Re: [Elecraft] Beware of junk mail: "four pictures to you from Elecraft List"
On 1/2/2024 6:10 PM, Pete Smith N4ZR wrote: Tbird is what I have used for years. Same here. It's very well designed software. That ability to see the raw code in an email can be helpful with issues like this. 73, Jim K9YC __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Beware of junk mail: "four pictures to you from Elecraft List"
Tbird is what I have used for years. 73, Pete N4ZR On 1/2/2024 6:24 PM, Alan D. Wilcox wrote: Thunderbird has a useful feature: View->Message Source If anything questionable comes in, I can check the source without opening the email and triggering . Cheers, Alan Alan D. Wilcox, W3DVX (K3S-10457, SKCC 22955) 570-916-9590 (cell, text) https://WilcoxEngineering.com http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/6768 ... Elecraft Client Comments http://amazon.com/author/alandwilcox Williamsport, PA 17701 On 1/2/24 17:26, Pete Smith N4ZR wrote: This underlines how important it is to use an e-mail program that displays the originating address. That "you've won a ..." e-mail from a major retailer is quickly revealed to be from some obscure address (not Home Depot or Walmart, after all). A couple of days ago, I received a message purportedly from a relative of my sister-in-law, who passed away last fall. Happily, the originating address was a giveaway - "Amanda Rosman ". 73, Pete N4ZR On 1/2/2024 4:13 PM, Dave wrote: I don't know if anyone else on the Elecraft list is receiving this nonsense, but I have reported it for enforcement action to the UK Government reporting centre. 73 Dave G4AON __ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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] Beware of junk mail: "four pictures to you from Elecraft List"
The email address means little. Email systems will accept whatever you type in. What's more meaningful is the originating IP address. That's hard to fake. Most mailers have a "show headers" feature so you can see all the machines that the email passed through. - Jerry, KF6VB On 2024-01-02 14:26, Pete Smith N4ZR wrote: This underlines how important it is to use an e-mail program that displays the originating address. That "you've won a ..." e-mail from a major retailer is quickly revealed to be from some obscure address (not Home Depot or Walmart, after all). A couple of days ago, I received a message purportedly from a relative of my sister-in-law, who passed away last fall. Happily, the originating address was a giveaway - "Amanda Rosman ". 73, Pete N4ZR On 1/2/2024 4:13 PM, Dave wrote: I don't know if anyone else on the Elecraft list is receiving this nonsense, but I have reported it for enforcement action to the UK Government reporting centre. 73 Dave G4AON __ Elecraft mailing list Home:http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help:http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post:mailto: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 topete.n...@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 je...@tr2.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] KAT-500 + KPA-500 / SWR Thresholds
If it was easy, then anyone could do it. On 1/2/2024 8:52 AM, G4GNX wrote: Why battle against the inevitable, rather than use a band that’s more appropriate for the time of day? Unless of course, all bands are dead - then we’re all screwed. 73, Alan - G4GNX South Coast UK Elecraft K4D / KPA500 / KAT500 / IC-9700 __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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] Beware of junk mail: "four pictures to you from Elecraft List"
This underlines how important it is to use an e-mail program that displays the originating address. That "you've won a ..." e-mail from a major retailer is quickly revealed to be from some obscure address (not Home Depot or Walmart, after all). A couple of days ago, I received a message purportedly from a relative of my sister-in-law, who passed away last fall. Happily, the originating address was a giveaway - "Amanda Rosman ". 73, Pete N4ZR On 1/2/2024 4:13 PM, Dave wrote: I don't know if anyone else on the Elecraft list is receiving this nonsense, but I have reported it for enforcement action to the UK Government reporting centre. 73 Dave G4AON __ Elecraft mailing list Home:http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help:http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post:mailto: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 topete.n...@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
[Elecraft] Beware of junk mail: "four pictures to you from Elecraft List"
I don't know if anyone else on the Elecraft list is receiving this nonsense, but I have reported it for enforcement action to the UK Government reporting centre. 73 Dave G4AON __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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] KAT-500 + KPA-500 / SWR Thresholds
Why battle against the inevitable, rather than use a band that’s more appropriate for the time of day? Unless of course, all bands are dead - then we’re all screwed. 73, Alan - G4GNX South Coast UK Elecraft K4D / KPA500 / KAT500 / IC-9700 > On 2 Jan 2024, at 15:12, Andy Durbin wrote: > > > "Presumably it has some very sophisticated detection that can tell if a > frequency is in use?" > > My auto trainer function is only used on 160 m and 80 m and only during the > day when I expect the bands to be dead and as confirmed by the panadapter. > It doesn't need a detection system any more sophisticated than a mark one > eyeball. > > My problem on 160 and 80 is not that I will cause QRM. My problem is > radiating a signal strong enough to make a QSO. > > Andy, k3wyc __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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] Fw: KAT-500 + KPA-500 / SWR Thresholds
"Presumably it has some very sophisticated detection that can tell if a frequency is in use?" My auto trainer function is only used on 160 m and 80 m and only during the day when I expect the bands to be dead and as confirmed by the panadapter. It doesn't need a detection system any more sophisticated than a mark one eyeball. My problem on 160 and 80 is not that I will cause QRM. My problem is radiating a signal strong enough to make a QSO. Andy, k3wyc __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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] Check your rig (was KAT-500 + KPA-500 / SWR Thresholds)
*I know your issue is resolved* but this MIGHT help some people using an IC7300 with the KAT. I had a "kinda" similar problem where the ATU would always tune if I changed bands. I had programmed the computer to send the new freq, then a "memory tune" to the tuner if I switched bands, so I could always "instant QSY" but it turns out there was a setting on the RIG that was telling rig to activate the tuner to tune every time I QSYed more than a certain amount. It was called "PTT Start" and was turned "ON" which means if frequency moves more than 1% then tune next time PTT is pushed. It took lots of frustration to finally find this issue. After turning that off, the KAT happily memory tunes to the frequency I send it and I can call a station with no tuning. Tom N4LSJ On 1/1/24 19:46, Jeff Wandling wrote: Thanks. That's good detail. I'll recheck the manual once more. I made a common mistake of assuming too much and not reading enough. I have tremendous respect and faith in the engineering put into the system of the Elecraft line.. That's a long way of saying, It works brilliantly. I just want to avoid a mistake in where the ATU-500 and KPA-500 are trying to resolve a tune whilst the CW spews forth. This comment and the prior comment about the Kenwood aspect (and related command-set mentioned) are interesting. Thanks. Aside from all that -- when folks here use the "SWR Thresholds" and use the K3+KAT+KPA chain via Aux Serial data sharing -- what do you use for the three metrics in SWR Thresholds? There's a KPA Inhibit SWR, Re-tune SWR and Bypass SWR value. The recommended values in the manuals seem frightfully high for my nerves to handle. Any advice on *that* would be welcomed. HNY, Thanks. --- 73, Jeff W7BRS https://blog.w7brs.com On Monday, January 1st, 2024 at 4:37 PM, G4GNX wrote: AFAICR the manual says that if an AUX cable is connected between the KAT500 and the radio, the KAT500 will follow any frequency/band change and if a tuning solution has already been stored for that frequency/band it will be employed before the radio goes into TX. In other words, whilst the radio is still in RX mode. However, elsewhere in the manual it says that when the KAT500 receives RF, it will also pickup the nearest tuning solution, which is a fail-safe action in case the KAT500 does not receive data from the radio, for any reason. This is only if the radio is a K3, K3S or K4 and if a KPA500 is in use, RF from it is sent to the KAT500 but the AUX cable must be connected AFTER the KAT500. i.e. K3———KAT500———KPA500. I make no comment about using the KAT500 with a Kenwood (or other) rig. 73, Alan - G4GNX South Coast UK Elecraft K4D / KPA500 / KAT500 / IC-9700 On 1 Jan 2024, at 21:56, Andy Durbin a.dur...@msn.com wrote: "> How does your KAT500 know what frequency to use? Does it have a serial data interface or does it depend only on the internal RF counter? W7BRS> AUX cable between K3 to KAT-500 and KAT-500 to KPA-500. They are in serial communication per Elecraft protcol(s), whatever those are. What KAT500 mode (AUTO, MAN, BYP) is selected when you observe this anomaly? W7BRS> Per manual for KAT-500/KPA-500 the stated "nominal" mode is MAN. So I leave the KAT-500 in MAN after tuning the antenna to 1.1." Your problem sounded a bit like the conflict between serial data frequency and RF count when operating near a "bin" boundary. However, my only experience with that problem is with Kenwood rigs using serial data to provide frequency to KAT500. I have no experience with AUXBus. For Kenwood owners one solution was to use the FDT command to desensitize the RF counter so serial data frequency always had priority. The command description implies it is equally applicable to AUXBus so may be worth experimenting. "FDT Frequency Counter Distance for Retune GET format: FDT; SET/RESPONSE format: FDT nn; where nn is the distance, in kHz, between the current ATU frequency and the most recent TX frequency count for the ATU to change ATU settings to the new frequency. The value is between 0 (interpreted as the default of 10 kHz) thru 65535, which disables ATU tuning based on frequency count. This is intended for customers that prefer the KAT500 only follow the frequency provided by a serial port command or the K3/K3S/K4 AUXBUS, or select a minimum distance between current ATU frequency and a newly counted frequency. FDT was introduced in firmware version 01.99." Andy, k3wyc __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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 j...@w7brs.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home:
Re: [Elecraft] KAT-500 + KPA-500 / SWR Thresholds
I did not say that you can’t train in manual mode. I said AUTO should only be used for training - not for normal operation. I really hope that your one button push takes account of other users on the band when you’re training. Presumably it has some very sophisticated detection that can tell if a frequency is in use? 73, Alan - G4GNX South Coast UK Elecraft K4D / KPA500 / KAT500 / IC-9700 >> On 2 Jan 2024, at 02:33, Andy Durbin wrote: >> >> "One thing I forgot. The KAT500 should only be in AUTO mode when you’re >> actually training it." >> >> Training a KAT500 does not require it to be in AUTO mode. I NEVER put my >> KAT500 in AUTO mode and I can auto train a complete band with one button >> push. >> >> Andy, k3wyc >> > __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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] Using a RSP1a as a Panadapter
Andy, I used an SDR for a while and found it more trouble than it was worth imho. I just wanted something to work without any fuss so I splurged and picked up the P3. No regrets at all. Hope that helps. -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net On Behalf Of Andy Durbin Sent: Tuesday, January 2, 2024 7:25 AM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: [Elecraft] Using a RSP1a as a Panadapter "I see some people are using HDSDR software - I did try installing that, but it insists on using OmniRig v2, whereas my Logging program (Log4OM) and WSJT-X use OmniRig v1.1 and I'm not sure I can make the swap to Omnirig 2." I use an RSP with OmniRig 1.20 and HDSDR 2.76a. Support for OmniRig 1 was removed in HDSDR 2.80. The combination makes a very useful panadapter and I find it unfortunate that the original OmniRig is no longer supported. Andy, k3wyc __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to je...@carolinaheli.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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] Using a RSP1a as a Panadapter
"I see some people are using HDSDR software - I did try installing that, but it insists on using OmniRig v2, whereas my Logging program (Log4OM) and WSJT-X use OmniRig v1.1 and I'm not sure I can make the swap to Omnirig 2." I use an RSP with OmniRig 1.20 and HDSDR 2.76a. Support for OmniRig 1 was removed in HDSDR 2.80. The combination makes a very useful panadapter and I find it unfortunate that the original OmniRig is no longer supported. Andy, k3wyc __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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] Using a RSP1a as a Panadapter
Dear Elecrafters, Again, I am late to the party. Santa brought me a SDRPlay RSP1a SDR which I had hoped to use as an IF panadapter for my K3/10. Unfortunately this isn't going as well as I hoped. I don't seem to be able to get proper panadapter function using the SDRUno software - it's perhaps no accident that although the company produce videos about setting a panadapter they are effectively second receivers using the antenna input, rather than the IF output. I know I could go down this route by looping the RX our RX in sockets with a tap for panadapter input, but I had hoped to use the IF out. I see some people are using HDSDR software - I did try installing that, but it insists on using OmniRig v2, whereas my Logging program (Log4OM) and WSJT-X use OmniRig v1.1 and I'm not sure I can make the swap to Omnirig 2. Are there users who have some experience of this who can help? I know the obvious answer is to source a P3, but getting a P3 from the Us which starts out at say USD 750 is likely to set me back close to USD 1000 because of freight costs and taxes by the time it's in my shack in Dublin. Happy New Year to all. 73, Paul EI5KI __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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
