Re: [Elecraft] CW Contest and Elecraft K3s decoder
I agree. I can do 30 wpm without getting uncomfortable but I have experienced the "slowing down gets more contacts" phenomenon. Once in field day with a bunch of CW hands who can all copy and send above 40+ wpm. The one rule they had for field day was nobody sent faster that 22-25 wpm. They won their section and were a top 10 US 1A station almost every year. No problem holding a frequency. Same for Nov SS. Ripping along at 40wpm sure is neat and all but how long does the contact take when you add time for 3 or 4 repeats? Slow down to 22-25 wpm and get the contacts first time or spend time repeating parts of the exchange then ultimately having to slow down anyway. On 11/26/2017 7:32 PM, Bill Frantz wrote: In previous years, I used the K3's decoder and it worked very well. But, for this contest, I bit the bullet and said, "I'm going to decode the calls myself to improve my CW." I had a lot of fun doing so, although I had to skip several stations that were sending above 30 WPM. A small suggestion to those who know CW. If you are calling CQ and getting no answers, like late in the contest, consider slowing down so the CW impaired, like me, have a chance of making the contact. It may improve your score. 73 Bill AE6JV On 11/26/17 at 4:09 PM, hk3j...@gmail.com (German Duran) wrote: Wonderful. I was doing the CQ WW CW contest and a lot of the contest I worked with a software to help decode the stations. In the last hours of the contest I decided to configure the decoder of my Elecraft K3s and started to decode the stations better than with any of the software that is in the market for this job. Congratulations to Elecraft for this marvel. Germán HK3J - Bill Frantz | When it comes to the world | Periwinkle (408)356-8506 | around us, is there any choice | 16345 Englewood Ave www.pwpconsult.com | but to explore? - Lisa Randall | Los Gatos, CA 95032 __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to ksto...@ac0h.net -- R. Kevin StoverAC0H FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 ARRL __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] RF feedback problems with P3 and external keyboard
The mix of the toroid's used does matter. Mix 31 is best. Here is what I did with a USB mouse. I bought four mix 31 snapon's and installed two 18 inches back from the mouse and another pair 18 inches back from the connector, winding as many turns as would fit. I bought a USB extension cable and wound most all of it on a mix 31 2.4 inch toroid. This choke was installed on the computer end and the choked mouse cable was plugged into that. All of this assumes you have things properly bonded, especially the computer case/chassis. On 11/24/2017 2:34 PM, ANDY NEHAN wrote: After LOTS of experimentation I think I have found that just recently I have some RF feedback into the usb keyboard on the rear of the P3. This manifests itself particularly badly with the Genovation keyboard but is also present with a standard usb keyboard. Oddly enough it is MUCH worse when using the Perwerx psu than my linear psu - but that may of course be due to different cable layout for the power cables. I have applied clip on ferrites with great enthusiasm but to no avail. I noticed a message on my external vga screen saying "usb device removed" shortly after starting to transmit and then shortly after that (but whilst still transmitting) "usb device connected". This is also not present when on low power (say 5 watts) but reappears at 20 watts. Has anyone else experienced this problem?? Andy __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to ksto...@ac0h.net -- R. Kevin StoverAC0H FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 ARRL __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] OT: LED Light Bulbs
When I was changing the bulbs out I took the opportunity to remove all
dimmers, never really used them, and a touch lamp the wife hated (large
blessing on me).
The wife has been looking at touch faucets for the sink. They've got to
be an RFI nightmare. I said NO. Plumber makes enough the way it is. Now
you have to find one that can wire the faucet too. One step too far.
The wife's quilting machine is next. it's going to get the K9YC treatment.
On 10/24/2017 7:55 AM, Bob McGraw K4TAX wrote:
The only time I've noticed RFI issues from CFL or LED bulbs is when they
are being excited by RF. I've measured 3 or 4 different ones of
different brands and wattage ratings. This was done using a fixture
where by the bulb was mounted on a suitable surface in a socket with the
transmit antenna {dual band VHF/UHF} some 6 ft away from the lamp and
the receive antenna {connected to a spectrum analyzer with a similar
dual band VHF/UHF antenna}, about 6 ft from the lamp. In all cases no
noise above background noise was observed. When the transmitter was
activated, the spikes of noise appeared. With the transmitter off, the
spikes again were not present. Not a real analytical or scientific
method but some degree of indication that some are better than others,
some are worse than others.
73
Bob, K4TAX
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Re: [Elecraft] OT: LED Light Bulbs
Maybe I'm just lucky.
Over the last two years I changed out all the incandescent and CFL bulbs
in this house save two. They are the two 150W Halogen lights I have to
illuminate the garage/driveway/deck if someone gets too close to the
house at night.
No RFI detected on a K3 or a K2.
On 10/21/2017 11:51 AM, Bob McGraw K4TAX wrote:
One thing observed at our repeater location is that the CFL was quiet until the
the transmitter was on the air. It then generated noise. In a simplex
condition it wouldn't be observed. But in a duplex operation or multiple
receiver situation it becomes an issue. Replaced by a LED with lessened issues.
Bob, K4TAX
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On Oct 21, 2017, at 11:21 AM, Jim - N4ST <hamsh...@n4st.com> wrote:
I have noticed the background noise level growing on the HF bands, and for me, especially
on 18 Mhz. I need to declare war on RFI and find out what is causing this. I did
carefully checkout some Walmart "100 W" LED lights before committing to them
and they were fine.
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73,
Jim - N4ST
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Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: LED Light Bulbs
Makes me wonder if at all or how frequently production lots are evaluated to
determine if they are in FCC Part 15 compliance.
Otherwise, the approach "we evaluated one production lot, deemed it passed"
{a.k.a - I saw it work once, ship it} and then produced a million or so afterwards
including those with some engineering changes and cost down changes.
Guess I need to power the radio from the tractor battery and dump the main
breaker in the house to see how much the noise changes.
73
Bob, K4TAX
On 10/21/2017 9:48 AM, w4sc wrote:
An observation:
I too had RFI from LED lights, but the interference was to OTA television,
Channel 10 (192-198 MHz) DTV.
Not all LED bulbs are created equal in this regard, RFI reduction /
elimination. The RFI was generated in this case by the SMPS integral to the
bulb.
The offending bulb is Utilitech part # 5DG6 (printed on the bulb) and is ‘C UL
US’ listed, purchased from LOWEs.
I have a overhead fixture that was populated with four 800 lumen (60w?) bulbs,
2 being Utilitech, and 2 Sylvania OSRAM.
By removing the bulbs and observing channel 10 reception, the offending bulb
was determined to be the Utilitech.
I replaced the the the Utilitech bulbs with Sylvania OSRAM, and the RFI on
channel 10 OTA was eliminated.
The Sylvania OSRAM part number used is LED8.5A19/DIM/0/827/G5/RP as printed on
the box UPC, and were purchased from LOWEs also.
NOTE: There may be interference from Sylvania OSRAM bulbs on other frequencies.
LED bulbs are required to meet FCC Part 15 FCC, Class B regulations.
YMMV
I have not seen a comprehensive report or article that unveils “good” vs “bad”
LED bulb manufacturer and part identification as far as RFI emissions across
the spectrum.
Ben W4SC
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Re: [Elecraft] New product idea for Elecraft...?
Totally agree Bob. It's the "Real Radio Man" arrogance that kicks in with a new radio. As for the button/knobs vs. menu's argument, what is the difference between a button or knob on the face of the rig that gets adjusted once and never touched again and a making the same change with a menu? There is no difference in functionality. Maybe it's that the higher button and knob count increases the machismo? "I, a Real Radio Man, can operate this radio that looks like a 707 cockpit" (caveman grunting and chest thumping ensues), and it will really impress the neighbors. Possibly people don't know how to set the rig up and have to fiddle with it continuously? Knobs and buttons do make fiddling easier. They do not change the fact that you do not know the radio or how to set it up. The days of the 70lb Samsonite sized rig with 100+ knobs and buttons (TS-990S) are over Real Radio Men. On 9/28/2017 4:35 PM, Bob McGraw K4TAX wrote: One other point is the hams mentality ; "I've operated hundreds of ham radios and I know how this one works". HA! Better read the dang manual two or three times. Also the Fred Cady, KE7X has a wealth of information not included in the standard Elecraft K3S Owner's Manual. Regarding manuals, I've often thought when a person orders a new radio, the manual should be shipped some 2 or 3 weeks to the buyer in advance, before the radio ships. Perhaps this would encourage one to learn a bit more about the radio, as opposed to taking it out of the box, connecting a few cables and start turning knobs and pushing buttons. Then they exclaim: "uh, where did I put that manual because this dang thing doesn't work." 73 Bob, K4TAX -- R. Kevin StoverAC0H FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 ARRL __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] [KPA500] K3S/KPA500/KAT500 - Adjusting TX Power
The difference is Data A mode. In Data A mode ALC action doesn't start until the fifth bar is lit AFAIK it's been that way from the beginning. With Elecraft rigs you don't control power out by adjusting audio level. Adjust your sound card line out to 50%, or less, adjust your software to 50% or less, adjust the K3(S) line-in. Fine tune the line-in level to 4 bars steady and the 5th barely flickering. Once set don't fiddle with it. Adjust power out with ye olde power knob. If the manual says 5-7 bars for digital modes it needs fixing. Data A, AFSK, SSB (upper or lower running a digital mode)should all have zero ALC action. Been that way since PSK31 was new. On an Elecraft rig that means 4 with 5 flickering occasionally. On 9/8/2017 4:35 PM, Wes Stewart wrote: I am often puzzled by some of this advice. The K3S manual on page 30 says among other things: "While speaking into the microphone in a normal voice, adjust MIC for a peak ALC meter indication of about 5-7 bars (see below)". Then regarding audio data modes it says on page 34: "If you’re using an audio-shift transmit mode (LSB, USB, DATA A, or AFSK A), you’ll need to set the MIC level while watching the ALC meter. You can use the same procedure outlined for voice modes (pg. 30), except that speech compression should not be used." So 5 to 7 bars seem to be indicated. Where does the '4 solid, fifth flashing come from'? This is particularly questionable with constant amplitude modes, where it doesn't matter whether there is ALC developed or not. Maybe someone can enlighten me. Wes N7WS On 9/8/2017 5:36 AM, Don Wilhelm wrote: Bret, This is a condition we call "Power Hunting", and it usually indicates that you do not have the audio level set correctly for Elecraft transceivers. Are you driving the audio to illuminate 4 bars on the K3S ALC meter with the 5th bar flashing? You must operate Elecraft gear differently than other transceivers because of the closed loop system used for power control is different than the simplistic "control the drive level" system that other transceivers use. Ignore the internet (and WSJT-X) advice which tells you to adjust the power with the audio level and set the power to maximum. With Elecraft gear, set the audio as instructed in the manual and adjust the power with the POWER knob. 73, Don W3FPR __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to ksto...@ac0h.net -- R. Kevin StoverAC0H FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 ARRL __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] K2
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Re: [Elecraft] [OT] Maintaining Sanity with Filters
I have a filter setup for OT posts. If the sender of the email puts OT or [OT] in the subject line a required by the Elecraft guidelines my mail program will automatically move that email to an "OT" folder which I peruse at my convenience. All of my filters run on any new mail and move the mail to the respective folder. Any email that doesn't get moved ends up in a generic "Elecraft" folder with two strikes applied. If the mail wasn't sent by Eric or Wayne they're gone. Strike three. It all gets sorted and moved automatically. I don't have to touch it and don't ever see the emails the filters have deleted unless I check the trash before cleaning that out. It's usually right click and "empty folder". On 7/31/2017 7:16 PM, Dave Cole wrote: What if I make a post with the same title as the one above, and don't mention any Elecraft model numbers in either the body or subject... How do you make the decision to filter or delete then? I ask not to be contentious, but to learn how for my own filters. I don't want to have to set filters in real time for every OT post, but a general filter would be great. 73s and thanks, Dave NK7Z http://www.nk7z.net On 07/31/2017 04:47 PM, Kevin Stover, AC0H wrote: It's simple. I set my filters up to Elecraft mail list guidelines. Any mail those filters don't move to the correct local folder, K2, K3, KX3, etc..., are unceremoniously dumped. You could post the cure for cancer and if you can't follow the "rules" as set up by Elecraft my mail reader will auto-dump your scofflaw email. It works. __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to ksto...@ac0h.net -- R. Kevin StoverAC0H FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 ARRL __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] [OT] Maintaining Sanity with Filters
It's simple. I set my filters up to Elecraft mail list guidelines. Any mail those filters don't move to the correct local folder, K2, K3, KX3, etc..., are unceremoniously dumped. You could post the cure for cancer and if you can't follow the "rules" as set up by Elecraft my mail reader will auto-dump your scofflaw email. It works. -- R. Kevin StoverAC0H FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 ARRL __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] K3S Package Discounts
Exactly!! I'll bet it's more like 95% PEBCAR (Problem Exists Between Chair and Radio), Along with the "We Don't Need No Stinking Manuals" attitude exhibited by some "real" radio people. We also have the design engineers who like to come on and say how they would have done it differently or their design is better. OK smart guy...where's YOUR Radio company building and selling your self designed wonder of the ages? It's really funny and a nice comical relief respit from the real world. On 7/29/2017 9:43 AM, Charlie T, K3ICH wrote: Not to point any fingers at ANYONE, but most of the "problems" that show up here are in fact, miss-interpretations, or.NOT reading the manual in the first place. And I'm as guilty of this as anyone. Hey, I know how to operate a bloody radio right? However, I try not to cry wolf until I have completely proven myself as not the culprit, which means I seldom do post a problem! Another area that can easily be interpreted as a "problem" when scanning the forum is actually with after-market software and/or interfacing with peripheral equipment. If you count the real production/equipment failures vs. "others", I'll bet they're quite low and typical of any quality manufacturer. 73, Charlie k3ICH -- R. Kevin StoverAC0H FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 ARRL __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] P3 upgrade to provide display transmit information?
http://www.elecraft.com/manual/P3%20Xmit%20Mon%20FAQ-ver-A-7.pdf Personally I think the N8LP LP-500 wins. By a long shot. On 6/20/2017 10:40 AM, Robert Sands wrote: After looking at the new station monitors by w8LP I thought I would ask if the P3 might be tweaked to provide transmit quality information via a display. Not sure how far it can go within its hardware envelope of capability. Perhaps there is a software update that will provide some of what I am requesting. Bob K7VO -- R. Kevin StoverAC0H FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 ARRL __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Seeking input on KPA1500 station
All, I'd be willing to bet nobody in this country or Canada was tested over how to setup a LAN or Ethernet communications on their Ham Radio exams, and I'd bet there are a few guys on this board who could teach us all a thing or two about radio. RS-232 just isn't that hard and one of the worst LAN fur balls I ever had to fix was caused by a couple of jabbering NIC's. I access all of our Routers and Switches with a laptop ,USB to RS-232 adapter and telnet. It's just not that hard. The only thing you get when switching from RS-232 to Ethernet is bandwidth. On 6/18/2017 6:56 AM, Michael Walker wrote: A LAN based communications platform opens up the ham shack integration to an entire new level. I keep saying over and over that Ham Radio as a hobby is a technical hobby where you are actually examined on your technical understanding of how radio works, etc. Yet, the overall average of knowledge of a average ham seems to be going the wrong way where they understand less just about how things work. -- R. Kevin StoverAC0H FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 ARRL __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Packing Peanuts
Ditto. The prime directive. Follow the manufacturers instructions. On 6/18/2017 4:02 AM, G4GNX wrote: If people follow the Elecraft instructions to the letter, the static charge will be dissipated through the wrist strap. If they don't follow the instructions, it's their own stupid fault! 73, Alan. G4GNX -Original Message- From: GaryK9GS Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2017 4:02 AM To: Ian Kahn, KM4IK ; 'Kevin - K4VD' ; 'Elecraft Reflector' Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Packing Peanuts Frankly I'm shocked that Elecraft used Styrofoam packing peanuts. I work in electronics manufacturing and my company has banned them from our building well over a decade ago. All of our vendors are required to not use them. They are a killer for electronic components. It is precisely the static charge that causes them to stick to everything. What do you think happens to that static charge that is present on your body after handling this packing material when you open a static bag containing static sensitive parts? It has to go somewhere. 73, Gary K9GS __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to ksto...@ac0h.net -- R. Kevin StoverAC0H FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 ARRL __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Packing Peanuts
No. The static sensitive parts of Elecraft kits are shipped in anti-static bags. Keep them in the bag till you need them. On 6/17/2017 4:16 PM, Kevin - K4VD wrote: Does being packed in all those static-charged peanuts represent a danger to electronic equipment like the K2? Kev K4VD On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 4:44 PM, Rose <elecraftcov...@gmail.com> wrote: Or hair spray ... 73 Ken - K0PP On Jun 17, 2017 14:42, "Bob McGraw K4TAX" <rmcg...@blomand.net> wrote: Just spray the inside of the trash container with Fabric Softener. As to the ones in the box, same thing. Static gone. 73 Bob, K4TAX On 6/17/2017 3:20 PM, Dauer, Edward wrote: Just received a K2 kit via UPS -- my third in fact -- and spent 20 comical minutes trying to empty out the styrofoam packing peanuts. They come, apparently, fully charged. They cling to my fingers. They cling to my shirt. They cling to the outer shipping box. After I get about ten handfuls into a small trash bag the common charge results in the smaller pieces flying out again. Back onto my fingers. Grabbing them with one hand while holding a cold water faucet with the other didn' t help at all. Whenever I get a kit I feel as if I have to do the electrostatic equivalent of a detox shower before I do the parts inventory. Isn't there some good substitute for these accursed things? Maybe like their ancestors -- real peanuts? At least you can eat those while you're unpacking the kit . . . Ted, KN1CBR Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to rmcg...@blomand.net __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to elecraftcov...@gmail.com __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to ke...@k4vd.net __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to ksto...@ac0h.net -- R. Kevin StoverAC0H FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 ARRL __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] KX3/P3 external power source
It all depends on chemistry. The "rules" we had for NiCd and NiMH don't apply anymore. Generalizations about batteries will get people in trouble with Li chem batteries. If not a fire then possibly a ruined battery pack or worse, radio. As an anecdote. I witnessed a HAZMAT training session 15 years ago that the local fire department put on. It involved an early Li battery, about the size of a quarter, and a fire in a galvanized steel bucket. When the Li cell reached the proper temperature, BOOM! The steel bucket ended up looking like a Mum. Li chem batteries are much safer now but I still wouldn't put any IN an expensive radio. -- R. Kevin StoverAC0H FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 ARRL __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] P3 display issue.
Check that your cables are tight. On 6/4/2017 10:23 AM, Mike Weir wrote: Yesterday while on the radio I notice on my P3 screen a signal (so I thought) the band was basically dead other than this signal. As I tried to tune to it the signal would move. No matter how close I tried to get to the so called signal it kept the same distance from my VFO A tuning indication. I have seen this on other SDR setups but never on the P3 putting this out there for your input. Thanks Mike Weir VE3WDM __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to ksto...@ac0h.net -- R. Kevin StoverAC0H FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 ARRL __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] K3 Display is Dated...
I have low vision. The absolute worst thing you could do is to change the K3S display. I need high contrast either a black background and light text or a light background and dark text. The K3S's background is light yellow and it has black text. Color displays sure are pretty but normal size text and characters wash out. I have special software on this computer that magnifies the screen so I can read it. I also run a high contrast theme. On 5/30/2017 5:44 PM, Buddy Brannan wrote: Huh. Maybe it isn't a sighted thing that I just wouldn't understand after all. Or else Ken is an honorary blind guy. ... -- Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA Phone: 814-860-3194 Mobile: 814-431-0962 Email: bu...@brannan.name On May 30, 2017, at 6:37 PM, Ken K6MR <k...@outlook.com> wrote: And now for something completely different (regarding K3/P3 displays): Since I rarely look at the radio display when operating, I don’t need/want fancy colors/fonts/graphics. All I need is Info that is easy to read when I need it. Same for the P3. Give me what I need with a minimum of fuss. Also easy to focus on after many hours without sleep. And please: no touch screens. The last thing I need is a bunch of greasy fingerprints all over the display. And I need my hands to stay on the keyboard(s). Minimal motion and all that stuff. And the same can be said for P3 mouse point and click. This is radio, not a video game. And now back to your regular conversation…. ;^) Ken K6MR From: Phil Hystad<mailto:phys...@mac.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 3:18 PM To: Thom<mailto:k...@ki8w.com> Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net<mailto:elecraft@mailman.qth.net> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 Display is Dated... Besides my K3 & P3, I also have an Icom IC-7300. The touch color display of the IC-7300 is essentially the same size as the P3 and I think the P3 is a little tiny bit larger of maybe 1/8th inch larger diagonal measure. The information on the IC-7300 is basically the same as the combo of the K3 and P3 although different display options (mostly on the 7300) makes this a dubious comparison. But, I think that the entire P3 display could be used as a full K3+P3 display however I am betting that all the information necessary to drive the K3 display is not available to the P3 and not practical to create an interface to handle it. My two-bits on the matter. 73, phil, K7PEH On May 30, 2017, at 2:59 PM, Thom <k...@ki8w.com> wrote: I was turning the knob on a K3S at Dayton and thought to myself...this looks like the display on my 10 year old Kenwood TS-570D. Come to think of it maybe Kenwood needs to update the displays on most of there radios too. 73 Thom KI8W On 5/30/2017 17:36, ke9uw wrote: I was wondering if the K3 display could be replaced by an updated display, one that looks like the ones on the newest rigs from Japan. Could it be displayed on the monitor connected to the svga on P3? Just wondering :) - Chuck, KE9UW -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/K3-Display-is-Dated-tp7631264.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to k...@ki8w.com __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to phys...@mac.com __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to k...@outlook.com __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to bu...@brannan.name __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to ksto...@ac0h.net
Re: [Elecraft] [K3S] JT65-HF Beginner
Big point. Once he releases the source code under GPL he has no recourse. These developers can take his source code, do exactly what they want to it, and don't even have to change the name of the application. If the program was written with GPL tools, compilers, libraries, dll's, etc..., as WSJT-X was, he is required to release the code. He can charge for bis version of the program and charge for support. He does have control over what makes it into his version. Other than that nope. It's about time Elecraft released their code under GPL so pimple faced kids living in Mom's basement with no visible means of support, can write "some really cool stuff" for the Elecraft products. On 5/28/2017 2:38 AM, Jim Brown wrote: On Sun,5/28/2017 12:18 AM, Richard Lamont wrote: I agree with all of that, except the 'unauthorized' bit. Joe has posted on that topic. The executive summary is that he is not happy with the way in which some of those other developers have failed to respect his license. 73, Jim K9YC __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to ksto...@ac0h.net -- R. Kevin StoverAC0H FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 ARRL __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] List overload - Additional
On 5/27/2017 12:53 PM, Ron Wilcox wrote: Nurturing a learning environment for all in the hobby who buy elecraft, to me, is important.There have been a few threads that should have been stopped and were. Define learning environment. The Internet is a terrible place to "learn" anything. It's 90% advertisement, 5% porn, and 5% information, three fourths of which is just plain wrong. Being offended easily, being grumpy, or unwilling to entertain other's views is not needed. Thanks Mom. I am not offended easily. I am Grumpy, I've earned it. I do not suffer fools well, especially those who haven't taken the time to at least skim the manual and those people stick out like a putrefied thumb. I do entertain others views. Many of them are so tragically wrong they can't be classified as anything other than entertainment. There is no guarantee in the US Constitution of never being offended, even if some are trying to weasel one in there by hook or by crook. It's knife that cuts both ways. I find it very easy to delete posts I do not need. Ditto. -- R. Kevin StoverAC0H FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 ARRL __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] [KPA1500] Input Power
The gain limit of 15 dB is set by the FCC. There is a move afoot to have them drop that particular requirement but the FCC also moves a "glacial" pace. No telling when it might happen. On 5/10/2017 12:30 PM, Ingo Meyer, DK3RED wrote: Hello Elecrafter, I have read the FAQ for the KPA1500. But there are no informations neither to the minimal or maximal input power nor to the gain. Or did I miss something? 73/72 de Ingo, DK3RED - Don't forget: the fun is the power! www.qrp4fun.de - dk3...@qrp4fun.de __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to ksto...@ac0h.net -- R. Kevin StoverAC0H FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 ARRL __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Should we expect something new in Dayton?
Anybody else notice the bigger box, probably a necessity, on the KPA1500 or the change in color of the LCD from Orange to Blue? Hm...bigger box, change age of color scheme. K3X (Extreme) or K4? On 5/2/2017 6:08 PM, Tom branton via Elecraft wrote: Any thoughts on new Elecraft equipment being introduced at Dayton? Sent from my iPad __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to ksto...@ac0h.net -- R. Kevin StoverAC0H FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 ARRL __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] [OT] Test
Testing -- R. Kevin StoverAC0H FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 ARRL __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] KPA-1500: Gain Mod when FCC Lifts 15db Rule
This is correct. On 4/21/2017 5:00 PM, Rick WA6NHC wrote: It is a rule that an amplifier in the HF bands cannot have more than 15 db gain. This is because stupid people do stupid things here (and I'm sure elsewhere too). So it was simpler to block everyone, then stop some. Rick nhc On 4/21/2017 2:51 PM, Kevin Cozens wrote: On 2017-04-21 06:43 AM, Richard Thorne wrote: So if and when the FCC lifts the 15db gain rule For those of us not in the US and subject to FCC rules, what is the FCC 15dB rule? __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to ksto...@ac0h.net __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Another really good reason to come to the Visailia DXconvention this weekend...
Whatever you can get on E-Bay On 4/20/2017 1:36 PM, Terry wrote: Wow! What is the trade-in deal for the KPA500? Terry, KQ5U On 4/20/2017 1:21 PM, doug49...@gmail.com wrote: Red led 1900 Red led 1700 Yellow led 1500 Green led 1300 Green led 1100 Green led 900 Doug WD8Z Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Wes Stewart Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2017 2:11 PM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Another really good reason to come to the Visailia DXconvention this weekend... Sorry, you took too long. I retired the previous QRO amp, bought a KPA500 and ripped out the 240V service to the shack. On 4/20/2017 9:50 AM, Wayne Burdick wrote: http://www.elecraft.com/images/visalia1.jpg Watch this space for further details :) 73, Wayne, N6KR Eric, WA6HHQ __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to wes_n...@triconet.org __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to doug49...@gmail.com __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to tmyers1...@sbcglobal.net __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to ksto...@ac0h.net __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Soldering Station recommendation
Hakko 888D. On 6/13/2016 12:00 PM, Eddy Avila wrote: Greetings Elecraft afficiados, I'm looking for a recommendation for a soldering station, my Weller temperature-controled station of 20 years is dying an agonizing death and its time to upgrade! I don't use my soldering station a lot, maybe once a month and once in a while put a kit together, so I don't need a really expensive unit, but probably one under $100 for my needs with temperature control. Any suggestions? Thanks much 73 Ed ~ k6sdw __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to kevin.sto...@mediacombb.net -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] This will effect pilots and Hams throughout the Western US
You forgot to add "and are related to Kevin Bacon". On 6/10/2016 5:32 PM, Jim Sheldon wrote: Actually it Is of concern to all K3 and K3S owners in and close to the affected area who use GPS disciplined oscillators to enhance frequency accuracy and stability via the K3EXREF module. Jim - W0EB Sent from my iPad On Jun 10, 2016, at 5:14 PM, Michael Walker <va...@portcredit.net> wrote: It really isn't an Elecraft issue. :) Mike va3mw On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 6:01 PM, Wes Stewart <wes_n...@triconet.org> wrote: How times have changed. Back in 1997, when I was working as a contractor for my old company, Hughes Missile Systems (now Raytheon), I worked on implementing some jamming tests on the Tomahawk missile GPS. FWIW, we put the missile section on a wooden pedestal covered in RF absorber on top of the rotating plate (also covered in absorber cones) under "The Arc" as seen here: http://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/test-facility-at-ft-huachuca-assures-working-communications-equipment-for-soldiers Just for giggles, I climbed (took the stairs) "The Red Tower", the top of which would contain a good sized ham shack. The tower is completely wooden and held together by fiberglass bolts. The "dish" that is behind the guy being interviewed is actually a shaped reflector that in combination with a horn located below ground level forms a folded "compact" range, for those who understand such things. The leaning airfoil shaped tower holds the test subject at the plane-wave focal point of the reflector. An M1 Abrams tank can be supported and rotated on top of this tower. We had to do our testing in the wee hours of the morning, with secure communications links to range people who could tell us to shut down at a moments notice and our jammers were on a, few minutes on-lots of minutes off schedule. Wes N7WS On 6/10/2016 1:03 PM, Fred Townsend wrote: This Is Likely Why The Navy Is Causing A Massive And Mysterious GPS Outage In The Western US - The Drive http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/3865/this-is-likely-why-the-navy-is-cau sing-a-massive-and-mysterious-gps-outage-in-the-western-us Fred, AE6QL __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to va...@portcredit.net __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to w...@cox.net __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to kevin.sto...@mediacombb.net -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] New products
I agree totally. One thing I never hope to see and thankfully probably won't is a pilot reaching for a touch screen while the aircraft is doing + or - 50ft "hops" in turbulence. Touch the screen to reduce thrust, slip of the finger and the engines shut off. What's the procedure for restarting engines in turbulence like that? Wanna try that with a touch screen? BTW, I'm the legally blind ham. Never did I mention in ANY email to this list pilots or cockpits, military or commercial...PERIOD. Some of you might do better focusing on your email editing and keyboard skills and forget the touch screens. The local community college probably has beginner computer classes available for continuing education credits. I'm done. On 6/6/2016 12:18 PM, l...@ka7ftp.com wrote: As a developer of both hardware and software products that use touch screens I have mixed feelings. My number one gripe with soft environments is the tendency to continually modify the environment and jam more and more functionality into the same footprint. This either needs to be done with width or depth, take your pick. Both Apple and Windows are horrible abusers. Every new version of their software requires users to hunt down functions that have been moved or crammed down. Functions that were originally intuitive are now obfuscated in the name of progress. Lack of consistency is extremely frustrating for most users. Today because of the ease of soft environments it seems that companies feel compelled to continually bring a "new look" to each software revision of their website or product. How many of you think Yahoo scored a home run with NEO? In my opinion NEO is an absolute disaster. But corporate egos won't allow users out. How would you like someone mucking with your beloved radio in the name of pretty progress. I'll take consistency over pretty and modern every time. I'm buying a radio, I don't want an iPhone clone, or an Icom clone, I want my KX3 to look and exactly like the KX3 I bought. I trust the engineers at Elecraft to make acceptable and necessary upgrades for functionality. I also trust that they are not going to ruin a great radio in the name of glitter.. It has been pointed out previously in this thread that all of Elecraft's radios can be easily connected to a computer for computer control. Not everything in the world needs to be integrated, and often doing so creates compromises that are much more difficult to live with and limit the lifetime of a product. I'm tickled pink with my Elecraft products and don't feel the need for them to emulate anyone else to keep me as a customer! We shouldn't be compelled to buy a radio every two years like we do with cell phones. My expectation is to buy a product that will function for many years, and possibly a decade or more. I would rather have multiple Elecraft products rather than one that pretends to be all things to all people. 73 len __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to kevin.sto...@mediacombb.net -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] : logging/k3s control program
DX Keeper will import .csv files. Convert the spreadsheet to comma separated values and import to DX Keeper. Downside is you are responsible to make sure the data are in the correct columns. On 6/5/2016 5:50 PM, Jim Brown wrote: The bad news is that it could be difficult to export your Excel data to any ham logging program, but it's worth poking around the internet for someone who has done it. BTW -- Cabrillo logs have been the standard for contests for many years. While some contests still accept other formats or paper logs, the trend is to reject them because volunteers have gotten tired of doing what the submitter didn't want to do -- enter it by hand, one QSO at a time, into Cabrillo. :) 73, Jim K9YC __ -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] New products
I can speak directly to that Don. Three years ago I had and accident and detached both retinas. Six eye surgeries later and I am 20/80 in the left eye and 20/50-40 (depending on the day) in the right. I am legally blind. None of that is reversible with anything you can do at the front of the eye. The damage was in the back. I can't use my K2/100 because it needs an alignment that I don't think I can see well enough to pull off. I was trying to add fixed audio out to the rig when I had my accident. I have one of the last NØSS boards for such somewhere. Ham Radio moving to a GUI interface would be the end of my Ham Radio hobby. I work with the aid of some very expensive gadgets and software designed to magnify the screen. Zoomtext from AI Squared has been a real blessing. The Linux community on the other hand has been a major disappointment. Lets just say accessibility is not on the Linux fan boy top ten list of improvements. We need yet another scripting language, chat client, window manager, etc Accessibility just isn't sexy or a good resume fluffer. The only way I use a P3 or PX3 is the SVGA card in the P3 and a 24" monitor, and the I/Q output into a laptop/sound card running NaP3 from the PX3. I applaud Elecraft for embracing the accessibility mantel hope to high heck they don't accede to the noisy minority. On 6/5/2016 2:37 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote: Lynn, Please tell us how a touchscreen interface can enhance usability for blind operators. Elecraft has made a commitment for such usability for all their radios with those blind operators particularly in mind. A GUI interface means nothing to those who cannot see it. 73, Don W3FPR On 6/5/2016 3:16 PM, Lynn W. Taylor, WB6UUT wrote: A radio with only physical knobs and buttons severely limits future upgradability, and leads to crazy button combinations to turn things on and off that weren't even a dream when the radio was originally released. Touch screens may not be always convenient, but they're much more flexible than a silk-screened metal panel. I realize that knobs and buttons are a religion for some, but it's really time to lighten up, folks. Either that or for Elecraft to release a rig with a whole bunch of "empty" buttons and sell stickers to update the front panel when the firmware grows to need them. On 6/5/2016 10:18 AM, Buddy Brannan wrote: Also, can we pllease, for the love of all that is holy, not do the touch screen GUI? At least, not an exclusively touch __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to donw...@embarqmail.com __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to kevin.sto...@mediacombb.net -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Fwd: Re: K2 and Linux contest logging
Forwarded Message Subject:Re: [Elecraft] K2 and Linux contest logging Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2016 10:29:29 -0500 From: Kevin Stover <kevin.sto...@mediacombb.net> To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net TLF or XTLF connected to a K1EL WinKey. That is a contest only solution. For general logging and other stuff you can use the Linux equivalent of HRD, CQRLog. The Winkey plugs in the key jack on the K2 which you have set for Hand keying. Both TLF and XTLF support Hamlib so you can do rig control through a serial or USB port on the computer. Be aware that the DB9 connector on the K2 IS NOT A SERIAL PORT. DO NOT CONNECT A SERIAL CABLE TO THAT PORT. You can find directions for building the appropriate cable on the Elecraft website or the instructions for the KIO2. The cable building instructions begin at page thirteen in my manual. On 6/5/2016 8:53 AM, Mike Markowski wrote: Neil, I'm far from a hard core contester but enjoy DXCC, Field Day, etc. For me the best solution has been xlog along with hamlib & cwdaemon. I made a small NPN transistor-based circuit in an Altoids tin to do serial port based PTT keying for cwdaemon. (I picked up an Edgeport usb-to-serial converter on ebay for $20.) It's a simple set up and works well for my level of contesting. It also has the advantage of keying any rig. I use it with my K1, though of course hamlib can't interact with that rig. Good luck and 73, Mike ab3ap On 06/04/2016 07:51 PM, Neil Martinsen-Burrell wrote: For my first time ever, I have a computer connected to my radio! [...] Are there any K2 owners who use Linux computers for sending CW from a contest logger? What do you do that works? -Neil N0FN __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to kevin.sto...@mediacombb.net -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Fwd: Re: logging/k3s control program
Forwarded Message Subject:Re: [Elecraft] logging/k3s control program Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2016 07:53:29 -0500 From: Kevin Stover <kevin.sto...@mediacombb.net> To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net DX Lab supports log import/export in ADIF format. Every Ham Radio logging program that I know of supports ADIF export/import. If SOTA does not support ADIF import then it's a SOTA problem. On 6/4/2016 5:27 PM, Walter Underwood wrote: I’m not sure that DXKeeper does *everything* one might want. It does not seem to support an easy export to SOTA (Summits on the Air) and it does not run on Mac. RUMlogNG does both of those. Different strokes for different ops, I guess. wunder K6WRU Walter Underwood CM87wj http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog) On Jun 4, 2016, at 3:08 PM, Jim Brown <j...@audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote: On Sat,6/4/2016 12:39 PM, Jerry wrote: Any suggestions would be appreciated. General loggers are lousy for contests, and contest loggers are lousy for general operating. The best "general" logger is DXKeeper, which is part of the DXLab Suite. The best contest logger is N1MM Plus. Both are FREE, both are quite stable, mature, and well supported. DXKeeper has everything you could possibly want in a general logging program, including keeping track of awards, uploading and downloading to/from LOTW and eQSL. N1MM Plus is the Rolls Royce of contest loggers. It is mostly used for CW, SSB, and RTTY, but it supports software modules that do other digital modes. At the end of each contest, export your log as ADIF, then import it into DXKeeper. It's as easy as that. DXKeeper is ONLY a logger and award tracker. It does not send and RX CW, or any other mode. But another module in the DXLab Suite do that for some RTTY, PSK, and some other modes, and another module called Commander does radio control from your computer. 73, Jim K9YC __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to wun...@wunderwood.org __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to kevin.sto...@mediacombb.net -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] logging/k3s control program
Ditto. On 6/4/2016 3:00 PM, Cliff Frescura wrote: Hi Jerry, In regard to: "4) It should have support for contest operating." Most general purpose logging programs have some contesting capabilities, but there are many aspects of contesting that really necessitate the use of a dedicated contest logging program. I would suggest you start with a dedicated general purpose logging program (my preference is DXLab - http://dxlabsuite.com/ ) and then add a dedicated contest logging program (my preference is N1MM - http://n1mm.hamdocs.com/tiki-index.php ). 73, Cliff K3LL/6 -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] [PX3] Keyboard, Mouse, Thumb Drive and Knob Support
Road Apples! How is turning the PX3 into a not very good facsimile of a laptop "Advancing the State of the Art"? It's not a new idea either USB has been on radios for a decade or longer, same with Ethernet. The fact is you can't do everything the OP wants to do to a PX3 without raising the price significantly. Or...is it supposed to be free...in the true spirit of advancing the state of the art and the spirit of Ham Radio? On 6/4/2016 1:09 PM, Rick Robinson wrote: One way to look at this is one of the purposes of amateur radio is to advance the state of the art. Yes, use it for what it is is fine. But if you are one of the few who have minds capable of new ideas and how to implement them, then more power to ya. Without those we might still be using a cats whisker ! -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] DTMF Tones on the K3
I'm probably going to regret sending this and this is just my opinion. It seems to me using the K3 as a V/UHF FM rig is akin to using a Thoroughbred race horse to pull a manure spreader. Yeahit'll do it but there are better tools to use. One thing the Japanese are better at is designing inexpensive, full featured V/UHF FM gear. K3 and my Yaesu FT-8900 sitting next to each other and I want to blah,blah,blah on the local repeater. The Yaesu will get used 99.995% of the time. Sorry Elecraftyou aren't even in the neighborhood on this one. On 6/1/2016 8:31 AM, R Stanley Sutton wrote: I add my vote to getting this done on the K3. Stan KD8KBX -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Fwd: Re: K3 and Signallink
Forwarded Message Subject:Re: [Elecraft] K3 and Signallink Date: Sun, 29 May 2016 16:19:26 -0500 From: Kevin Stover <kevin.sto...@mediacombb.net> To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Did you check the line in and line out levels? On 5/29/2016 3:45 PM, Ross wrote: I have just checked my K3 again after a couple of months not using it, and I have a problem with the Signallink. Yes I know all the comments about it, but I want to get it going before I try to instal the Microham keyer. On transmit the Signallink is working perfectly, it produces the output and keys the k3, but I cannot get any audio, the line in and lineout plugs are in the correct positions on the k3. So can someone please guide me as to what could be wrong, would it be the settings on the k3 or something else. (I have checked 2 digital programs with the same result, transmit is ok, but no audio coming through.) Thanks Ross ZL1WN __ 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 hosted by:http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list:http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered tokevin.sto...@mediacombb.net -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] KX2 Satellite Derivative? (Was: Re: The KX2)
I have changed my thinking on this. My suggestion would be a kick butt single band 6m rig in a K3s box. All the bells and whistles the K3s has now with the addition of cross band duplex and 100W any mode no time limit. The other bands would be installed as transverters in a computer style main board in the rig. Each transverter would be capable of 50W minimum output, have it's own SO239/N connector. The current K3EXTREF would be standard for 10MHz reference, as well as a 0.5 ppm TCXO along with RX I/Q out ala KX3. A V/UHF version of the P3 would have to be offered for the computer averse among us. Call it the K3s SAT+. On 5/24/2016 6:44 PM, Kevin Stover wrote: I like it! Especially the laptop style dock. On 5/24/2016 4:33 PM, Edward R Cole wrote: I replied in depth to Barry but let me share that more briefly with the List: My vision for a "KXV3sat" would be based on a 50-MHz direct conversion SDR (if that is practical at this time). That would establish the IF for other bands which would be accomplished with transverters. HF would be unnecessary and just take up valuable real estate inside the radio. To keep a KX3 sized concept power would likely be held to 10w on 2m and 70cm. The radio would have IQ baseband access for running other sw on external computers. Similar I/F for Line in audio and computer PTT would enable use of sw other than the internal DSP. SDR means any number of modes could be accommodated. Stable LO would be required for NB digital modes and use with mw. Full cross-band duplex plus computer tuning of both VFO's to enable satellite auto-tune from external sw. BNC would suffice for ANT connections since power is low. Battery operation (option). An option would be a K3 sized transverter housing which modules for 222, 432, 902, and 1.2 GHz that could be added making a complete 50-1296 package, or just what you want. The KXV3sat would dock to this "console" for 'no external interconnect' wiring package. Probably modules would be 10w or maybe 25w. If enough room, 60-80w PA boards might be included for 6m/2m/70cm. Though there are ext. PA's available from the ham community. Keeping the power down in the KXV3sat would make it usable for portable operating and keep it light. Also 100w linears would likely add $300 per band to the total price. Design considerations would emcompass VHF/UHF SSB/CW/FM plus digital modes. Interconnection for ext amps, ext freq. source, ext computer I/F, Panadaptor. One could operate satellite in full-duplex and operating eme/ms/weak-signal modes. Perhaps optional Rx antenna ports could be incorporated as options. My belief there is a large market for such a radio. Satellite population is on the rise, so is small-scale eme. VHF/eme Dxpeditions are on the rise for which a small footprint is desirable for airline baggage. Who will build it? 73, Ed - KL7UW http://www.kl7uw.com "Kits made by KL7UW" Dubus Mag business: dubus...@gmail.com __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to kevin.sto...@mediacombb.net -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] KX2 Satellite Derivative? (Was: Re: The KX2)
I like it! Especially the laptop style dock. On 5/24/2016 4:33 PM, Edward R Cole wrote: I replied in depth to Barry but let me share that more briefly with the List: My vision for a "KXV3sat" would be based on a 50-MHz direct conversion SDR (if that is practical at this time). That would establish the IF for other bands which would be accomplished with transverters. HF would be unnecessary and just take up valuable real estate inside the radio. To keep a KX3 sized concept power would likely be held to 10w on 2m and 70cm. The radio would have IQ baseband access for running other sw on external computers. Similar I/F for Line in audio and computer PTT would enable use of sw other than the internal DSP. SDR means any number of modes could be accommodated. Stable LO would be required for NB digital modes and use with mw. Full cross-band duplex plus computer tuning of both VFO's to enable satellite auto-tune from external sw. BNC would suffice for ANT connections since power is low. Battery operation (option). An option would be a K3 sized transverter housing which modules for 222, 432, 902, and 1.2 GHz that could be added making a complete 50-1296 package, or just what you want. The KXV3sat would dock to this "console" for 'no external interconnect' wiring package. Probably modules would be 10w or maybe 25w. If enough room, 60-80w PA boards might be included for 6m/2m/70cm. Though there are ext. PA's available from the ham community. Keeping the power down in the KXV3sat would make it usable for portable operating and keep it light. Also 100w linears would likely add $300 per band to the total price. Design considerations would emcompass VHF/UHF SSB/CW/FM plus digital modes. Interconnection for ext amps, ext freq. source, ext computer I/F, Panadaptor. One could operate satellite in full-duplex and operating eme/ms/weak-signal modes. Perhaps optional Rx antenna ports could be incorporated as options. My belief there is a large market for such a radio. Satellite population is on the rise, so is small-scale eme. VHF/eme Dxpeditions are on the rise for which a small footprint is desirable for airline baggage. Who will build it? 73, Ed - KL7UW http://www.kl7uw.com "Kits made by KL7UW" Dubus Mag business: dubus...@gmail.com __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to kevin.sto...@mediacombb.net -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] new KX-2 question
The solder is barely dry on the rig and people want to change the freaking knobWithout ever having used it. Just amazing. On 5/23/2016 10:00 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote: Matt: What I was referring to is that with a flat the KX2 shaft is no longer round, so the set screws can pull the knob off center unless they are carefully positioned so they pull the knob against the round segment of the shaft. The shaft of the KX2 encoder is slightly smaller than the KX3 encoder - about 10 mils - so that can contribute a small amount eccentricity as well. 73, Ron AC7AC -Original Message- From: Elecraft [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Matt Maguire Sent: Monday, May 23, 2016 4:52 PM To: Wes; elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] new KX-2 question Draw a circle on a piece of paper radius R, and mark it's centre. now draw a smaller circle inside radius r, which touches the bigger circle at one point, and mark it's centre. You'll see the distance between the centre points is (R - r). imagine the big circle is the hole in the VFO knob, and the little circle is the VFO shaft. The flat part of the VFO shaft is irrelevant, as the screw is adjusted to meet it wherever it sits. I hope this help explain how the knob will not be centred. 73, Matt VK2RQ Get Outlook for iOS On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 2:03 PM -0700, "Wes" <wes_n...@triconet.org> wrote: Leave one screw loose, drive the other one into the flat. How could it not be centered? On 5/23/2016 12:31 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote: It will fit, although the KX2 knob is a press-on type with a flat on the encoder shaft while the K3 VFO B knob uses two set-screws on a round shaft. Thanks to the flat, the K3 VFO B knob doesn't center perfectly. 73, Ron AC7AC __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to matt.vk...@gmail.com __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to r...@elecraft.com __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to kevin.sto...@mediacombb.net -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] OT Looking for PC advice.
I have a couple of home brew computers. One running Linux has 2-256 Gig SSD's, 32 Gig of Ram and a ridiculously fast video card. It's a host for Oracle Virtualbox Virtual Machines (Guest OS's, 3 versions of windows, a Slackware install and a month ago I installed MSDOS 6.22 for giggles and a little Castle Wolfenstein), and one computer running Windows 7 64 bit Ultimate (same hardware as a above). I have no reason to upgrade so won't. I will ride the Windows 7 horse as long as I can. I absolutely hate forced updates. The first thing I turn off on any Windows install is auto-updates. NO patches will be installed on my machines without my inspection first. IMHO auto-updates are for people who don't care or don't know how to update their machines without MS looking over their shoulder. I have seen what mistimed or disordered MS patches can do to a network (just last week at work, took three days to clean up the mess.) Remember, these are the same people who brought us Windows Me and Vista. Nuff said. On 5/23/2016 5:25 PM, Phil Kane wrote. I have a 6-year old Dell tower for my business and personal use and a 3-year old Dell laptop for my ham radio use. Both of them run Win 7 Pro 64 bit. I tried "upgrading" the laptop to Win 10. Too much effort on defusing all of the nasty Microsoft "call home" stuff and auto-updating (I prefer to see and review each and every "patch" before letting it run). Even with ClassicShell (which I use on all of my computers) I could not get Win 10 to look and behave the way I wanted. I had to re-install Win 7 on the laptop because it was beyond the 30-day "easy rollback" period and fortunately I had the "reinstall media" from Dell. Bottom line - I am sticking to Win 7 as long as I have those computers and when either needs replacing I will order new ones with Win 7 installed (not-so-secret that one can still do it if one is a good customer of the supplier). 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 >From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to kevin.sto...@mediacombb.net -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] K3 and KX3 questions for Wayne
Further down in the same online spec page it states "Compact unit ideal for both desktop and mobile use". Note *mobile* use where the electrical system supplies more than 13.8V with the engine running. I find no mention of the KXPA100 being developed as a "portable" amp. I have done searches of all Elecraft docs concerning the KXPA100 and find NO mention of the word *portable* anywhere. Nor do I find any mention of some nefarious board swap early in the products life. Maybe the OP assumed because it has a carry strap that it is a portable amp. Well...My TS520 has a carry strap and a DC-DC converter. No way that can be classified as portable, it weighs 37lbs. To be fair I have run it at field day but we had a 10KW diesel powered generator on a trailer. Power was NOT and issue. On 5/22/2016 4:46 PM, Jim Brown wrote: Michael, A careful reading of the online data sheet for the KXPA100 is instructive here. http://www.elecraft.com/KXPA100/kxpa100.htm The first line says "100 watts at 13.8 V, 1.8 to 29.7 MHz and 80 watts 50-54 MHz PEP CW/SSB/DATA; ± 1 dB" Two points: First, the amplifier is rated for 13.8V, NOT 12V. Second, the rating is +/1 dB, which is +/- 20% power. Thus, 80W on the HF bands is within spec for 13.8V at the amplifier terminals. The second line says "13.8 VDC powered; 20 A typical current drain (11 V with lower output. 15 V max)" This clearly means that the unit is designed and rated for 13.8VDC, can be operated from 11V to 15VDC, and will have reduced output at lower supply voltages. Obviously, Ohm's Law dictates that resistance of the DC supply conductors will reduce power supply voltage at the amplifier terminals, so while we may have 12V or 13.8V at our battery terminals, the voltage at the end of 6-12 ft of cable will be a bit lower with a 20A load. For example, the drop in 6 ft of #10 is 0.24v; for #12, it's 0.38V, and for #14, it's 0.6V. As others have noted, the operating voltage in so-called 12V DC power systems using lead-acid batteries is not 12V, but rather 13.8V. If you buy an AC power supply for ham gear, it will likely leave the factory with its voltage regulator set for 13.8V. Open the manual or the spec sheet for nearly all ham gear and you will find the supply voltage specified as 13.8VDC. 73, Jim K9YC __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to kevin.sto...@mediacombb.net -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] K3 and KX3 questions for Wayne
You do know what's going on this weekend right? I'm sure once he is back from Dayton he will give your questions all of they attention they deserve. What sort of watt meter are we measuring the output with? On 5/22/2016 1:46 PM, N6MQL wrote: Although I appreciate all of your answers I specifically asked these questions of Wayne because I was making a point to let him know of my disapproval of the fact that the KXPA100 amp is incapable of running a full 100 watts on a standard 12v battery. Furthermore I was trying to get an explanation from the head designer as to why my amp that has a 30amp power supply at 15v (read on the KX3) or 15.4v at the input is unable to transmit at a full 100 watts on all bands. Yes, I have the supplied cable with fuses attached, it's only 3 feet long, and the transmit vs' receive voltage is less than a volt difference. So all of those bases have been covered. As noted I have also completed the KX3 power configuration, and the KX3 to KPA matching alignment procedure... I was alluded to the idea that there were a second revision of boards that came out for the KXPA100 after the early models were shipped. I have also heard that those boards help increase the output power. Therefore I was asking WAYNE if this were the case, and perhaps having them would help this situation. As for the 12v not running the amp, this IS an issue because at field day we have 150 Ah batteries that run 12 volts, and it would be nice to have my 100 watt amp run a full 100 watts. Again, this was designed as a portable amp. I would expect that at 12v we should be able to get the full rating out of it. On another note, what may have also gotten lost due to all those trying to be helpful, but cluttering my original post. I have a K3 that no longer puts out 100 watts on 17 meters but does on all other bands. I was told this was a software issue by Tech Support. I would like confirmation FROM WAYNE that this is the case, and when he may have time to address it. If not, I would like to know why I was told this. So again, as much as I appreciate all of you trying to help with these questions, I would much prefer that Wayne address them personally. Thank you, -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Powering a k-pad from a K3S
What's a K-Pad? Elecraft getting in the tablet business?:-) I know of a K-Pod. On 5/21/2016 1:35 PM, Bob Novas wrote: Say, just for the sake of the argument, that I were to purchase a K-pad. If I want to power it from the K3S over the cable connected to the plug on the bottom of the K3S, do I have to modify the K3S to get power to the K-pad? If so, how much do I have to take apart? Would it make any sense to purchase any other stuff at this juncture because the K3S is going to be apart, like the KDV3? Thanks, Bob- W3DK __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to kevin.sto...@mediacombb.net -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] KX2?
Heads should roll. Part of being a beta tester is learning to keep your yap shut until told to open it. A couple of people should have short beta tester careers. The above supposes they weren't told to release the info. I don't remember anybody spilling the beans when the KX3 was released until the video of Wayne carrying it around the room at Dayton was set forth. On 5/18/2016 3:42 PM, Gary wrote: Heads will roll What a crack up. Man it looks sweet, I could use one of those. Gary -Original Message- From: "Randy Hall" <listk7...@gmail.com> Sent: 19/05/2016 5:17 AM To: "Niel Wiegand" <nielwieg...@aggienetwork.com> Cc: "Elecraft Reflector" <elecraft@mailman.qth.net> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KX2? Eric is giving a talk about Shrinking the Multi-Mode HF Transceiver at 8:20 ttomorrow at FDIM Randy, K7AGE On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 12:10 PM, Niel Wiegand <nielwieg...@aggienetwork.com wrote: Steve, WG0AT, let the cat (or goat?) out of the bag. See http://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=35DkbDsYyDY=/watch%3Fv%3DrAFYDJRZlHw%26feature%3Dem-uploademail What's a KX2? Niel - W0VLZ __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to listk7...@gmail.com __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to vk1zzg...@gmail.com __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to kevin.sto...@mediacombb.net -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Noise Blanker settings for Newbies
You need to spend some quality book time and walk away from the radio until you understand how it works. Read and *understand* the *whole* manual once through before laying another finger on the radio. I would suggest the KE7X books as well as the manual(s). You first need to find out what version of firmware is installed and if woefully out of date, which I suspect, update that before changing anymore settings. The days of unpacking a radio, putting it on the desk, plugging it in and having it work like you expect are over. On 5/15/2016 12:04 PM, Mike Smith VE9AA wrote: So it seems no matter which IF NB setting I have the rig on, the NB will invariably start to flash once I start transmitting. Maybe I don't understand what I am doing (quite possible), so this is what I am doing. See if this sounds correct. I hear my neighbours electric fence driving me crazy, so I hold in the NB button. As I understand it, I can adjust either DSP NB and/or IF NB. OK, if I leave IF alone and only choose DSP NB, I can run it through a range of DSP T-1, 2 & 3, up to a max of T3-7 (which makes the audio sound all crunchy) using the VFO(a) knob. I can get 'some' satisfaction from the DSP NB, but would like the option of using either/or. I can transmit as much as I want and the NB light never flashes (using the DSP NB). No problem. Scenario 2.hold the NB button in, now using the VFO (b) button (for the IF NB), I can choose NAR(7 choices),MED(1-7) & WIDE (also 1-7) . None of the IF choices really seem to do much against the electric fence noise except maybe WID3 one minute, then NAR4 the next. (yet the pulsing is exactly the same every pulse and other rigs (Icoms, Yaesu's deal with it easily)-the e-fence is a pop pop opo, never changing. What's even odder, is that once I transmit once or twice, the NB will then flash, and it seems to me the NB is no longer engaged - is that correct?is the flashing a warning that you do not have the best selection or a warning that it's now disengaged? Is there a separate board for the NB, because it sure seems to me like it's not working as intended. To add insult to injury, my ol' IC-7410 right next to it pretty much eliminates the E-fence noise altogether w/o breaking a sweat. (I know I shouldn't use the word ICOM here (hi) and I just can't believe this Icom box would be better than a K3.everything I have ever read says the K3 should be superior in every way. I did all my testing on an extremely quiet 17m band, CW mode, 500Hz filter. No amount of varying the bandwidths, hi cut, locut, or an array of filter choices, modes or bands seems to have any affect on the NB flashing. (or it's poor effectiveness) Ideas? Sub 100 serial number K3 CW mode, 20m, low SWR. Mostly using the 500Hz filter. I don't know the radio at all. . . .but I press NB, twizzle with VFO A and VFO B and get things set to where I think they should be to dampen my neighbours electric fence noise, but after a couple of short transmissions I hear the rig clicking away (relays) and then I see the NB flashing (it's evidently unhappy with my DSP choices), so another round of twizzling. Maybe I have it set too wide.too narrow..not close enough matching.scratch my head. After a half hour of various settings and looking in the manual (and then in the mirror to see if I have stupid written on my forehead) I come here for sage words of wisdom. Is there something obvious that I am doing wrong? I have no idea what S/W revision I am using and barely know most of the options the rig has and cannot ask the PO . Help>?! Thanks for the nice welcome guys and I can certainly get a S/W version (if that's important to this discussion) Mike VE9AA Mike VE9AA Mike, Coreen & Corey Keswick Ridge, NB __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to kevin.sto...@mediacombb.net -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Plea
Re: [Elecraft] K2 Internal Mic Adapter kit wanted
I'd like to see the IMA available again. I'd also like to see the K2 MAB picked up by someone. Fixed level out (W3FPR) and CW tuning indicator (K6XX) and the IMA on one board. Sorry for the thread crap. On 5/10/2016 2:34 PM, myf...@nc.rr.com wrote: Hi folks, I was trying to find an IMA kit that UNPCBS had made and sold. They sold out of all that they made. Hopefully, somebody on here might have one that they will sell. Also, if there is enough interest, UNPCBS will make another production run of the IMAs. Steve KI4EZL K2 Owner __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to kevin.sto...@mediacombb.net -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] [KX3]KXBC3 upgrade?
Is there any possibility that the KXBC3 will be upgraded to work with LiFePO4 AA cells. If I'm not mistaken the LiFePO4 cells are 3.2V so you could cut the number of cells in half and free up some space in the radio for other "stuff" also increasing available stand alone battery voltage to 12.8V give or take. LiFePO4 cells aren't bleeding edge battery tech and are much safer than Li polymer. They are in everything. A 50% increase in energy density 120 wh/kg vs 80 wh/kg for NiMH is hard to ignore. Thoughts? -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] New Elecraft Product for Dayton?
I've got that covered. I've got a Lincoln Power MIG 216 welder. On 5/7/2016 7:21 AM, Henry Pollock - K4TMC wrote: For the 'Kit Version' you will have to upgrade your soldering gear to welding equipment! Why wasn't this subject started back on April 1st? 73, Henry - K4TMC -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] K3S RJ-45 Pin Alignment
The standards go thusly. TIA/EIA 568-A (T568A) Pin 1 - white / green stripe Pin 2 - green Pin 3 - white / orange stripe Pin 4 - blue Pin 5 - white / blue stripe pin 6 - orange pin 7 - white / brown stripe pin 8 - brown TIA/EIA 568-B (T568B) Pin 1 - white / orange stripe Pin 2 - orange Pin 3 - white / green stripe Pin 4 - blue Pin 5 - white / blue stripe Pin 6 - green Pin 7 - white / brown stripe Pin 8 - brown 568B is predominant in the US. If you're making patch cables use the same standard on both ends. If you're making a cross over cable use the "A" on one end and the "B" on the other. It really doesn't matter if you use a standard or not as long as both ends are identical...that is until someone else works on your network. I spent a week rebuilding 50 CAT6 runs that someone decided to use their own standard on. I've got 'em memorized. I can also subnet IPv4 in my head. I need a hobby.;-) On 5/1/2016 9:53 PM, Byron Servies wrote: There are 2 wiring standards for cat5/5e/6 cable into RJ45 style modular plugs: EIA/TIA-568A and EIA/TIA-568B (aka T568A and T568B). They are slightly different, and both work to gigabit speeds. You can mix them, but in a data center, for example, they will try to stick with 1 or the other. 73, Byron N6NUL -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] K3S RJ-45 Pin Alignment
I agree with Don. Try a new cable. It doesn't take a lot of flex to break one of those small solid copper wires. If it's broken in the connector it wasn't crimped well, as the standard RJ-45 has a strain relief built in that clamps down on the cable to keep it from pulling out. I just cringe when I see someone unpack a store bought cable, grab a hold of the connector and start straightening it out. On 5/1/2016 6:04 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote: Byron, You might have a defective cable - get another one and see if the problem goes away. 73, Don W3FPR On 5/1/2016 6:59 PM, Byron Peebles wrote: I have indeed done all the clicks and boot removals and been unable to resolve the disconnect. It even happens when the radio is in-use and suddenly has the radio disconnect from the computer. So, the only answer is the standard "make certain it clicks", which it does? __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to kevin.sto...@mediacombb.net -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] A helpful review...
Exactly. How do you suppose the readers of other manufacturers mail list/forums would react if they had to deal with Elecraft advertisements all the times? Not well I assure you. I always thought this mail list was for owners of Elecraft gear or potential owners of Elecraft gear to congregate and talk about their Elecraft gear, their experiences using it and if needs be some advice in repairing/configuring same. The advertisements are happening way to often now. Instead of telling me to delete the posts how about telling the IcoYaeKen fan boys to post their troll advertisements on their own list/forum? On 5/1/2016 3:32 PM, Guy Olinger K2AV wrote: I had a nastier response which I decided to deep six since it was Sunday. But just one thing, if one went into Macy's and started hanging up Belk's posters, how would that be received? Rude, stupid, trespassing, illegal, what? I wonder if the same post also went to the Kenwood and Yaesu reflectors or it was just us that were "blessed"? My RELIABLE (caps intended) source of dope on new rigs comes from other PVRC (Potomac Valley Radio Club) membership who in contesting tend to use the rigs harshly. This is often discussed on the PVRC reflector, where no one expects commentary to center on any particular brand or age of rig. I have found the aggregate experience of PVRC folk on rigs to be accurate in the extreme, with never a pulled punch, particularly in the range of reactions to a given rig, where the RANGE of reaction is highly informative. I also get to go visit and try the rigs out if I want. We also have one soul on that reflector who rarely keeps a rig more than three months, and that running soap opera is pretty informative. Personally, I don't need Icom information here, don't want Icom information here, not trusting of Icom information here since some of it is obviously trolling. I have a really good place to get such if I want, that isn't hanging Belk's posters in Macy's. Here, I'm mostly looking for Elecraft owners that need some help off line. 73, Guy. On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 3:16 PM, Gene Gabry <n...@comcast.net> wrote: "Sort of". You're being to kind today Jim. ;) ;) 73 Gene, N9TF -Original Message- From: Elecraft [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Jim Brown Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2016 11:42 AM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] A helpful review... It has been observed that the author has a reputation as sort of a spokesman/apologist for ICOM. 73, Jim K9YC On Sun,5/1/2016 9:16 AM, Tom Fitzgerald via Elecraft wrote: This link may be of interest to many who have recently been debating a -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Prolific driver for Windows 10?
From the K3/K3S software download page, K3 Utilities and drivers section. "Elecraft offers the KUSB serial-to-USB cable for USB only computers etc.Our cable was originally provided using a */Prolific/* chip set but since approximately July of 2010 we have been shipping KUSB cables which use the */FTDI/* chip set. Before plugging in either of these cables to any of your computer's USB ports, you will need to have installed the correct drivers for your computer's operating system. Drivers are available for most Windows, Mac, and Linux OS's. Note that latest Windows 7 operating system already has the proper drivers included for the FTDI chip set and will automatically install them if you just plug the FTDI cable into a USB port. / //*Although both of these cables shipped with a mini CD, the drivers on this mini CD are not up to date. Please follow the links below for the latest versions of the drivers. Be sure to select the correct Operating System version."*/ On 4/30/2016 8:13 PM, Jack Colson wrote: Will the driver that is supplied by Elecraft on the mini CD work on Windows 10? It does on Win 7. Thank you, 73, Jack, W3TMZ __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to kevin.sto...@mediacombb.net -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] K3s - No transmit
Open up the utility again and make sure you have specified a transmit filter for all modes. On 4/27/2016 7:51 PM, Gary Smith wrote: I just added some filters to the K3s and configured the filters with the K3 config. The radio hears perfectly on all the modes and the filters are working beautifully. now however, it does not transmit. It is not in test mode. I did nothing else to the radio while I had it open. Tapping a key, SSB or pressing XMIT and there is zero output.this at 1W or 25W. The red TX LED lights. It signals the relay in the amp properly. On the P3 transmit monitor I see .02-.03W PEP registering, no SWR reading and the LP-100A shows no sign of a signal. I restored a known good configuration with no change. No error messages are showing, no warning message on startup. 13.6 V on the K3 meter. trying the ATU, it shows 5W on the display, relays clack, no output on the P3 output except that .02-.03W & nothing on the LP100A I have triple checked to be sure all the coax to the Synths, TXCO & Sub are attached properly. I have made sure all the connections to the sub RX are inserted properly. I must be missing something obvious. Any ideas what I might look at? Thanks Gary KA1J __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to kevin.sto...@mediacombb.net -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Feedline loss w/wo tuner
I knew I was right not to get one. Thanks Wayne.:-) On 4/27/2016 5:41 PM, Wayne Burdick wrote: Extrapolating from these two data points, it appears that Steppir reliability is inversely proportional to the distance from Eric's QTH. Wayne On Apr 27, 2016, at 3:37 PM, Jim Brown <j...@audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote: On Wed,4/27/2016 2:31 PM, Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft wrote: I've had my 4 El Steppir (20-10, plus 2 more fixed el for 6 m) up for over ten years 1 mile from the Ocean. Zero problems. My 3-el (no trombones) has been up on a 120 ft tower about 12 miles N of Eric's QTH for about 7 years, also with no problems I can blame on the antenna (but several I can blame on myself). :) I find the antenna quite effective on all bands, 20-6M. 73, Jim K9YC -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Sherwood's receiver performance table updated
Ditto we still don't use them. Our users have a choice of laptop or iPad/Surface other than a desktop thin client on our VM Ware network. 90% choose the Win7 laptop. They're more expensive, slower, and break more often than the thin client but not as often as the iPads. The Surface's are new so no experience base with them yet. Our hardware group absolutely hate touch screens. I'm a Network Engineer...I have no use for them either. My brother does IT for a school district that equipped all of their middle school kids with cutting edge iPads. 700 of them. My brother had to get good at replacing the very expensive coated touch screens that the evil empire said mere mortals couldn't replace. He got no help from Apple other than expensive parts. That experiment lasted three years and they switched to Chrome books. I guarantee as sure as I'm sitting here *that touch screen will fail within a year...if not sooner*, and you've got no chance to fix it yourself. I can order parts from Elecraft for all my rigs and fix them. No sweat. I'm curious why is direct sampling SDR's like the 7300 are supposed to be the second coming why Icom stuck with the traditional superhet architecture on it's "flagship" 7851? Maybe they realize the technology is at least 5 years away from being competitive. Everybody is ignoring W4TV's 800lb Gorilla, ADC overload. On 4/26/2016 5:28 PM, Clay Autery wrote: Coat it however you want... Doesn't stop dirt and grime being put on the screen possibly scratching and/or gooping up the corners and edges... I've been in IS/IT for 25+ years... Screens are not for touching. Bottom Line... I'll stick with buttons, dials, and switches, thank you. :) __ Clay Autery, KG5LKV MONTAC Enterprises (318) 518-1389 -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] KXPA Power Output
I see your points. I'm just a little more conservative (paranoid) than others. I like a little headroom. I've got a pair of RS-35M's that are 24 and 20 years old. I can't kill em. On 4/17/2016 6:47 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote: A quality 20A peak supply is fine. For over a decade I've run a K3 and then a K3S and, when those aren't on a KX3/KXPA100 off of an Astron 20 without an issue as long as the finals see a decent SWR (current demand skyrockets as the SWR goes up). At low SWR's none of the rigs exceeds 18 to 19 amps, max. The 20 means 20A peak current - ICS rated (5 min on 5 min off). That Astron is rated at 16A continuous but Amateur stuff is almost never "continuous". Consider that 20A at 13.8VDC is 276 watts. As long as the rig is not way below 40% overall efficiency there will be no problem. That's using a quality linear supply. I'm not so casual about a switcher or a cheaper supply. I use the Elecraft supplied power cables on everything. 73, Ron AC7AC -Original Message- From: Elecraft [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Kevin Stover Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2016 4:19 PM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KXPA Power Output WRU nailed it. I missed it in the original posting. You're losing 1.7 volts in 8ft of that "#14 wire". That's about as bad as it gets. Why didn't you use the power cable supplied with the amp? I believe it's #12. What kind of power supply is running the amp? It has to be 25 amps peak *minimum*, I'd say continuous. What else is being run on the same power supply? __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to kevin.sto...@mediacombb.net -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] K2 working
Congratulations! You were ready to make an anchor out of a week ago. On 4/17/2016 5:28 PM, lstavenhagen wrote: In case anyone's interested, I just completed my erstwhile dead K2 and it appears to be in good health on all bands after the final alignment. Whew... I dodged a bullet on this one lol The transmitter came out particularly good, ranging from about 11 to 12 watts max on 10M up to around 14W max on 80 (on a 12v 9AH battery). I was extremely careful with winding the transformers in this rig, T2 in particular and positioning it above the board a bit as specified, moreso than in my first K2. So it actually outperforms my first K2 by almost a watt on 10 and 12M lol. Either that or the first one just needs realigned which it probably does. The RX seems to be fine on all bands too according to my XG3. All that's left is the final assembly and then I'll decide what options to put in it. But first I need to take it out /p and use it for a bit to make sure it's all good. I can use my X1 external antenna tuner for that Anyway, thank goodness. It lives! Tnx es 73, LS W5QD -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/K2-working-tp7616478.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to kevin.sto...@mediacombb.net -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] KXPA Power Output
WRU nailed it. I missed it in the original posting. You're losing 1.7 volts in 8ft of that "#14 wire". That's about as bad as it gets. Why didn't you use the power cable supplied with the amp? I believe it's #12. What kind of power supply is running the amp? It has to be 25 amps peak *minimum*, I'd say continuous. What else is being run on the same power supply? On 4/17/2016 4:19 PM, Walter Underwood wrote: On Apr 17, 2016, at 11:44 AM, Art Nienhouse <ka9...@gmail.com> wrote: My rest voltage is 14.1 the key down voltage is 12.4 […]. the 14 gauge zip power cable is what comes with a 100watt Icom the length is 4 foot there is no loss here that I can see to cause this low power output. And there is your problem. The KXPA100 specs say "100 watts at 13.8 V”. It won’t produce 100W at 12.4V. A 1.7V drop under load is very large. The power supply and wiring cannot supply the required current without dropping the voltage. Eight feet of 14 gauge wire will have 0.9V drop at 24A. The electricity has to travel over both conductors of the 4 foot wire, which is why we use 8 feet. It looks like you have some additional problems beside the small power supply cable. Maybe there is resistance in the connectors (poor crimp? not seated?). Maybe the power supply won’t reliably supply 25A. Maybe the line voltage or house wiring has an issue. I would recommend at least 10 gauge wire and keeping the cables short. PowerWerx offers some useful pre-built cables at good prices. https://powerwerx.com/adapter-extension-cables wunder K6WRU Walter Underwood CM87wj http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog) -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Loading Old Configuration Into New K3S
People want to reduce the amount of button pushing to a minimum. Remember when your rig was new and how long it took to get the settings the way you wanted? Buy a used K3 or a new K3s and it takes some time to set it up like you like it. I absolutely hate swapping CD's and DVD's loading software on a new PC. Norton Ghost was the best thing since sliced bread (RIP). Add some software to the computer...make a new image of the hard drive. Hard drive needs replaced for whatever reason, and it's the component most likely to fail, load the image, operating system and all, on the new drive in about 20 minutes. If I tried that on a new PC with different hardware, processor, video cards, sound cards, Ethernet cards it would fail miserably and I'd find myself in driver hell. Since there is a difference between configuration and factory alignment data on the K3(s) maybe a utility within a utility just for alignment data. This would only work if both new and old rigs are physically configured identically. How do you load config data which contains information about the second receiver when there is no second receiver? On 4/17/2016 2:03 AM, Gary wrote: I kinda like the way it is and this is my thoughts: If I had 2 K3's (any vintage) and I was to check my setup, what if both are not identical?, maybe one has a second rcvr and may different filters? Having 2 utilities on my PC would not bother me. If I have separate PC's for each, then again I see no problem. I rarely use the utility these days, when I do, I save a config copy. Again if I had 2 K3's, I don't see an advantage in being able to copy from one trcvr to anotheri can see where I could make a mistake and mess things up though. So can somebody please explain to me what I may be missing or perhaps an example of how I could benefit from what is being discussed. Sadly as I get older I seem to be getting slower...:-) Gary -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] K2/100 and KAT2
http://wilcoxengineering.com/kpa100-in-ec2/ You've got to have the KIO2, an EC2 enclosure, and the KAT100PNL kit. KIO2 goes in the QRP K2, KPA100 and KAT100 go in the new EC2 enclosure which has the KAT100PNL kit installed. Assuming you've got the KAT100-1 you can use the serial cable you built. K2 end goes to the new KIO2, tuner end goes to either the KPA100 or the KAT100, left over connector goes to PC. On 4/16/2016 10:47 AM, Dauer, Edward wrote: Another possibility for a quick conversion to QRPis to move both the KAT100 and the KPA100 to an EC-2 enclosure and install the KAT2 in the base K2. I have seen references in the archives to the possibility of doing that conversion, but they leave a number of questions open. Once the KPA100 is installed in the K2, is it possible to move it over to an EC-2 with the KAT100? If so, is there a procedure published somewhere? -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] K2/100 and KAT2
I'm going to be doing the KPA100 and KAT100-1 in the EC2 enclosure or K2 "Twins" and then look at the T-1 outboard tuner for any QRP wild hairs I get. On 4/15/2016 11:24 PM, lstavenhagen wrote: I researched this at one point also, and I believe you can't have them in there at the same time. There's not room for the KAT2 and the KPA100 both in the same top cover and I don't believe it'll even work electrically. So you're pretty much stuck with one or the other and an external tuner in the case of the K2/100. If I go QRO, I'm soon to have 4 10W rigs so I'm looking at the KXPA100 with a tuner in it. And just using that with all the rigs, one at a time of course. For my K2's, that'll involve putting in a keying circuit and of course that's going to be the 2-boxes thing when I go /p. Haven't definitely decided on it, but that may be the most economical option for me. 73, LS W5QD -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] K3 sound recording
Don't see why not. On 4/14/2016 9:11 PM, Mike Goldstein wrote: I've been asked to do a workshop on contesting techniques next autumn, so I'm working on an audio/visual presentation. Here's the question: For my K3, if I connect a line between the K3 LINE OUT and the PC's LINE IN, will I be able to record (using software such as Audacity) all audio present in my K3 speaker or headphones? I want to record CW and SSB contest QSOs, to illustrate my contesting techniques. Thanks, Mike Goldstein VE3GFN __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to kevin.sto...@mediacombb.net -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] [Elecraft_K3] Re: K-Pod hands-on test opportunity; request for K-Pod application ideas
Yeah sure...it's called a laptop. On 4/14/2016 1:08 PM, Rick WA6NHC wrote: So it's within the realm of possibilities that a device similar to the K-pod could be made using the RJ-45, with a sound card added, for full network access? That would simplify remote ops or allow a tablet to control or even more. If you can control the radio via that port, the K3/S is nearly at that point now. Rick wa6nhc -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Strange K3's issues
Works fine at home and loses it's mind at the contest location with different antennas, feed lines, etc My first impression is an RFI problem at the contest location. On 4/10/2016 4:17 PM, Tom SQ5CSF wrote: Hello everybody, I have a strange issues in my K3. Maybe someone has had similar symptoms and may help me... chronology of my actions with K3 - from the begining K3 was never opened, worked fine. - 2015-06 - KXV3 installation - 144 QSO made in this period time - no issues. - 2015-12-31 Last firmware upgrade (5.38/1.25/2.86) - 26 QSO made in this period time - in January - no issues - SPDX contest (2016-04-02)- in my contest location - first operational problems. During the contest I have made about 40 qso. Many radio restart have been made to be able to work at all... symptoms: when I have pressed mic's PTT, TX led switch ON but there were no power output. The same situation was when I have used footswitch or playback message option. After few pressing of the PTT output power appeared. Next point was the AUT - time of the tuning was tottaly differen between next tunes. Next point - AF gain controls for main receiver. Radio was not reading the knob position to change the volume. Band change removed this issue for some time. - Home station - 2016-04-10 Previous problems disappear, now i have a problem with the K3 power off. It's look like not complete internal procedure. whole firmwares were reloaded - issues still exist. configuration was restored from 2015-08 - issues still exist. Older firmwares were downloaded - issues still exist. Actual firmwares were downloaded with last saved configuration - issues still exist. - next point - when I switch on my Diamond power supply - K3 power on automatically. Some shots made by mobile You can have a look on vimeo: https://vimeo.com/162290764 I will be grateful for any comments / tips Tom SQ5CSF __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to kevin.sto...@mediacombb.net -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] What's best Soundcard Interface for KX3
The IQ outputs are for displaying the received spectrum on a pan adapter like the PX3 or other spectrum display software like NaP3 through the sound card in the computer. The audio output at the headphone jack is for feeding audio to digital mode software like FLDigi or MixW to work modes like PSK31, RTTY and JT65/9. FLDigi, MixW, or WSJT/x wouldn't know what to do with an IQ output. On 4/10/2016 3:12 PM, John Pitz wrote: On the topic of sound cards, I was wondering what the advantages are to using the IQ output of the KX3 as opposed to feeding the headphone jack into the input of the soundcard? I believe the IQ output requires stereo input to work, but what are the advantages? I have seen on this list quite a few people with radios that have an IQ output still use the headphone output to decode the digital modes. I am under the impression that the PX3 can display a 200KHz slice of the RF spectrum using the IQ outputs whereas the best I can get out of fldigi is about 4KHz. Is there any way to coerce fldigi to display a wider chunk of the band? I am running fldigi on Linux. John KD8CIV On Sun, 2016-04-10 at 14:56 -0400, Don Wilhelm wrote: George, You laptop may have only a mono input for the mic/line-in, but for digital modes, only one channel is used, so it should work - just be sure to turn off sounds from your OS so those are not transmitted on the air. A simple and inexpensive USB soundcard can eliminate the problem of sounds from the OS. Just make certain the USB soundcard is *not* the default sound device. For digital modes, you do not need an expensive interface. Yes, some provide ready made cables to connect with your radio, some have galvanic isolation on the audio lines, and some provide PTT to the transceiver, but VOX works just great with the KX3 for digital modes (you don't need PTT). The big difference between soundcards (including those built into interface boxes) for digital modes is the noise floor of the soundcard. You mentioned Signalink, and while popular, it is not the best interface available. Try your laptop internal soundcard before buying anything else, it may be all you need. 73, Don W3FPR On 4/10/2016 2:09 PM, George_yv5wz wrote: Thank you Don! So you mean I don't need to buy anything just my laptopthat's interesting! however, I'm kind of confusewhy so many brands of expensive interface sound carddoes it represent any better signal or any using interface ?I mean 100 Box (signlink) against simple USB soundcard (12 box) .does it really matter? __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to crustac...@brig-elec.com __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to kevin.sto...@mediacombb.net -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] S: Re: Elecraft Utilities
My perspective comes from the early days of home brewing PC's. In the "good old days" with soldered BIOS EEPROMS and manufacturer approved command line flash utilities it was entirely possible to trash a motherboard. Lose power during a BIOS update or a cosmic ray takes out a section of the chip (I'm only partially kidding) and you got to buy a new motherboard. Your chances were 60/40 at best, a little better than flipping a coin. Next came socketed BIOS where all you had to do after a failed flash was buy a new chip from AMI, Award or Phoenix. These days with dual BIOS chips on board, BIOS backed up to hard drive and GUI flash utilities it's a lot easier to recover from a failed flash and not nearly as expensive, but failures still happen. That's with mobo manufacturer approved and supplied utilities. How many posts do we get here a month from folks who have to do an EEINIT or at the very least re-flash after a failure? If I was Elecraft I would run away from this potential Pandora's Box rapidly. On 4/9/2016 1:43 PM, Ken G Kopp wrote: Well said, Kevin! This was my initial intent when I started this thread, but you've done a better job of stating the obvious. 73! Ken Kopp - K0PP -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] S: Re: Elecraft Utilities
And who gets to fix the radio, under warrantee of course, when this home brewed command line utility bricks the radio? Through this whole discussion I've heard very little from proponents of open sourcing the utilities on this minor little point. Telling isn't it. This could be a profit center for Elecraft now that I think about it. If it were me, I'd charge $1,500 to fix any Elecraft product which has had it's brains blown out by some home brewed and unsupported flash utility. On 4/9/2016 1:13 PM, ei6iz.Brendan Minish wrote: I think that all most of us would need would be a command line utility that can be used to update firmware and perhaps back up settings. Either making this open source or just releasing the protocol spec would be all that's needed. This would not require the firmware to be open sourced, it would just mean that the Elecraft provided firmwares can be uploaded to the radio. Icing on the cake would be the ability to make radio backups -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] [K3] Setting RF gain & AGC correctly
eshold setting an extended trial. To anyone accustomed to an artificially restricted range of audio signal levels, a higher setting will initially sound quite 'aggressive' - even though the new setting is much closer to real life. 73 from Ian GM3SEK -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] S: Re: Elecraft Utilities
Well Elecraft have decided to do neither for the time being so On 4/9/2016 3:20 AM, Andy McMullin wrote: Don, Just to clarify. The Raspberry Pi uses a range of completely standard Linux operating systems EXCEPT that it does not use the X86 range of processors. It uses the ARM range instead. It does not need to “emulate” Linux in all aspects — it IS Linux in all aspects. Applications that are correctly compiled work just like those for other Linux systems. For example, the standard FLDIGI source for Linux just recompiles under Linux on the Raspberry Pi and then works. The designers of the Raspberry Pi are unlikely to rework their hardware to use a different processor — especially when the ARM one powers so many smartphones and other modern devices and the X86 one is hamstrung by needing to retain backwards compatibility with a design from over 30 years ago. On the other hand, for the Elecraft Utilities to work on the Pi, all that would be required would be to compile the Linux source BUT for the ARM processor rather than the X86. Either Elecraft could do it or, as was suggested, they could release the source and (almost) anyone could do it. — Regards Andy, G8TQH On 8 Apr 2016, at 23:32, Don Wilhelm <w3...@embarqmail.com> wrote: To ask Elecraft to provide Utilities for any and all small operating systems is unreasonable IMHO. The mainstream OS of Windows, Mac and Linux *are* supported, but recently there have been a number of OS variants that have appeared on the horizon (and there are likely to be more to come) and that includes the Rasberry Pi, and several other 'computers' that have recently appeared on the hobbyist market. Just because the most recent device can do RS-232 (or USB) communications does not mean it should be individually supported by hardware manufacturers. It would be more productive to encourage those writing software for those devices to request that they emulate Windows, or Mac, or Linux in all aspects so one could use the applications written for those mainstream OS versions to run without problems on whichever platform those "hobby" devices may be using. If the Rasberry Pi OS becomes stable over time, and is in use for a significant percentage of the Elecraft community, then it may eventually be supported on its own, but for the time being, as I understand the Raspberry Pi, its OS is a version of Linux, but not everything works like the main Linux platform -- so until you can convince the Raspberry Pi developers to create a version of its OS that is compatible in all respects to Linux, you will not have success. The market penetration for Raspberry Pi is just not great enough at this time for manufacturers to create software that will run on it. Much to the dismay of those who have Raspberry Pi running and controlling their ham stations. 73, Don W3FPR __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to kevin.sto...@mediacombb.net -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] OT: Decoding high speed CW
I may be wrong and it wouldn't be the first time but I think the Navy still teaches pilots Morse code. On 3/29/2016 7:34 PM, lstavenhagen wrote: So... this may be too far OT and forgive me for being ignorant, but I'm genuinely curious. Is Morse used at all anymore in any commercial or military enterprises? Or is amateur radio "it" for CW these days? I honestly don't know if we're the only ones left using it on planet Earth or not LS W5QD -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] ERR KEY
I think it's directly proportional to the amount we spend on said device. If we spend a lot for it, the the expensive doo -dad must be at fault when things hit the fan. Couldn't possibly be the software. N1MM+ is a great piece of software used by thousands and the price is free, gratis, etcIt's not perfect, never will be. On 3/29/2016 9:11 AM, Guy Olinger K2AV wrote: Same ole thing... Always, always, always rule out ALL the programs and stuff ATTACHED to the K3 before tearing apart your K3. The vast majority of "K3 problems" have nothing to do with the K3. I'm sure that some day some smart psychologist will explain why we continue to do that, all evidence to the contrary. A certain someone said to me once, "It just can't be the programs." I asked why not. I got a hostile look. "It's the K3, it's always the K3", he said. It was N1MM and the serial port sharing software, finally put to rest **a year and a half later**. I wish that psychologist would get on his horse and explain this worrisome predilection of ours. Bet it has something to do with needing to blame someone for our distress. 73, Guy K2AV -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Too much of a good thing is just fine
Na, it could be worse. You could be buying or building boats. A boat being defined as a "hole in the water you pour money into". On 3/24/2016 1:35 PM, lstavenhagen wrote: sorry, gents, I'm not going to be any help to you at _all_ LOL. The only effective treatment available is probably a 2nd job or a rich XYL hi hi. Other than that, I think we're just screwed... 73, LS W5QD -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] K3S audio board for K3 upgrade?
Exactly! I remember the trail of audio tears well. The difference back then being they had never heard a receiver as good as the K3 and all it was picking up compared to their Yaecomwood. Couldn't possibly be their favorite old radio had been feeding them the RF equivalent of mush and passing it off as "great audio"? On 3/21/2016 2:20 PM, Doug Turnbull wrote: Friends, Perhaps it is because I largely operate CW but for me the original K3 audio is just lovely.I am 71, my hearing is not so great but I use the lowest pitch possible around 360 Hz and have RX EQ set for good performance at low frequencies. It is just a sweet sound to me and so restful. Maybe if I was a phone man the story would be different though I do monitor SSB and work it for rare DX and it also sounds good. Could it be that the great flexibility in setting up the audio results in some people being put off as they have not found the sweet spot for their ears.I seem to remember a few years ago many people had troubles with the FT2000 because it was complex to set up. There were also people who did not like the Orion II again because setting the radio up initially was problematic for them. -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] K3 RTTY Decode
I don't know where the idea started that the decode algorithm in the K3(s) would be a good as a stand alone dedicated program like MMTTY. It won't ever be simply from a processor and memory point of view. I'm sure the Elecraft principals have made no such claim so why do people still expect it? It's a "gee whiz would you look at that" kinda thing more than anything else. Use it in a serious contest or DX pileup? Nonsense. Let the computer/software do what it does best and let the radio do what it does best. On 3/17/2016 11:16 PM, Hank Garretson wrote: Good friend K1GQ wondered out loud about real data comparing K3 RTTY decode to software decoders. Here is fifteen minutes of real data. Attachment 1. K3 decode captured by K3 Utility program. K3 width 400 Hz. Didn't fiddle with K3 decode parameters--used factory defaults. Attachment 2. MMTTY decode. AA6YQ FIR512 profile for first five minutes, them Fluttered Signals (FIR) profile for last ten minutes. If attachments didn't make it to list, email me and I will send them to you. Data captured during first fifteen minutes of 18 March zulu NCCC RTTY Sprint. Used MMTTY cross bars to tune. The sometimes frantic NS is a good test with lots of frequency changes, great signal-strength variability, and QRM. My take is that MMTTY is superior to K3 decode, but I was pleasantly surprised by how well K3 decode performed. My work is done. I'll leave it to others to draw more rigorous conclusions. Regardless of relatively decode performance of K3 versus MMTTY, I believe the most important plus of MMTTY and similar programs is call and exchange parsing, highlighting, and clicking into log window. When contesting, I have one MMTTY window and two 2Tone windows open and I constantly scan all three. My experience is that sometimes MMTTY is better, sometimes 2Tone Flutter is better, and sometimes 2Tone Selective is better. I often end up integrating bits and pieces from all three windows to complete a contact. That's part of what makes RTTY contesting fun. Your print may vary. Diddle Exuberantly, Hank, W6SX -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] KIO3B
Sometimes there really is no good explanation because people don't use the same hardware, and thus have different drivers installed. They also have different software installed. The machine I'm typing this on is a quad core processor running at 4Ghz with 16 Gigabytes of ram and a pair of SSD's. This thing rips by anybody's standard. It won't run Adobe Flash worth a crap. All three browsers will lock up from time to time. Kill the Flash plugin and it works but there goes my "multimedia experience". So, it could be hardware, it could be USB driver versions, it could be drivers for any of the hardware installed, it could be installed software. It could be Windows itself. Point is the Winkey bypasses all that stuff and is still "one wire compliant" in that it doesn't connect to the radio except the key jack which I assume may already have a paddle hooked up. On 3/13/2016 5:34 PM, Ian White wrote: I have read the same discussions about problems with serial-port keying, and like Guy, have never understood why some people experience timing problems while others do not. However, the point at issue here is much more specific: VP8NO's observation that his KIO3B-USB connection in his older K3 had keying problems whereas his hardware RS232 connection did not. I was only trying to balance that with the observation that the KIO3B's USB port *is* capable of providing good serial-port keying in the absence of any other problems. 73 from Ian GM3SEK -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] KIO3B
I have a Winkey. I use it. On 3/13/2016 9:25 AM, Mike Harris wrote: An observation. Installed a KIO3B in K3 #345, no problems all working either RS232 or USB or both together for CAT and audio. I use Logger32 and prior to installing the KIO3B my 3GHz clock PC comfortably delivered software CW from within Logger over RS232 without the need for a Winkey unit. ## How do you know that? It may work great at any specific time but sooner or later the CW will get messed up. If you don't have a Winkey USB I'd get one, One USB cable to the PC and a key line to the rig. It's supported by all the contesting/general logging software. It's also a real good standalone keyer, better than the one in the K3(s). I'd be using the RS-232 port on the K3s for rig control and the USB for audio in/out. The one cable solution may not be. Any thoughts. Regards, Mike VP8NO -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] K3EXREF question
I believe that is the way it is. 53/1000 of a hertz over an hour? I'd give that up all day everyday for the spectacular lack of phase noise in the K3s or K3 with the new synth. It's not a cesium clock. On 3/7/2016 8:02 AM, David Anderson wrote: I -think- the way it works is that when the K3EXREF is locked with the external frequency standard on 10 MHz, this is used to measure the frequency of the TCXO. The value of that frequency measurement is then put into the K3 REFCAL setting. If the TCXO drifts slightly as they all will, then the frequency difference is detected and the value in REFCAL is changed to match, hence keeping the frequency of the K3 correct, without actually phase locking the TCXO to an external reference which could degrade the low phase noise performance of the K3's synth. Basically the K3EXREF is doing the same thing automatically as you would manually when doing the calibration, by measuring the TCXO frequency and storing that value in REFCAL. The K3EXREF acting a frequency counter with a high stability external 10 MHz reference. Hope I have that right. So, it would be normal for the value in REFCAL to change as things warm up even with the external reference into the K3EXREF, because the TCXO is not locked, just measured. 73 from David GM4JJJ -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] USB Sound Card
Yes. Also once any potential driver issue is rectified and the sound card is installed remember EXACTLY which USB port you plugged it into and use the same port always. Even though the driver is installed if you disconnect and reconnect to a different port Windows will see it as a new device and start the driver dance again. Unless plug and pray has gotten a whole lot better (I doubt it). On 3/7/2016 5:47 AM, Terry Posey wrote: I use an Asus XONAR U7 with NAP3 and CW Skimmer on a Lenovo Windows 10.x machine , attached to the K3 IF via LP-PAN2. Almost all USB sound cards are quirky to set-up with your particular computer and your particular audio applications. As for the "stuck" 48k sample rate: make sure the little switch under the XONAR U7 is in the USB Audio 2.0 position, then follow the guidance for loading the correct driver - do not let Windows load the default driver. I hope this helps. 73, Terry K4RX -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] USB Sound Card
The reviews on Amazon and NewEgg need to be taken with a grain of salt. The vast majority of those reviews are from people who aren't technically inclined and you get a lot of "it sounds great" reviews. If you're using this for the LP-Pan take the advice of N8LP. He knows what works with his hardware. You might think about joining the Yahoo group as well. If this is for a Windows 10 computer you may be stuck in driver "no mans land" until ASUS releases drivers. Welcome to the wonderful world Windows OS "upgrades". On 3/6/2016 4:51 PM, Tom Field wrote: I’ve looked at the L-pan site and they recommend the ASUS USB sound cards. Reviews on Amazon and NewEgg are pretty negative. What are the group’s recommendations for a USB sound card interface with the K2 and KkX3: Tom KN6DR ge delivered to kevin.sto...@mediacombb.net -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Logging Programs
No. The best general logging program Linux users available is CQRLog. Disclaimer: Since I quit using Linux, long story, lets just say the state of accessibility software for Windows and Linux (there is one package and it's not good) is like night and day, I haven't kept up all that closely with development of CQRLog. On 2/27/2016 11:02 AM, Jerry Moore wrote: Any Of these run natively und r linux? I am setting up running raspberry pi under noobs Linux with x11. So far fldigi is the best pgm but lacks a lot of desired functionality. Wants: CAT, logging, digital, waterfall, bandscope thats sdr driven. On February 27, 2016 11:40:14 AM EST, Jim Brown <j...@audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote: On Sat,2/27/2016 4:51 AM, Jim Rodenkirch wrote: I'm surprised no one has suggested N1MMI believe it meets his requirements...or, did I miss something? 71.5 de Jim Rodenkirch K9JWV Yes, you did. N1MM is a contest logger, not a general logger, and is a very poor choice for general logging. 73, Jim K9YC __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to je...@carolinaheli.com -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Logging Programs
Ditto. On 2/26/2016 6:05 PM, Nr4c wrote: DX LABS SUITE. Sent from my iPhone ...nr4c. bill -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] KPA1500
I am a fan of Klitzing's designs. I did a rough and fast add up of all the stuff needed to build one of his 1KW designs using assembled and tested boards. I came up with right at $2K. That's just parts. No sheet metal, no fasteners, no wire, no fans, NO 50V - 40A switching power supply. You won't be running it on 120V and it won't fit in a K3 case. The LPF he uses could be improved. He uses a 5 pole Chebishev with SMT Mica caps. I'd use the 5 pole Cauer from the SSPA project in the 2012 Handbook, sized for 1.5KW. It uses ceramic SMT caps (more expensive but worth it for a clean amp). Using the Cauer design means tuning the LPF with a network analyzer to place the nulls on top of the odd order harmonics. Someone has commissioned Jim to build a 2KW version of his 160-6m SSPA. Basically two of his 1KW amps throttled back to 750W, in one box with a high power splitter/combiner. The power supply jumps to 50V, 60A and it still won't fit in a K3 case. The two 10"x10"x4" aluminum heat sinks weigh 10 pounds combined. It will not be a quiet amp but might actually do full power RTTY all day. On 2/20/2016 1:22 PM, Edward R Cole wrote: Well reading Wayne's response maybe one should look elsewhere for a kilowatt or more HF linear. I particular I would suggest looking at the LDMOS amp kits and assembled amps recently available (e.g. W6PQL) http://www.w6pql.com/1_kw_sspa_for_1_8-54_mhz.htm I have built some of his 2m amp and his 23cm amp kits. Really have to wonder where the ham "build-it" spirit has gone? But Jim will build on contract if you got the money (which apparently there are quite few that do). Maybe someday I will have Jim build the amp pallets for me to incorporate into a full amp of my own design. He really offers a lot of subassemblies which one can combine. 73, Ed - KL7UW -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Unsoldering
He's building a K1 (no SMT parts) not a computer motherboard. On 2/20/2016 9:23 AM, Mel Farrer via Elecraft wrote: I have been in the manufacturing process for a LONG time and the rework stations used in SMT parts is a state of art with custom equipment for the process, Tips that are the exact size of the parts to heat up each end are necessary for all part sizes down to 02-01 package and all of the IC's with special square tips etc. Special soldering irons and vacuum rework stations. Only simple rework should be attempted without the special tools required. Sorry no easy answer. Mel, K6KBE From: Mark Petrovic <mspetro...@gmail.com> To: elecr...@qth.net Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2016 7:11 AM Subject: [Elecraft] Unsoldering I'm assembling an Elecraft K1, and get the distinct feeling that unsoldering really is the last thing you want to be involved in. I have solder wick that has embedded flux, and I have a solder sucker that seems huge compared to the size of the features I'm dealing with. The wick works ok at getting some of the solder out, but not all of it. And a little bit of residual solder is still a major physical blocker to correcting a misplaced component or bad joint. I feel like I'm a pretty good solder-er, but I have not had good luck with unsoldering. Is it just me or does everyone have this problem? Thanks. Mark AE6RT -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] KPA1500
A legal limit SSPA doesn't come close to meeting that requirement. They've sold a little more than 10,000 K3/K3s's since 2007. About 8,000 KX3's in what... four years. Less than 8,000 K2's of all flavors since 1999. I'll bet they've sold less than 1,500 KPA500's. On 2/20/2016 9:12 AM, Arie Kleingeld PA3A wrote: I that Elecraft needs a new very good product that will sell at least 10.000 pieces in the next 3 or 4 years. If not a PA, what product would that be? That would be a logical strategy. (My two cents worth or maybe even less.) 73 Arie PA3A __ -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Unsoldering
I thought the same thing when I built my K2/100. As big as the solder sucker looks it does work. I had much more luck with it compared to the solder braid. Keep the soldering iron on the pad in question to keep the solder liquid than stick the solder sucker on the other side of the pad from the iron and hit the button. On 2/20/2016 9:11 AM, Mark Petrovic wrote: I'm assembling an Elecraft K1, and get the distinct feeling that unsoldering really is the last thing you want to be involved in. I have solder wick that has embedded flux, and I have a solder sucker that seems huge compared to the size of the features I'm dealing with. The wick works ok at getting some of the solder out, but not all of it. And a little bit of residual solder is still a major physical blocker to correcting a misplaced component or bad joint. I feel like I'm a pretty good solder-er, but I have not had good luck with unsoldering. Is it just me or does everyone have this problem? Thanks. Mark AE6RT -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft Digest, Vol 142, Issue 38
Apparently the principals at Elecraft have decided, quite some time ago, not to offer a 1500W amp. If you want an SSPA that will do 1.5K spend the $8K for the SPE 2KFA. If you think Elecraft can produce an amp of that caliber for less than $8K I've got some lakefront property for sale. There simply aren't enough hams ready, willing and able to spend that kind of money to make it economically viable. They'll get killed by the amp competition. As soon as all the fan boys with money are exhausted the market will dry up. $8K+ for an Elecraft SSPA or less than half that for an Ameritron AL-1500...and before you go down the "Ameritron is crap" road... a bunch of real famous contesters use the AL-1500 and win with it. On 2/19/2016 9:52 PM, Greg wrote: How many people would it take to put $1000 or $2000 down toward a KPA1500 for Elecraft to produce it? I would, for one. And, I think I'm hearing quite a few people who would be in line for one, even knowing that the amp would be considerably more expensive than the KPA500. It sounds like a lot of the ground work is already done in the prototype. Wayne had his way with the QRP KX3...now it's Eric's turn... hi hi. Eric or Wayne -- comment?? 73, Greg-N4CC -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] K3s pre-purchase question
In a previous post you received advice suggesting you download and read the assembly and operating manuals before buying the rig. ABSOLUTELY DO THIS! At a minimum before you pull it out of the box. They are your main source of configuration information for the rig. This email list is a distant second. Since you are new to HF...a second word of advice...this ain't your local repeater. Everything you say, everything you do can and will be heard for thousands of miles. Kinda humbling if you think about it. A third word of advice...until you have some HF miles under your belt, stay away from the abject buffoonery known as 75 meters. -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Seeking loop Antenna Parts
Totally agree. I built a dipole one time and fed it with the 450 Ohm window line everybody likes to use. I twisted the ends of the window line and crimped a couple of terminals on the ends. If it was going to be a permanent antenna I would have soldered it. Two years later when I took it down I disconnected the window line from the 1:1 current balun and the terminals came off in my hand. Apparently when I twisted the strands before crimping the connectors I removed some of the copper. The steel wire underneath had rusted to dust a good six inches back. No more window line here, doesn't matter who sells it, and no more copper weld. On 2/10/2016 5:59 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote: Copperweld is "nasty" stuff IMHO. If you can support it so it will not flex, you can tension it greater than plain copper. But it 'remembers' the coils it had on the wire spool and will spring back to those coils if allowed to remain free and untensioned. If you pull it while it has a kink in it, the game is over, that kink will become a spot for failure. -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] WTB 15Khz Filter for K3 for FM
The filter is 13KHz and it gets installed in slot number one. On 2/10/2016 7:10 AM, Thomas Chance wrote: Hi Everyone We have a K3 with the KXV1 module for 2M in an existing K3. To run FM, do we just need to add a 15KHz roffing filter? If so, does anyone have one to sell that is sitting around collecting ham dust? Thanks Tom K9XV (W9VW) -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Wide Spectrum support on Pan Adapter/SDR w/ K3 or KX3
Software Radio Labs QS1R will do 2MHz as a standalone SDR covering 10 KHz to 62.5 MHz. On 2/7/2016 12:33 PM, Bert Rollen wrote: All, I have a young friend who wishes to do the following - (my summary, not his words) - Panadapter (or SDR) with 4Mhz or more display (not just a few hundred kHz) - Capable of 144 MHz - 148 MHz - Point & click control a rig (K3, KX-3, Flex-6700, rig w/ 144 MHz transverter etc.) Essentially, he wants typical pan-adapter display and control, but 4000 kHz wide (or more) SO, do I recall some folks here who have run a separate SDR to drive controls on a K3? (I seem recall some sort of signal splitting involved outside the main radio) Any system / integration advice for this young ham? Thanks, Bert - K4AR -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] slightly OT -- acceptable network switch (aka Linksysproduces birdies)
I have seen some cheap "CAT5/6" jumper cables designed to hook the network device to the jack in the wall, that were purchased on E-Bay. Nuff said. I suspect they were made with stranded conductor wire which is NOT spec. They were just a little too flexible. Cable made by Anixter, Avaya, and Belden are top notch, Anixter tests every batch for compliance with the applicable RFC. I'll bet Avaya and Belden do too. Problem is you've got to buy 1,000'. On 2/6/2016 11:01 PM, Clay Autery wrote: ALL Cat-5 and CAT-5e is 4-pair wire. All Cat-5 wires are NOT alike... Just like NOT all HF+6 radios are alike... Buy "Elecraft" quality CAT-5e cables, and you shouldn't have to worry about it. Unless you're worried about signal leakage arounf or above the design frequency of near about 300 MHz. If y'all really want to know the concrete vs. spec diffs in Cat-5e to CAT-6, again... I will outline them to you... Cannot imagine what kind of wire you think was 2-pair and Cat-5 Only POTS wire is usally seen as 2 pair... and I'm pretty sure it is not twisted pair... Even CAT-3 is 3-pair... Whatever works for you, though. __ Clay Autery -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] slightly OT -- acceptable network switch (aka Linksysproduces birdies)
I am of the opinion that most if not all the issues associated with "noisy networks" is cheap switching power supplies that comes with the equipment. Cat5/6 cable in and of itself is pretty immune to noise pickup because of the twist in the conductors. That twist is there to knock down crosstalk on the 4 pairs when in full duplex Ethernet service. The only warning I'm aware of concerning routing of Cat5/6 is to keep it away from power runs. Most definitely do not run it parallel for any distance with unshielded romex, and if you have to cross romex do it perpendicular to the romex run. I've seen new houses built with all the wire running parallel in a piece of conduit in the wall. Looks pretty but a recipe for all sorts of problems like slower than expected or advertised network performance etcPower up from the basement and Ethernet down from the attic is a good idea. On 2/6/2016 12:03 PM, Bob McGraw K4TAX wrote: After reading all of this, I investigated my system here. First, no birdies found on any of the bands. WHEW! Noise on the 160M center fed wire w/balanced feed line is about S-3 this morning, noise on the coax fed 75M inverted V is S-2, and noise on the coax fed 40M inverted V is S-3, and noise on the coax fed 20M inverted V is S-3. These seem to be a bit higher then normal but it is Saturday and everybody is home in the neighborhood. Our system arrives with fiber underground to the box the TELCO provided on the end of the house. Out of that box runs a CAT5E cable up the wall, into the attic, across the attic and drops through the ceiling, then around the bookcase desk to the modem/switch sitting under the desk.The modem/switch is a CISCO LinkSys EA4500. Two of the ports are being used, printer and laptop, and the other two are open. The power for the modem/switch, power for the computer, the printer, the CLF lamp on the desk along with the radios all come from one power source being a dedicated 20A service back to the main breaker panel, again at the far end of the house, on the inside wall, being the same wall the CAT5E cable runs up to the attic. The run from the TELCO box to the station is about 75 ft. Same from the breaker panel to the operating position for station and amp power. Those feeds are #12-2 w/ ground and #10-3 w/ground respectively. Being in the middle and upstairs of a 2 story house there is no station ground to the outside world, other than the provided safety 3rd pin ground as required. I do have a dedicated 240V 20A service for the amp and that service is in the attic back to the main breaker panel. Antennas are all above the roof, no more than 50 ft and less with the tower at the corner of the house, and mostly less with a couple, 40M wire and 20M wire actually having the ends terminated at the eve of the 2nd story. The point being, there is not a lot of physical separation between the CAT5E cable and the antennas and power wiring. To me it is very puzzling why so many seem to have issues and a few do not. I could elaborate about station equipment connectivity. It would most likely start a controversy as to what is correct and what is incorrect. My point, if one is having issues, this should trigger a thought to investigate how and what is configured with the station. In some cases, I'm sure certain equipment is more prone to generate noise/birdies than others. 73 Bob, K4TAX -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] I had a KX4 Vision
It already exists. It's called a laptop. On 1/31/2016 12:48 PM, Phil Wheeler wrote: Sounds like an iPhone or some such. A tad larger I imagine? :-) 73, Phil W7OX On 1/31/16 10:22 AM, Dan Baker wrote: While working the 160 meter contest of which I enjoyed immensely. I had a vision of a KX4. It was a screen with a home button. It ran multiple apps and had the option of a second and third screen. I also saw a black box version for a bring your own tablet solution. Then I noticed I must have nodded off for a second. But I believe Eric and Wayne can build you just about anything you are willing to pay for. Dan KM6CQ __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to kevin.sto...@mediacombb.net -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] K2, squelch lock in
Tap menu, tap display should be the first item in the secondary menu Squelch (SLCH) It's page 100 in my manual. File a bug report with HRD, good luck. On 1/31/2016 7:27 AM, Hans Bonnesen wrote: Starting a remote fling I’m using my K2 coupled via an Akoya laptop PC to: Ham Radio Deluxe, Teamviewer and Skype. I’m puzzled by the squelch setting on Ham Radio Deluxe which for unknown reasons tend to slide up to the 80 digit whenever closing down the system. This extremely annoying when I work the K2 in a normal detached mode, where I find the K2 squelched down unless signals are very strong. Is there a push-button way to delete the squelched condition on the K2 itself.? Hans, OZ5RB __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to kevin.sto...@mediacombb.net -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] [K3] Clock bug?
Or, barely useful fluff that would take up valuable firmware space. The computer I do my logging on has a much more accurate clock mainly because of a little program that keeps it synchronized to the US Naval Observatory NTP server. It updates the computer clock every 15 minutes and then goes back to sleep. If I reboot the computer the program automatically syncs with USNO. Last update was 6 minutes before I wrote this. The computer clock was adjusted -0.002 seconds. Why waste firmware space? On 1/27/2016 10:44 PM, Ken wrote: Great idea! --WA8JXM On 1/27/16 8:45 PM, Dave Cole wrote: It would be so cool if the Elecraft clock set itself when I tune to WWV, using the data WWV sends.:) -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] K3-S - CW Keying for Contests
For any windows users watching this thread who actually care what their morse sounds like in a contest I would suggest the WinKeyUSB3 from K1EL. Instead of relying on windows to correctly key the rig with a direct serial connection the contest software generates ASCII characters and sends the string to the Winkey which keys the rig perfectly. Windows does what it does best, which is move data around, rather than trying to properly time morse code through a serial port. The Winkey works with all the windows contest software and most regular loggers. It also works with CQRLog in Linux and works on the Mac as well. I have no idea if the Mac contest software supports it or not. -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Fwd: Re: K3-S - CW Keying for Contests
I have checked the K1EL site. Both MacLoggerDX and Rumped support the WKUSB. Forwarded Message Subject:Re: [Elecraft] K3-S - CW Keying for Contests Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 19:07:24 -0600 From: Kevin Stover <kevin.sto...@mediacombb.net> To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net For any windows users watching this thread who actually care what their morse sounds like in a contest I would suggest the WinKeyUSB3 from K1EL. Instead of relying on windows to correctly key the rig with a direct serial connection the contest software generates ASCII characters and sends the string to the Winkey which keys the rig perfectly. Windows does what it does best, which is move data around, rather than trying to properly time morse code through a serial port. The Winkey works with all the windows contest software and most regular loggers. It also works with CQRLog in Linux and works on the Mac as well. I have no idea if the Mac contest software supports it or not. -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Filtering RFI from LED & flouresence Dimmer Switches
My simple (=cheaper) solution is to get rid of the dimmers all together. How much is a good old fashioned light switch at the big three, $1.50, two buck if you want a matching switch plate. When we bought our house I replaced six dimmers. Didn't hear a peep from "she who must be obeyed". I have about that many CFL's to swap out for LED's. The garage fluorescents will be a different story. They get to stay as long as they stay radio quiet. On 1/25/2016 6:52 PM, Charlie T, K3ICH wrote: My simple (= cheep) solution is to simply turn off all dimmer controlled lights when I'm on the air. For me, this is easy since there's only two in the whole house! Charlie k3ICH -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Soldering station recommendation in preparation for building a K1
I have the Hakko 936D which isn't made anymore. It's been replaced by the FX-888. I second Don's recommendation for the 1/16" chisel tip. I built my loaded K2/100, KAT-100, 2T-gen, N-Gen, and XG2 with the 936 using the 1/16" and 1/8" chisel tips. On 1/23/2016 9:11 PM, Mark Petrovic wrote: Hi. I am preparing to build the Elecraft K1, and am seeking a recommendation for a temperature controlled soldering station mentioned in the K1 assembly guide. Any suggestions? Thank you. -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] K3 Compression compared to CESSB
I wouldn't expect there to be. Firmware is the holy grail of SDR and is really the only thing that differentiates one rig from another. As such it should be protected and proprietary. On 1/22/2016 9:47 AM, Robert Sands wrote: Is there a published explanation of the compression algorithm? (not in Fred's book, I looked and checked with him) Bob K7VO -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft gear relative IMD
Two different animals. Harmonics and spurs are regulated by the FCC to be at least -43dB down on HF and -60dB down on 6 meters. The K3(s) meets those specs easily as evidenced by a couple of QST reviews. IMD is not regulated I think because most hams don't have the test equipment to pull it off accurately. All of this IMD hullabaloo would quickly go away if the manufacturers would switch from 12V finals to 50V finals or used pre-distortion of some sort. How much will Ham's pay to clean up the IMD problem when the FCC doesn't regulate it? On 12/30/2015 9:09 PM, a...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Who has some measured 2 tone IMD test figures for an actual K3/K3S at full and reduced power levels and at supply voltage levels between 12-15 volts?Must assume the Harmonic and Spurious Outputs exceed 50dB below carrier @ 100W within ham bands as per Elecraft manual specs. HOW much better than 50dB with above variables is the question? Can someone share these figures? 73,Mike AC5P -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ARRL FISTS #11993 SKCC #215 NAQCC #3441 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
