Somebody recently was asking if anyone has compared K3 NR with external NR
systems. I just did, again.
With my old analog rig, I used a Clear Speech speaker (it has built-in
digital NR). It is VERY effective at reducing any sound that is steady for
more than about 1/2 second, like stable
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Stephen Prior [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is a 'me too'.
Having, in waiting for my K3, read all sorts of accolades for the NB and NR,
I feel, now that I have the radio in front of me, somewhat deflated. The NB
is, it seems to me, no better than many others
No, Comcast is the worst, by far! (:-))
It's impossible for Rose to reach her case and cover customers
that are Comcast subscribers. This is why you see an occasional
broadcast message from her to a list member. From the customer's
viewpoint it just looks like she's not responded to a
I've about given up too, Windy. The NR must be only for the CW ops.
I'm about ready to order one of the speakers with NR and see if it's
any better. If it is, I might as well be using it with my Drake
instead. What we have now seems about as effective as the NR on the
low end Icoms that I've
Have you substituted a quieter fan? Have you installed a series resistor to
slow
down the fan, and with what result? Have you installed a thermostatic switch
to
run the fan only when needed? Or have you given up and simply bought a
quieter power supply?
Any advice would be
On 5/20/08, Charles Harpole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have both and they are about the same. Sometimes one beats the other or
the reverse. Orion is mostly better in NR for phone and K3 is mostly better
for CW. If one listens only to the Elecrafters Lovers Club, one will get a
skewed
My IE version 6 works fine, Raymond, but sometimes it takes a minute
for their FTP server to respond. I thought that all recent IE
versions included FTP capability. But I use Firefox. I've found that
it's less annoying overall than IE. If nothing else works, maybe you
could download Firefox
On 5/12/08, Stewart Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now you come to mention it, I believe that the received audio on
my K3 does not sound quite as clean as when the rig was built.
Signals that sound smooth on my TS-850s and K2 (both using
internal speakers) have an edge to them on the K3.
Seriously, we'll investigate further to see what can be done about this.
But in the meantime, please understand that only huge signals exhibit the
symptom, and then only if you are not tuned to the station's carrier
frequency.
73,
Lyle KK7P
Wow, Lyle! It sounds like with a little
On 5/5/08, Stewart Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why not an LC filter for AM reception instead of an expensive
crystal roofing filter ?
That's what I did. I cut a scrap of PC board to the size of a filter
and used three toroids with tuning and coupling caps. It worked just
fine in position
Blast ! you got there before me Dave.
I have been modeling some suitable LC filters, but as you say they
are a bit wide for transmit. However looking back in my log shows
that I haven't had an AM QSO for 10's of years, so it's unlikely I
will have one now. :-)
73
Stewart G3RXQ
I had
On 5/5/08, Jerry Flanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sounds good for SWL. Only downside (a minor one, IMO) is that you might get
response from images 30 KHz away. How much weaker is a signal when you tune
to its image 30 KHz up/down?
Jerry W4UK
I can't hear anything, Jerry, even from our
I am having a problem with the new release. When I reduce the filter width
to jump from the wide fillter to the next narrower filter in CW mode, the
DSP dies or hangs. I get E 0C ERR DSE on the front display and the RX
goes dead.
I also get a very loud squeal when turning ON the rig.
If Elecraft really wanted to take a different approach, they'd ship a
free straight key with the rig. Maybe it would encourage some
voice-only hams to give CW a try?
- Keith N1AS -
- K3 711 -
I don't know, Keith. I'd think that most people already have a key of
some kind even it
On 4/28/08, George Victor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Chill out Rasmussen,
We all know know what you did...
Can't hide your act.
George
Doesn't bother me, probably doesn't bother Aptos. They're selling all
they can make, and they've jacked up their price, too. I may put my
#605 up for sale
...
I hope it takes it's time and doesn't arrive until after Tuesday. I'm
teaching a photography class on Wednesdays and have been using Monday
and Tuesday nights to prepare for the class. I DON'T need a nice new K3
arriving at that time and tempting me to go play radio when I'm
On 4/12/08, n4lq [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I understand how to use the menus. Let me restate.
The problem isWhen you do have the 6 khz filter engaged for cw, your
DSP filter won't go wider than 2.8 therefore you can't listen to 6 khz
bandwidth. What's up with that? It works find in SSB
On 4/11/08, Lyle Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...will the K3 be able to receive
an IF bandwidth of 10KHz using synchronous AM?
I expect this to be the case.
73,
Lyle KK7P
Bueno! I'm anxious to see that, both the bandwidth and the sync.
Dave W5DHM
The dang thing won't do it. I'm hoping that they'll increase it in
one of the forthcoming updates. I think several customers have
ordered the FM filter not for FM but for more fidelity on the juke box
stations. Maybe when we get the synchronous AM detector we'll get
more bandwidth too.
Dave
Nope, I believe the only other sensor is the one in the front panel,
to keep track of the master oscillator temperature. I imagine they
determined that the 10 watt PA had adequate dissipation through the
bottom cover and wouldn't get hot enough to need to be throttled back.
I noticed that it
I noticed that one of the two boards of my KXV3 is marked Rev A and
the other is marked Rev B. The trouble is I could find nothing that
tells which is the Main board that was mentioned on the upgrade
page. Doesn't matter anyway now I guess. I forgot which one is
which, and now I've installed my
Yeah, Joe, I didn't think my voice deserved a two hundred dollar
microphone. I'm using a Motorola hand mic from the land mobile world
because I had it in stock. It has an electret element with a
transistor amplifier circuit. I simply cut off the Motorola connector
and put on one for the K3. I
I noticed this, too, until I continued with the assembly. It seems
like there was a little rubber-like bumper on the PC board near the
MV button which pressed up against the 2D fastener (as I recall) at
the top right of the radio when the front panel is fitted to the rest
of the radio. This
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Darwin, Keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As amazing as it sounds, some folks apparently don't want the K3 they
ordered :-) This is from the order status page:
K3s remaining to ship from earlier periods they are due to delays
requested by the customer or
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Tom Hammond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Lee:
Were it me, I'd opt to buy a couple of the UN-amplified Motorola Mobile
speakers off E-Bay. They're a great match for the K3.
That's what I've always used. Their response is more or less shaped
for voice
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Lyle Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Did my first update to the K3 firmware last night. I was surprised how
long it took. About a minute for the Rig and about 4 minutes for the DSP
unit.
When you compare to how long it took to write the code, the load
Yeah, Keith. Several of us are in your boat. I was going to build up
the 10 watt radio first and then order the KPA3. When I placed the
order they were projecting a mid December delivery. If that had
happened I still could have had plenty of time to order the KPA3
before any price increase.
On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Jim Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well said Rick, can the reflector please be a source of Elecraft info only?
I too may have to unsubscribe if these ramblings continue.
Jim K4JAF
Yep, it's way too much. Fred has a nice general discussion forum on
QRZ.COM
There'll be times that we'll want to listen to AM on only one sideband
or the other to get rid of interference on the other side, but no
matter how good it may sound that way, I still want the synchronous
detector and DSP wide enough to benefit from the 12 KHz filter when
conditions allow. I
I used to have a Model 15 sitting on a small WW2 U.S. Army wooden
typewriter table. When it did a carriage return it would just about
go up on two legs.
Dave W5DHM
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Lee Buller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How about a little bit of Ozone smell too?
Lee - K0WA
The Softrock receiver I received came with a common 32768 crystal,
giving a LO of 8192, far out of the passband of the roofing filter. I
wonder if that won't help a bit.
Dave W5DHM
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On Feb 6, 2008 3:10 PM, Ken Kopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's Elecraft's (Wayne Eric) business to run as they see fit ... not
ours.
There's no way they could ... or should ... respond to each and every
one of our whims.
73! Ken Kopp - K0PP
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Right, Ken. Elecraft isn't
On Feb 6, 2008 8:35 PM, Greg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The mic jack on the RP is a stereo jack. You should use a stereo plug with
audio on the tip and ground on the sleeve...nothing on the ring.
73
Greg
AB7R
Roger. The K3 schematic shows no connection to the ring terminal on
the rear jack.
Wow. Then with my K3/10 (still on order) I'll have an average power
in the milliwatts. Too bad I didn't order the KPA3 before the price
went up.
Does this situation affect the K3's output capability on PSK31?
Dave W5DHM
On Feb 4, 2008 4:23 PM, mark roz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
With SSB mic
Replace the slash with a dot in the superdarn URL.
On Jan 31, 2008 4:42 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The radar that shows up from time to time on 20 meters is the SUPERDARN
(Super Dual Auroral Radar Network), a multi-national network of radars
deployed in both the North and South polar
I've run my entire station on batteries, either a marine battery or
gel cells in parallel, for years. I found a noise free switching
power supply good for around four amps (and current limited) and added
a voltage adjustment to it so I could set the maximum voltage to the
battery. Its four amps
...The bandwidth control only goes up to 3kHz on AM, but goes
up to 6kHz on other modes. Is this normal...
WIDTH refers to the fianl audio bandwidth. IF is 1:1 to the IF
bandwidth in CW, SSB and DATA modes. AM IF bandwidth is twice the audio
bandwidth. FM will have a fixed IF
Roger, Ron.
I just hadn't seen any information that would indicate how wide the
DSP filters would go if one had a roofing filter wider than 6 KHz.
I've used only one sideband when there was interference on one side of
the other of an AM signal, but always used the 746Pro's synchronous AM
when
On Dec 28, 2007 4:26 PM, David Ferrington, M0XDF [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yep - it was me - somehow, I was trying to tx LSB via a 400Hz - now I know
I set that correctly - I checked it 3 times
So the F in TXF must indicate a filter error. It seems that if we had
a list of errors that the
Bueno!
On Dec 28, 2007 6:48 PM, Ed Muns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So the F in TXF must indicate a filter error.
Correct.
It seems that
if we had a list of errors that the radio displays we might
get a clue and be able to take care of some of the problems
without any further help. I
And I assume that we'd need a crystal of two or four times the K3's
IF, depending on the softrock model, to use it with the K3. Any word
on a source for such crystals?
Dave W5DHM
On Dec 23, 2007 12:24 PM, George Cortez Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any one have any experience with the softrock
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- Original Message -
From: Dave Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: George Cortez Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2007 11:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] softrock with K3
And I assume that we'd need a crystal of two or four times the K3's
IF, depending
We'll have to get some ideas for a simple buffer that will provide
good isolation. Otherwise before long questions will be popping up
about spurious responses and noise with our new K3s.
On Dec 23, 2007 2:19 PM, Lyle Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any one have any experience with the
The obvious conclusion, alright. I sold my Pro when I had an
opportunity in July and ordered a K3 in August.
Dave W5DHM
On Dec 18, 2007 7:23 PM, Alan D. Wilcox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
Last week I put the last several K3 pix on my site ...
http://wilcoxengineering.com/K3sn40.aspx
FB, Bob. That's plenty good enough to keep from arcing the relay
contacts on my SGC antenna coupler, not to mention reducing the QRM a
bit. One thing I could say for the Icoms I have had is that they had
the ten watt tune function that they used with their external tuners.
That always worked
I know how you feel, Ed. Mine was ordered in August also. And I've
sold my beautiful Japanese special with all its bells and whistles and
design flaws, so I have no HF radio at all. But it's only a hobby and
I have better things to keep me occupied during the holiday season.
The reason for the
On Nov 28, 2007 1:14 AM, Craig Rairdin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There will come a time when my K3 will be hard to sell because it has a low
serial number. Fortunately, I'll be dead then and I won't care. My kids
already know they're pretty much screwed. They'll inherit a bunch of geezer
On Nov 27, 2007 3:23 PM, Chuck Catledge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been exercising the firmware utility (currently 1.0.11.21) for
Anyone know what the problem may be? With prior releases of the utility all
worked well and as expected.
--
Chuck - AE4CW
The new version works fine
I have four DMMs and four or five VOMs. If you need digital
readability or high input resistance a DMM is good. I won't bother
with one to make resistance checks and the like when my K3 comes. I'd
have to go look for one of my DMMs. A couple of the VOMs are within
reach. Of course I may be
Thanks for the photos, Leigh.
My e-mail client appended your name and call to the end of the URL
since there wasn't a blank line separating them, so everyone beware.
Dave W5DHM
On Nov 20, 2007 2:36 PM, Leigh L Klotz, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here are my K3 assembly photos.
Bueno, Tom. Hope you can do it. I'm planning to make the trip down
there from Goshen and will be looking for your banner. That'll be the
only K3 I see for a while yet since I'm in the third production run.
Dave W5DHM
On Nov 13, 2007 4:48 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If all goes well
If a switcher had a component failure in the feedback loop it would go
full bore and probably produce twice its rated output voltage until it
totally failed, but none of these components are under much stress, so
it's unlikely to happen. The failures are usually the switching
transistors or the
I'm anxious, too, having sold my Icom with all its design flaws when I
had a chance four months ago. So I have no HF radio. But I'm keeping
in mind that Elecraft is not a customer owned co-op. It's enough for
me to remember the quality we've seen for years in the products and
the staff, and
Oh No! Instead of toroids, I have to build power pole connectors!
Is there a Power Pole Guy out there? :-)
I don't care what they say, I solder mine like I do almost all my
crimp connectors. I've never had one melt out or fail. Now to get
the little jasper snapped into the housing.
Dave
On 10/17/07, David Ferrington, M0XDF [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think this might be on the cards - I too would like to do this to tune my
SGC at as low a power as possible (without having to reduce my RF and key,
then turn RF up again).
Same here. That's one of the few things I liked about
Lately it has become a place to post comments and feelings and most of
the time nothing related to the reflector's original intention. Am I the
only one to notice this?
Fred has Rag Chew Central and Talk and Opinions forums at QRZ.COM.
That might be a better place for all the balderdash we've
On 9/10/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone have a secret link to it?
Don't tell me it is going to be delayed again!
Michael
N2ZDB
Yep, I'm anxious to see it, too. But I'm glad it's not me having to
finish up a jillion page pdf document with one hand while putting out
This would be nice. I used the tune function that my Icom radios had
that keyed them up at 10 watts to activate my SGC antenna coupler.
The low power saves the relays as well as reducing interference. I
bet it's on the firmware enhancement list already.
Dave W5DHM
On 9/6/07, Edward Dickinson,
I don't really feel any need for USB support in my radio, but here's
something else to add to the ever growing suggestion stack. It only
addresses firmware updates, not communication with the radio.
My Olevia TV offers firmware updates which are available on the Olevia
web site. I simply
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