Re: [Elecraft] Succumbing to temptation
Lloyd Lachow wrote: Before I could really think through the implications, I had reached out and cranked that power to 11...So I got a 339... But at what cost to my soul? Who was it, really, at the controls just then? Well, we can hazard a guess: --- Nigel Tufnel: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and... Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten? Nigel Tufnel: Exactly. Marty DiBergi: Does that mean it's louder? Is it any louder? Nigel Tufnel: Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where? Marty DiBergi: I don't know. Nigel Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do? Marty DiBergi: Put it up to eleven. Nigel Tufnel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder. Marty DiBergi: Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder? Nigel Tufnel: [pause] These go to eleven. ---"This is Spinal Tap" -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: FW: [Elecraft] MicroHam microkeyer
Don Wilhelm wrote:
One should not assume that any particular connector implies any kind of
standard. As an example, the 25 pin DB25 connector is used both for a real
RS232 serial port and on most PCs as a printer port.
And to make matters worse, the real RS-232 standard calls for DB-25P
(the "plug" or "male" connector) on cables and DB-25S
("female"/"socket") on equipment, on the plausible theory that if a pin
is broken it's easier to repair/replace a cable than a device.
When IBM belatedly decided to design a serial port card on the first
PCs, the engineers discovered that using DB25-Ss on PC cards was already
preempted by the printer port card people, who had already discovered
that the parallel port standard "Centroncis" connector was too wide to
fit on a standard PC card. Unfortunately they chose to use the -S
connector on the card. Since it was felt that a typical PC user couldn't
be relied upon to not plug their modem cable into their printer port if
the connectrors would fit, DB-25P was adopted as the connector on serial
port cards for PCs.
So much for "standards".
There *is* a commonly used convention for DB-9 pinouts for serial ports
on PCs...which imitates the serial card (pardon me, "asynchronous
communications adapter card") selection of the male connector. But its
more a convention than a standard. Certainly "the plug fits so it must
work" was never a safe assumption even with the original RS-232, because
there were two ends to the conversation: DCE (read "modem") and DTE
(read "terminal")...leading to the widespread need for "break-out
boxes", "modem eliminators" and "gender changers".
Guess which end the IBM card implemented?
Of course Don (who worked for IBM at that time) knows this little bit of
history, but I figure some of you young-uns might not...
73 de Maggie K3XS, who will be presenting her K2 talk at the R.F.Hill
club in Perkasie next month
--
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--/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/
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Re: [Elecraft] POW Receiver
Fred Jensen wrote: 2. "Razor blades" and "campus" don't sound like they belong in the same sentence. Any suggestions for substitutes that would pass the "campus security test?" Things sure have changed since I was on the rifle team in college. I don't recall the men shaving much back then though. Or the women, come to think of it. You could always take a Dremel and dull the edge; they don't have to be sharp to rectify. Further resources: http://www.midnightscience.com/ http://www.schmarder.com/radios/crystal/ Maggie K3XS K2 1641 -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] Detaching the K2 Faceplate
James Kern wrote: Check in the Elecraft photo archives on Elecraft's website. Someone detached the front faceplate (as well as some other things) to make the K2 bicycle mobile. Perhaps you can get in contact with that person and get some tips. Good luck! also see http://www.qsl.net/n8mx/bike.html -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] long-haired, dope-smoking, free-software hippie
NZ0R wrote : > """I'm not a long-haired, dope-smoking, free-software hippie so if I have to > spend some money for good software I don't mind. (As a professional > programmer I've never understood why the product of my hard work should be > free when I have to pay for the product of everyone else's work.)""" > > Any recommendations? Second Craig's recommendation. I've been a software professional myself as long as you've been a ham (and you started when you were 12), and in my experience there's room for both free (as in either "free beer" *or* "free speech" or both) and for-profit software in the the world. I've used free code that was of excellent quality. I've also encountered allegedly "professional" programming that was utter garbage. And while I use free tools quite a bit, I just spent $500 for a Java development environment because it will help me do a better job than the equivalant free products, some of which are quite good. I suppose it would be nice if the quality of software could be judged soley on its price. But Elecraft owners know that rule doesn't apply to radios either. Deprecating comments about free-software advocates associate you with the likes of the scoundrels at SCO. Consider that it does not do you credit. 73 de Maggie Leber K3XS Elecraft K2 s/n 1641 Editor, the Phil-Mont Mobile Radio Club "Blurb" -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] If you were to do it all over again
Lee Buller wrote: If you were going to build another K2 (and I know there are many of you who have built quite a few) what things would you do differently from the first build? I'd buy the KAT2 kit also. :-) Good news: I finally (after four years essentially on the bench (now have a job, and will have the money to buy one, and a KIO2 too. Bad news: I won't have as much building time available as I did this winter. :-) 73 de Maggie K3XS Editor, Phil-Mont Mobile Radio Club Blurb - http://www.phil-mont.org Elecraft K2 #1641 -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] Kio2 cablength
W3FPR - Don Wilhelm wrote: ...what I learned in large system computer design and testing experience was that shields are only DC grounded at one end, and that end is the 'driving' device or in the RS-232 world, that would be the box defined as the DCE - in the DTE devices, the shield would be grounded through a capacitor, or alternately left open... Differences in the potential of the chassis...of a box on one side of a raised floor computer room as compared with a box on the other side could be substantial enough to cause current to flow When I was working for a very large IBM mainframe shop in the mid-1970s, we had the Mother Of All Serial Devices: an IBM 3705 communications controller. This beast was rolled into our raised-floor machine room and left standing on its shipping wheels next to the Comten controller it was intended to replace. The controller, a computer in it's own right, woul not run for more than a day or so without halting due to a hardware-detected fault...denoted by the illumination of one or more of the dreaded "red light" indications on it's Star Trek TOS-like front panel (and the immediate sessation of any data flow though it from the modem bank to the processor complex it was attached to). After field-replacing every circuit board in the box (and it was a very big box) and scheduling the replacement of the 370 Motherboard Itself (which was more of a "passive backplane" than what we call a "motherboard" in a PC today), IBM Field Engineering began to notice that every time they went to place a scope probe on signal lines in the box, it would crash. This was odd enough, until the time their tech reached out to place the scope probe on a line, and the box crashed just *before* he touched it. Subsequent investigation disclosed that the weight of the 3705 had caused the alignment of the panels of the raised floor to shift slighly, creating two huge insulated sections of floor in a room that was easily 1,000 sq ft. Standing on one of the floor panels on the boarder of the two sections could cause the panel to rock slightly in place like a table with uneven legs (which is effectively what it was), closing a circuit between two huge capacitor plates (which is effectively what *it* was), and causing a surge of static to race into the surprisingly delicate device. Of course one of the "landmine" floorplates was right in front of the light-bedecked console... 73 de Maggie K3XS -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] K2 Build Question
tom.w3qs wrote: 1. Resistance checks for U1 pins 1 & 2 are out of spec. Chart says 25 - 35 K for both pins. DMM reads 17 K for both. Old analog meter reads 8 - 9 K for both. 2. Resistance checks for J1 pin 15 is out of spec. Chart says 10 - 60 K. Analog meter reads 80 K. Perhaps the resistance chart does not take the added SSB stuff into account? U1 pin 1 and J1 pin 15 are both associated with this added circuitry. I did the same build you did (well, on S/N 1641 anyway)...and noted the resistance check values after adding the KSB2 components using a Triplett 2030A DMM. U1 pins 1 & 2 : 30Kohm J1 pin 15: 31Kohm So whatever the reason for what you're seeing, I don't think we can blame it on the KSB components being present. You might want to inspect things again. It's *very* easy to overlook soldering a pin or two on the LCD or one of the processor chips, and have things sorta almost work anyway because the pin's in a plated-through hole making intermittant contact. I did that more than once. 73 de Maggie K3XS -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
[Elecraft] " Back to the Future - Morse Code and Cellular Phones"
Published on The O'Reilly Network (http://www.oreillynet.com/) http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/7016 Back to the Future - Morse Code and Cellular Phones by Brian McConnell Jun. 28, 2005 I've spent most of the past five or so years thinking about handheld devices, their limitations and how to work around them. Having worked with telephones since I was in high school, this has been something of an obsession. The hot trend today is to cram every feature imaginable into mobile telephone handsets. This has led to some cool things like camera phones, mobile gaming, and such. The problem is that a lot of designers overlook some basic limitations in these devices, and more importantly, the situations in which people use them. Cellular phones are all about mobility. Good mobility applications recognize that the user is often in motion (walking, driving, etc). Safety and convenience require that the application should demand as little visual attention as possible. Badly designed applications force the user to stare at the telephone's display instead of paying attention to surrounding environs. This is why speech user interfaces work so well for mobile users. They allow the user to interact with a service in a "heads up" stance, without looking at the phone. Unfortunately, most mobile applications are of the badly designed "let's take a PC interface and shrink it down" category. Text messaging is an enormously popular service, but it too suffers from this basic user interface conflict. Sending and receiving text messages requires the user to look at the display. Receiving messages can be done at a glance, so this is not such a burden. Sending them is another story. Some people are adept at tapping messages on numeric keypads, but doing so requires the user to pay attention to the display. Try writing a text message without looking at the phone. Not easy. "Tapping" Morse Code, or a derivative of it, could be one way to solve this problem. With Morse Code, one could tap text messages out without looking at the telephone, and without having to fumble with ever smaller keypads. I'll admit that the idea of resurrecting Morse Code seems improbable, but then it's worth remembering that only a few years ago, the idea of people typing with their thumbs also seemed absurd. How might Morse be incorporated into a telephone handset. I sketched out a fairly simple interface. Here's what I came up with. The telephone would have a fairly large pressure sensitive panel on its back side, big enough that you would not have to look at the phone to locate it. It might also be possible to use the telephone's existing microphone to sense taps (although discriminating between short and long pulses could be a problem). You'd send messages in a couple of different ways depending on how you were carrying the phone at the time. I devised a couple of tweaks to make the process of sending messages faster. When carrying the phone at your side, you could send messages with one hand by tapping on the back of the phone in the convention dot (short) and dash (notation). The panel would interpret a brief pulse as a dot, a longer pulse as a dash. Timing is important, so this method of sending messages takes more practice. With both hands free or with the phone resting on a surface, you could use a slightly different method to tap messages. Holding the phone in one hand and tapping with the other, you'd tap the panel with your fingernail to send a dot, and with your whole fingertip to send a dash. Timing is much less important here, so this method will be easier for people to learn. Receiving messages is less of an issue, since they'll arrive as text messages. The sending telephone will convert the tapped dots and dashes into alphanumeric messages to be sent via SMS or IP. The receiving telephone will display these in the usual way (an option to play messages via text to speech synthesis would be a nice add-on, and as mobile phones become more powerful, should be easy enough to do). Hands-Free Mobile Phone Features Incorporating a Morse Code key into the back of a telephone handset has other uses besides tapping text messages. One of the things this enables you to do is to make it easier to control a telephone in hands-free mode. For example, you could design the phone so that it recognizes certain codes as keypad commands, primarily for deciding how to deal with incoming calls. .. = answer call ... = send call to voice mail = forward call to preprogrammed number So while you're driving along, you could dispatch incoming calls as desired by tapping on the back of the handset, something you could do heads up, without taking your eyes off the road. While this isn't Morse Code per se, it's the same idea, and it should be easy to train users to learn a handful of short two or three digit codes as in the example above. This is probably more reali
Re: [Elecraft] For SSB op's only, T/R delay K2
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you release the PTT switch, do you hear audio instantly or is there a small delay. As a comparison, there is virtually no delay when I use my ICOM radio. On S/N 1641 there is no perceptable delay whatsoever. Perhaps you might want to check stuff in the AGC section? 73 de Maggie K3XS -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] Battery vs Ultracapacitor
wayne burdick wrote: There are also bacteria that produce hydrogen, when properly "trained." The problem with that so far has been the feasibility of the nanotech-based whip and chair. :-) 73 de Maggie K3XS -- K2 1641 -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] Maggie's Presentation
Steven Pituch wrote: PLEASE! I need to use your presentation at my club soon. Is that OK? I can send you back the add ons that I will do to it. I need to add pictures to the end of your report on the KAT/KPA100 in the EC2 enclosure, and also the KPA100 in the K2 chassis version. Also I need to show the radio performance comparison chart... Well, it's ceratinly OK with me if you use *my* stuff. Of course I can't clear you to use the images that *I* used without permission; so you're kind of on your own there. Most of them came from the Elecraft site, but others came from other ham radio websites--- the sequence dealing with the history of amateur radio building in particular...a total of three or four images, as I recall. Also, to make changes you probably need to understand that this was *not* a Microsoft Powerpoint presentation. It was done with Huckster, a very lightweight open-source slideshow tool written in Java. So if you're happy to use what's posted on the web, that's fine. If you need to alter the Huckster scripting, you'll need the script, the Huckster JAR file (kind of a portable Java executable package, downloadable from the Huckster site) and you'll need to install the Java runtime on your computer (if it isn't there already). The laptop I built the presentation on is currently in the shop for service (backlight quit on me)...so the backup of the Huckster script I have immediately available here on my Linux server isn't *quite* the one I used to generate the slides you see online. When I get the laptop back (assuming HP hasn't found it necessary to clobber the hard disk to fix the backlight) I may be able to track down the source of the images from my browser history and retroactively ask for permission to republish...or at least know who to ask. That will be at least a week from today, maybe two. So that's the situation. Summary: () Use what I wrote, fine. () Use the images: you're on your own as to intellectual property issues...*I* think illustrating my lecture with them was within "fair use" but your milage may vary. () Modifying the presentation could be tricky. 73 de Maggie K3XS -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft Kit suggestion and other stuff
Margaret Leber wrote: Oh, yeah...that part that was missing during inventory "phase 1"? I found it stuck to an envelope flap later on... Just in case anybody thought this was an argument in favor of *not* doing the inventory, when I finished the RF board inventory I came up shy one shoulder washer, one of the ones that keeps the final transistors from shorting out. By discovering this early during the inventory I was able to request a replacement from [EMAIL PROTECTED] soon enough to avoid holding up construction. Still not sure if it was left out or I managed to lose it, but what *is* certain is 1) I couldn't find it 2) I needed it 3) trying to do without it would probably have been disasterous. 73 de Maggie K3XS S/N 1641 -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft Kit suggestion and other stuff
W3FPR - Don Wilhelm wrote: I do arrange all the capacitors, diodes, resistors and other long leaded components in value order in the holes along the edges of a corrugated cardboard tray (old Heathkit method) so each one is in a known place where I can lay my hands on it when it is needed. I cut the USPS shipping box in half along the narrow sides to produce 2 parts trays, your method may be different, but it is quite helpful to know where to find any particular part quickly. While I had a rather prolonged parts inventory phase (started the inventory, discovered a part was missing halfway through, put project on the shelf for four years), I still think the parts inventory is very valuable. I used green plastic school cafeteria trays (the kind with three smallish compartments and one large one) for holding various parts during construction. These could be stacked on each other (the "wrong" way) to conserve workbench space. And for some reason (totally unexplainable by the amount of breadboard work I do: none) I happened to have a "QT socket" type breadboard on the bench. This turns out to be an excellent way to sort a bunch of components that all look the same (like the Whizzio Quality Capacitor Assortment from the RF board) into cute little orderly rows. Just plugging one lead (or several) from each component into the socket, and they'll stand up nicely so you can hold the whole mess under the illuminated magnifier to find a particular value and pluck it out for use. Did I mention the presentation I did at Phil-Mont Mobile Radio Club about K2s? You can view the slides at http://www.phil-mont.org/k3xs_k2/slide1.html or see the whole thing as a single page at http://www.phil-mont.org/k3xs_k2/index.html The illustrations are stolen shamelessly from the Elecraft site (and a few other places, like PA3CEVs wonderful construction photos) so if anybody complains that I'm outside the scope of "fair use" I'll have to take it down. But it was fun to do. Oh, yeah...that part that was missing during inventory "phase 1"? I found it stuck to an envelope flap later on... 73 de Maggie K3XS K2 S/N 1641 P.S. I did operate briefly during FD as K3XS 1E EPA...logged four SSB contacts: K5FD 3A WTX, N0GF 3A ND and AA0AA 1A Missouri. W3NWA 4A EPA was just a few miles away. -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
[Elecraft] Interesting words from another domain -- K2 presentation
I was reading my daily RSS feed and happened to encounter the following. While the author isn't an operator (to my knowlege), I was struck by the strong resonance with the *craft* part of "Elecraft". So many of these points apply to the Elecraft experience that I though I'd share it with you folks. - Draft Craft Manifesto I’ve been trying to pin down what is driving the increasing popularity of crafting for a while now. This is what I’ve got so far: 1. People get satisfaction for being able to create/craft things because they can see themselves in the objects they make. This is not possible in purchased products. 2. The things that people have made themselves have magic powers. They have hidden meanings that other people can’t see. 3. The things people make they usually want to keep and update. Crafting is not against consumption. It is against throwing things away. 4. People seek recognition for the things they have made. Primarily it comes from their friends and family. This manifests as an economy of gifts. 5. People who believe they are producing genuinely cool things seek broader exposure for their products. This creates opportunities for alternative publishing channels. 6. Work inspires work. Seeing what other people have made generates new ideas and designs. 7. Essential for crafting are tools, which are accessible, portable, and easy to learn. 8. Materials become important. Knowledge of what they are made of and where to get them becomes essential. 9. Recipes become important. The ability to create and distribute interesting recipes becomes valuable. 10. Learning techniques brings people together. This creates online and offline communities of practice. 11. Craft-oriented people seek opportunities to discover interesting things and meet their makers. This creates marketplaces. 12. At the bottom, crafting is a form of play. http://ullamaaria.typepad.com/hobbyprincess/2005/03/draft_craft_man.html By the way, next Wednesday I'll be doing a presentation at the Phil-Mont Mobile Radio club meeting on my K2 experience. Folks who are in the Philadelphia area that evening who might like to attend can contact me for information. 73 de Maggie K3XS Editor, Phil-Mont Mobile Radio Club Blurb - http://www.phil-mont.org Elecraft K2 #1641 -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report for June 6th, 2005
Kevin Rock wrote: On 7045 kHz at 0200z:... K3XS - Maggie - PA - K2 - 2847 ?? checked in with a Yaesu device however. My K2 is S/N 1641, but as you note, I was running a Yaesu FT-847 at 50w or so, both to make sure I penetrated the substantial QRN and also so I could use my KAMPlus to back up my RX follow the net. Here's a diagram of the station I used: http://voicenet.com/~maggie/k3xs_diagram.jpg 73 de Maggie K3XS Editor, Phil-Mont Mobile Radio Club Blurb - http://www.phil-mont.org Elecraft K2 #1641 -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
[Elecraft] Finally managed QNI on ECN on 40m
...although I really had oodles of artificial help on a very noisy night. Ended up using my FT-847 at 50 watts CW (a real light-dimmer around here) and KAMPlus on RX to decode the other traffic I could hear--because my CW RX skills just really aren't net quality as yet. Apparently I send OK because Tom N0SS checked me in (after I remebered to retune my recently repaired G5RV antenna system from 75m to 40m :-) ) with me sending using one side of my Bencher paddle as a straight key...the keyer still tends to run away on me a bit when my attention wanders momentarily. (I *am* practicing my CW RX and I don't use the KAM for CW RX--except here where I think my inability to copy faster would interfere with net operations.) So it was nice to finally manage to be heard on ECN, even if it wasn't with the K2. Earlier today with the K2, I had a long phone QSO with a local ham after signing into our local club's 75m phone net (3.993 MHz @ 10:20am et Sundays) and he was quite impressed with the K2 (although apparently at max power he could hear some key chirp when I tested my CW signal). On the club's "Ten-on-ten" net (28.383 MHz 10:00am et Sundays) I could barely copy signals that the FT-847 heard easily, so obviously I still have some work to do on the 10m or 10m-12m sections of the radio; on 20m and lower this K2 clearly way outperforms the FT-847 on RX using the same antenna system. 73 de Maggie K3XS -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] Preamp, Attenuator on K2 #4901
W3FPR - Don Wilhelm wrote: Other than a faulty solder connection or an incorrect resistor value (R74, R75, R76, R77), I can think of only 2 things that might cause the PreAmp to not work - T6 could be connected incorrectly or the windings shorted together, or C146 may be faulty. Try tacking a 0.01 uF capacitor across R77 (bottom of the board) as a check for an open C146 and if that doesn't fix things, try rewinding T6. -Original Message- I just finished K2 #4901 and it works great. The only thing I have a question on is the preamp setting. When the annunciator is on over the preamp, it seems as though background noise goes down and the signal strength is reduced. Jim-- Definately what Don said. I was in exactly the same situation as you: Margaret Leber wrote: After reworking a couple of suspect joints in the preamp section and removing and reinstalling T6, the preamp in K2 1641 is now working. 73 de Maggie K3XS Editor, Phil-Mont Mobile Radio Club Blurb - http://www.phil-mont.org Elecraft K2 #1641 -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Webbeacons, and some on-topic stuff too [was: Re: [Elecraft] Yahoo Group Snoop]
People-- [K2 related stuff included, scroll down] The upshot of this "webbeacons" thing (they're also known as "webbugs") is that email from Yahoogroups that is in HTML format can do anything a web page can do...and this includes requesting that images be downloaded to your computer. A webbug is an invisible image having a specially crafted image name that is specific to you personally, and thus lets the server that the request goes to know that the Internet address that the request is made from is being used by the person whose the account the email was sent to. There's a few good ways to combat this: Don't use HTML mail. Don't allow Yahoo to convert mail sent to you to HTML format (this allows them to send you banner ads embedded in the email too). And most importantly, use an email client that woun't automatically load remote images even if somebody sends you one. I use Thunderbird and Firebird for email and web browsing respecively on both Linux and Windows for this reason among others. http://www.mozilla.org And just to keep things on-topic... My lifepartener NG3P yesterday finished the K2SB, we installed it in K2 S/N 1641, and it worked like a champ from our basement to my station upstairs. While I was taking my Sunday afternoon nap, NG3P worked #1641's first QSO down into TN someplace with a 20m dipole in the front yard. I used that same antenna to work K3SUE (who's only a few miles away). I discovered that I could barely work Sue at all through my regular HF antenna, a G5RV in the back yard, which had recently been moved. Long story short, I discovered that the window pass-through I've been using with the G5RV for several years has a serious flaw: the ground side of the coax connection is not passed through the pass-through. At all. Considering that th emain function of a pass-though is to pass stuff through, I consider that a major shortcoming. :-) I think this explains some of the odd performance problems I've been having running the K2 from my shack, and demonstrates that, while an LDG autotuner will indeed tune almost anything to almost any frequency within its rated range, it can also cover up some truly nasty problems in your antenna system if you're not paying attention. 73 de Maggie K3XS Editor, Phil-Mont Mobile Radio Club Blurb - http://www.phil-mont.org Elecraft K2 #1641 -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft Net Report for May 15-16th, 2005
Kevin Rock wrote: Once again the Elecraft net was not skunked. Conditions were rather weak but a few folks braved them and were recognized. I am sure there were others out there under the noise but I was not able to hear you. Well, I was faithfully listening but heard exactly zero...afraid the conditions weren't quite a match for last time. Next time I'm able to hear you, I'll check in with my FT-847 @100W for the initial contact, and if you can hear me I'll switch to the K2 on the same antenna system and we'll see if that makes the trip. 73 de Maggie K3XS Editor, Phil-Mont Mobile Radio Club Blurb - http://www.phil-mont.org Elecraft K2 #1641 -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] Morse on the Tonight Show, Tonight, Friday the 13th
Tim Jones wrote: I caught the segment you guys smoked em Great job of staying with the message even thru the crowd noise When you raised your hand that you were done the kids expression was amazing He could not believe you guys were already done Thanks for the great exposure about morse code Oh and the telegrapher outfits were great !! -Original Message- On Behalf Of Ken Miller, K6CTW It's a great chance for us to plug Morse, telegraphy and ham radio! Thanks. It *was* a great segment... But speaking from our experience working with publicity and media relations for the Pink Pistols ( http://www.pinkpistols.org ) over the last few years, I just think it's sad that the Leno people managed to almost completely bury the ham radio connection, although one of you (I missed which one) managed to punch up that point despite the overall spin of the segment. I wonder how many people watching even knew that radios were being used? I also think the costumes (and they *were* really cute) helped contriubute to the perception that Morse is something that's not done outside museums anymore. When you only have two or three minutes to work with it's hard to do everything you might want to. But a valiant effort nontheless! Congratulations es 73 de Maggie K3XS -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] A Morse PDA/communicator and other uses for Morse code [was: Tonight Show]
wayne burdick wrote: It worked quite well, and some day (in my copious spare time) I hope to pack it into a keychain-sized device. This PDA would be the world's smallest, would go with you everwhere, and would cost almost nothing since it would need no display or keyboard. It would have a small audio transducer so you could hold it up to your ear when using it, or an inductively-coupled wireless link from the keychain unit to a lightweight earbud. The rest of the device requires just one chip -- an MCU with a lot of EEPROM and/or flash memory. (If anyone wants to help me prototype or write firmware for this unit, let me know. I'm a bit busy!) I just have this voice whispering to me as I read this that keeps saying "bluetooth, J2ME, cellphone"... After all, the smallest chip is no chip, and the next smallest is one you're already carrying and powering for another reason. Maybe I'll create some Java classes that translate between Morse and character strings for starters. 73 de Maggie K3XS -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] QST: CW vs Text Message Contest on NBC's "Tonight Show" Friday
Art - W6KY wrote: I know Chip. Why do I think the 'CW' will easily beat the cell phone message system... Because it already has: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-2-1571664,00.html And in other news, would you believe "broadband over gas line"? http://www.nethercomm.com Ya can't make this stuff up... 73 de Maggie K3XS -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] WTD: Hi-Mound BK-100 Manual
Andy GM0NWI wrote: Was at a rally this weekend in the town of Irvine (Scotland). Picked up one of the above keys, in "good" shape, for the fantastic sum of ?10.00 (British Pounds) at the "bring n buy/junk sale" seems to be all in working order, Was wondering if anyone has a manual for this little babe...?I'm new to "bug" type keys of any kind, and not sure on how to set her up for operation properley would also like to check out that there are no defective, or missing parts Some adjusting information available at http://www.morsex.com/misc/keyadj.htm 73 de Maggie K3XS -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft Net Report for May 8-9th, 2005
Kevin Rock wrote: 20 meters was almost like cotton batting in my ears but I worked across the continent. Ray, as always had a great signal. But who should start the net but my old (not really so old) friend Carter. Reminds me, I owe him a note ;) His signal from PA was running hot. But then he had his linear cranked up to 100 watts so the ionosphere did not stand a chance! You had a solid signal into my QTH in Jeffersonville (about 8 miles from Carter's in Paoli) when the net opened. But by the time you two finished your exchange, you had pretty much disappeared into a deep QSB as heard from here, about an hour before local sunset. Hope to have my speed up enough to participate soon, this time I was using the CW function of my KAMplus to follow the goings on. 73 de Maggie K3XS editor, The PMRC Blurb http://www.phil-mont.org K2 #1641 -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] start with straight key or paddles?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Comrades, I'm working on my code to get my licenses soon. I will want to do CW with the k2 I will buy and build on board our trawler. 1st mate and CFO watches expenses like a hawk and will catch me if I (gasp) buy two things which appear to do same thing. You can't hide much from her on the 36 boat we live on. Once again, we see the wisdom of lifepartnering with someone with compatible interests (not to mention separate finances). Mine (NG3P) wanted in so bad after we went on a picnic with K2 #1641 yesterday that she's now building the KSB2. If I ultimately intend to use paddles as most of you appear to be doing, why is it a bad idea simply to start with a set? While I'm still working on getting my own speed up, I suspect that the keyer vs. straight key argument is a bit of a red herring. The important/central/difficult thing is building receive skills, and once you have that rhythm down I can't see the keying method making much difference...except that a keyer might make it possible for someone to try to send much faster than he's able to send well. Or recieve, for that matter. Those who hew to the "no pain no gain" school of thought will insist you start with a straight key because it will improve your character. But if the thought of "starting out wrong" worries you, and having both a straight key and paddles is an issue, get paddles, set the menu INP HAND and send straight key with one paddle. I hope your CFOs anti-redundancy policy doesn't apply to other parts of your ship's gear. Life jackets, oars, rudders, etc. :-) 73 de Maggie K3XS -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] Audio Volume
W3FPR - Don Wilhelm wrote: In my quick reply earlier, I failed to mention the AGC setting - even if it is set for the manual recommendation of 3.8 volts, it may be too high and hold the gain down. Test by turning the AGC off and on with no signals on the band (if band noise is present, disconnect the antenna), and make certain the DSP de-noiser is not running. If you hear a change in the noise level, the AGC Threshold is set too high. Imagine my surprise in discovering that later K2s have an adjustable AGC threshold. ;-) *My* control board R1 is a 51K ohm fixed resistor ;-) For those following the saga of K2 1641, it's pretty much completely in operation. I need to retweak the 20m BPF a bit, but otherwise it's rockin' out. Doing Don's AGC on/off test above might give an almost-perceptible change in noise level, I'm not sure. Doesn't seem like an issue. It works better than my CW does, anywaygotta work on that. Now I have the battery and SSB mods to work on. We'll see how well the battery has weathered several years storage; it may well need to be replaced. 73 de Maggie K3XS -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] New Amp??
W2AGN wrote: All I can say is, Sure hate to see so many going over to the Dark Side... I'm sure they said that about the KSB2. :-) 73 de Maggie, K2 1641 (almost finished, some small bugs yet to squash) -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] VCO Oscillator Test Problem
W3FPR - Don Wilhelm wrote: I can understand Q1 and Q2 getting hot from a shortcircuit somewhere on the 8T and 8R lines, but I just don't understand how Q3 and Q4 would get hot - they are just switches and should be fully conducting or fully non-conducting (and therefore should dissipate very little heat). Yes, I recently was dealing with a shorted 8R and was quite convinced that all four transistors were hot. In fact it was just that Q2 was so hot it was heating up the other transistors nearbyand it was hard to tell Q2 was hotter than the others because it was too hot to touch for long enough to tell. 73 de Maggie K3XS -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] K2 1641 -- first signals received, preamp working
Margaret Leber wrote: One thing though...I'm certain I heard somebody here on the list recently who had louder signals with the preamp *off*. After reworking a couple of suspect joints in the preamp section and removing and reinstalling T6, the preamp in K2 1641 is now working. Gawd...there sure are a lot of signals on 40m I've been missing on my Yaesu FT-847. ;-) 73 de Maggie K3XS -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] FORTH
Chris wrote: Are there any decent modern RPN calcs?...I have soft RPN calc on my palm... Don't forget Quartus ( http://www.quartus.net ), a complete FORTH implementation for Palm. By the way, the on-board computer on the AMSAT/Oscar-40 amateur radio satellite (may it rest in peace) ran IPS, a multithreaded version of FORTH that used German keywords. 73 de Maggie K3XS, who will be looking closely at her K2's T6 when she gets home from flying today -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] K2 1641 -- first signals received
Margaret Leber wrote: And furthermore although RX is high, 8R is floating. Looks like something's keeping Q4 on the control board from turning on Q2. The audio is awfully quiet with no 8R voltage. :-) Replaced Q2 twice and got .5v on 8R both times before concluding something had to be shorting 8R to ground. Found a little filament of untrimmed toroid wire making a bridge, trimmed it, now we're though the alignment and receiving 40m signals just fine. One thing though...I'm certain I heard somebody here on the list recently who had louder signals with the preamp *off*. And I'm pretty sure Don told him what the likely reason was. I just can't find the threadanybody remeber? Don? 73 de Maggie K3XS, who will spare the "Now that we know" thread a recital of her 30-yr computing career. ;-) -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
[Elecraft] K2 1641 -- BFO now OK at TP2, but no 8R
Margaret Leber wrote: Margaret Leber wrote: There's just plain no signal that CAL Fctr can find at TP2, even though there *is* a 4918 kHz or so signal at U11 pin... ...becuse there was no V ALC. J7 pin 32 wasn't soldered correctly, so now that's fixed. One more observation for the detecK2ives out there: On the control board Q1-Q4 seem to be running quite warm... And furthermore although RX is high, 8R is floating. Looks like something's keeping Q4 on the control board from turning on Q2. The audio is awfully quiet with no 8R voltage. :-) Suggestions welcome... 73 de Maggie K3XS -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
[Elecraft] Re: K2 1641 -- no BFO at TP2
Margaret Leber wrote: With that corrected, the VCO voltage readings on each band fell into line, and I'm now up to the BFO test. There's just plain no signal that CAL Fctr can find at TP2, even though there *is* a 4918 kHz or so signal at U11 pin 6, and even at the ungrounded side of C169. Q24 *looks* OK, but what can you tell by looking? :-) I also noted that something has the S-meter calibration in an uproar; it set up with completely nominal values originally but now requires extreme settings to unpin it from the top end and the RF gain doesn't move the lit bar around like it used to. Suggested avenues of investigation are welcome... One more observation for the detecK2ives out there: On the control board Q1-Q4 seem to be running quite warm; rather warmer than I would expect for a device designed for low power consumption--is that normal? 73 de Maggie K3XS, who's about to start checking DC voltages throughout -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
[Elecraft] K2 1641 update - alignment and test II, no BFO at TP2
Well, I thought it might be time to update you folks on where my K2 build stands. Yesterday I began Alignment and Test Part II. Things were nominal until it came time to do the VCO voltage readings, some of which were fine and some were way out of wack. Following the helpful guidance in the book, I discovered that C73 on the RF board was occupied with that 4.7pf cap I couldn't find (as opposed to the 47pf cap that's supposed to be there). With that corrected, the VCO voltage readings on each band fell into line, and I'm now up to the BFO test. There's just plain no signal that CAL Fctr can find at TP2, even though there *is* a 4918 kHz or so signal at U11 pin 6, and even at the ungrounded side of C169. Q24 *looks* OK, but what can you tell by looking? :-) I've just started squinting at the schematic to see where I should be looking for other possible sources of the problem. Of course, I'm looking for the perpetual prime suspects: solder bridges and cold-soldered joints, but haven't found any yet. I also noted that something has the S-meter calibration in an uproar; it set up with completely nominal values originally but now requires extreme settings to unpin it from the top end and the RF gain doesn't move the lit bar around like it used to. Suggested avenues of investigation are welcome... 73 de Maggie K3XS -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] Resistor Color Code Guide
Thom R Lacosta wrote: On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, Sandy wrote: Color code is easy! Remember the rhyme we learned in radio school: Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly! May not be Politically Correct! Clearly not politically correct...but I still use it anyway :-) But bless Elecraft for printing part codes in the manual. -Maggie- -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] RS wire
Jeremiah McCarthy wrote: The wire RS sells will not heat strip if heat stripping is your method... Thanks...that's good information. Generous and helpful folks have volunteered off-list to provide me any replacement wire I should need, so I should be in good shape. Thanks again es 73 Maggie K3XS -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] K2 manual suggestions
Mike Markowski wrote: It's also helpful to know how much extra you have so that when you make a mistake, you have the info to know whether to cut a fresh piece or conserve and work with what you've got. Ain't that the truth. Just before I succumbed to the flu last month my last act in building K2 1641 was to wind T7 and T6. In my foggy mental state I ended up installing T7 in the location for T6, and didn't realize my error until I went to install T6. I got T7 out without damaging the board (I think), but had to cut the red leads fairly close to the toroid, then downed-tools before I ended up doing any more "negative work". I'm just now emerging from my post-flu funk enough to want to resume work. I may have to rewind T7. I'm not sure whether there's enough red 26ga wire left to get away with that without reusing what's left of the 20" I used on the first incarnation of T7 on one of the smaller LPF inductors later on. (The good news is Radio Shack has 26ga magnet wire. The bad news is it comes in a pack of three gauges but the 26ga is only in one color. :-) I suppose I should just suck it up and press on, and throw myself on the mercy of "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" should I come up short. (My experience so far has been that cutting the wire to the recommended length leaves about three inches of extra wire when done winding.) 73 de Maggie K3XS -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] The "d" at 7038 is growing
V Cortina wrote: I've been meaning to ask about this for months. Not continuously, but consistently, there is a CW signal which just sends the letter "d" over and over, with an occasional other letter. This goes on day and night literally at any time. Now today at about 7038 I hear my old "d" friend, and now somebody else at nearly the same frequency sending "p". Does anyone have any idea what the heck is going on? You're probably hearing Russian military HF channel marker or propigation beacons. More information at: http://www.smeter.net/propagation/beacons/7039.3-k-Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy.php or use http://tinyurl.com/6puag ..if the other URL is mangled in the email... 73 de Maggie K3XS, who has only been a ham since 1999, but was a SWL long before that -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] The Linus Special
Dave, W7AQK, wrote: Notwithstanding my dog Linus's efforts to the contrary (trying to eat my parts), the T1 is up and running. Still running tests though, but it tunes fine. That's good...the "dog ate my tuner" excuse is way overused. :-) 73 de Maggie K3XS -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] a K2 thought?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't watch TV or listen to a radio while working. Neither can I, but I've discovered that having the MP3 player in my computer on shufflle-play is plesant. No commercials thus no distractions... 73 de Maggie K3XS -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] Re: magnetic fields and phase noise?
Earl W Cunningham wrote: It has been suggested that mu-metal shielding might alleviate the problem. I'm considering making mu-metal bottom and side covers for my K2. If I were having that problem, I'd be thinking about shielding the *source*...because it would likely affect other equipment in my shack. 73 de Maggie K3XS -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] Re: magnetic fields and phase noise?
N2TK, Tony wrote: My K2/100 sits on top of my TS950SDX. If I go above about 30-50W with the K2 on 80 and 160M I have to reset my router. Was using a Belkin router. Now using a Netgear wireless router. Both cutout. This doesn't happen all the time - maybe 50% of the time. Been wrapping ferrite on everything, but no difference so far. Good friend of mine who's triple DXCC (only a few shy of honor roll), and runs QRO a lot used to have serious trouble with her DSL modem when transmitting. After a lot of playing with ferrites she discovered that the path of RF entry was through the "wall wart" outlet transformer powering the DSL box. Easy to overlook... -Maggie- -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
[Elecraft] Re: Acrobat and K2
Pepperdine, Brien (CAB) wrote: Using Acrobat search function on the PDF of the parts layout is in my opinion a stroke of genius. The time I spent looking for component placements yikes. Everyone who can do this, should. They will be much less stressed... One of the list residents did warn me that not every part label is searchable...that some of the rotated ones are drawn as vectors. Nontheless, it worked every time I needed it. 73 de Maggie K3XS -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] Re: K2 assy: oops: threw out filter bag with alignment # on it
Allen C. Ward wrote: Several times I have found small parts clinging to the paper debris after they came up "missing." So true...one small inhibiting factor acting against me starting K2 1641 (for five years!) was that one resistor pack came up missing during the initial inventory. While completeing the (much delayed) inventory, I found the errant RP stuck under the flap of one of the envelopes. 73 de Maggie K3XS -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
[Elecraft] K2 build hints: [was: : oops: threw out xtal filter bag with alignment # on it]
Andrew Moore wrote: Tomorrow morning is trash day, and the trash is at the curb. Should I go start digging, or is it really necessary for me to have this number? I hope not...I'm using the retrofit "set of matched filter xtals" K2KSB2XTALS kit and there's no number on that envelope at all. I still have the original filter xtals that came with 1641, and the number on their envelope is "20", if that helps. :-) I haven't found the place in the manual where that number is *used* yet. By the way...I have a recommendation I don't think I've heard anybody else make. While working on my K2 I have my laptop at hand at the bench, and I keep a directory full of all kinds of data relevant to the build on in...including the PDF copy of the Owner's Manual. While doing the RF board it ocurred to me in (the middle of that block of 75 capacitors) that the bulk of the labor was going into locating the places on the PCB where each component went. So I fired up Acrobat Reader, paged to the parts layout, rotated the page on the display, zoomed in a bit, and was able to use the Search function to scroll the diagram to the appropriate location for every part as I installed it. Made things *much* easier. Wish I'd thought of it earlier. Re: winding toroids: Hey, it's not that bad at all, and reminds me quite a bit of sewing. If you guys have XYLs who sew you might ask them if they want to help you build a radio...they already know that funny multi-finger maneuver that lets us pass a needle through cloth one-handed without ever completely letting go of it..which is exactly what it takes to wind a toroid easily. 73 de Maggie K3XS -- K2 S/N 1641 (build in progress, between T5 and T7) -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement
Roger Stein wrote: Well, that was fun! I can hardly wait to see the results.Bob operating at W0SOC sure was pounding the key on 20 meters!!! While my K2 is still under construction I did listen in on my FT-847 for Tom DK0SU since he was on the #elecraft IRC channel. While I did not hear Tom, I sure as heck heard W0SOC...who sounded like he was in my front yard, utter gangbuster signal. 73 de Maggie K3XS -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] CW
Phil LaMarche wrote: My last proficient operating time was in 1958 at the North Pole on a IGY expedition, Drift Station Alpha. Haven't used CW since. I have a K2 and KX-1. Have been listening and attempting to get the CW back. Biggest problem is concentration at age 67. It will come, I'm sure. Are there tapes at different speeds that can be purchased. Perhaps that would help me. Phil-- While there are audio CDs (and, I'm sure, tapes) available from ARRL, there is also "Morse Academy", a CW training/practice tool that runs under MSDOS (and Windows). It's extremely flexible, and free. http://www.speroni.com/AH0A.html A hint for Windows XP/NT users: I've been unable to get the program to drive a sound card under these OSs, but "PC speaker output" works fine. 73 de Maggie K3XS -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] K1/K2 Paint Color
Jack Brindle wrote: I do have to wonder about anyone sniffing spray paint by spraying it up their nose. I bet that would be easy to catch... ;-) It's often sprayed into a paper or plastic bag, which is then used to breath from. The addicts can occasionally be identified if they get paint on hands/faces. http://www.usdoj.gov/ndic/pubs07/708/ We're pretty far off topic at this point. -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] K1/K2 Paint Color
David Katinsky wrote: My assumption has been that it's an anti-graffiti measure. Both that, and, sad to say, fighting "huffers", kids addicted to inhaling the vaporized solvents to get high. Remeber "glue sniffing"? 73 de Maggie K3XS, who has just about figured out how to work the mod kits into the build of the RF board for K2 1641 -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] K2 S/N 4786 Just Arrived
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have plans tonight already, but my XYL is away for the rest of the week... No connection between those two facts, of course. :-) 73 de Maggie K3XS - K2 #1641 (under construction) -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] K2 S/N 4787 Build In Progress
Jim Harris wrote: On the front panel board while trying to add SSB components after the fact I managed to slightly burn the edge of a push button. Wish the instructions had mentioned to put the low SSB components in before the higher and vulnerable parts were added. Having just been through that part of the build too, I agree with Jim... the top-of-board soldering for the KSB2 connector is is just the dickens to do with the plastic pots and buttons in place; I made it through without toasting anything but it would have been *so* much easier to do before the top got crowded with tall meltable things. Is there a reason this is where it is in sequence other than "Uh-oh, they're about to mate the FP board to the panel and wire the enccoder; drop in the KSB2 parts now because it will be inconvenient later"? If not, I say move it to someplace earlier. Another suggestion: Whenever you cue the installation of the KSB parts on the FP, repeat the warning about component height/lead length for Q3 that was issued for Q3 and Q2...I forgot about it and I had to monkey with Q3 after installation to allow the FP board to fit properly against the metal panel. I'm still delighted with the kit, of course... 73 de Maggie K3XS (K2 S/N 1641), who needs to go get more solder in the morning; that "no-lead" stuff with silver in it stinks. -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
[Elecraft] K2 S/N 1641 first power-up
Good news department: K2 S/N 1641 was powered up for the first time today. Everything in the initial tests (buttons, optical encoder, relays, voltmeter etc) worked fine. Onward and upward tomorrow... 73 de Maggie K3XS, who's delighted to see her new baby waking up -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] Gary Surrency's Top Ten List of Kit Failures
Ken N4SO wrote: For those of you building an Elecraft Kit or thinking about building a kit, suggested reading is the text file "Top Ten List of Kit Failures", by Gary Surrency, AB7MY. As far as I know it was never included in the new kit literature (it should be) and not sure if it is on the Web site for Elecraft. It might be down several layers and hard to find... http://www.elecraft.com/Apps/gary's_top_10.htm 73 de Maggie K3XS, Java fiend and Google black-belt -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] K2 upgrade mods tactical planning
designer wrote: when we reach 70 he says that us guys still chase women, but we'll only chase 'em downhill. Problem is, short term memory is the first to go - and you have that name remembering thing in the morning. Yeah, but that problem starts around age 22 in guys. 73 de Maggie K3XS -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] K2 upgrade mods tactical planning [was:Re: Return of the prodigal daughter]
Wayne wrote: Where are all these mods? At the Elecraft website. For those of you who tuned in late, I have a fairly early S/N (1641) K2 kit that's been languishing in my closet for about four years. I've just resumed work on it, and the K2 design has evolved a bit over that period of time. I beleive all of the mods that are being discussed are already incorporated in modern K2s as shipped; this discussion is only about what it makes sense to do with my antique kit that's a-building now. 73 de Maggie K3XS -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] K2 upgrade mods tactical planning [was:Re: Return of the prodigal daughter]
Ron D'Eau Claire wrote: Ha! I avoided getting into the mods, Margaret! I'd build the basic K2 as you see in the book, see that it is working properly, then add the mods one at a time while checking operation in between. That way, if you do stumble, you'll see where and what you did much more easily. Point well-taken. Sounds like a programmer thinking. Fortunately programming is not done on double-sided PC boards. Anymore. I'm still delighted that I've finished the N0SS noise source and the K2 control board and neither looks like the kind of train wreck some of my earlier ventures into kitbuilding have. Of course, those traumas were *long* ago and far away; I'm more experienced and have vastly better tools now. I think temperature-control on the soldering iron is a big factor. So are a Panavise and lighted magnifier...given my current vision the latter is just about a necessity. I would also recommend the AF gain control mod and the PLL and BFO oscillator stability mods for a CW op... The new crystals are a good idea if you are including the SSB adapter. Yes...definately doing the AF gain mod. and I do have the SSB adapter in-hand. Interesting thing is, I suspect I'm likely to play more with CW once I have a K2...I hardly ever do that now. If you're going to add the KPA100 for QRO operation, it's nice to install the keying shaping mod as well, although the K2 needs no apologies without it. And if you do that, you don't need the KIO2. The KIO2 is part of the KPA100 100 watt upgrade option. (Vic Rosenthal wrote:) Ron is correct, but I'd like to add that the VFO stability mod should be considered a must if you are planning to add a KPA100. The extra heat will cause very noticeable drift. I doubt I'll do the KPA100; I already have a Yaesu FT-847. But ya never know. But first, your K2 as it came will work FB. Use it and decide what you want it to do for you, then choose the additions and mods that fit! Yes, that's a good point. I suspect having a K2 will change the kind of operating I do. So far, retirement isn't a visible stage of life for me either but I'm having fun in the meantime. Bob Hope laid out the future as far as I can see: when we reach 70 he says that us guys still chase women, but we'll only chase 'em downhill. Well, I'm just past 50 and already I'll only run downhill anyway. And even that way not very fast. :-) 73 de Maggie -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
[Elecraft] K2 upgrade mods tactical planning [was:Re: Return of the prodigal daughter]
I hope Don doesn't mind me bringing part of this private correspondance back onto the reflector; I'm interested in hearing some discussion on my own somewhat unique situation. W3FPR - Don Wilhelm wrote: ...they pay me for NOT working - it is called retirement, and I'm busier than I ever was when I was working. I'd be pleased to call this retirement, and I'm quite sufficiently busy, between keeping up with tech stuff, job hunting, running our household, and keeping up with ham activities (I edit the Phil-Mont Mobile Radio Club monthly newsletter, "The Blurb", see http://www.phil-mont.org ) I just don't have that "getting paid for it" thing worked out, and I've still got one more daughter to put through college. You may want to consider a few of the no cost (or low cost) upgrades while you are working on that K2 - a couple that come to mind are the AF Gain mod... Hmmm. That one sure is a no-brainer. When I first got my kit back in 2000, that issue was just surfacing on the reflector; some people were trying all kinds of component cleaners, etc. and the 2nd crystal filter flattening mod - the AF Gain mod takes only wire and the 2nd crystal mod takes only a transistor, a cap and a resistor. I know there are others, but I just don't recall them at the moment. Take a look at the K2 A to B upgrade instructions and see what you can do with the parts you may have on hand. Poop. I thought I knew exactly what I was gonna do, now I've got to make *decisions* again. ;-) Let's see... XFILMDKT (the flattening mod) is only $10; I'm not *that* poor. If you can spare $15, I would recommend you buy a new set of crystals (a set of 14 for both the base K2 and the KSB2) rather than using the ones in your kit - the crystal specs were improved and result in a much better filter. That would be K2KSB2XTLS? I think I can squeeze that much out too. So now I should consider the Temperature Compensated PLL Reference ($20)...which requires BFOMDKT ($10), and calls for FWK2MCIO for full benefit. So far we're up to $50 total...($51 when I add the speaker cloth. :-) ) I guess the real cost item among all the upgrades is FWK2MCIO. Ironically, one of the first things I want to do when the kit is done (and I have a job again) is to add a KIO2...especially since I have a rig-control software project of my own. (see: http://jhamtune.netfirms.com/ and http://jhamtune.dev.java.net/ And if I read the Elecraft site correctly, a KIO2 includes the firmware upgrade when ordered for an earlyish S/N K2 like mine. (Naturally, once I'm working enough to pay for the KIO2, I probably won't have as much time to build it, or write a K2 jHamTune driver. :-) ) So I think I'm going to rationalize deferring the firmware upgrade for now...even though it gripes me to be nickle-and-dimeing a project this way. But since the cost is nearly equal, I wonder if it would make sense to simply order the K2BCOMPKT instead of XFILMDKT, K2KSB2XTLS and BFOMDKT? I would have done that already except K2BCOMPKT says it *requires* FWK2MCIO...which nearly doubles the cost. Furthermore, I'll probably finish the Rev A control board todayI wonder if a Rev A control board plays nice with Rev B RF and/or Front Panel? 73 all de Maggie K3XS -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] Return of the prodigal daughter
W3FPR - Don Wilhelm wrote: Welcome back and have fun building. The upgrades are nice, but not required - you will still have a fine working K2 when you are finished. -Original Message- Just thought you folks might like to know that I've resumed construction of K2 S/N 1341, after more than four year's hiatus. Thanks. :-) Oh, before somebody freaks, the actual serial is #1641, not #1341. (I've made that mistake before. 1341 was my SAT score. Don't ask when that was.) -Maggie K3XS, who is almost done the Control Board (start on the ICs tomorrow) -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
[Elecraft] Return of the prodigal daughter
Just thought you folks might like to know that I've resumed construction of K2 S/N 1341, after more than four year's hiatus. Stuff happens. Oh, my callsign is now K3XS...ex-KB3DXS. 73 to all -Maggie- (Yes, I know there have been a lot of improvements to the kit in the intervening years...but I'm currently unemployed and can't see spending nearly $100 to upgrade it. Resume at http://voicenet.com/~maggie/mslresume.html ) -- -/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / /(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /(_/_(_/___AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
