Re: [Elecraft] OT - anyone have experience with effects of metal roofs on antenna performace?
On 2013-07-05 22:22, Brian Alsop wrote: SWR is a pretty coarse indication of interaction. Interactions can change directional antenna F/B and F/S ratio by 6-10 db easily (assuming you have it in the first place) and hardly affect SWR. At least, this is my experience from antenna modeling. However, we have to live with the hands we're dealt. Without any field strength measurements or calculations, one probably won't detect much. Ignorance is bliss. 73 de Brian/K3KO You forgot the Gain. Forexample you can loose 2 - 3 dB gain on an antenna due to interaction with another antenna or object and see no nothing on the SWR you measure down in the shack. Then you think everything is fine a perfect, well maybe it´s good since what you don´t know you don´t worry about. /SM2EKM __ 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 - anyone have experience with effects of metalroofs on antenna performace?
And Phil, they did not teach me the most important thing...how to solder a PL 259 George, W6GF - Original Message - From: Paul Chebi paul.ch...@att.net To: Phil Shepard ph...@riousa.com Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Friday, July 5, 2013 9:13 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT - anyone have experience with effects of metalroofs on antenna performace? This note is for the log/web manager. I note that each time somebody comments on a thread ( the recent ones on metal roof), a new email is sent to all recipients. This is a nuisance cluttering the inbox. My experience with blogs is all comments are retained on the server Under one heading, and an email is sent daily to anybody interested in that subject upon request. Hope something could be done about that. Paul Chebi Kk4ptv Sent from my iPhone On Jul 5, 2013, at 6:46 PM, Phil Shepard ph...@riousa.com wrote: Ah, memories … I took an antenna class from Balanis, and we used photo copies of his fledgling book, acting as proofers. He was my senior EE project advisor as well. Quite a character. I wish I still remembered a fraction of what I knew then. Hi hi. Phil, NS7P On Jul 5, 2013, at 3:11 PM, kevinr kev...@coho.net wrote: I was just reviewing my copy of Balanis and remembered the grueling effort of the class. I took it in grad school with a crazy Greek professor who worked with Balanis. He wound up being my thesis advisor :) Kevin. KD5ONS On 7/5/2013 1:54 PM, george fritkin wrote: I remember the toughest class was antenna theory. As an undergrad EE student, I believed that this class would kill my plan to be an EE. I got a 25 (out of 100)! No bragging, it was the highest grade. They graded on a curve. My prof was a world renown antenna expert. He liked to @#* with us. So if anyone figures out this antenna stuff email me __ 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 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 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 + XV144
Hello FM, I had to reprogram my K3 after power failure when I was updating firmware. I managed to reprogram all except the power of my XV-144 transverter. The transverter output power is +- 10 watt but I cannot turn it down to example 1 watt, in fact I cannot change the power setting. Anyone know what is the problem, probably it's a menu setting thats not correct, but I cannot find it. All help welcome. 73 - Rudi - ON7CL __ 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 + XV144
In a recent message, Rudi cl.r...@gmail.com writes The transverter output power is +- 10 watt but I cannot turn it down to example 1 watt, in fact I cannot change the power setting. MENU CONFIG: XV1 PWR (or whatever XV number you have assigned) - Change the XV number with a keypad key. Set it to H 1.0 with VFO A knob. I hope that helps. 73 David G4DMP -- + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + | David M Pratt, Kippax, Leeds. | | Website: http://www.g4dmp.co.uk | + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + __ 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] FS: KFL3A-6K, 6 kHz AM / ESSB, 8-pole filter
I am interested, I have sent a reply via direct email Johnny, please keep an eye open for it. Jeff Cochrane - VK4XA Innisfail, QLD, Australia - Jeff Cochrane - VK4XA East Innisfail Queensland Australia K3 #4767 -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/FS-KFL3A-6K-6-kHz-AM-ESSB-8-pole-filter-tp7575678p7576340.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 - anyone have experience with effects of metalroofs on antenna performace?
Paul, That option is totally up to you. Go to the home page whose link is shown on the bottom of the post and set up the way you want. 73, Mike NF4L On Jul 6, 2013, at 12:13 AM, Paul Chebi paul.ch...@att.net wrote: This note is for the log/web manager. I note that each time somebody comments on a thread ( the recent ones on metal roof), a new email is sent to all recipients. This is a nuisance cluttering the inbox. My experience with blogs is all comments are retained on the server Under one heading, and an email is sent daily to anybody interested in that subject upon request. Hope something could be done about that. Paul Chebi Kk4ptv Sent from my iPhone On Jul 5, 2013, at 6:46 PM, Phil Shepard ph...@riousa.com wrote: Ah, memories … I took an antenna class from Balanis, and we used photo copies of his fledgling book, acting as proofers. He was my senior EE project advisor as well. Quite a character. I wish I still remembered a fraction of what I knew then. Hi hi. Phil, NS7P On Jul 5, 2013, at 3:11 PM, kevinr kev...@coho.net wrote: I was just reviewing my copy of Balanis and remembered the grueling effort of the class. I took it in grad school with a crazy Greek professor who worked with Balanis. He wound up being my thesis advisor :) Kevin. KD5ONS On 7/5/2013 1:54 PM, george fritkin wrote: I remember the toughest class was antenna theory. As an undergrad EE student, I believed that this class would kill my plan to be an EE. I got a 25 (out of 100)! No bragging, it was the highest grade. They graded on a curve. My prof was a world renown antenna expert. He liked to @#* with us. So if anyone figures out this antenna stuff email me __ 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 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 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] FS: KFL3A-6K, 6 kHz AM / ESSB, 8-pole filter
Thanks for interest , the filter was sold. Sent from my iPhone 4 Jeff Cochrane vk...@arrl.net 於 2013年7月6日 下午6:52 寫道： I am interested, I have sent a reply via direct email Johnny, please keep an eye open for it. Jeff Cochrane - VK4XA Innisfail, QLD, Australia - Jeff Cochrane - VK4XA East Innisfail Queensland Australia K3 #4767 -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/FS-KFL3A-6K-6-kHz-AM-ESSB-8-pole-filter-tp7575678p7576340.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 __ 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 F/S in UK
Hi, Just seen on Ebay UK - item 281131839716 Nothing at all to do with seller. Just posted for anyone who is interested in UK. Peter G4URT __ 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: Hi-Cut/Lo-Cut not available
Howdy K3' people: I've searched the manual and pushed/held/tapped a lot of K3 buttons. Somewhere in the recent past, I have lost ability to TAP Shift or Width to get to be able to contorl Filter's Hi-Cut/ Low-Cut . The green LED always remain on Shift and the other one on Width. Holding either will only go to Norm or I/II . -- 73 KD7YZ Bob __ 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: Hi-Cut/Lo-Cut not available
What mode are you in? Go to SSB and try it again. Grant NQ5T Somewhere in the recent past, I have lost ability to TAP Shift or Width to get to be able to contorl Filter's Hi-Cut/ Low-Cut . __ 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 S/N 7394 Weird Symptom
Hi all: My K3 has been working flawlessly. It is part of a K3/KPA500/KAT500 lineup. I was monitoring FSK441 on 6M for several hours, no problems. I turned it off for breakfast, came back and turned it on. The front panel LCD fully lit, but with no characters on it, just blank. All front panel buttons were unresponsive. I couldn't even turn it off without cutting 12V and re-connecting. I tried connecting to the configuration utility, but it wouldn't connect. Then I discovered the 12V supply had disconnected from the KAT500. I reconnected that, and the K3 came back to life. I am completely mystified. This is repeatable. If I disconnect power to the KAT500, the K3 loses front panel responsiveness, and just stays in whatever state it was in when power was lost. The KAT500 connects to the K3 using the special 15pin KPAK3AUX cable. When I disconnect that, the problem goes away. Reconnect it, and the problem recurs --- K3 frozen in whatever state it was in when the 12V power to the KAT500 was disconnected. Anybody know what is going on here? Tnx de Brian W3BW *Brian F. Wruble, C.F.A. *70 is the new 40.* * Mail: 1107 Key Plaza, PMB 447 Key West, FL 33040-4077 Summers: P.O.Box 57, 7400 Augustine Herman Highway, Georgetown, MD 21930 eFax 305.768.0278 __ 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 S/N 7394 Weird Symptom
Thank you! I now remember reading that, but nowhere do they say, in big bold red print DON'T FREAK OUT!!! 73 de Brian W3BW *Brian F. Wruble, C.F.A. *70 is the new 40.* * Mail: 1107 Key Plaza, PMB 447 Key West, FL 33040-4077 Summers: P.O.Box 57, 7400 Augustine Herman Highway, Georgetown, MD 21930 eFax 305.768.0278 On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 10:39 AM, George Fenwick gafenw...@att.net wrote: Brian, That is normal behavior. As stated in the manual, the KAT500 MUST be powered before truning on the K3. If it loses power, that is the same as powering the K3 prior to the Kat500! George W2AIV K3/KPA500/KAT500 - Original Message - From: Brian F. Wruble bwru...@gmail.com To: Elecraft Reflector elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2013 10:32 AM Subject: [Elecraft] K3 S/N 7394 Weird Symptom Hi all: My K3 has been working flawlessly. It is part of a K3/KPA500/KAT500 lineup. I was monitoring FSK441 on 6M for several hours, no problems. I turned it off for breakfast, came back and turned it on. The front panel LCD fully lit, but with no characters on it, just blank. All front panel buttons were unresponsive. I couldn't even turn it off without cutting 12V and re-connecting. I tried connecting to the configuration utility, but it wouldn't connect. Then I discovered the 12V supply had disconnected from the KAT500. I reconnected that, and the K3 came back to life. I am completely mystified. This is repeatable. If I disconnect power to the KAT500, the K3 loses front panel responsiveness, and just stays in whatever state it was in when power was lost. The KAT500 connects to the K3 using the special 15pin KPAK3AUX cable. When I disconnect that, the problem goes away. Reconnect it, and the problem recurs --- K3 frozen in whatever state it was in when the 12V power to the KAT500 was disconnected. Anybody know what is going on here? Tnx de Brian W3BW *Brian F. Wruble, C.F.A. *70 is the new 40.* * Mail: 1107 Key Plaza, PMB 447 Key West, FL 33040-4077 Summers: P.O.Box 57, 7400 Augustine Herman Highway, Georgetown, MD 21930 eFax 305.768.0278 __**__**__ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/**mailman/listinfo/elecrafthttp://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.**htmhttp://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:elecr...@mailman.qth.**net 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] K3 F/S in UK
No longer there!! '73. 2E0BWQ. Sent from my iPad On 6 Jul 2013, at 13:21, PETER HUTCHISON peter.hutchi...@btinternet.com wrote: Hi, Just seen on Ebay UK - item 281131839716 Nothing at all to do with seller. Just posted for anyone who is interested in UK. Peter G4URT __ 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] Email responses
Paul, this is not a blog, it is a email list. That's what they dosend emails and responses. Art KC7GF __ 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 - anyone have experience with effects of metalroofs on antenna performace?
This is a mailing list. The whole point of a mailing list is to forward email responses to previous posts. So, in a way, it is designed to clutter your inbox. You have options in the way the list sends messages to you here: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft But understand, this list is inherently different than a blog and the point of the list is to disseminate information to participants. Thus, there is going to be significantly more traffic than you're used to and inbox clutter is part of the bargain. 73, Scott, N9AA On 7/6/13 12:13 AM, Paul Chebi wrote: This note is for the log/web manager. I note that each time somebody comments on a thread ( the recent ones on metal roof), a new email is sent to all recipients. This is a nuisance cluttering the inbox. My experience with blogs is all comments are retained on the server Under one heading, and an email is sent daily to anybody interested in that subject upon request. Hope something could be done about that. Paul Chebi Kk4ptv __ 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 P3 video of RFI, ideas?
Bill It took me a year to locate the noise source similar to yours. It is worse on 80m and the frequency shifts as picture content changes. It turned out to be next door. They had bought a 60 Samsung plasma. I took a portable AM receiver over there, turned on their tv and it totally blanked out the entire HF spectrum. No amount of line cord filtering, torroids etc. does any good whatsoever. The QRM radiates off the face of the plasma screen and can't be tamed. The only cure is a new LCD tv! My neighbor has not been helpful. They refuse to let a serviceman sent by Samsung to look at it. I gave up 2 years ago and have managed to make some antenna changes that help a little. 73 Steve N4LQ On 7/5/2013 12:29 PM, Bill Hammond wrote: This is a bit off topic but perhaps other P3 users on this reflector have encountered this RFI and have some idea where it comes from and perhaps a remedy? There must be a couple of thousand P3 users on this reflector. The below is a recording and includes sound of this nasty bit of pulsating RF. Video recording: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ak5x/9214448105/ It is not always there. When it is there in the 20-meter band there are siblings almost as strong at the following frequencies: 13.975 14.032-the recording 14.126 14.220 14.282 14.469 In addition, there are less strong signals that follow the pulsation; one is visible on the recording at 14000 (far left on the P3). They are also in the 17 meter band. They are not in the 15 meter band or above. I have pulled the big switch and it is still there on battery power. My suspension is a neighbor with plasma television. Is this what plasma TV looks like? It is directional in nature and the strongest signal comes from a 40-degree heading, roughly Europe from my location, or to a cluster of homes to my northeast. 73, Bill AK5X Bill Hammond wham...@aol.com Bill Hammond-AK5X a...@mac.com a...@sbcglobal.net K3 #69 P3 #817 KPA500 # 149 K2/100 #4637 K1 #2033 KX1 #1023 KX3 #583 W2 T1 __ 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 - anyone have experience with effects of metalroofs on antenna performace?
And that's why they invented the delete key. Have a great day, Dale - WC7S -Original Message- From: Scott Manthe scott.man...@gmail.com Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2013 16:43:54 To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT - anyone have experience with effects of metalroofs on antenna performace? This is a mailing list. The whole point of a mailing list is to forward email responses to previous posts. So, in a way, it is designed to clutter your inbox. You have options in the way the list sends messages to you here: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft But understand, this list is inherently different than a blog and the point of the list is to disseminate information to participants. Thus, there is going to be significantly more traffic than you're used to and inbox clutter is part of the bargain. 73, Scott, N9AA On 7/6/13 12:13 AM, Paul Chebi wrote: This note is for the log/web manager. I note that each time somebody comments on a thread ( the recent ones on metal roof), a new email is sent to all recipients. This is a nuisance cluttering the inbox. My experience with blogs is all comments are retained on the server Under one heading, and an email is sent daily to anybody interested in that subject upon request. Hope something could be done about that. Paul Chebi Kk4ptv __ 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] Elecraft Digest, Vol 111, Issue 13
Hi, andy body selling a basic elecraft k3 or the elecraft kx3? Or would deal other radio's. 73 mike M0fcg m1key __ 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: Hi-Cut/Lo-Cut not available
It sounds like you may have the situation described below, from K3 Owner's Manual D10 Page 58. SIG RMV [T] NOR (Advanced) OPTIONAL SPURIOUS SIGNAL REMOVAL: Can be used to remove fast-tuning receiver birdies that are audible even with an antenna connected. (An alternative in SSB mode is to turn on auto-notch.) Limitations: Applies only to CW/SSB/DATA modes, and only to the main receiver. * In CW and DATA modes, SIG RMV should not be used in combination with a CONFIG:PB CTRL setting of Shif t=.01.* PB CTRL Shift=.05 (Advanced) Specifies the granularity of the passband SHIFT control on a per mode basis: .05 (default) or .01 kHz. Select the desired mode first, then select the desired granularity. *Limitations: Only applies to CW and DATA modes. Selecting .01 kHz reduces the SHIFT range and disables HI CUT and LO CUT. May interfere with spurious signal removal (CONFIG:SIG RMV), i.e. removed signals may not be shifted the right amount, and thus may again be audible. * 73, Tom Amateur Radio Operator N5GE Licensed since 1976 ARRL Lifetime Member QCWA Lifetime Member On Sat, 6 Jul 2013 08:23:33 -0400, KD7YZ Bob kd...@denstarfarm.us wrote: Howdy K3' people: I've searched the manual and pushed/held/tapped a lot of K3 buttons. Somewhere in the recent past, I have lost ability to TAP Shift or Width to get to be able to contorl Filter's Hi-Cut/ Low-Cut . The green LED always remain on Shift and the other one on Width. Holding either will only go to Norm or I/II . __ 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] Carriage Return in SVGA text messages?
Maybe I'm missing the really obvious, but how do I insert a carriage return when creating or editing a text message for the SVGA option? I can't find references to it anywhere. Thanks Tim NZ8J __ 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 P3 video of RFI, ideas?
That is a plasma TV near your home. How do I know? My next door neighbor has one. He just moved in last month and this week the noise started. What can you do about it? I went next door and asked him if he had a plasma TV and he answered Yes, but I don't watch it except on Saturdays when my girl friend is here. I brought him to the shack and showed him the noise on my P3 SVGA interface, them we went to his home and turned it off, after which we returned to the shack and I showed him the signal was gone. He now has a borrowed copy of the ARRL RFI Book and an explanation from me of how to contact the Mfgr and ask them to fix it. I know they can't, so I then told him to contact the FCC and report an FCC Part 15 violation and give the name of the Mfgr (SamSung) when they tell him sorry they can't fix it. He was very nice about the whole thing and we now observes quiet time except on Saturday night when I'm usually not on the air. Fortunately he has a very large LED TV in the Den which makes no noise. On 7/5/2013 12:29 PM, Bill Hammond wrote: This is a bit off topic but perhaps other P3 users on this reflector have encountered this RFI and have some idea where it comes from and perhaps a remedy? There must be a couple of thousand P3 users on this reflector. The below is a recording and includes sound of this nasty bit of pulsating RF. Video recording: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ak5x/9214448105/ It is not always there. When it is there in the 20-meter band there are siblings almost as strong at the following frequencies: 13.975 14.032-the recording 14.126 14.220 14.282 14.469 In addition, there are less strong signals that follow the pulsation; one is visible on the recording at 14000 (far left on the P3). They are also in the 17 meter band. They are not in the 15 meter band or above. I have pulled the big switch and it is still there on battery power. My suspension is a neighbor with plasma television. Is this what plasma TV looks like? It is directional in nature and the strongest signal comes from a 40-degree heading, roughly Europe from my location, or to a cluster of homes to my northeast. 73, Bill AK5X Bill Hammond wham...@aol.com Bill Hammond-AK5X a...@mac.com a...@sbcglobal.net K3 #69 P3 #817 KPA500 # 149 K2/100 #4637 K1 #2033 KX1 #1023 KX3 #583 W2 T1 __ 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 73, Tom Amateur Radio Operator N5GE Licensed since 1976 ARRL Lifetime Member QCWA Lifetime Member __ 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] Carriage Return in SVGA text messages?
Hit the ENTER key. I don't know why any one would refer to it as a carriage return unless they were a computer programmer ;o) 73, Tom Amateur Radio Operator N5GE Licensed since 1976 ARRL Lifetime Member QCWA Lifetime Member On Sat, 6 Jul 2013 13:48:47 -0400, Tim cook n...@woh.rr.com wrote: Maybe I'm missing the really obvious, but how do I insert a carriage return when creating or editing a text message for the SVGA option? I can't find references to it anywhere. Thanks Tim NZ8J __ 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 73, Tom Amateur Radio Operator N5GE Licensed since 1976 ARRL Lifetime Member QCWA Lifetime Member __ 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 - anyone have experience with effects of metalroofs on antenna performace?
See elecraft.com/elist.html for alternative list viewing pages. (Both nabble and mail-archive can view our posts sorted by subject etc.) In the interest of keeping list volume and SNR under control, let's end this thread at this time. 73, Eric List Manager elecraft.com _..._ On Jul 6, 2013, at 7:03 PM, Dale Putnam daleput...@hotmail.com wrote: And that's why they invented the delete key. Have a great day, Dale - WC7S -Original Message- From: Scott Manthe scott.man...@gmail.com Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2013 16:43:54 To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT - anyone have experience with effects of metalroofs on antenna performace? This is a mailing list. The whole point of a mailing list is to forward email responses to previous posts. So, in a way, it is designed to clutter your inbox. You have options in the way the list sends messages to you here: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft But understand, this list is inherently different than a blog and the point of the list is to disseminate information to participants. Thus, there is going to be significantly more traffic than you're used to and inbox clutter is part of the bargain. 73, Scott, N9AA On 7/6/13 12:13 AM, Paul Chebi wrote: This note is for the log/web manager. I note that each time somebody comments on a thread ( the recent ones on metal roof), a new email is sent to all recipients. This is a nuisance cluttering the inbox. My experience with blogs is all comments are retained on the server Under one heading, and an email is sent daily to anybody interested in that subject upon request. Hope something could be done about that. Paul Chebi Kk4ptv __ 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] Carriage Return in SVGA text messages?
Well my still operational Model 15 needs it as it does not have the Carriage Return (CR) option installed. Just for fun and demonstrations I fire it up. Driven from a Timewave 59Y. No way to get Baudot out from the K3 P3. Many do not send it any more and it the Model 15 just sits there piling up ink at the end of a line. And please do not forget to send the line feed (LF) character too as it needs it or it will print over the last line. TNX! So the term is before computers and not from computer programmers, it is a historical reference to the original TTY. 73, Bob K2TK ex KN2TKR (1956) K2TKR On 7/6/2013 2:01 PM, Tom H Childers wrote: Hit the ENTER key. I don't know why any one would refer to it as a carriage return unless they were a computer programmer ;o) 73, Tom Amateur Radio Operator N5GE Licensed since 1976 ARRL Lifetime Member QCWA Lifetime Member On Sat, 6 Jul 2013 13:48:47 -0400, Tim cook n...@woh.rr.com wrote: Maybe I'm missing the really obvious, but how do I insert a carriage return when creating or editing a text message for the SVGA option? I can't find references to it anywhere. Thanks Tim NZ8J __ 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] Carriage Return in SVGA text messages?
Actually I'm creating and editing RTTY memories and a carriage return (cr) or new line. (nl) was the first thing that came to mind at the time. I want to TX my call and insert a CR/NL before the memory stops TX'ing. In any case hitting ENTER completes the editing process entirely and doesn't allow further text entry. Tim NZ8J On Jul 6, 2013, at 2:01 PM, Tom H Childers n...@n5ge.com wrote: Hit the ENTER key. I don't know why any one would refer to it as a carriage return unless they were a computer programmer ;o) 73, Tom Amateur Radio Operator N5GE Licensed since 1976 ARRL Lifetime Member QCWA Lifetime Member On Sat, 6 Jul 2013 13:48:47 -0400, Tim cook n...@woh.rr.com wrote: Maybe I'm missing the really obvious, but how do I insert a carriage return when creating or editing a text message for the SVGA option? I can't find references to it anywhere. Thanks Tim NZ8J __ 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 73, Tom Amateur Radio Operator N5GE Licensed since 1976 ARRL Lifetime Member QCWA Lifetime Member __ 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] Carriage Return in SVGA text messages?
Or people old enough to have been doing RTTY using mechanical teletype units. Besides Carriage Return (CR) we had Line Feed (LF). Of course on a typewriter carriage return gave you a line feed for free. All these computer people seem to call it new line. Some people miss AM. I miss the pictures we used to do with CR and no LF to get overprints. David K0LUM On Jul 6, 2013, at 1:01 PM, Tom H Childers wrote: Hit the ENTER key. I don't know why any one would refer to it as a carriage return unless they were a computer programmer ;o) 73, Tom Amateur Radio Operator N5GE Licensed since 1976 ARRL Lifetime Member QCWA Lifetime Member On Sat, 6 Jul 2013 13:48:47 -0400, Tim cook n...@woh.rr.com wrote: Maybe I'm missing the really obvious, but how do I insert a carriage return when creating or editing a text message for the SVGA option? I can't find references to it anywhere. Thanks Tim NZ8J __ 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: Hi-Cut/Lo-Cut not available
Hi Bob, This feature is disabled in CW with either one or both of the following settings. if CONFIG:CW QRQ is turned to ON or if CONFIG:PB CTRL is set to SHIFT-.01 73, Mike K2MK KD7YZ Bob wrote Howdy K3' people: I've searched the manual and pushed/held/tapped a lot of K3 buttons. Somewhere in the recent past, I have lost ability to TAP Shift or Width to get to be able to contorl Filter's Hi-Cut/ Low-Cut . The green LED always remain on Shift and the other one on Width. Holding either will only go to Norm or I/II . 73 KD7YZ Bob -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/K3-Hi-Cut-Lo-Cut-not-available-tp7576344p7576362.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
[Elecraft] FT-100 Knob to K2
When I purchased my first K2 in 2001, I ordered a FT-100 main tuning knob from Yaesu to replace the original one from Elecraft. That rig is long gone and I recently purchased a K2/100 that has the Elecraft knob with a finger dimple. It's not bad, but I am wondering if anyone has one of those FT-100 knobs they don't need and would like to sell. Since the FT-100 is out of production, they don't have any. I know there are other possibilities, but those heavy brass knobs just don't entice me. Please reply direct. Tnx 73, Steve, N4EUK reston...@gmail.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Carriage Return in SVGA text messages?
Tim, I don't have an SVGA, so I don't know how it wants control characters. CR is ASCII 13, hex 0D. Maybe a \r. 73, Mike NF4L On Jul 6, 2013, at 2:25 PM, Tim cook n...@woh.rr.com wrote: Actually I'm creating and editing RTTY memories and a carriage return (cr) or new line. (nl) was the first thing that came to mind at the time. I want to TX my call and insert a CR/NL before the memory stops TX'ing. In any case hitting ENTER completes the editing process entirely and doesn't allow further text entry. Tim NZ8J On Jul 6, 2013, at 2:01 PM, Tom H Childers n...@n5ge.com wrote: Hit the ENTER key. I don't know why any one would refer to it as a carriage return unless they were a computer programmer ;o) 73, Tom Amateur Radio Operator N5GE Licensed since 1976 ARRL Lifetime Member QCWA Lifetime Member On Sat, 6 Jul 2013 13:48:47 -0400, Tim cook n...@woh.rr.com wrote: Maybe I'm missing the really obvious, but how do I insert a carriage return when creating or editing a text message for the SVGA option? I can't find references to it anywhere. Thanks Tim NZ8J __ 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 73, Tom Amateur Radio Operator N5GE Licensed since 1976 ARRL Lifetime Member QCWA Lifetime Member __ 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] Carriage Return in SVGA text messages?
Or a Teletype hobbyist. Dick, n0ce - Original Message - From: Tom H Childers To: Tim cook Cc: 'Elecraft Mailing List' Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2013 1:01 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Carriage Return in SVGA text messages? Hit the ENTER key. I don't know why any one would refer to it as a carriage return unless they were a computer programmer ;o) 73, Tom Amateur Radio Operator N5GE Licensed since 1976 ARRL Lifetime Member QCWA Lifetime Member On Sat, 6 Jul 2013 13:48:47 -0400, Tim cook n...@woh.rr.com wrote: Maybe I'm missing the really obvious, but how do I insert a carriage return when creating or editing a text message for the SVGA option? I can't find references to it anywhere. Thanks Tim NZ8J __ 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 73, Tom Amateur Radio Operator N5GE Licensed since 1976 ARRL Lifetime Member QCWA Lifetime Member __ 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] Carriage Return in SVGA text messages?
Bob, Have you found a comma on the model 15 yet? Dick, n0ce - Original Message - From: Bob To: n...@n5ge.com ; Elecraft Reflector Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2013 1:22 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Carriage Return in SVGA text messages? Well my still operational Model 15 needs it as it does not have the Carriage Return (CR) option installed. Just for fun and demonstrations I fire it up. Driven from a Timewave 59Y. No way to get Baudot out from the K3 P3. Many do not send it any more and it the Model 15 just sits there piling up ink at the end of a line. And please do not forget to send the line feed (LF) character too as it needs it or it will print over the last line. TNX! So the term is before computers and not from computer programmers, it is a historical reference to the original TTY. 73, Bob K2TK ex KN2TKR (1956) K2TKR On 7/6/2013 2:01 PM, Tom H Childers wrote: Hit the ENTER key. I don't know why any one would refer to it as a carriage return unless they were a computer programmer ;o) 73, Tom Amateur Radio Operator N5GE Licensed since 1976 ARRL Lifetime Member QCWA Lifetime Member On Sat, 6 Jul 2013 13:48:47 -0400, Tim cook n...@woh.rr.com wrote: Maybe I'm missing the really obvious, but how do I insert a carriage return when creating or editing a text message for the SVGA option? I can't find references to it anywhere. Thanks Tim NZ8J __ 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] Carriage Return in SVGA text messages?
...or an old guy. The Model 19 TTY had a CR key, and a separate LF key, if my memory is correct. That is what most of us used for RTTY before computers. Smelly, noisy, but they worked. The key was a CR key well before it was an ENTER key. Mark KE6BB (An old guy) Sent from my iThingie. On Jul 6, 2013, at 11:01 AM, Tom H Childers n...@n5ge.com wrote: Hit the ENTER key. I don't know why any one would refer to it as a carriage return unless they were a computer programmer ;o) 73, Tom Amateur Radio Operator N5GE Licensed since 1976 ARRL Lifetime Member QCWA Lifetime Member On Sat, 6 Jul 2013 13:48:47 -0400, Tim cook n...@woh.rr.com wrote: Maybe I'm missing the really obvious, but how do I insert a carriage return when creating or editing a text message for the SVGA option? I can't find references to it anywhere. Thanks Tim NZ8J __ 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 73, Tom Amateur Radio Operator N5GE Licensed since 1976 ARRL Lifetime Member QCWA Lifetime Member __ 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] Carriage Return in SVGA text messages?
I remember 30 years ago when word processing programs were becoming available with word wrap many experienced typists had trouble getting their minds around that you didn't have to hit Enter (the equivalent of running the carriage back) at the end of each line. That formatting could be done later was tough to grasp. David K0LUM On Jul 6, 2013, at 1:22 PM, Bob wrote: Well my still operational Model 15 needs it as it does not have the Carriage Return (CR) option installed. Just for fun and demonstrations I fire it up. Driven from a Timewave 59Y. No way to get Baudot out from the K3 P3. Many do not send it any more and it the Model 15 just sits there piling up ink at the end of a line. And please do not forget to send the line feed (LF) character too as it needs it or it will print over the last line. TNX! So the term is before computers and not from computer programmers, it is a historical reference to the original TTY. 73, Bob K2TK ex KN2TKR (1956) K2TKR On 7/6/2013 2:01 PM, Tom H Childers wrote: Hit the ENTER key. I don't know why any one would refer to it as a carriage return unless they were a computer programmer ;o) 73, Tom Amateur Radio Operator N5GE Licensed since 1976 ARRL Lifetime Member QCWA Lifetime Member __ 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] Carriage Return in SVGA text messages?
Yes, the early programs were exciting. I bought Lotus Suite and hated to see it go by the wayside. BTW, Has anyone on the list ever used a model 40 teletype with magnetic tape storage? Dick, n0ce - Original Message - From: David Christ To: Elecraft Reflector Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2013 1:48 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Carriage Return in SVGA text messages? I remember 30 years ago when word processing programs were becoming available with word wrap many experienced typists had trouble getting their minds around that you didn't have to hit Enter (the equivalent of running the carriage back) at the end of each line. That formatting could be done later was tough to grasp. David K0LUM __ 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 P3 video of RFI, ideas?
Suppose the manufacturer can't or won't fix it? What happens then? I have a Pioneer Elite plasma in my house that radiates plenty. Anyone have any experience with Pioneer? Chris Sent from my iPad On Jul 6, 2013, at 1:57 PM, Tom H Childers n...@n5ge.com wrote: That is a plasma TV near your home. How do I know? My next door neighbor has one. He just moved in last month and this week the noise started. What can you do about it? I went next door and asked him if he had a plasma TV and he answered Yes, but I don't watch it except on Saturdays when my girl friend is here. I brought him to the shack and showed him the noise on my P3 SVGA interface, them we went to his home and turned it off, after which we returned to the shack and I showed him the signal was gone. He now has a borrowed copy of the ARRL RFI Book and an explanation from me of how to contact the Mfgr and ask them to fix it. I know they can't, so I then told him to contact the FCC and report an FCC Part 15 violation and give the name of the Mfgr (SamSung) when they tell him sorry they can't fix it. He was very nice about the whole thing and we now observes quiet time except on Saturday night when I'm usually not on the air. Fortunately he has a very large LED TV in the Den which makes no noise. On 7/5/2013 12:29 PM, Bill Hammond wrote: This is a bit off topic but perhaps other P3 users on this reflector have encountered this RFI and have some idea where it comes from and perhaps a remedy? There must be a couple of thousand P3 users on this reflector. The below is a recording and includes sound of this nasty bit of pulsating RF. Video recording: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ak5x/9214448105/ It is not always there. When it is there in the 20-meter band there are siblings almost as strong at the following frequencies: 13.975 14.032-the recording 14.126 14.220 14.282 14.469 In addition, there are less strong signals that follow the pulsation; one is visible on the recording at 14000 (far left on the P3). They are also in the 17 meter band. They are not in the 15 meter band or above. I have pulled the big switch and it is still there on battery power. My suspension is a neighbor with plasma television. Is this what plasma TV looks like? It is directional in nature and the strongest signal comes from a 40-degree heading, roughly Europe from my location, or to a cluster of homes to my northeast. 73, Bill AK5X Bill Hammond wham...@aol.com Bill Hammond-AK5X a...@mac.com a...@sbcglobal.net K3 #69 P3 #817 KPA500 # 149 K2/100 #4637 K1 #2033 KX1 #1023 KX3 #583 W2 T1 __ 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 73, Tom Amateur Radio Operator N5GE Licensed since 1976 ARRL Lifetime Member QCWA Lifetime Member __ 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] OT - anyone have experience with effects of metalroofs on antenna performace?
My suggestions for handling email from any email reflector or Yahoo group: Sign up for individual emails - BUT - set a filter in your email client to move all emails containing [Elecraft] in the subject into a separate folder in your inbox (I call mine Elecraft). That effectively creates your own personal digest, with the advantage that you can reply to any individual email (Note that with this list, just Reply goes only to the sender. If your email client does not have a Reply to List, you must Reply All and edit out the sender's address if you want it to only be sent to the list). Just my suggestion for handling email from any list or Yahoo group. Some email clients will show you the posts in threaded fashion if you like that better (Thunderbird does that), but I prefer to list the emails in date/time received and if I want to see threaded posts, I look on Nabble (but I don't ever post or reply from Nabble) As a separate request for those who do reply using Nabble, please include a bit of the relevant thing you are responding to in the body of your post. Often the subject line no longer has anything to do with what is being referred to (such as this post) 73, Don W3FPR On 7/6/2013 12:43 PM, Scott Manthe wrote: This is a mailing list. The whole point of a mailing list is to forward email responses to previous posts. So, in a way, it is designed to clutter your inbox. You have options in the way the list sends messages to you here: __ 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] Carriage Return in SVGA text messages?
Hi Dick, Yes, that was a recent discovery. It is hidden under the FIGS and N keys. But what really baffles me is that I can not get it out of CAPS and I've been accused or shouting and just being rude. I guess I don't have enough time on the GREEN KEYS to have learned all the subtleties yet. 73, Bob K2TK On 7/6/2013 2:36 PM, Richard Fjeld wrote: Bob, Have you found a comma on the model 15 yet? Dick, n0ce - Original Message - From: Bob To: n...@n5ge.com ; Elecraft Reflector Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2013 1:22 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Carriage Return in SVGA text messages? Well my still operational Model 15 needs it as it does not have the Carriage Return (CR) option installed. Just for fun and demonstrations I fire it up. Driven from a Timewave 59Y. No way to get Baudot out from the K3 P3. Many do not send it any more and it the Model 15 just sits there piling up ink at the end of a line. And please do not forget to send the line feed (LF) character too as it needs it or it will print over the last line. TNX! So the term is before computers and not from computer programmers, it is a historical reference to the original TTY. 73, Bob K2TK ex KN2TKR (1956) K2TKR On 7/6/2013 2:01 PM, Tom H Childers wrote: Hit the ENTER key. I don't know why any one would refer to it as a carriage return unless they were a computer programmer ;o) 73, Tom Amateur Radio Operator N5GE Licensed since 1976 ARRL Lifetime Member QCWA Lifetime Member On Sat, 6 Jul 2013 13:48:47 -0400, Tim cook n...@woh.rr.com wrote: Maybe I'm missing the really obvious, but how do I insert a carriage return when creating or editing a text message for the SVGA option? I can't find references to it anywhere. Thanks Tim NZ8J __ 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 P3 video of RFI, ideas?
Although this thread is quite mature, I will add my experience with plasma TVs, one of which is a Pioneer Elite. Both of my next door neighbors have plasmas - one a Panasonic and the other the Pioneer. DXing used to be my favorite aspect of ham radio, and 40m my favorite band, but since the neighbors' acquisition of the plasma TVs, the plasma noise/spurs can be a constant S8 to S9. To say it's frustrating, especially when I've always tried to be a good neighbor in terms of my ham radio operations, is an understatement. Plasma TVs are equivalent to thousands of spark gap transmitters! Until recently, I only operated either very late at night or early AM, or when the neighbors weren't home, or if by chance, weren't watching TV. However, a few months ago I purchased a Pixel Technologies RF-Pro-1B magnetic receiving loop which has helped immensely. The plasma noise is now typically an S4 or S5, sometimes even a bit lower when I carefully adjust the azimuth of the the loop with the rotor. It's also helped with the persistent line noise problem that the power utility is totally unresponsive to address. I essentially use the receive antenna input on my rigs 100% of the time now. I wish the FCC would ban the sales and marketing of plasma TVs! Don On 7/6/2013 2:19 PM, Chris Pinholster wrote: Suppose the manufacturer can't or won't fix it? What happens then? I have a Pioneer Elite plasma in my house that radiates plenty. Anyone have any experience with Pioneer? Chris Sent from my iPad __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] [K3] 700 Hz 8-Pole Filters - We Are Now Accepting Formal (Paid) Orders
Ken and I will be accepting formal (paid) orders towards the next production run of 700 Hz filters through 1600 UTC on Wednesday July 10th. At that time we will commission production of batch four, and begin a waiting list towards batch five. See http://www.unpcbs.com/frontdoor/ Since we have promised not commission another batch as long as anyone has a filter they want to sell ... please contact me (off list) ASAP if you have a 700 Hz filter surplus to your needs, and I will put you in contact with the next person on our list. --- - - - --- If you are wondering what's so special about 700 Hz, then you might want to check out our newest webpage, which features a slideshow that presents a novel visual comparison of the five 8-pole CW filters. It uses an analogy that likens bandwidth to the focal length of a camera lens, or more specifically, to the resulting angular field of view for a given focal length. You may find that comparing the resulting images, is much more intuitive than comparing a table of numbers (i.e. minus 6 dB bandwidths), or comparing passband roll-off plots. See http://www.unpcbs.com/filter/slideshow/ http://www.unpcbs.com/filter/slideshow/ 73, Gary KI4GGX (webmaster) __ 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] FT-100 Knob to K2
I recently bought the 73CNC steel knob for the K2. I still can't believe I spent $90 for a freakin' radio knob! But I love it, and would do it again. Totally transformed the feel of that little radio. Just for fun, I tried it on my K1, but it's too heavy for the wobbly encoder used in that radio. You can hear it scrapping inside as it turns. So the old stock K2 knob went on the K1 and transformed that (my favorite) little radio as well. It needs a slightly bigger knob and the K2 knob is just right. Eric KE6US On 7/6/2013 11:33 AM, Steve wrote: When I purchased my first K2 in 2001, I ordered a FT-100 main tuning knob from Yaesu to replace the original one from Elecraft. That rig is long gone and I recently purchased a K2/100 that has the Elecraft knob with a finger dimple. It's not bad, but I am wondering if anyone has one of those FT-100 knobs they don't need and would like to sell. Since the FT-100 is out of production, they don't have any. I know there are other possibilities, but those heavy brass knobs just don't entice me. Please reply direct. Tnx 73, Steve, N4EUK reston...@gmail.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ 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 P3 video of RFI, ideas?
I have a neighbor who has a plasma. But what is worse I have a neighbor two doors down whose outside lights cause 30-40 db of noise from 7MHz to 20 MHz! I offered to change them for him, and asked him to at least just turn them on at night. He has a timer, but he leaves them on many times all day. His wife was great, if they were on I'd ring the bell and ask her to turn them off...no problem. The one time he answered the door, he started yelling at me calling every name under the sun, and called the cops. Cops looked at my station (one was a cb-er) and said there was not much they could do.I solved the issue by buying an active antenna and a ncc antenna phaser. Here is what it can do! http://va2fsq.com/wp-content/uploads/2013-Jan-15-20-43-43.avi Copy the link and paste it in windows media player (File - Open network location). Problem solved. Too bad it doesn't work remotely. Tom On 7/6/13, Don Allen w...@w9cw.com wrote: Although this thread is quite mature, I will add my experience with plasma TVs, one of which is a Pioneer Elite. Both of my next door neighbors have plasmas - one a Panasonic and the other the Pioneer. DXing used to be my favorite aspect of ham radio, and 40m my favorite band, but since the neighbors' acquisition of the plasma TVs, the plasma noise/spurs can be a constant S8 to S9. To say it's frustrating, especially when I've always tried to be a good neighbor in terms of my ham radio operations, is an understatement. Plasma TVs are equivalent to thousands of spark gap transmitters! Until recently, I only operated either very late at night or early AM, or when the neighbors weren't home, or if by chance, weren't watching TV. However, a few months ago I purchased a Pixel Technologies RF-Pro-1B magnetic receiving loop which has helped immensely. The plasma noise is now typically an S4 or S5, sometimes even a bit lower when I carefully adjust the azimuth of the the loop with the rotor. It's also helped with the persistent line noise problem that the power utility is totally unresponsive to address. I essentially use the receive antenna input on my rigs 100% of the time now. I wish the FCC would ban the sales and marketing of plasma TVs! Don On 7/6/2013 2:19 PM, Chris Pinholster wrote: Suppose the manufacturer can't or won't fix it? What happens then? I have a Pioneer Elite plasma in my house that radiates plenty. Anyone have any experience with Pioneer? Chris Sent from my iPad __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net 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] Carriage Return in SVGA text messages?
Re: But what really baffles me is that I can not get it out of CAPS and I've been accused or shouting and just being rude. That shows you that the folks who complain the most usually know the least! Long time ago...going from memory here: No small letters were available. Up through the Model 19, everything used Baudot code which only had caps. RTTY was the same way in those days. Figures key put the TX and RX TTY's into Figures mode (numbers, punctuation, etc.), LTR key put them into letters mode. Figures and letters key was always sent twice just in case the first one didn't decode properly...or at least the letters key was. That way you didn't leave the other guy in the opposite mode. Nothing worse than being in figures when the other guy was sending letters! ASCII came later with Caps and small letters, and no FGS or LTR keys. Model 23 sent ascii. I don't think it was compatible with our earlier TTY's. I never had a model 23. Went straight to rudimentary computer code/decode instead. Converted my homebrew terminal so it could talk to my computer (expanded Cosmac Elf with tiny display and keyboard...google it...wish I still had it). Nothing like today, though. I THINK that gave me the option to use ASCII, but can't remember for sure. MARKcrlf KEfgsfgs6ltrsltrsBBcrcrlflf From: Bob k...@att.net To: Richard Fjeld rpfj...@embarqmail.com Cc: Elecraft Reflector elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Saturday, July 6, 2013 12:29 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Carriage Return in SVGA text messages? Hi Dick, Yes, that was a recent discovery. It is hidden under the FIGS and N keys. But what really baffles me is that I can not get it out of CAPS and I've been accused or shouting and just being rude. I guess I don't have enough time on the GREEN KEYS to have learned all the subtleties yet. 73, Bob K2TK On 7/6/2013 2:36 PM, Richard Fjeld wrote: Bob, Have you found a comma on the model 15 yet? Dick, n0ce - Original Message - From: Bob To: n...@n5ge.com ; Elecraft Reflector Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2013 1:22 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Carriage Return in SVGA text messages? Well my still operational Model 15 needs it as it does not have the Carriage Return (CR) option installed. Just for fun and demonstrations I fire it up. Driven from a Timewave 59Y. No way to get Baudot out from the K3 P3. Many do not send it any more and it the Model 15 just sits there piling up ink at the end of a line. And please do not forget to send the line feed (LF) character too as it needs it or it will print over the last line. TNX! So the term is before computers and not from computer programmers, it is a historical reference to the original TTY. 73, Bob K2TK ex KN2TKR (1956) K2TKR On 7/6/2013 2:01 PM, Tom H Childers wrote: Hit the ENTER key. I don't know why any one would refer to it as a carriage return unless they were a computer programmer ;o) 73, Tom Amateur Radio Operator N5GE Licensed since 1976 ARRL Lifetime Member QCWA Lifetime Member On Sat, 6 Jul 2013 13:48:47 -0400, Tim cook n...@woh.rr.com wrote: Maybe I'm missing the really obvious, but how do I insert a carriage return when creating or editing a text message for the SVGA option? I can't find references to it anywhere. Thanks Tim NZ8J __ 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] KX3 Setup For Contesting (Thanks for all the help!)
All, I received a nearly-overwhelming amount of responses to my email and I wanted to make sure I follow-up with you all to thank you and let you know the results of operating in my first contest QRP with the KX3. Although I failed to mention it in my original email, many of you correctly assumed that I would be operating SSB. I'm still not proficient (and comfortable) enough with CW to go that route yet. Of course, digital is just point-and-click. :) Many suggested using a high quality (or high gain) antenna. I don't know if you'd call what I'm using high quality, but it's what I've got and it seems to get the job done well enough. You can see my QRZ profile for more information about it. (It's approximately 250' of wire in a loop above my house.) It seemed split right down the middle on whether to use QRP in my call or not. Ultimately, I decided to go with it: KK4LOV QRP. I heard several other stations announce themselves as QRP or portable. We can debate if it's right or wrong, but when heard, they ALWAYS received preference from the station calling CQ contest. Speaking of being heard, I avoided most pileups where the station calling CQ even had difficulty keeping up with all the calls. In the few instances where I did throw my call in the pile, I paused at least a second before stating my call. I suspect the other station rarely heard my actual call but frequently heard QRP unless my signal was being drowned out by a QRO station. As far as the KX3 setup was concerned, I received two bits of advice which really seemed to help. 1. It was suggested I crank the speech compression ALL the way up. I had it on 10 (I think) and maxed it out at 30. 2. Adjusted my TX EQ settings: TXEQ1-16, TXEQ2-16, TXEQ3-8, TXEQ8-16. All this and a lot of patience got me a clean sweep on the 13 Colonies contest running this week -- all on 5 watts SSB. So thanks to everyone for your help -- I'm sure this will improve my SOTA operations as well! Aaron de KK4LOV __ 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 P3 video of RFI, ideas?
Remeber the report in QST about the person who had a well pump interfering with a ham's operation - After several notices indicating that he must turn it off or change it, the FCC issued a very heavy forfeiture. Perhaps complaints of RFI to the FCC can do some good (but it will take time). 73, Don W3FPR On 7/6/2013 5:04 PM, tom...@videotron.ca wrote: I have a neighbor who has a plasma. But what is worse I have a neighbor two doors down whose outside lights cause 30-40 db of noise from 7MHz to 20 MHz! I offered to change them for him, and asked him to at least just turn them on at night. He has a timer, but he leaves them on many times all day. His wife was great, if they were on I'd ring the bell and ask her to turn them off...no problem. The one time he answered the door, he started yelling at me calling every name under the sun, and called the cops. Cops looked at my station (one was a cb-er) and said there was not much they could do.I solved the issue by buying an active antenna and a ncc antenna phaser. Here is what it can do! __ 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 P3 video of RFI, ideas?
Hi I am using a dxengineering active receive antenna with a 102 whip, mounted at ground level about 30 feet away from my av620 vertical. I'm using is as a noise antenna while the av620 is my main antenna. Waiting until the weather cools off to install my first beam. Should be less noisy than the vertical. Tom Sent from my iPhone On 2013-07-06, at 5:50 PM, d...@lightstream.net d...@lightstream.net wrote: Hello Tom, Thanks for your post! As it turns out, I have a local source of broadband noise that is not quite as bad as yours, but it still causes me grief. Unforutunately, I don't know it's source, though I suspect a computer power supply. I've had an NCC-1 for a while (superb design!), and have used it with a couple of homebrew mini-whip vertical active antennas, as well as a homebrew magnetic loop with a low-impedance buffer/amp instead of a tuning capacitor. I'm curious what you are using for an active antenna, and wonder if you are using the active antenna as the noise-sense antenna and working the NCC-1 against your transmitting antenna, or are you using multiple active antennas for receiving? 73, Dale WA8SRA I have a neighbor who has a plasma. But what is worse I have a neighbor two doors down whose outside lights cause 30-40 db of noise from 7MHz to 20 MHz! I offered to change them for him, and asked him to at least just turn them on at night. He has a timer, but he leaves them on many times all day. His wife was great, if they were on I'd ring the bell and ask her to turn them off...no problem. The one time he answered the door, he started yelling at me calling every name under the sun, and called the cops. Cops looked at my station (one was a cb-er) and said there was not much they could do.I solved the issue by buying an active antenna and a ncc antenna phaser. Here is what it can do! http://va2fsq.com/wp-content/uploads/2013-Jan-15-20-43-43.avi Copy the link and paste it in windows media player (File - Open network location). Problem solved. Too bad it doesn't work remotely. Tom On 7/6/13, Don Allen w...@w9cw.com wrote: Although this thread is quite mature, I will add my experience with plasma TVs, one of which is a Pioneer Elite. Both of my next door neighbors have plasmas - one a Panasonic and the other the Pioneer. DXing used to be my favorite aspect of ham radio, and 40m my favorite band, but since the neighbors' acquisition of the plasma TVs, the plasma noise/spurs can be a constant S8 to S9. To say it's frustrating, especially when I've always tried to be a good neighbor in terms of my ham radio operations, is an understatement. Plasma TVs are equivalent to thousands of spark gap transmitters! Until recently, I only operated either very late at night or early AM, or when the neighbors weren't home, or if by chance, weren't watching TV. However, a few months ago I purchased a Pixel Technologies RF-Pro-1B magnetic receiving loop which has helped immensely. The plasma noise is now typically an S4 or S5, sometimes even a bit lower when I carefully adjust the azimuth of the the loop with the rotor. It's also helped with the persistent line noise problem that the power utility is totally unresponsive to address. I essentially use the receive antenna input on my rigs 100% of the time now. I wish the FCC would ban the sales and marketing of plasma TVs! Don On 7/6/2013 2:19 PM, Chris Pinholster wrote: Suppose the manufacturer can't or won't fix it? What happens then? I have a Pioneer Elite plasma in my house that radiates plenty. Anyone have any experience with Pioneer? Chris Sent from my iPad __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net 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 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: Hi-Cut/Lo-Cut not available
On Saturday used a Straight-Key to send: -Original Comment--- * In CW and DATA modes, SIG RMV should not be used in combination with a CONFIG:PB CTRL setting of Shif t=.01.* PB CTRL Shift=.05 (Advanced) Specifies the granularity of the passband SHIFT control on a per mode basis: .05 (default) or .01 kHz. Select the desired mode first, then select the desired granularity. A while ago I did try to remove birdies on 144 and 432 xvtr, the K3 versions. tuning around the EME area was a nightmare of birdies. The auto remove tool did nothing for the transverters. Either it's not designed to do that or I'm not designed t try the tool. PB CTRL was Shift =01 now it's .05 on SSB/CW/Data Anyway, Now I have lo-cut and hi-cut back in CW SSB Data Thanks a bunch! -- Best regards, Bob KD7YZWin7-64bit + K3 __ 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] K2 power and receive strength low on 17m only
I obtained a well built plain K2 that has normal power out and receive on all bands except 17m. On 17m power is very low at .1watt and power control has no effect. I hear a clean signal on my other receiver but faint. On receive the K2 does receive but signals are 9 to 10 s-units down. As an aside, the filters need alignment. I have just started reading the manual and am interested in being able to maintain this my dream HF rig. Robin __ 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] KX3 Setup For Contesting (Thanks for all the help!)
Aaron, Congratulations on a your first contest and the results. Keep at it and you'll discover that you can do quite a creditable job QRP as compared to many QRO operators. It really is just practice and timing. We did a QRP Field Day last year and took a second place in our category and our score beat out many QRO competitors. We've been at it for a few years. So, you should be able to replicate our results with on the air practice. Chasing DX is a good way to practice. Again, congratulations. Vy 73, Barry K3NDM - Original Message - From: Aaron Melton aa...@aaronmelton.com To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net, k...@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, July 6, 2013 5:36:08 PM Subject: [Elecraft] KX3 Setup For Contesting (Thanks for all the help!) All, I received a nearly-overwhelming amount of responses to my email and I wanted to make sure I follow-up with you all to thank you and let you know the results of operating in my first contest QRP with the KX3. Although I failed to mention it in my original email, many of you correctly assumed that I would be operating SSB. I'm still not proficient (and comfortable) enough with CW to go that route yet. Of course, digital is just point-and-click. :) Many suggested using a high quality (or high gain) antenna. I don't know if you'd call what I'm using high quality, but it's what I've got and it seems to get the job done well enough. You can see my QRZ profile for more information about it. (It's approximately 250' of wire in a loop above my house.) It seemed split right down the middle on whether to use QRP in my call or not. Ultimately, I decided to go with it: KK4LOV QRP. I heard several other stations announce themselves as QRP or portable. We can debate if it's right or wrong, but when heard, they ALWAYS received preference from the station calling CQ contest. Speaking of being heard, I avoided most pileups where the station calling CQ even had difficulty keeping up with all the calls. In the few instances where I did throw my call in the pile, I paused at least a second before stating my call. I suspect the other station rarely heard my actual call but frequently heard QRP unless my signal was being drowned out by a QRO station. As far as the KX3 setup was concerned, I received two bits of advice which really seemed to help. 1. It was suggested I crank the speech compression ALL the way up. I had it on 10 (I think) and maxed it out at 30. 2. Adjusted my TX EQ settings: TXEQ1-16, TXEQ2-16, TXEQ3-8, TXEQ8-16. All this and a lot of patience got me a clean sweep on the 13 Colonies contest running this week -- all on 5 watts SSB. So thanks to everyone for your help -- I'm sure this will improve my SOTA operations as well! Aaron de KK4LOV __ 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] Elecraft SSB Net Announcement
The weekly SSB net will meet tomorrow (7/7/13) at 1800z on 14.3035 MHz. I will be net control from western Oregon. See you then. 73, Phil NS7P __ 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] K2 power and receive strength low on 17m only
Robin, I saw your email to me a few days ago, but was not able to respond because you sent it from Nabble and it did not put your email address in the TO: field - instead it substituted the nabble address and I am not subscribed there. I strongly believe you have a problem in the bandpass filter - C32, C34 or relay K6. Examine the case of K6 first. If it has any 'soldering iron scars', replace it. If K6 is OK, then try setting the power at 1.5 watts and doing a TUNE with the K2 set to 18100 kHz. Adjust C32 and C34 for the maximum power output. If that does not cure your problem, then ask again (but not through Nabble). 73, Don W3FPR On 7/6/2013 7:38 PM, Robin Bayer wrote: I obtained a well built plain K2 that has normal power out and receive on all bands except 17m. On 17m power is very low at .1watt and power control has no effect. I hear a clean signal on my other receiver but faint. On receive the K2 does receive but signals are 9 to 10 s-units down. As an aside, the filters need alignment. I have just started reading the manual and am interested in being able to maintain this my dream HF rig. Robin __ 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] Carriage Return in SVGA text messages?
Yep. AFAIK it was Telex (land-line based hard copy texting between terminals for businesses) that added lower case letters to the keyboard. 73 Ron AC7AC -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Mark Petiford Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2013 2:36 PM To: k...@att.net; Richard Fjeld Cc: Elecraft Reflector Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Carriage Return in SVGA text messages? Re: But what really baffles me is that I can not get it out of CAPS and I've been accused or shouting and just being rude. That shows you that the folks who complain the most usually know the least! Long time ago...going from memory here: No small letters were available. Up through the Model 19, everything used Baudot code which only had caps. RTTY was the same way in those days. Figures key put the TX and RX TTY's into Figures mode (numbers, punctuation, etc.), LTR key put them into letters mode. Figures and letters key was always sent twice just in case the first one didn't decode properly...or at least the letters key was. That way you didn't leave the other guy in the opposite mode. Nothing worse than being in figures when the other guy was sending letters! ASCII came later with Caps and small letters, and no FGS or LTR keys. Model 23 sent ascii. I don't think it was compatible with our earlier TTY's. I never had a model 23. Went straight to rudimentary computer code/decode instead. Converted my homebrew terminal so it could talk to my computer (expanded Cosmac Elf with tiny display and keyboard...google it...wish I still had it). Nothing like today, though. I THINK that gave me the option to use ASCII, but can't remember for sure. MARKcrlf KEfgsfgs6ltrsltrsBBcrcrlflf From: Bob k...@att.net To: Richard Fjeld rpfj...@embarqmail.com Cc: Elecraft Reflector elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Saturday, July 6, 2013 12:29 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Carriage Return in SVGA text messages? Hi Dick, Yes, that was a recent discovery. It is hidden under the FIGS and N keys. But what really baffles me is that I can not get it out of CAPS and I've been accused or shouting and just being rude. I guess I don't have enough time on the GREEN KEYS to have learned all the subtleties yet. 73, Bob K2TK On 7/6/2013 2:36 PM, Richard Fjeld wrote: Bob, Have you found a comma on the model 15 yet? Dick, n0ce - Original Message - From: Bob To: n...@n5ge.com ; Elecraft Reflector Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2013 1:22 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Carriage Return in SVGA text messages? Well my still operational Model 15 needs it as it does not have the Carriage Return (CR) option installed. Just for fun and demonstrations I fire it up. Driven from a Timewave 59Y. No way to get Baudot out from the K3 P3. Many do not send it any more and it the Model 15 just sits there piling up ink at the end of a line. And please do not forget to send the line feed (LF) character too as it needs it or it will print over the last line. TNX! So the term is before computers and not from computer programmers, it is a historical reference to the original TTY. 73, Bob K2TK ex KN2TKR (1956) K2TKR On 7/6/2013 2:01 PM, Tom H Childers wrote: Hit the ENTER key. I don't know why any one would refer to it as a carriage return unless they were a computer programmer ;o) 73, Tom Amateur Radio Operator N5GE Licensed since 1976 ARRL Lifetime Member QCWA Lifetime Member On Sat, 6 Jul 2013 13:48:47 -0400, Tim cook n...@woh.rr.com wrote: Maybe I'm missing the really obvious, but how do I insert a carriage return when creating or editing a text message for the SVGA option? I can't find references to it anywhere. Thanks Tim NZ8J __ 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 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] Elecraft CW Net Announcement
Good Evening, After a long, hot week it is cooling back to normal. Feels good not baking in the sun. Propagation was better for the times I was on twenty meters but I have yet to find any activity on six meters. It is always fun when six is open. Please join us tomorrow afternoon and evening. 1) Hail signs (first letter or two of the suffix of your call) 2) NCS help (as well as QSP/QNP relay help) Sunday 2200z (Sunday 3 PM PDT) 14050 kHz Monday 0100z (Sunday 6 PM PDT) 7045 kHz Stay well, Kevin. KD5ONS - __ 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 P3 video of RFI, ideas?
We've beaten this to death and beyond ;-). End of thread. In the future, please resist posting when threads get this long and repetitive. 73, Eric List modulator elecraft.com _..._ On Jul 6, 2013, at 11:48 PM, Don Wilhelm w3...@embarqmail.com wrote: Remeber the report in QST about the person who had a well pump interfering with a ham's operation - After several notices indicating that he must turn it off or change it, the FCC issued a very heavy forfeiture. Perhaps complaints of RFI to the FCC can do some good (but it will take time). __ 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] Carriage Return in SVGA text messages?
End of Thread. Please resist the urge to post on OT areas when the thread gets this long. Also, please -always- delete the majority of the copied thread text as I have done here, and all of the prior list footers to reduce unnecessary email volume for other readers. 73, Eric List moderator, for real. elecraft.com _..._ On Jul 7, 2013, at 4:44 AM, Ron D'Eau Claire r...@cobi.biz wrote: Yep. AFAIK it was Telex (land-line based hard copy texting between terminals for businesses) that added lower case letters to the keyboard. 73 Ron AC7AC __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] FW 4.67 and K3EXREF
I just realized that both my K3's running FW 4.67 are no longer locking to the K3EXREF calibration signal from a Trimble Thunderbolt. Specifically, the REF CAL config menu item does not show the flashing asterisk and moving the main tuning knob does not show LOCKED. I have had the K3EXREF installed and operating properly with both rigs for at least a year. The Trimble Thunderbolt provides the 10MHz calibration signal to both K3's though a MiniCircuits splitter. After checking the power supply and output levels of the Thunderbolt, which were nominal, I decided to see if the K3 firmware could be responsible, since I had fairly recently upgraded to 4.67. Indeed, rolling back to 4.51 re-enables the normal REF CAL behavior! Can anyone else verify this? - 73, Stan - KR7C -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/FW-4-67-and-K3EXREF-tp7576395.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
