[Elecraft] IARU-Region-1-Fieldday this Weekend
Hi, this coming weekend is CW Field Day on our side of the pond: CW : first (full) weekend in June - Sat. 15.00 to Sun. 14.59 UTC SSB: first (full) weekend in September - Sat. 13.00 to Sun. 12.59 UTC Each country tends to have slightly differing rules, which can be found, among places, here: Germany (in English):http://www.darc.de/referate/dx/xedcfr.htm United Kingdom: http://www.vhfcc.org/hfcc/rules/2009/rnfd.shtml Holland (in Dutch): http://www.xs4all.nl/~fwerner/veronvelddag/veronvelddag_reglementen.html South Africa: http://www.sarl.org.za/public/contests/IARU%20Region%201%20HF%20Field%20Day.pdf etc. etc. etc. I won't be operating this time around, but I will be one of the FD-Umpires in Germany. Please listen for and work as many /p signals coming from Region 1 as possible! vy 73 de toby, DD5FZ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] Re; K2 For Sale, REUCED Price
Price reduced on my K2 listed earlier to $975 shipped. H. Michael Pierce KD8DVV __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] OT- A trip into Yesteryear!
I can really appreciate my K3 today...and probably any modern day rig. While at Dayton this year I got an Hammarlund HQ-110 for giggles and grins. It was a bargain and just needed a little tender lving care. Last night I got the 110 running and receiving pretty darn good. Now I've been a ham since 1965 and I must say I have forgotten receiver dynamics between then (1965) and now. The HQ-110 transported me back to an era where the best filter you had was between your ears. Even though it has a Q-Multiplier and the Selectivity can be shapedit is a far cry from what we have today with filters and DSP. Listening to one frequency and hearing 3 different CW signals at different tones should brought back memories...and a great appreciation for my K3 - my K2 - and today's modern rigs. What a huge difference. Filtering on the K3 is fantastic and I now super-appreciate the technology. Also the concept of transceive is something to be really appreciated. As I was tuning around 40 meters last night, I realized that when I was a Novice and rock bound...one had to tune up and down the band to hear someone calling you. I might have been on 7133, but I was working another station at 7105. Ah, technology. It is Grand! It sure is nice to see the tubes light up and the case get warm. Back to your regular scheduled program 73 Lee - K0WA The New Kansas QSO Party - August 29, Sat 9am-9pm and August 30 Sun 9am-3pm CDT More Info at: http://www.ksqsoparty.org/ In our day and age it seems that Common Sense is in short supply. If you don't have any Common Sense - get some Common Sense and use it. If you can't find any Common Sense, ask for help from somebody who has some Common Sense. Is Common Sense divine? __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] OT- A trip into Yesteryear!
Ah, yes. I had a Drake 2B a couple of years ago. What a wonderful receiver - great smooth tone. Mine was in very good condition and was working quite well, but as good as it was, it was a far cry from the K2 for filtering. On strong CW signals, the 2B was quite nice to use. Turn RF gain down, engage the Q-multiplier and you have some very sweet sounding armchair copy. But if the signal was weak or the band was crowded, it wasn't nearly so pleasant. After my trip down memory lane, I sold the 2B. - Keith N1AS - - K3 711 - -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Lee Buller The HQ-110 transported me back to an era where the best filter you had was between your ears. Even though it has a Q-Multiplier and the Selectivity can be shapedit is a far cry from what we have today with filters and DSP. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] OT- A trip into Yesteryear!
I still enjoy a regenerative receiver. Even with a trf stage to avoid radiating QRM, it's an amazingly small handful of parts, but one that provides astounding performance with practice and a tender touch. What a delight to pull in signals clean and crisp! QRM can be unpleasant, but it isn't always so. Like listening to people chatter in a crowded room, a little practice pulls out what we want to hear. That's been so since the very early days when even the selectivity of a simple regenerative detector was something unimaginable. Author Thomas Randall described it like this in his novel The Nymph and the Lamp: When you put on the phones it was as if your inner self stepped out of the bored and weary flesh... you were part of another world, the real, the actual living world of men and ships and ports... Whistling, growling, squealing, moaning, here were the voices of men transmuted through their finger tips, issuing in dots and dashes... flinging what they had to say across the enormous spaces... At night when the darkness increased their range by three, four or five times the uproar was terrific, the sound of a vast swamp on a spring night filled with vociferous frogs... Hopefully our rigs today don't whistle, growl, squeal etc., like the spark transmitters of old, but there's something lost in the sterile, impeccable signals we expect today, all too often with machine-perfect keying that robs our signals of their last vestige of personal identity. Ron AC7AC __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] K3 Ground Loop Issues using Ameritron ARB-704
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 19:43:30 -0400, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote: Unfortunately, the AL-82 and SB-200 both create a pseudo-neutral by placing high voltage bypass capacitors from each line to the chassis/ground. Unless the chassis is properly grounded to the station common point ground along with every other piece of equipment in the shack, the noise (hum) s still going to appear in common mode on the shields/cases. Actually, nearly ALL equipment powered from the AC line has capacitance between phase and ground, thanks both to stray capacitance in the power transformer and bypass capacitors that are part of line filters. This capacitance couples leakage current to the green wire (the equipment ground). The return path for this current is to the power system ground via the breaker panel, so there will be IR drop in the green wire. Because the coupling is capacitive, most of this current consists of the harmonics of 60 Hz, and is what we commonly call ground buzz. As Joe and Paul have noted, some older power amps improperly connect 120V fans between one side of 120V and the green wire. In addition to the IR drop issues, there this current generates a 60 Hz hum field that can magnetically couple into the rig and/or interconnect wiring. This field tends to be pure 60 Hz, so is heard as HUM, not buzz. For a more detailed analysis of both mechanisms, see http://audiosystemsgroup.com/RFI-Ham.pdf and http://HamInterfacing.pdf Another source of HUM is the magnetic field produced by the transformers in big power supplies. The unshielded audio transformers used in the K3 make it susceptible to strong magnetic fields. The above tutorials show how to reliably interconnect ham gear, computers, and other audio gear without transformers. 73, Jim Brown K9YC __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] OT- A trip into Yesteryear!
Wow, Ron, talk about waxing nostalgic. I know exactly what you mean, though. If you like, we could make a sked. I can fire up one of my homebrew rigs and we can try and recapture a few fleeting moments of youth. I don't have a transmitter that sounds like a 'vociferous frog' but I definitely have one that will do 'choked chicken' :-) I really liked your post. Tom, ak2b __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] OT- A trip into Yesteryear!
I marvel at the attraction some of this old gear seems to still have on folks. Nonetheless, I've seen some excellent restoration jobs, and I suppose there was a great deal of satisfaction in doing it. I'm not immune to nostalgia attacks either. This happens most frequently when I see old BC-348's on swap tables. That was my first receiver, and it got me a lot of 80 meter CW contacts. Well, that is, until we moved to Albuquerque, NM. It was there that I learned the hard way about some of the design imperfections in stuff like this. BC-348's have an oddball I.F. freq--I think it is 915 khz. In Albuquerque there happened to be a pop music station (KQUE, later KQEO) at 920 khz! Suddenly I had a very good one station broadcast band receiver! I fiddled with various filtering arrangements, but nothing really seemed to get rid of the problem entirely. This led to my next educational experience. That was the time payment plan! The local electronics store (even Albuquerque had a ham store in 1956) had a brand new RME 4350A which sold for $249. With my dad as cosigner, I borrowed the money to buy it, and for the next 18 months I was clipping payment coupons. It was a big step up though, with full ham band coverage up to 10 meters (the BC-348 stopped at 18 mhz), and seemingly luxurious bandspread. It was a huge acquisition though, cost-wise, if you convert that to today's dollars. Sacking groceries at Piggly Wiggly only paid 87 cents an hour, and I had to join the union (and pay dues) in order to get that! Since I was only 14, and in high school, I couldn't work very many hours anyway. Later I got a job at a neighborhood bowling alley, working on automatic pin-spotters, at a whopping $1/hour. I was in fat city with that job. I got 15 to 20 hours a week of work, almost all on weekends, so I was pretty flush money wise. Since I was car-less, I didn't have to spend money on gas and repairs. Unfortunately, being car-less, also meant I was girlfriend-less, for the most part. If you didn't have a car, you were pretty far down the social ladder! So, I took up bowling! Dave W7AQK - Original Message - From: Ron D'Eau Claire r...@cobi.biz To: 'Elecraft Reflector' elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 8:38 AM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT- A trip into Yesteryear! I still enjoy a regenerative receiver. Even with a trf stage to avoid radiating QRM, it's an amazingly small handful of parts, but one that provides astounding performance with practice and a tender touch. What a delight to pull in signals clean and crisp! QRM can be unpleasant, but it isn't always so. Like listening to people chatter in a crowded room, a little practice pulls out what we want to hear. That's been so since the very early days when even the selectivity of a simple regenerative detector was something unimaginable. Author Thomas Randall described it like this in his novel The Nymph and the Lamp: When you put on the phones it was as if your inner self stepped out of the bored and weary flesh... you were part of another world, the real, the actual living world of men and ships and ports... Whistling, growling, squealing, moaning, here were the voices of men transmuted through their finger tips, issuing in dots and dashes... flinging what they had to say across the enormous spaces... At night when the darkness increased their range by three, four or five times the uproar was terrific, the sound of a vast swamp on a spring night filled with vociferous frogs... Hopefully our rigs today don't whistle, growl, squeal etc., like the spark transmitters of old, but there's something lost in the sterile, impeccable signals we expect today, all too often with machine-perfect keying that robs our signals of their last vestige of personal identity. Ron AC7AC __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] OT: WØAAA at 60 WPM (Right and Lef t Handed)
I just received my new ZN-SL single-lever paddle from N3ZN and noticed the following posted on Tony's website: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_icJLmsFNUfeature=related Anyone like to top that with an Iambic paddle? ;-) 73, Bill W4ZV -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/OT%3A-W%C3%98AAA-at-60-WPM-%28Right-and-Left-Handed%29-tp3031802p3031802.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] OT- A trip into Yesteryear!
On Jun 5, 2009, at 12:10 PM, David Yarnes wrote: I marvel at the attraction some of this old gear seems to still have on folks. snip ... It was there that I learned the hard way about some of the design imperfections in stuff like this. it's not about design perfection, of course. I've been restoring and using old gear since the early 1990's. There's something about firing up a Globe King 500, or CE 100V and SX-115 with clacking TR relays that is a totally different experience than running a computerized desk full of the latest and greatest. Maybe it just has to be in the blood :-) On the other hand, sometimes a Drake 1-A has much more listenable (and don't ask me to define that) SSB audio than the K3. In the trenches, of course, the 1-A folds, but that isn't the point anyway :-) Grant/NQ5T __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] OT: WÃ~AAA at 60 WPM (Right and Left Handed)
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Steve Ellingtonn...@carolina.rr.com wrote: Typical. He's got the speed set for 60 wpm but leaving huge gaps between characters so he's really going about 35 WPM. I doubt if anyone can actually send 60 wpm for any length of time on a paddle. Sending at true 60 WPM levels is definitely World Class territory. The following have been converted into equivalent WPM from CPM (characters per minute) at the 2007 High Speed Telegraphy championship in Belgrade, Serbia: Category Letters Numbers Mixed (WPM) Top Male 62 8461 Top Female 64 7763 60 groups of 5 random characters (letters, numbers or mixed) are sent per test, so the test lasts ~60 seconds at 60 WPM for letters. Most competitors use single-lever paddles, most are home brew and they rosin their hands beforehand just like gymnasts. If you browse the photos below, you'll see a lot of very young kids! The old East Block countries have no shortage of young CW ops coming along...too bad we can't say the same. http://picasaweb.google.com/hstwch2007/ 73, Bill W4ZV __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] OT- A trip into Yesteryear!
There's something about firing up a Globe King 500, or CE 100V and SX-115 with clacking TR relays as I prepare to sell a SK friend's stuff I ran up his Sx101A / CE 200V... worked a few guys... warms up the room FAST... NOISY Is that what they mean firing up ? got some good audio reports before mentioning the setup Bill __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] OT- A trip into Yesteryear!
David wrote: I marvel at the attraction some of this old gear seems to still have on folks. Nonetheless, I've seen some excellent restoration jobs, and I suppose there was a great deal of satisfaction in doing it. - As you know, people restore whole stations such as the queen of the coastal stations KPH in California (sited by Marconi himself!) (http://www.radiomarine.org/kph-proj.html) and ultra long-wave station SAQ in Grimeton, Sweden (http://www.alexander.n.se/startsida_e.htm), railroad trains and even whole ships (http://www.ssjeremiahobrien.org/) as well as cars, buildings and just about anything you can name! I'm glad they do. I believe it's easier to see where we're going if we can see where we came from. I enjoy using simple radios just like I enjoy a good hand plane or saw in the shop. Something gets lost when I switch to a powerful, precision machine to do the work. Sure, state-of-the-art gear can get the job done more reliably and more quickly, but it loses that intimacy of requiring my skill to make it work at all. So, one might ask why I use Elecraft gear? I and a lot of fellows like myself enjoy it because it's so well designed and works so well. But, for us, raw performance isn't everything. Something we built from scratch and had to tinker with to make it works has a certain magic that no commercial equipment can provide. Fire up, literally? Sure, that happens too, sometimes. It's part of the challenge, Hi! Ron AC7AC __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] K3: Mixer Commands?
At one time there were several messages on how to set up the K3 Mixer to get various combinations of MAIN and SUB receiver Audio out to Both, or Specific Ears. At the time I though I had an understanding of the syntax of the Command - but I don't. Could someone provide the complete syntax of the command - indicating the different fields, and the values of those fields for the various combinations of Audio Mixing?? I don't find anything in the Programmer Reference and the original message posting (if I could find it) was a bit confusing. Thanks and 73, Dave, W9ZRX __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] K3: Mixer Commands?
On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 18:50:18 -0400 At one time there were several messages on how to set up the K3 Mixer to get various combinations of MAIN and SUB receiver Audio out to Both, or Specific Ears... Could someone provide the complete syntax of the command... I'm the usual source of this sort of thing, but I don't have the information handy. I'll be back home (and thus at work) on Wednesday. Remind me then and I'll see what I can do. 73, Lyle KK7P/4 (North Carolina) __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] K3: Mixer Commands?
I located one post from Lyle on the subject. I am certain it is not all of the 'magic', but perhaps it will help until the commands are integrated into the MCU code so the user interface is much smoother. I have copied Lyle's post at the end of this email. 73, Don W3FPR Dave Zeph wrote: At one time there were several messages on how to set up the K3 Mixer to get various combinations of MAIN and SUB receiver Audio out to Both, or Specific Ears. At the time I though I had an understanding of the syntax of the Command - but I don't. Could someone provide the complete syntax of the command - indicating the different fields, and the values of those fields for the various combinations of Audio Mixing?? I don't find anything in the Programmer Reference and the original message posting (if I could find it) was a bit confusing. Thanks and 73, Dave, W9ZRX The adventurous may try the following. These commands do not stick through power cycles, and may not remain through mode changes or other commands. In other words, the radio may revert back to normal operation at any time :) If you want Main Rx in both ears and leave the Sub Rx in the right ear, go to the command tester and type: !bed7; If you want the Sub Rx in both ears and the Main only in the left, type: !bef9; Be sure SPKRS+PH is OFF, or SPKRS=2, with these commands. Enjoy! 73, Lyle KK7P __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] K3: Mixer Commands?
I saved all of those emails ;) Here are the commands that were published: !bed1; = main left, sub right (default condition) !bedb; = main and sub in both ears !bed7; = main in both ears, sub in left !bef9; = sub in both ears, main in left From that set of commands, KB9BRJ deduced that four bits of the second byte in the command determined which channels were heard in which ear. In other words, for the command !bexx;, bit 0 (LSB) = main left bit 1 = main right bit 3 = sub left bit 4 = sub right where a 1 in the bit position activates that channel. Note that bit 2 is skipped, or maybe used for something else. If you make a chart of 1's and 0's for the last two bytes you'll see that this fits. I tried, for example, !befa; and got the sub in both ears and the main in the right ear, which was not a published command. It's not clear to me why the published command for sub in both ears, main in left was shown as !bef9; since !bed9; seems to do the same thing, as does !beda: for sub in both ears and main in right. Maybe there is something I'm missing there Remember the caveat that these commands may not survive some K3 actions, such as power on/off. I loaded the ones I wanted into the command macros of the utility program for easy execution. 73, Dave AB7E lyle johnson wrote: On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 18:50:18 -0400 At one time there were several messages on how to set up the K3 Mixer to get various combinations of MAIN and SUB receiver Audio out to Both, or Specific Ears... Could someone provide the complete syntax of the command... I'm the usual source of this sort of thing, but I don't have the information handy. I'll be back home (and thus at work) on Wednesday. Remind me then and I'll see what I can do. 73, Lyle KK7P/4 (North Carolina) __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Save Dual PB as filter preset or custom norm setting?
Not even any thoughts on this issue? 73 de Al, KE1FO - Visit my amateur radio contesting blog at ke1fo.wordpress.com. On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Alfred Frugoli ke...@arrl.net wrote: I'd like to utilize a narrow/wide filter pair for RTTY. However I want the narrow filter to be a dual passband filter. Is there a way to store a dual pb filter as a filter preset or a custom norm filter setting? Even better would be a single button push (instead of a push turn) where holding the xfil button to get out of dual bp would return the rig to the previous filter setting, rather than what seems to be a default for RTTY of 500hz. Thanks! 73 de Al, KE1FO - Visit my amateur radio contesting blog at ke1fo.wordpress.com. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] For Sale: GAMMA RESEARCH HPS-1a Power Supply
Sold my K2, so this not needed, brand new Gamma Research Power Supply, HPS-1a, great for use with K2 or K3, $175 shipped. H. Michael Pierce KD8DVV __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] K3 :: NO RF out of HPA
Ian, Thanks for the reply. Yes, the PA is turned on in CONFIG. Another clue is when TUNE is invoked, the output power does not track the power setting. For example, with the power out set to 12 Watts, the actual power out in the TUNE position is 3.2 Watts. Then, if I turn the power set upward at the 13 Watt level, the relay cuts in the PA. The power out indicator immediately goes to the 13 Watt indication and will follow up to the 100 Watt level. But during this excursion there is actually NO Power Out. No one else replied with any ideas, so I suppose this is a brand new situation. At this point I will open the radio up and see if I can find any loose connections to the PA. Milt, N5IA - Original Message - From: Iain MacDonnell - N6ML a...@dseven.org To: Milt, N5IA n...@zia-connection.com Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 10:00 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 :: NO RF out of HPA Milt, N5IA wrote: My K-3 has been working FB since it was birthed from a cardboard box. However, when recently moving at a few miles from its normal crib to a portable contest location a problem showed up. At the contest site my baby will not make power once the power set control is advanced to the level where the PA is supposed to kick in. This is all bands and all modes. Everything appears normal without the PA selected. I have tried the common external things like resetting, etc., to no avail. There are no error messages and I find no clues in the troubleshooting section of the manual. Before digging into it and looking for what I believe might be a physical thing (loose connection/connector, etc.) does anyone have any history of this problem occurring previously. Why reinvent the wheel? Any ideas anyone? Did you check that CONFIG:KPA3 is nor ? ~Iain / N6ML __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
