Re: [Elecraft] PF1 and PF2 Programming Question
Thanks Matt: I will try and do some experimenting this weekend. I have place your site in my bookmarks, now need to fnd some spare time. Tnx, 73 De Mike VE3YF http://www.ve3yf.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] OT: CW Skimmer
It's not about copying CW. It's about spotting the guy a dx station is working in a 30 kHz wide pileup when a hundred other guys are calling out of turn. A human can only copy a few calls within a few kHz at the same time, while the skimmer can get all of them. Vic 4X6GP/K2VCO On Feb 6, 2015, at 7:29 PM, Ken G Kopp kengk...@gmail.com wrote: Of course there's the option of learning to copy CW .. (; -) 73 Ken - K0PP On Feb 6, 2015 8:57 AM, Tom Blahovici tom...@videotron.ca wrote: Yes CW skimmer works great. One caveat though with listening on vfo b. Many people use the built in decoding of cw on the k3 or use software such as cwget to assist them. This only works on the main receiver so you lose that functionality. Two things would be great here. One, having decoding built into the k3 subreceiver. That would fix this when you use it like you do. Second, cw skimmer should have an option to qsy on vfo b as well. Tom va2fsq.com On Feb 6, 2015 10:06 AM, Pete Smith N4ZR n...@contesting.com wrote: CW Skimmer is a great tool for cracking the K1N pileups because it decodes the calls of folks calling as well as who just sent 599, and you can click on the relevant decoder dot to move instantly to that frequency. I'm using it with an LP-Pan in what Skimmer calls the Softrock-IF mode. One rub, though, is that the pileups are so wide that it often is not possible to go split, listen on VFO A, and transmit on the second VFO,. because Skimmer tracks VFOA and the action is too far above K1N's frequency to display on my monitor. My K3 has the separate subRX, happily, so I can invert things - listen to K1N on VFO B, while tuning up the band on VFO A looking for the last successful caller. Works amazingly well. -- 73, Pete N4ZR Check out the Reverse Beacon Network at http://reversebeacon.net, blog at reversebeacon.blogspot.com. For spots, please go to your favorite ARC V6 or VE7CC DX cluster node. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to tom...@videotron.ca __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to kengk...@gmail.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to k2vco@gmail.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] OT: CW Skimmer
While CW Skimmer may be about spotting the guy calling ... CW Get and/or the CW text decode capability in the K3 are *certainly not* about spotting the calling station in the pile-up. Their only purpose is as a crutch for those who are either unable due to hearing loss or too lazy to learn to copy the code. 73, ... Joe, W4TV On 2015-02-06 2:01 PM, Vic Rosenthal wrote: It's not about copying CW. It's about spotting the guy a dx station is working in a 30 kHz wide pileup when a hundred other guys are calling out of turn. A human can only copy a few calls within a few kHz at the same time, while the skimmer can get all of them. Vic 4X6GP/K2VCO On Feb 6, 2015, at 7:29 PM, Ken G Kopp kengk...@gmail.com wrote: Of course there's the option of learning to copy CW .. (; -) 73 Ken - K0PP On Feb 6, 2015 8:57 AM, Tom Blahovici tom...@videotron.ca wrote: Yes CW skimmer works great. One caveat though with listening on vfo b. Many people use the built in decoding of cw on the k3 or use software such as cwget to assist them. This only works on the main receiver so you lose that functionality. Two things would be great here. One, having decoding built into the k3 subreceiver. That would fix this when you use it like you do. Second, cw skimmer should have an option to qsy on vfo b as well. Tom va2fsq.com On Feb 6, 2015 10:06 AM, Pete Smith N4ZR n...@contesting.com wrote: CW Skimmer is a great tool for cracking the K1N pileups because it decodes the calls of folks calling as well as who just sent 599, and you can click on the relevant decoder dot to move instantly to that frequency. I'm using it with an LP-Pan in what Skimmer calls the Softrock-IF mode. One rub, though, is that the pileups are so wide that it often is not possible to go split, listen on VFO A, and transmit on the second VFO,. because Skimmer tracks VFOA and the action is too far above K1N's frequency to display on my monitor. My K3 has the separate subRX, happily, so I can invert things - listen to K1N on VFO B, while tuning up the band on VFO A looking for the last successful caller. Works amazingly well. -- 73, Pete N4ZR Check out the Reverse Beacon Network at http://reversebeacon.net, blog at reversebeacon.blogspot.com. For spots, please go to your favorite ARC V6 or VE7CC DX cluster node. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to tom...@videotron.ca __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to kengk...@gmail.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to k2vco@gmail.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to li...@subich.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] More Legendary Elecraft Service or The Turning of the Screw
A couple of days ago I reported a fall-off in output from my K3 on some bands. I wrote about this to Howard, K6IA, at Elecraft service, who wrote back and suggested that one or more of the three screws that attach the LPA board to the lower cover of the radio might have loosened. Sure enough - one of the three was 1/2 turn short of tight. Tightened it up, tested, all normal again. Ran auto TX calibration, all successful. I happy camper am. Thanks Howard! -- 73, Pete N4ZR Check out the Reverse Beacon Network at http://reversebeacon.net, blog at reversebeacon.blogspot.com. For spots, please go to your favorite ARC V6 or VE7CC DX cluster node. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] FS: K3/10 P3/SVGA
Elecraft K3/10, Serial Number 086xx, 3 months old. Fitted with 2.7kHz (5-pole), 700Hz (8-pole INRAD), and 400Hz (8-pole) filters; KXV3A Interface. Elecraft P3/SVGA, Serial Number 025xx; with SVGA adapter. Non-Smoker. Asking $2800 includes shipping CONUS. Email for additional info pictures __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] OT: CW Skimmer
I will add my two-bit opinion. CW text decode as a crutch when copying by ear also is a big negative. Whenever I am using CW Decode, my own copying by ear performance drops a bit because too much leaning and dependence on the CW decode display for my translation. I say -- if you are learning CW or wanting to improve your speed -- turn off that CW decode. 73, phil, K7PEH On Feb 6, 2015, at 11:23 AM, Joe Subich, W4TV li...@subich.com wrote: While CW Skimmer may be about spotting the guy calling ... CW Get and/or the CW text decode capability in the K3 are *certainly not* about spotting the calling station in the pile-up. Their only purpose is as a crutch for those who are either unable due to hearing loss or too lazy to learn to copy the code. 73, ... Joe, W4TV On 2015-02-06 2:01 PM, Vic Rosenthal wrote: It's not about copying CW. It's about spotting the guy a dx station is working in a 30 kHz wide pileup when a hundred other guys are calling out of turn. A human can only copy a few calls within a few kHz at the same time, while the skimmer can get all of them. Vic 4X6GP/K2VCO On Feb 6, 2015, at 7:29 PM, Ken G Kopp kengk...@gmail.com wrote: Of course there's the option of learning to copy CW .. (; -) 73 Ken - K0PP On Feb 6, 2015 8:57 AM, Tom Blahovici tom...@videotron.ca wrote: Yes CW skimmer works great. One caveat though with listening on vfo b. Many people use the built in decoding of cw on the k3 or use software such as cwget to assist them. This only works on the main receiver so you lose that functionality. Two things would be great here. One, having decoding built into the k3 subreceiver. That would fix this when you use it like you do. Second, cw skimmer should have an option to qsy on vfo b as well. Tom va2fsq.com On Feb 6, 2015 10:06 AM, Pete Smith N4ZR n...@contesting.com wrote: CW Skimmer is a great tool for cracking the K1N pileups because it decodes the calls of folks calling as well as who just sent 599, and you can click on the relevant decoder dot to move instantly to that frequency. I'm using it with an LP-Pan in what Skimmer calls the Softrock-IF mode. One rub, though, is that the pileups are so wide that it often is not possible to go split, listen on VFO A, and transmit on the second VFO,. because Skimmer tracks VFOA and the action is too far above K1N's frequency to display on my monitor. My K3 has the separate subRX, happily, so I can invert things - listen to K1N on VFO B, while tuning up the band on VFO A looking for the last successful caller. Works amazingly well. -- 73, Pete N4ZR Check out the Reverse Beacon Network at http://reversebeacon.net, blog at reversebeacon.blogspot.com. For spots, please go to your favorite ARC V6 or VE7CC DX cluster node. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to tom...@videotron.ca __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to kengk...@gmail.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to k2vco@gmail.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to li...@subich.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to phys...@mac.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email
Re: [Elecraft] A K3 Pileup Wrinkle with CW Skimmer
On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 4:38 PM, Larry Libsch llib...@bellsouth.net wrote: For those who are so disabled as to require an external crutch to copy their own call and 5NN, it is a simple matter to reverse channels in the sound card (at most it requires a reversing cable) to decode audio on the sub Receiver. Ah, the old CW snobbery! When is the notion that paddle or key generated CW is superior to software and keyer generated code going to disappear? I don't think the original comment had anything to do with generating cw. You decode RTTY with software, don't you? Yes. It was designed to be machine-decoded. CW is just another digital mode. Yes, one that was designed to be able to be decoded by ear. Software decoding has brought many new CW ops into CW DXing and contesting. Great! Software encoding is more accurate At high signal/noise levels it is perhaps as accurate. and allows many ops to achieve speeds they could never otherwise achieve. Only if they choose to not practice and improve. Perhaps you use a keyer for contesting? Many (most?) contesters do. You betcha. CW contest participation is declining. Oooh, I'd love to see your research on this one. RTTY contest participation is increasing. Great! Software is every where improving our lives. True. Time to give up on old ways and ideas and move into the future. As long as the future is an improvement - 'tisn't always so. 73, geo - n4ua K4KGG, Larry __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to n4ua...@gmail.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] A K3 Pileup Wrinkle with CW Skimmer
Ah, the old CW snobbery! I see others have answered your misinformed opinions - appropriate to someone who has never had the privilege of really learning CW or never had to prove the ability to really use international Morse. However, just one further point ... I've yet to see a machine decoder that can copy CW in noise anywhere near as well as a good CW operator. Although I am no speed deamon, I gave up on decoders years ago and only turn on the K3's Text display occasionally just to remind myself just how much of a handicap those decoders are for someone who never bothered to learn to copy by ear. The K3/X3 decoder is one of the better ones I've seen but unless one is fortunate enough to be listening to machine generated CW with at least a 10 dB signal to noise ratio ... forget about it. In that situation, one is better off using one of the newer FEC encoded data modes designed for noisy and fading HF circuits - or even traditional RTTY - as the throughput and error rate will be much better when using a modulation designed for the medium being used. 73, ... Joe, W4TV The opinions expressed are my own and do not reflect on Elecraft or any other company/association. On 2015-02-06 4:38 PM, Larry Libsch wrote: For those who are so disabled as to require an external crutch to copy their own call and 5NN, it is a simple matter to reverse channels in the sound card (at most it requires a reversing cable) to decode audio on the sub Receiver. Ah, the old CW snobbery! When is the notion that paddle or key generated CW is superior to software and keyer generated code going to disappear? You decode RTTY with software, don't you? CW is just another digital mode. Software decoding has brought many new CW ops into CW DXing and contesting. Software encoding is more accurate and allows many ops to achieve speeds they could never otherwise achieve. Perhaps you use a keyer for contesting? Many (most?) contesters do. CW contest participation is declining. RTTY contest participation is increasing. Software is every where improving our lives. Time to give up on old ways and ideas and move into the future. K4KGG, Larry __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to li...@subich.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] More Legendary Elecraft Service or The Turning of the Screw
That's an old fix for many radios Open them up and tighten down all the screws From: brian als...@nc.rr.com To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Friday, February 6, 2015 4:27 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] More Legendary Elecraft Service or The Turning of the Screw Makes you wonder how they know such seeming impossible-to-know things. Are there also magic potions and incantations available? 73 de Brian/K3KO On 2/6/2015 20:55 PM, Pete Smith N4ZR wrote: A couple of days ago I reported a fall-off in output from my K3 on some bands. I wrote about this to Howard, K6IA, at Elecraft service, who wrote back and suggested that one or more of the three screws that attach the LPA board to the lower cover of the radio might have loosened. Sure enough - one of the three was 1/2 turn short of tight. Tightened it up, tested, all normal again. Ran auto TX calibration, all successful. I happy camper am. Thanks Howard! __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to hlyin...@yahoo.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] More Legendary Elecraft Service or The Turning of the Screw
Makes you wonder how they know such seeming impossible-to-know things. Are there also magic potions and incantations available? 73 de Brian/K3KO On 2/6/2015 20:55 PM, Pete Smith N4ZR wrote: A couple of days ago I reported a fall-off in output from my K3 on some bands. I wrote about this to Howard, K6IA, at Elecraft service, who wrote back and suggested that one or more of the three screws that attach the LPA board to the lower cover of the radio might have loosened. Sure enough - one of the three was 1/2 turn short of tight. Tightened it up, tested, all normal again. Ran auto TX calibration, all successful. I happy camper am. Thanks Howard! __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] A K3 Pileup Wrinkle with CW Skimmer
Looking just at CQWW, both CW and SSB participation is increasing. SSB appears to be increasing a bit faster than CW. http://www.cqww.com/stats.htm Though I just added to the length of this thread, I expect we are getting off-topic from Elecraft equipment. I tried to add facts and no opinion, but this is my last post on this topic. wunder K6WRU CM87wj http://observer.wunderwood.org/ On Feb 6, 2015, at 1:48 PM, brian als...@nc.rr.com wrote: Please provide some references for CW contest participation is declining. My recollection from various magazines is that contest participation #'s are up for all modes ( no reference provided either). 73 de Brian/K3KO On 2/6/2015 21:38 PM, Larry Libsch wrote: For those who are so disabled as to require an external crutch to copy their own call and 5NN, it is a simple matter to reverse channels in the sound card (at most it requires a reversing cable) to decode audio on the sub Receiver. Ah, the old CW snobbery! When is the notion that paddle or key generated CW is superior to software and keyer generated code going to disappear? You decode RTTY with software, don't you? CW is just another digital mode. Software decoding has brought many new CW ops into CW DXing and contesting. Software encoding is more accurate and allows many ops to achieve speeds they could never otherwise achieve. Perhaps you use a keyer for contesting? Many (most?) contesters do. CW contest participation is declining. RTTY contest participation is increasing. Software is every where improving our lives. Time to give up on old ways and ideas and move into the future. K4KGG, Larry __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to als...@nc.rr.com - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2015.0.5646 / Virus Database: 4281/9068 - Release Date: 02/06/15 __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to wun...@wunderwood.org __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] A K3 Pileup Wrinkle with CW Skimmer
Please provide some references for CW contest participation is declining. My recollection from various magazines is that contest participation #'s are up for all modes ( no reference provided either). 73 de Brian/K3KO On 2/6/2015 21:38 PM, Larry Libsch wrote: For those who are so disabled as to require an external crutch to copy their own call and 5NN, it is a simple matter to reverse channels in the sound card (at most it requires a reversing cable) to decode audio on the sub Receiver. Ah, the old CW snobbery! When is the notion that paddle or key generated CW is superior to software and keyer generated code going to disappear? You decode RTTY with software, don't you? CW is just another digital mode. Software decoding has brought many new CW ops into CW DXing and contesting. Software encoding is more accurate and allows many ops to achieve speeds they could never otherwise achieve. Perhaps you use a keyer for contesting? Many (most?) contesters do. CW contest participation is declining. RTTY contest participation is increasing. Software is every where improving our lives. Time to give up on old ways and ideas and move into the future. K4KGG, Larry __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to als...@nc.rr.com - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2015.0.5646 / Virus Database: 4281/9068 - Release Date: 02/06/15 __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] A K3 Pileup Wrinkle with CW Skimmer
Time to close this portion of the thread. In general, arguments and statements like pro/con comments on CW operation, contesting etc are best taken elsewhere as they are way OT and outside of the list guidelines. 73, Eric Moderator for life.. (Oh No!) elecraft.com On 2/6/2015 1:38 PM, Larry Libsch wrote: For those who are so disabled as to require an external crutch to copy their own call and 5NN, it is a simple matter to reverse channels in the sound card (at most it requires a reversing cable) to decode audio on the sub Receiver. Ah, the old CW snobbery! When is the notion that paddle or key generated CW is superior to software and keyer generated code going to disappear? You decode RTTY with software, don't you? CW is just another digital mode. Software decoding has brought many new CW ops into CW DXing and contesting. Software encoding is more accurate and allows many ops to achieve speeds they could never otherwise achieve. Perhaps you use a keyer for contesting? Many (most?) contesters do. CW contest participation is declining. RTTY contest participation is increasing. Software is every where improving our lives. Time to give up on old ways and ideas and move into the future. K4KGG, Larry __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to elist_c...@elecraft.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Testing email
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Re: [Elecraft] A K3 Pileup Wrinkle with CW Skimmer
For those who are so disabled as to require an external crutch to copy their own call and 5NN, it is a simple matter to reverse channels in the sound card (at most it requires a reversing cable) to decode audio on the sub Receiver. Ah, the old CW snobbery! When is the notion that paddle or key generated CW is superior to software and keyer generated code going to disappear? You decode RTTY with software, don't you? CW is just another digital mode. Software decoding has brought many new CW ops into CW DXing and contesting. Software encoding is more accurate and allows many ops to achieve speeds they could never otherwise achieve. Perhaps you use a keyer for contesting? Many (most?) contesters do. CW contest participation is declining. RTTY contest participation is increasing. Software is every where improving our lives. Time to give up on old ways and ideas and move into the future. K4KGG, Larry __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] More Legendary Elecraft Service or The Turning of the Screw
I had a fellow bring an R-390 to me.. that he said he had tightened all the screws up.. they were loose and sticking up, way above the cans they were supposed to be holding down when he turned it back on.. it couldn't hear any more.. can't be much.. he had just gotten everything tightened up. ... ... (this is the silent period, while I figure out exactly what to say next) ... .. .. .. .. .. .. ... It looks like it has been very well cared for. (...i.e. the case was clean He left it with me... It lived on my workbench for a lotta months.. before it finally went home... ... I wasn't real nice... I'd dripped wax on every tuning adj I could find... told him they were sealed now.. that they couldn't more now.. and they were exactly were they were supposed to be to hold the cans in perfect alignment. Left it with that. He thanked me.. and left with the R-390. I was really happy to see it go.. Have a great day, --... ...-- Dale - WC7S in Wy Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 19:54:05 -0800 From: k2...@kanafi.org To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] More Legendary Elecraft Service or The Turning of the Screw On 2/6/2015 3:36 PM, Harry Yingst via Elecraft wrote: That's an old fix for many radios Open them up and tighten down all the screws Unless they are on trimmers or in IF cans. :) 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to daleput...@hotmail.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] More Legendary Elecraft Service or The Turning of the Screw
On 2/6/2015 3:36 PM, Harry Yingst via Elecraft wrote: That's an old fix for many radios Open them up and tighten down all the screws Unless they are on trimmers or in IF cans. :) 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] CW for those with Poor Hearing
Like Fred my hearing loss is associated to my military career, from standing near V2 and other large rocket firings at WSPG and a 4' lanyard firing of a 120 mm AA gun, to the firing of very adjacent 155mm howitzers, and other very loud noises etc. However when later doing very weak signal detection, while operating 2M EME, I discovered, by accident and experience, that, good passive external sound prevention, could easily be obtained with just good headphone earmuffs. Even an old fashioned ringer bell telephone, at my elbow, couldn't be heard. I also found that my sweet spot audio frequency was about 400 Hz, with no ringing, even with an Autek 1A external audio filter, cranked down to about 25 Hz BW. The cheapest RS headphones (Nova 10), also had a mechanical resonance at about 400 Hz. When all was aligned up at the 400 Hz sweet spot, the signal just seemed to jump out of the noise ! Easily 10 to 20 dB below the residual noise level, very comparable to what today is claimed by JT65 and other digital techniques . Chuck, W7CS __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] More Legendary Elecraft Service or The Turning of the Screw
Not a good idea for the screws sticking out of capacitors and transformers. Willis 'Cookie' Cooke,TDXS Contest Chairman K5EWJ Trustee N5BPS From: Harry Yingst via Elecraft elecraft@mailman.qth.net To: brian als...@nc.rr.com; elecraft@mailman.qth.net elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Friday, February 6, 2015 5:36 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] More Legendary Elecraft Service or The Turning of the Screw That's an old fix for many radios Open them up and tighten down all the screws From: brian als...@nc.rr.com To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Friday, February 6, 2015 4:27 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] More Legendary Elecraft Service or The Turning of the Screw Makes you wonder how they know such seeming impossible-to-know things. Are there also magic potions and incantations available? 73 de Brian/K3KO On 2/6/2015 20:55 PM, Pete Smith N4ZR wrote: A couple of days ago I reported a fall-off in output from my K3 on some bands. I wrote about this to Howard, K6IA, at Elecraft service, who wrote back and suggested that one or more of the three screws that attach the LPA board to the lower cover of the radio might have loosened. Sure enough - one of the three was 1/2 turn short of tight. Tightened it up, tested, all normal again. Ran auto TX calibration, all successful. I happy camper am. Thanks Howard! __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to hlyin...@yahoo.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to wrco...@yahoo.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] CW for those with Poor Hearing
This is a fascinating remark, because I recently noted that I could copy a weak signal in the middle of a lot of noise better by holding the phones in my hand with the ear cushions together and putting the cushions up to my ears. Something is going on here that is worth pursuing. On 6 Feb 2015 04:47, Fred Jensen wrote: Many years ago, while a high school senior with a part-time relief op job at a coastal marine station, the OT's taught me that when the noise on the Holy Frequency was really bad, lay the cans on the desk. Somehow, this lowers the noise and not the signal. The VA has given me some very good hearing aids, they don'w work under the headphones, but using them with the headphones on the desk does often improve the SNR of very weak signals. -- 73, Vic, 4X6GP/K2VCO Rehovot, Israel http://www.qsl.net/k2vco/ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Backpacking and the KX3
Do a quick search. Lots of threads on backpacking, power sources, cases, antennas and SOTA activations. -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/Backpacking-and-the-KX3-tp7597965p7597966.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] A K3 Pileup Wrinkle with CW Skimmer
Yes CW skimmer works great. One caveat though with listening on vfo b. Many people use the built in decoding of cw on the k3 or use software such as cwget to assist them. This only works on the main receiver so you lose that functionality. Two things would be great here. One, having decoding built into the k3 subreceiver. That would fix this when you use it like you do. Second, cw skimmer should have an option to qsy on vfo b as well. Tom va2fsq.com On Feb 6, 2015 10:06 AM, Pete Smith N4ZR n...@contesting.com wrote: CW Skimmer is a great tool for cracking the K1N pileups because it decodes the calls of folks calling as well as who just sent 599, and you can click on the relevant decoder dot to move instantly to that frequency. I'm using it with an LP-Pan in what Skimmer calls the Softrock-IF mode. One rub, though, is that the pileups are so wide that it often is not possible to go split, listen on VFO A, and transmit on the second VFO,. because Skimmer tracks VFOA and the action is too far above K1N's frequency to display on my monitor. My K3 has the separate subRX, happily, so I can invert things - listen to K1N on VFO B, while tuning up the band on VFO A looking for the last successful caller. Works amazingly well. -- 73, Pete N4ZR Check out the Reverse Beacon Network at http://reversebeacon.net, blog at reversebeacon.blogspot.com. For spots, please go to your favorite ARC V6 or VE7CC DX cluster node. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to tom...@videotron.ca __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Backpacking and the KX3
Hi Joshua, This is one of the primary uses we had in mind for the KX3. If you include the internal ATU and battery and the attached keyer paddle, it's fully self-contained -- just add antenna wire. If you also want to minimize the size of your mic, try one of these (or similar): http://www.miniinthebox.com/3-5mm-mini-microphone-for-laptop-pc_p169034.html This will plug directly into the KX3's mic jack. For PTT you can use the XMIT switch, which is right next to the mic jack. Or you can use VOX. For antennas, assuming you have trees or other ad-hoc supports available, you can use a random-length wire for both the antenna and ground. Toss one wire in a tree (etc.) and lay the other on the ground. The KXAT3 ATU will tune a 25' or so wire on 40 meters and up. Use twice that length to also get down to 80 and 60 m. You can connect the wires to a BNC-to-binding post adapter, like our model #BNC-BP. For wire, I recommend #26 Silky from the Wireman. To maximize battery life, turn the LCD backlight off when not needed, and use stereo headphones rather than the internal speaker. Ear buds work great, and since they're stereo, you'll also be able to use the radio's audio effects and dual watch (dual RX). Dual RX is great for QRP because you can be listening to one station--waiting for them to sign--while tuning around looking for others. (QRP emphasizes listening over transmitting.) This station will weight about two pounds, or a bit more if you carry a set of spare batteries. 73, Wayne N6KR On Feb 6, 2015, at 5:56 AM, Joshua Gould jg.k8...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone taken your KX3 on a backpacking trip? I'm looking for tips as this was part of the reason that I chose the KX3 and not some other base rig. I will be hopefully getting back into backpacking and will be looking forward to using the KX3 trail side... Thanks in advance! 73, Joshua Gould K8WXA EM89pn __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to n...@elecraft.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] A K3 Pileup Wrinkle with CW Skimmer
I use it this way too, and agree it is very helpful. I wish there were a way to either expand or contract the frequency range displayed sort of like Rocky does to be able to get the big picture first and then home in in a more detailed search. 73, Ken, NU4I -Original Message- From: Elecraft [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Pete Smith N4ZR Sent: Friday, February 06, 2015 10:07 AM To: elecraft List Subject: [Elecraft] A K3 Pileup Wrinkle with CW Skimmer CW Skimmer is a great tool for cracking the K1N pileups because it decodes the calls of folks calling as well as who just sent 599, and you can click on the relevant decoder dot to move instantly to that frequency. I'm using it with an LP-Pan in what Skimmer calls the Softrock-IF mode. One rub, though, is that the pileups are so wide that it often is not possible to go split, listen on VFO A, and transmit on the second VFO,. because Skimmer tracks VFOA and the action is too far above K1N's frequency to display on my monitor. My K3 has the separate subRX, happily, so I can invert things - listen to K1N on VFO B, while tuning up the band on VFO A looking for the last successful caller. Works amazingly well. -- 73, Pete N4ZR Check out the Reverse Beacon Network at http://reversebeacon.net, blog at reversebeacon.blogspot.com. For spots, please go to your favorite ARC V6 or VE7CC DX cluster node. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to n...@cox.net __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Somewhat boring K3 firmware release ready for easily amused field testers
Hi all, I freely admit it: this K3 field-test firmware (rev. 5.10) has nothing but minor changes and bug fixes. Ho-hum at best. But, like any firmware release, it still needs dedicated testing in battlefield conditions to make sure I haven't caused any embarrassing side effects. Are you ready to accept a challenge with no reward other than stability? If so, please email me directly. I'll take the first 10 selfless volunteers dedicated to this noble if underwhelming cause. Wayne N6KR __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Backpacking and the KX3
Has anyone taken your KX3 on a backpacking trip? I'm looking for tips as this was part of the reason that I chose the KX3 and not some other base rig. I will be hopefully getting back into backpacking and will be looking forward to using the KX3 trail side... Thanks in advance! 73, Joshua Gould K8WXA EM89pn __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Finally pulled the trigger on a KX3
I just ordered my KX3. I have a few things to get before it shows up, but it has been ordered and will be shipped to my place of business. Now I have a different type of impatient waiting... 73, Joshua Gould K8WXA EM89pn __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] s meter reading with sub receiver
On 2/5/2015 10:42 PM, RIchard Williams wrote: John, Yes, just push and hold the BSet button (the number 1 on the keypad). The main VFO will now say b SEt, and the S meter is reading the sub receiver (also make sure the sub receiver is turned on to do this). Dick, K8ZTT *From:* John McBee jrmc...@cox.net *To:* elecraft@mailman.qth.net *Sent:* Thursday, February 5, 2015 5:59 PM *Subject:* [Elecraft] s meter reading with sub receiver Is there a way to see the S meter reading for the sub receiver? I've been looking thru the manual and cann't find it. I thought I have read somewhere about dual S meter's. Any help would be great or let me know what page in manual it is on. Thanks John __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net http://www.qsl.net/ Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to richarddw1...@yahoo.com mailto:richarddw1...@yahoo.com Okay Thanks Don. I will try that. Thanks JOhn __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] A K3 Pileup Wrinkle with CW Skimmer
CW Skimmer is a great tool for cracking the K1N pileups because it decodes the calls of folks calling as well as who just sent 599, and you can click on the relevant decoder dot to move instantly to that frequency. I'm using it with an LP-Pan in what Skimmer calls the Softrock-IF mode. One rub, though, is that the pileups are so wide that it often is not possible to go split, listen on VFO A, and transmit on the second VFO,. because Skimmer tracks VFOA and the action is too far above K1N's frequency to display on my monitor. My K3 has the separate subRX, happily, so I can invert things - listen to K1N on VFO B, while tuning up the band on VFO A looking for the last successful caller. Works amazingly well. -- 73, Pete N4ZR Check out the Reverse Beacon Network at http://reversebeacon.net, blog at reversebeacon.blogspot.com. For spots, please go to your favorite ARC V6 or VE7CC DX cluster node. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] OT: CW Skimmer
Of course there's the option of learning to copy CW .. (; -) 73 Ken - K0PP On Feb 6, 2015 8:57 AM, Tom Blahovici tom...@videotron.ca wrote: Yes CW skimmer works great. One caveat though with listening on vfo b. Many people use the built in decoding of cw on the k3 or use software such as cwget to assist them. This only works on the main receiver so you lose that functionality. Two things would be great here. One, having decoding built into the k3 subreceiver. That would fix this when you use it like you do. Second, cw skimmer should have an option to qsy on vfo b as well. Tom va2fsq.com On Feb 6, 2015 10:06 AM, Pete Smith N4ZR n...@contesting.com wrote: CW Skimmer is a great tool for cracking the K1N pileups because it decodes the calls of folks calling as well as who just sent 599, and you can click on the relevant decoder dot to move instantly to that frequency. I'm using it with an LP-Pan in what Skimmer calls the Softrock-IF mode. One rub, though, is that the pileups are so wide that it often is not possible to go split, listen on VFO A, and transmit on the second VFO,. because Skimmer tracks VFOA and the action is too far above K1N's frequency to display on my monitor. My K3 has the separate subRX, happily, so I can invert things - listen to K1N on VFO B, while tuning up the band on VFO A looking for the last successful caller. Works amazingly well. -- 73, Pete N4ZR Check out the Reverse Beacon Network at http://reversebeacon.net, blog at reversebeacon.blogspot.com. For spots, please go to your favorite ARC V6 or VE7CC DX cluster node. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to tom...@videotron.ca __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to kengk...@gmail.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] A K3 Pileup Wrinkle with CW Skimmer
One caveat though with listening on vfo b. Many people use the built in decoding of cw on the k3 or use software such as cwget to assist them. This only works on the main receiver so you lose that functionality. For those who are so disabled as to require an external crutch to copy their own call and 5NN, it is a simple matter to reverse channels in the sound card (at most it requires a reversing cable) to decode audio on the sub Receiver. Properly designed software will provide the ability to select Left or Right channel audio - that means simply clicking a radio box to choose Main or Sub Rx. 73, ... Joe, W4TV On 2015-02-06 10:57 AM, Tom Blahovici wrote: Yes CW skimmer works great. One caveat though with listening on vfo b. Many people use the built in decoding of cw on the k3 or use software such as cwget to assist them. This only works on the main receiver so you lose that functionality. Two things would be great here. One, having decoding built into the k3 subreceiver. That would fix this when you use it like you do. Second, cw skimmer should have an option to qsy on vfo b as well. Tom va2fsq.com On Feb 6, 2015 10:06 AM, Pete Smith N4ZR n...@contesting.com wrote: CW Skimmer is a great tool for cracking the K1N pileups because it decodes the calls of folks calling as well as who just sent 599, and you can click on the relevant decoder dot to move instantly to that frequency. I'm using it with an LP-Pan in what Skimmer calls the Softrock-IF mode. One rub, though, is that the pileups are so wide that it often is not possible to go split, listen on VFO A, and transmit on the second VFO,. because Skimmer tracks VFOA and the action is too far above K1N's frequency to display on my monitor. My K3 has the separate subRX, happily, so I can invert things - listen to K1N on VFO B, while tuning up the band on VFO A looking for the last successful caller. Works amazingly well. -- 73, Pete N4ZR Check out the Reverse Beacon Network at http://reversebeacon.net, blog at reversebeacon.blogspot.com. For spots, please go to your favorite ARC V6 or VE7CC DX cluster node. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to tom...@videotron.ca __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to li...@subich.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] A K3 Pileup Wrinkle with CW Skimmer
This isn't actually true. You can configure OmniRig to treat the K3 VFOs as two separate rigs and open two windows of CW Skimmer to monitor each. I haven't used mine that way for a couple of years so I can't readily explain the details, but I've done it before and it works fine. It shouldn't be difficult for anyone to duplicate it. 73, Dave AB7E On 2/6/2015 8:57 AM, Tom Blahovici wrote: Yes CW skimmer works great. One caveat though with listening on vfo b. Many people use the built in decoding of cw on the k3 or use software such as cwget to assist them. This only works on the main receiver so you lose that functionality. Two things would be great here. One, having decoding built into the k3 subreceiver. That would fix this when you use it like you do. Second, cw skimmer should have an option to qsy on vfo b as well. Tom va2fsq.com On Feb 6, 2015 10:06 AM, Pete Smith N4ZR n...@contesting.com wrote: CW Skimmer is a great tool for cracking the K1N pileups because it decodes the calls of folks calling as well as who just sent 599, and you can click on the relevant decoder dot to move instantly to that frequency. I'm using it with an LP-Pan in what Skimmer calls the Softrock-IF mode. One rub, though, is that the pileups are so wide that it often is not possible to go split, listen on VFO A, and transmit on the second VFO,. because Skimmer tracks VFOA and the action is too far above K1N's frequency to display on my monitor. My K3 has the separate subRX, happily, so I can invert things - listen to K1N on VFO B, while tuning up the band on VFO A looking for the last successful caller. Works amazingly well. -- 73, Pete N4ZR Check out the Reverse Beacon Network at http://reversebeacon.net, blog at reversebeacon.blogspot.com. For spots, please go to your favorite ARC V6 or VE7CC DX cluster node. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to tom...@videotron.ca __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to xda...@cis-broadband.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] OT: CW Skimmer
It is less about copying code and more about spotting, Ken. ;) -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/OT-CW-Skimmer-tp7597973p7597975.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
