble and all. However, the radiation
This is really OT but I do have a K2/100 and a KX1, and I'm getting
desperate.
Does anyone here know how to get to a real person or real email address
at Symantec? I renewed my NAV license on my laptop (against the voice in
my head telling me No), and now I'm told I need to buy it again. I
Thanks to all for the replies. Steve, AA4AK, provided a secret set of
codes to put in at the prompts on the auto-voice system, and a human
being finally appeared. He wanted to know how I had gotten him, and I
said, I'll tell you as soon as you credit my account. When I checked
with
10m is indeed open here on the US West Coast. Lots of NAQP RTTY
stations on.
Fred K6DGW
Auburn CA CM98lw
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FWIW: I heard nothing on 20. Unfortunately, I only had about 15 mins
and couldn't wait for a QSP opportunity, but zip on or near 14050.
There's always next week.
Fred K6DGW
Auburn CA CM98lw
Kevin Rock wrote:
Good Evening Folks,
The bands were a bit stingy this evening but that is how it
First off, congratulations Lynn!
Alexandra Carter wrote:
I hear you can get an FCC 2nd class radiotelegraph license
and get credit for the code part if you're a 20WPM Extra.
Hmmm ... that might be backwards? I haven't kept up with the rules, but
due to a scheduling error on my part, my Mom
Hi all,
Although I operate almost no SSB, I built the KSB2 for my K2 (#4398)
late last year so I could use the K2 for RTTY contests. It seems to do
everything a well conditioned KSB2 should do except it exhibits about 30
dB loss through the on-board filter. Thus, the SSB output from the K2
Wow, THAT was quick. It will be on it's way to Don Wilhelm as soon as I
get the new one built. Thanks for all the replies.
Fred K6DGW
Auburn CA CM98lw
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the LCD on the front panel board. The LCD that came with my kit
has the clear strip mentioned on the front (display) side, but
on the back side it has an opaque strip with no markings on it.
Should this opaque strip be removed or left in place?
LCD's operate
Stephen W. Kercel wrote:
How's that again? In the NA QSO party yesterday, both 15 and 20 meters
were in fine fettle. On 15, I worked stations as far away as the west
coast. On 20 I worked Brazil and Russia. On a very quiet 40 meter band I
worked Samoa. On 80, I worked N6ZZ in New Mexico.
How these threads do morph! I don't know about RCA MF's, but I can
attest to the extreme non-fragility of the Collins variety (and in fact
everything Collins).
In the mid-60's, while in the USAF (1Lt), I commanded an airborne team
whose missions were to put mobile, hardened TACANS on various
wayne burdick wrote:
Hearing lots of beacons on 10 meters. This usually means an opening --
should be fun. Also hearing a few signals on 6 meters. Anyone else?
As of 1504 today: SFI=86, A=0, K=2 GOES 12 X-ray flux (1.0 - 8.0A) was
7.0E-8. I'm hearing a few weak beacons on 10, nothing on 6
Jack Smith wrote:
I'm extremely left-handed as well. Hence, I put all the push button
softkey switches for the Z90 panadapter on the LEFT side of the
LCD...It works a lot better for me than having them on the right
hand side.
So far, no one has commented on that, which might mean that hams
I got 15 quick replies to the 5 questions regarding handedness and
toroids (there were actually 6 questions ... #6 was dupe of #2, I seem
to have a leak in my memory these days). I didn't include myself, but
if I had, it would have been left for everything and you already know
about my toroid
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The real Standard of Comparison among ham receivers of those days was the
Collins 75S-3. And for what they cost, they should have been!
Well ... YMMV, but next to each other on the same antenna, my 2B was a
significantly better CW rx, particularly in heavy QRM
Kevin Rock wrote:
Here, near Portland, Oregon, we are under a heat advisory.
Well ... heat advisories are a bit subjective
We were in your part of the planet yesterday (SR47 McMinnville thru
Banks to the Columbia and then to Astoria for the day). I found a
sweatshirt very useful until about
Engineering isn't science per se, it is really the art of trade-off
management in the real world. Success is not perfection of the design
in every aspect, but rather perfection of the trade-offs to best meet
the goals. I really like my KX1. I wish it had more audio, my hearing
sucks, but I
While a still wet behind the ears student several hundred years ago, a
professor told me that The best filters for any receiver are at the
antenna terminals, before any RF enters the receiver. Once you let it
in, it's hard to control. Unfortunately, filters are a bit hard to
implement that
John Harper wrote:
I've posted a chart at the link below that compares the best AA
chemistry (Lithium) to a pair of rechargeable LiPo batteries that are
perfectly sized to fit in the same space inside the KX1's lower case.
Do I really want to put an LiPo battery *inside* my KX1? When I used
John Harper wrote:
Fred, I don't know if you do or not. I guess you'll be flinging your
laptop and cell phone along with it as they use lithium chemistries as
well...
OK. Nothing against the battery chemistry ... God knows, Chemistry was
my very absolute second worst subject in college,
Hi all,
I was experiencing the 40m parasitic and so I made the positioning mod
on RFC10 as shown on N0SS' web site. It was really easy. I didn't
touch anything else (I know, that's what they all say, but honest, I
didn't ... at least I don't think I did :-) ). Now, the KPA100
indicates Hi
Darrell Bellerive wrote:
What is meant by the fundamental keying waveform?
I've wondered that myself. CW is made up of two separate periodic
waveforms ... one is symmetric (the dits) and one is asymmetric (the
dahs) and they occur in a more or less random sequence. For a given
sending
FWIW: I live around electric fences. For the most part, they are owned
by city-folk who have recently bought a place out here, have never seen
an electric fence, and don't know what to do with one (some don't even
know not to touch it, but they tend to learn :-) ). Pretty much like
George N4YM wrote:
I use a 130 ft inverted vee, fed with about 55 ft of 450 ohm ladder line.
The apex of the vee is about 65 ft up. The ladder line stops at the
eave of my house, just outside the shack, where I use a 4:1 balun.
From the balun to the homebrew tuner, I use a 7 or 8 ft
piece
FWIW: I use fast AGC on CW, and either med or slow on the rare times
I'm on SSB. In a QRM-free situation with either slow or no QSB, med or
slow AGC is probably a bit easier on the ears. However, in rapid QSB,
the AGC doesn't recover fast enough and the signal falls below the
threshold of
Many [very many :-) ] years ago as a coastal marine op, we *always* ran
the AF gain wide open and used the RF gain only. As I remember it, the
main reason was that with the RF gain up full, there often wasn't enough
BFO injection on strong signals in the receivers of that era. It ran up
the
Sandy W5TVW wrote:
Some segregation is almost demanded if the CW/digital operations
are combined in a 100 khz. sub-band, no matter where it happens
to be. This is created by the fact neither mode user, in many
instances, is able to 'decode' the other's emission.
True, but I'm somewhat more
Sorry for the off-topic but there is so much knowledge on this reflector
Does anyone out there know the file name of the Thunderbird address
book. I need to get it transferred to my laptop. Pls reply direct.
73,
Fred K6DGW
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Ed Lambert wrote:
I manage to get 2.5 to 3.0 watts out of it on 20 M with 12.8 volt supply. I
wonder how many on the reflector get 3.5 to 4.0 watts
I get anywhere from 3.7 to 4.1 watts indicated into my Buddiepole on 20m
using a 12V gel cell or 2 6V lantern batteries in series. (I have
They're Russian military stations. I don't know what they are used for,
but they show up at various places at various times.
Fred K6DGW
Auburn CA CM98lw
Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
They're quite audible in N.W. Oregon this A.M. too.
These letter stations turn up from time to time all over the
Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
In the meantime, let me say that smoke can make things easier.
My Elmer Art, W6RMK, told a 13 yr-old new novice that A small fire in
one corner of the chassis almost always makes finding the problem
easier. Especially if only one component actually caught fire.
Fred
There used to be an elephant cage at Skaggs Is., northeast of the top of
San Pablo Bay in the N. SF Bay area. It's gone now. There was also one
at Clark AB in the Philippines in the mid-60's. Don't know what
happened to it, but if it lasted after the US left Vietnam, it likely
succumbed to
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Modern DF arrays can fix a position from a single location. Modern
DF arrays measure the phase differences very accurately and can use
the phase difference to obtain directivity and azimuth.
One of the nice things about email reflectors like this one is that you
can
I made it in thanks to N0SS, who unlike normal was whisper weak. Never
heard anyone else. No signals on 20m CW. I checked the usual
parameters -- X-Ray flux was low, SFI at 87m A=2, K=1 ... not sure what
is happening. Line noise was the normal S2, and visual check on the
tower revealed
Hmmm ... I've never used XIT except to test it. When working DX split,
I usually use both the VFO's in SPLIT mode. It takes me several moments
to get it right, but it usually takes me quite awhile to break a pileup
and once I have it set, the operation of the radio seems more natural to
me.
I'm setting up my K2/100 for RTTY, using a RigBlaster and MixW. I
recently had an unrelated KPA100 problem, and Gary fixed it for me, and
also totally aligned the radio [thanks Gary, that service was totally
worth it, my K2 is way better than I thought, and I was pretty impressed
before!]. I
OK, I really do have RTTY filters on my K2! Gotta dig down in the menus
a bit, but there they are. This will be a whole new RTTY Roundup for me.
Fred K6DGW
Auburn CA CM98lw
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They're going to be my RTTY filters, and I'm going to have a lot more
fun in RTTY contests!
Thanks for putting me onto this,
Fred K6DGW
Don Wilhelm wrote:
Fred,
Remember that the RTTY filters are just a set of 4 extra filters - you can
use them for whatever purpose you want - and it does
Dale Kretzer wrote:
I'd never thought of the KX1, or any of the little Elecraft
rigs, as an rf interference sniffer, but they work ideally
for that purpose. A properly designed, handheld loop antenna
might be required in tougher cases, but give anything handy
a try and see what surprises
Albers wrote:
Anyone see any major pitfalls with this approach??
Tom, N6BT (founder of Force 12) has been known to say, Everything will
radiate. He often shows pictures of his Illuminator antennas to
prove it. One is a light bulb on a post fed with coax and a current
balun at the socket.
John Buck wrote:
Perhaps my credibility is shot since I used to occasionally
wash my hands with TCE.
As a teenage ham in the mid-50's, we all cleaned stuff with carbon
tetrachloride and just let it evaporate. Then I discovered MEK, which
would dissolve the anti-fungal coating on old WW2
Craig Rairdin wrote:
Therefore, the FCC, in today's action, afforded
Technician and Technician Plus licensees
identical operating privileges.
Yes, but which priviledges?
That's the last sentence in the press release. The first sentence says,
Today's Order also revises the operating
Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
Kevin, VK3DAP/ZL2DAP wrote:
I believe the following is true (I got it third or fourth hand). Some
years ago, the authorities indicated that hams would not be so heavily
relied upon for emergency communications, Because all of our officers
now have cell phones. Then
Few QNI's (that I could hear). Tom, you were 5NN+20 when you first
turned the beam, but by 0030Z you, and everyone else, were gone. I
won't make 40, some friends have dropped by and we'll maybe do an egg
nog with them.
73
Fred K6DGW
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I know my KAT100 is working ok. On one of my antennas on 80m however,
it rattles a lot, and then displays 20 on the LCD. What does that
mean? I don't think it found a match because I know how hard it is to
get a match with my manual tuner on 80m, but just curious.
Fred K6DGW
Auburn CA
OK guys and gals, this is getting very close to the neverending
discussion of which way the toilet paper should roll. The PS030805 post
is ingenious and creative, except it didn't format well for me, as you
can see below, which I've truncated for bandwidth (and sanity)
preservation. It may
OK folks, what am I missing here? There are so many things about my
Elecraft radios I still don't understand or know how to use, but ... the
little down-arrow blinks for me when I have held the SPLIT button
down. I've always thought that was the indicator that I was in split
mode. It did
Took my KX1 on a cruise from Ft. Lauderdale to Los Angeles thru the
Canal in April. I learned a few things:
1. The Captain and not the CEO of the cruise line runs the ship. The
CEO said Hell No, you'll screw up the navigation, endanger the
passengers with radiation, and probably start a
SOC is the acronym for the Second Class Operators' Club, where
competence is tolerated but not encouraged. www.qsl.net/soc/ You
can join and receive many good things, such as a number that you can do
many things with. Well, actually ... a number is all you get, and you
can't do anything
Hank Kohl K8DD wrote:
... and when I'm standing on my head
a common resting position for a SOC member
Fred K6DGW
Auburn CA CM98lw
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Off topic, I apologize, but I want to tap the knowledge pool in this
group, and I'll continue regardless:
I'm involved with a 6th grade teacher (a ham, he bought my TS830 a few
years ago) at a local, sort of disadvantaged school. He's trying to
find ways to reach his kids, and ham radio has
A big thanks to all who provided information and ideas on the POW
Radio project. FWIW, I learned a few things:
1. The razor blade radio was actually called the Foxhole Radio. One
response explained that the POW Radio was really a 1-tube regen (that
may be the next class project if I can
Apparently I'm no longer a member of the TR-Log reflector although I
still get their postings (??) I'll try here:
What version of TR do I need to be on to get serial control of my K2? I
think I'm running 6.72 and have been for a long time. The manual I have
is for 6.52 and does not
N2EY wrote:
The NPRM also seems to me to be saying that FCC's vision of the
future is that Techs will be all VHF/UHF, Generals will have most
privileges, and Extras will have it all.
Life really is like a circle, no? In the very early 50's for HF we had
General, Advanced (if you wanted to
The L and U indicator is blinking in SSB modes on my K2. I don't
remember them ever doing that. Can someone tell me what the Elecraft
radio is trying to tell me?
Fred K6DGW
Auburn CA CM98lw
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Well out of my range, especially when my K2 RX (sort of all that really
counts in an xcvr as long as the TX produces the correct signal) beats
anything I have ever used or tried out. It may be good, but I think it
is aimed at a more upscale market.
Fred K6DGW
Auburn CA CM98lw
Vic K2VCO
Ahh, come on, some of us males, (and most hams are male) are colorblind
-- really.
Fred K6DGW
Auburn CA CM98lw
Simon Brown (HB9DRV) wrote:
- Original Message - From: Craig Rairdin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
All that said, I would love it if the K3 had a nice LCD color display...
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