Re: [Elecraft] RES: Yamaha CM500
Hector, I too love my CM-500 but then I set the RX EQ to suit and I don't have a 'collection' of headsets...certainly would not waste money on Heil gear...too rich for my blood and they are not real robust. Also found with the Heil stuff you have to do some serious adjustment on the TX EQ which would make microphone changes cumbersome. I have settings now that enable me to use an old Turner +3 on the front panel and CM-500 on the rear. I am told there is little to no difference in audio from those who know my rather terrible voice. I was not blessed with broadcast quality vocal chords...:-) Now my XYL (this is strange) has a great voice for HF and everyone who chats with her comments on the audio and tell her she sounds better than the OM...:-(...now that does suck!!! The settings you sent me way back when Hector work great for me, well done with your testing back in the early days..My CM-500 is a definite keeper. Thanks again Hector for your posts on the reflector, always fun to read and I often learn just a little bit more. 73's Gary Jennie (VK4JLG) On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Hector Padron ad4c2...@yahoo.com wrote: Ok,then because you don't like and I love it,do you want to sell it to me ? AD4C If freedom means something,it is the right to tell others what they don't want to hear –George Orwell --- On Mon, 1/10/11, ab2tc ab...@arrl.net wrote: From: ab2tc ab...@arrl.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] RES: Yamaha CM500 To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Monday, January 10, 2011, 8:38 PM Hello again, I am not talking about anything above 2700Hz at all. With my receive bandpass set to 300-2700Hz the CM-500 sound definitely muffled compared to any other headphones I have. Yes, I could compensate with the EQ, but then it would be unuseable with any other headphones I have since there is no macro support to quickly change the RX EQ settings quickly. Until that happens the CM-500 stays shelved in my shack. AB2TC - Knut AD4C2009 wrote: Lack of highs? Not mine,besides,does any ham transmit today with more than 4000Hz at the high end? answer is NO,most of them are below 3000Hz,at that freq ANY headset will response well.Also I injected an audio generator to my CM-500 from 20 to 5000Hz and I heard the tone from 60(my ears) all the way up to 5000Hz with same level,I don't see why they has lack of highs.Besides the K3 has an excellent RX EQ and you can tailor the received audio to your personal taste so If you think it has too much lows,then cut them up with it. I have been using those Yamaha for more than a year and for me they sound as well as ANY other headset. Maybe some users feel bad because they are cheap compared with Heil, Senhisser,and others. AD4C snip -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/Yamaha-CM500-tp5750572p5908494.html Sent from the [HAM] 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679, P3 #546 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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/RigExpert TI-5
Amen Don, you just hit the nail right on the head. I struggled with an interface box and set it aside and got the K3/PC hookup working and never did bother with the interface box after that as I found the current setup does it all. KISS is the Portable Operators 'Bible' for me now..:-) 73''s Gary On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Don Wilhelm w3...@embarqmail.com wrote: Joe, My apologies to your products, but I have been a long and strong believer in the KISS principle. Keep It Simple Stupid. Yes, there are accessories that make things more usable, but at the expense of simplicity. Every device added to the combination of things to put a signal on the air adds to the complexity of the entire setup. And that added complexity adds to the number of devices that can fail, and adds exponentially to the number of setup combinations that are possible - some combinations will work, others will almost work, and a lot of other combinations result in requests for help here on the Elecraft reflector. None of those combinations are a K3 problem, but are a result of the complexity of the various components in the users station setup. Since the K3 does support digital modes direct from a computer soundcard, it would be prudent IMHO for users to try that combination first before committing to the extra features afforded by an external interface box. In two cases in the last two days, we have encountered problems on this reflector where the user of an external interface box had problems because the audio levels presented to the K3 were at microphone level instead of line level - simply because the interface box manufacturer did not consider that any transceiver would be using line level inputs. Your Microham interface boxes may give consideration to line level input (I don't know one way or the other), but many do not even consider anything other than mic level input. I am not targeting the Microham products, but am simply indicating that many digital interface boxes do not consider line level audio input to the transceiver. Again with the KISS principle, the more functions that are placed in the interface box, the more complex the entire station operation becomes. Once properly set up, it can be a benefit, but for those who are initially venturing into digital modes, the variety of setup tools and menus for a particular interface box can be overwhelming. This is not a K3 problem. Set things up using the simplest connections possible, and determine that the K3 works. Then add the interface box - if it does not work, then it should be obvious that some setup parameter for the interface box is the problem and the user should direct his questions to the interface box reflector and not bring implications that the K3 is faulty. 73, Don W3FPR On 1/9/2011 8:06 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote: In other words (for those using a K3), an additional soundcard may be a better solution than one of the Digital Interface boxes. That depends entirely on the feature set the user needs. 1) The K3 can not switch between soundcard input and microphone input based on PTT source to support DVK from logging software 2) The K3 can not automatically control band switching in an Icom PW-1 or other CI-V compatible accessories. 3) The K3 does not have a keyer compatible with the three major contest loggers and several major day to day loggers. I'm sure I can come up with two or three more features if pressed. In any case, dismissing the digital interfaces rather than helping K3 users make their equipment coexist properly is rather short sighted. 73, ... Joe Subich, W4TV microHAM America, LLC. http://www.microHAM-USA.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/microHAM On 1/9/2011 7:29 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote: Bob, Your assertion that one does not have to use the normal computer soundcard is well received. BUT there is no need to use one of the Digital Interfaces just to get the soundcard function. There are plenty of external soundcards available at less cost than the digital interfaces, and for those with desktop computers, adding an internal soundcard (in addition to the normal Windows soundcard) is an easy thing to do. Most applications will let you select which soundcard should be used. In other words (for those using a K3), an additional soundcard may be a better solution than one of the Digital Interface boxes. 73, Don W3FPR On 1/9/2011 6:59 PM, Bob Naumann wrote: The TI-5 has a USB sound card in it. The idea is so you don't have to interfere with your normal computer's sound card. I have a TI-5 and it works nicely - although I do FSK RTTY so the transmit levels are not something I have to mess with. 73, Bob W5OV -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Tony Estep Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2011 2:50 PM To: Elecraft Subject:
Re: [Elecraft] let's see
Depends on whether you want to buy a Status Symbol or whether you want a great portable, DX and CW rig that is at the top of the list for contesters and DXpeditions alike. Hmmm...now that's a no brainer in my book...I certainly don't miss my FTdx-9000D in any way whatsoever. But there are those in this world with a love of Cockpit Lights in the shack, money is not a consideration, desire for a Big radio is strong but performance is not at the very top of their priority list. The argument for and against each of these radios, and you could add the IC-7800 into the mix as well, has been thrashed out here before...bit like that Ol question what's the best radio money can buy? Guess that's just another example of a great hobby that suits so many different styles/type of operating be it contesting, rag chewing, particular mode, particular band and so the list goes on and on. I have owned some GOOD radios from each of the Big 3 JA factories and each time I thought I was happy but after the shine wore off the receipt the shortcomings started to annoy me somewhat so the search for that perfect rig resumed. Nearly 3 years ago now I found the K3 and times have been great and the receipt has long faded so I can't see the price anymore but the enjoyment of the K3 remains and appears to grow stronger every time I twirl a knob and tap a couple of buttons as I play radio. To my way of thinking this is what the hobby means to me...ENJOYMENT and RELAXATION and USING my radio, the rest of it just fades into the background these days. TEHO 73's Gary On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Jack Brindle jackbrin...@earthlink.net wrote: $7500 for a K3? Maybe that for two K3s? Jack Brindle, W6FB On Jan 6, 2011, at 5:17 PM, tony rowland wrote: now let's see how this work's out. k-3 w/ all bells and whistles vs dx ft9000mp weight 98 lbs.vs what about 10? cost north of 13,.00 usd around what 7500.oo usd for a full blown k-3. buttons i don't have a clue as to what they do. if i put it together i have a good idea how it work's. power 13.5 volt k-3 may need to rewire your shack. dx ft 9000mp clear winner the k-3 IMHO s/tony rowland __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679, P3 #546 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] ON4UN has a K3?
Absolutely True. 73's Gary On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Tommy Alderman alderm...@windstream.net wrote: Oh Bill -- there you go again! Selling yourself short. I feel quite sure I am not alone in saying that the three ham operators who are always worth listening to are W8JI, ON4UN, AND W4ZV! The collective knowledge of you three is just overwhelming. And thanks for sharing! 73, Tom - W4BQF -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Bill W4ZV Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 7:38 PM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] ON4UN has a K3? Arie Kleingeld PA3A-2 wrote: So what if ON4UN has a K3? Since ON4UN has won 70% First Places and 20% Second Places (EU or World) in 100 international contests over a 20 year period, I place a lot of credibility in his opinions...not to mention his world high DXCC standing on 80m and EU high on 160m. Ditto for for W8JI's contest results and opinions. I pay attention to what both of these guys say because they DO know what they are doing...as demonstrated by results. 73, Bill -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/ON4UN-has-a-K3-tp582259p5890636.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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679, P3 #546 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] Latest Sherwood table
Room for some Wine? Nah, not good, my bones will fall out of my legs I'm told. Gary HNY 2 all On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Bruce Beford bruce.bef...@myfairpoint.net wrote: On Dec 31, 2010, at 4:13 PM, Guy Olinger K2AV wrote: What gets me in a K3 is that there is still some room in there, even after installing the KRX3 to the 100W transceiver, to add something else. So far the possibilities haven't tickled my fancy. We're saving it for a fuel cell :) Wayne N6KR Mr. Fusion? Bruce, N1RX __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679, P3 #546 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] ref david uk
Tony, The folks on this list are superb (take a bow gentlemen) and it is these same folks who will do everything they can to help you. Keep'em coming mate...:-) Now get that pesky exam over and done with, we need some new operators to work..:-) 73's Gary On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Vic K2VCO v...@rakefet.com wrote: But...how can you tell they are stupid if they are unasked? And what about the above question? It is both stupid and asked! :-) On 12/28/2010 2:20 PM, Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft wrote: To be honest, the only stupid questions are the ones not asked. :-) -- Vic, K2VCO Fresno CA 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679, P3 #546 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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: Mods for wide band transmiting?
I got over 11M operation shortly after gaining my amateur licence and it surprises me that 11M operators would want to spend the money on a K3 when there is a plethora of gear around that is still easy to 'open' up at a fraction of the cost of a K3. In VK, 11M operations appear to be concentrated on 27.355 LSB and 27.555USB and I wonder just how many of these operators would even consider a K3 given the price tag. As for any 'double standard' it should be made a compliance rule that ALL amateur gear be made extremely difficult to convert IF that is what the authorities want. The regulator in VK appears to be not interested in CB but rather in upping the cost to become an amateur and licence renewal fees and chasing the commercial dollars. Enforcement activities seem to be off their 'Radar' at the moment. The language you here on CB down under would embarrass even a truck driver. (OH, I was one of the drivers who avoided 11M CB) We have an 'outback' HF service which requires SelCall ID fitted to all radios and NO amateur rig meets with their approval so to open up a K3 to TX on these frequencies is an exercise in futility these days. Each of us has a differing opinion it seems which is OK with me at least. 73's Gary On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 4:09 PM, juergen plebia...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Jeff A weird policy really since the K3 is neither type accepted for MARS, NTIA, aeronautical or the maritime service. Its double standards saying on the one hand that its ok to use the K3 on one particular HF service even though its it illegal, then go onto say that it wont be allowed on the CB service. To me it does not matter since I use a TS480HX and its IMD performance at 100 watts meets spectral purity standards for all HF services at 100 watts of output. The TS480HX is good radio at 100 watts of output. I use my 480HX in both my sailing and flying hobbies and it works great. At least if you wanted to stand on the high moral ground, out of band transmission on any non amateur band on the K3 should not be allowed. You at least would have some credibility on the issue. 73 John --- On Sat, 12/25/10, Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF vk4bof.elecr...@gmail.com wrote: From: Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF vk4bof.elecr...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3: Mods for wide band transmiting? To: DM7ZQ 73...@gmx.net, elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Saturday, December 25, 2010, 9:03 PM Benjamin, Speaking from experience, the 'wideband' software 'tool' will indeed allow the K3 to transmit outside of most bands but operation on 27MHz is still recieve only even after the usage of said software 'tool'. Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF Innisfail, QLD, Australia Elecraft K3# 4257 - Original Message - From: DM7ZQ To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2010 5:18 AM Subject: [Elecraft] K3: Mods for wide band transmiting? Hello Elecrafters, merry christmas, how can i tune my Elecraft K3 to transmit on ´wide band coverage´ e.g. 11m Band? I know, i need an Software plug-in!? How can i get this? Thanks for a short answer, 73 de Benjamin, DM7ZQ -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/K3-Mods-for-wide-band-transmiting-tp5866670p5866670.html Sent from the [K3] 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 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679, P3 #546 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] Reason to NOT buy a K3?
and KPA-500's and KAT-500's and Sheesh...when will it end? :-) Gary On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Wes Stewart n...@yahoo.com wrote: Yeah, stuff like K1's, K2's, P3's Wes N7WS --- On Sun, 12/26/10, Mike Morrow k...@earthlink.net wrote: From: Mike Morrow k...@earthlink.net Subject: [Elecraft] Reason to NOT buy a K3? To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Sunday, December 26, 2010, 8:28 PM It was asked if there's a Reason to NOT buy a K3? Yes, there is. The list that is dedicated ONLY to the K3 (elecraft@mailman.qth.net), has for several years sometimes (almost one every several hundred K3 postings), been disrupted by a posting about non-K3 topics. How rude! :-) Mike / KK5F __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679, P3 #546 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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 Xmas
To Eric, Wayne and ALL the employees at Elecraft, the XYL (VK4JLG) and myself wish you all a joyous xmas and a happy and prosperous New Year Holiday season. Kindest Regards, Gary Jennie -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679, P3 #546 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] Solved: CM500 mic keeps cutting out midsentence
Use your EQ more, no need for external audio gear here. To make your voice sound more 'round'...peak your low freq settings. Again, keep playing with the EQ settings and you should get the desired audio. 73's Gary On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Jeff Hall (W6UX) w...@arrl.net wrote: Thanks to everyone who offered their suggestions! I am not sure what happened, but the problem cleared up simply by accessing my uRouter software for the MKII and toggling from Front mic to Rear, then back to Front. Once I did this I immediately noticed the CMP and ALC bars back to their desired peaks (5-7 for ALC, 10 for CMP). I worked with a local audiophile over the air and we settled on the following settings: Mic Sel: rPL.bias Mic: 30 Cmp: 20 VOX Delay: 1.2 (for rag chews; use something shorter for contesting) VOX Gn: 50 AntiVox: 25 The tone of my voice was still a bit nasal to him, so we adjusted the TX EQ as follows: 50 Hz @ +0 dB 100 Hz @ +0 dB 200 Hz @ +8 dB 400 Hz @ +2 dB 800 Hz @ -16 dB 1600 Hz @ -2 dB 2400 Hz @ +0 dB 3200 Hz @ +0 dB He suggested I consider adding a Behringer Shark DSP110 to soften up my tone and give it a warmer, fuller sound. They can be had cheap on eBay so I may pick one up to experiment with. 73, Jeff W6UX __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679, P3 #546 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] Soldering Naked
'Chuckle'...OK...I guess the 'blob' of metal from the MIG welder that entered my boot and caused me to star in an unscripted episode of 'Dancing with the Sparks' pales into insignificance. My wife is still laughing at my antics but at least Mr. Happy is remains undamaged in my case the embarrassment level is somewhat less than yours. Enjoy the Xmas break all:-) 73's Gary On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Steve Ellington n...@carolina.rr.comwrote: Mr. Happy likes the K3 No Solder Kit. Steve N4LQ - Original Message - From: Rex Lint r...@lint.mv.com To: 'Phil Townsend' phi...@mac.com; 'Barry' w...@comcast.net Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 10:12 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Soldering Naked This same thing happened to me - I was about 35 at the time and I threw the soldering iron across the room and it landed on the rya shag rug, burning an outline of the iron into the wool rug. I've still got the scar - see, right here... and the project was a HW-202... -Rex- K1HI Rex Lint Merrimack, NH WWW.QRZ.COM/db/k1hi -Original Message- Phil Townsend wrote: I was 12 years old... I think it was a Heathkit HW ??? I woke up early ready to sling solder. My bed was next to my shack/workbench. The parents and sister were all sleeping... Then it happened... A large blob of solder slipped off the iron onto Mr Happy! (My new best friend) Shrieking and shouting... the blob stuck. The noise from my room awakened Sister and her sleepover friend. (The one I had the sweets for.) They stormed into my room followed by Mom and Dad. Sisters friend was first into the room causing her to squeal as she tried to turn around and run out of the door she just came into. Thereby running into Sis and parents. The solder was still stuck and still hot. By parents wanted to call the Doctor...but I had enough humiliation for one day so my Mom gave me the ointment and that was that. Durring breakfast no one said anything about the early morning event. __ 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 -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/K3-ESD-tp5844885p5847272.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 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679, P3 #546 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] linking K3 with PC with blue tooth
Neat device, shame we couldn't do audio as well..:-( Gary On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Gary n6...@cox.net wrote: Yes. Search for IOGEAR GBS301. Gary N6LRV -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Johnny Siu Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 5:27 AM To: Elecraft Subject: [Elecraft] linking K3 with PC with blue tooth Hello Group, We now have either RS232 or USB converter to link K3 with the computer. Is there a way to link K3 with the computer by blue tooth? cheers, Johnny VR2XMC __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679, P3 #546 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] Re： Raves about the K3
Hey, now what about a custom desktop case made to match the Elecraft K series equipment with slide in/out drawers (lockable via spring loaded screws) so that one BIG box shack becomes a reality. The huge advantage is IF an issue arises, simply 'pull' the defective item from the box and do what needs to be done but still have a somewhat functional rig IF the K3 is not at fault. I might even consider doing this myself so that for portable use I have just one box to pack up when on the move. Maybe a part number could be K3LB-500...:-) K3 = Radio LB = Large Box 500 = Total output power Aaaah...nice to dream eh? Now to think of a way to install a 'swing lifter' to heave the box from storage to desk...:-( 73's Gary On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Byron Servies by...@servies.us wrote: and then, to make it all weigh more, stick some Dynamat Xtreme in the boxes. At about 0.5lb/ft^2 you should be able to increase the weight on your desk by several pounds. 73, Byron N6NUL On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Don Wilhelm w3...@embarqmail.com wrote: Since the K3, P3 and KPA500 are the same height, you may want to figure out how to attach one to the other (metal strips on the bottom come to mind), so it is all one big unit. -- - Northern California Contest Club - CU in the 2011 Cal QSO Party 1-2 Oct 2011 - www.cqp.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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679, P3 #546 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] Noise Blanker Problems
Yes Geoff, 4.22 appears effect the DSP NB more here with me also. I rarely use it but in the last few days I have been trying it out and I am noticing a lot more artifacts than before. 73's Gary On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 5:29 AM, Ron D'Eau Claire r...@cobi.biz wrote: Not here Geoff, but I can't really tell. I assume there will be distortion any time one goes whacking great holes in the spectrum of a signal to blank noise pulses, and that will vary widely based on the strength of the signal, presence of nearby signals and many other factors. IIRC the exact nature of the process based on the settings for the NB in the K3 has changed from firmware rev to firmware rev too. Ron AC7AC -Original Message- Dave, It's also my impression that the DSP noise blanker introduces more distortion on SSB signals in Firmware 4.22 than in previous firmware. I haven't rolled back to a previous version to check it out like you have but I will next week. Anyone else notice this? 73 to all Geoff G3UCK __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679, P3 #546 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] new firmware release
Hmmm, not sure why you need to switch off twice, once IS required as noted in the K3 Manual and that has been the case with mine from day one. Never had a FW download failure...yep, I got'em crossed now folks...:-) 73's Gary On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 10:07 AM, wf4o foste...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks,I haven't heard that before, but I will certainly do this from now on. It does seem to involve the MCU module etc. Thanks again. On Dec 11, 2010, at 4:00 PM, G4LNA [via Elecraft] wrote: I used to get problems when I used to download the firmware and used the rig straight away and I found that if I switched the rig on and off twice in a row it functions perfectly after that, so I follow that procedure every time I load the firmware now and never get a problem. View message @ http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/new-firmware-release-tp5813395p5826846.html To unsubscribe from new firmware release, click here. -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/new-firmware-release-tp5813395p5827141.html Sent from the [K3] 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679, P3 #546 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] Need for advice was; noise reduction
Perhaps the small group seeking insights into the design of the K3 could show us all where this information has been supplied by Y,K Y etc? I am sure it is not high on Elecraft's list of 'things to do' and so it may be quite a while before the information you seek is released. Already the competitors have sat up and taken notice of just how good the K3 has become and are now scrambling to bring products out that can offer competing specifications. Just my 2 cents worth...keep the change :-) 73's Gary On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 3:20 AM, Amateur Radio Operator N5GE n...@n5ge.comwrote: Each new version of the firmware (including beta versions) comes with a description of the changes made. In fact the document included describes each change that the update includes dating back to MCU 1.65 and DSP 1.52, 1-28-08. You don't have to ask for it. The file name is hfwnotes.rtf and you can find it at the URL below... ftp://ftp.elecraft.com What else do you want to know about the firmware that isn't proprietary? 73, Tom Childers Radio Amateur N5GE Licensed since 1976 QCWA Member 35102 ARRL Life Member On Wed, 08 Dec 2010 07:47:03 -0800, eric manning eric.mann...@engr.uvic.ca wrote: [snip] With respect, it seems to me that the secret sauce in the K3 is largely in the FIRMWARE, which is why I carefully avoided even mentioning it, let alone asking for descriptive material on it. [snip] __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679, P3 #546 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] dangles
Chas, Now that was TOO funny. :-) Gary On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 7:27 AM, Charles Allen allen...@nbtx.com wrote: Or, a child to her father at bedtime: What did you bring that book that I didn't want to be read to out of up for? If one is to break a rule of grammar, he might as well smash it. Chas W5DV __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679, P3 #546 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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 KAT3 strange behaviour
Hi Tony, The open wire feeder was at fault as the route I had used had a bend which made a parallel path and when I straightened this out the issue went away. All is now as it should:-) Thanks for the info mate. Gary On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Tony Estep estept...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/05/2010 11:40 PM, elecraft-requ...@mailman.qth.net wrote: From: Gary Gregorygaryvk...@gmail.com ...using a double extended zepp I find it tunes all bands except 20M consistently but for a couple of weeks it has been fine. The KAT3 will tune to 1.1:1 BUT the swr meter fluctuates... Gary, in my case the fluctuating SWR indication turned out to be attributable to my station ground setup. It seems that just a small amount of RF on the feedline can create this symptom. My non-resonant antenna comes into a balun, then the coax goes through a line isolator, and thence to the rig. There is a counterpoise arrangement connected at the balun which has served satisfactorily to ground everything with a couple of antennas. However, when I put up a new one, I got the symptom you describe. Some tweaking of the grounding scheme completely cured it. Tony KT0NY __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679, P3 #546 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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 KAT3 strange behaviour
G'Day all. Just now, using a double extended zepp I find it tunes all bands except 20M consistently but for a couple of weeks it has been fine. The KAT3 will tune to 1.1:1 BUT the swr meter fluctuates to 3:1 but does*not * generate HI SWR on the display. All other bands this behavior does not occur. Press and hold tune at 5W and up to 100W the swr shows stable. Without the KAT3 the zepp is 1.4:1 and reads stable. SSB Tx however produces this fluctuating swr reading which reaches as high as 3:1 Scratching my head here as all other bands 80 thru 10M this swr problem does not appear. It started during a qso and the other station reported a jump in signal strength from S2 to S9 on 20M Any clues from the group would be most helpful. 73's Gary -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679, P3 #546 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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 KAT3 strange behavior
Hmmm, Well it appears the BALANCED LINE feeder had developed an impedance bump somehow. Rerouting the feed line appears to have corrected the issue and now appears that the K3 likes it again. Gee, sometimes these little weird things bite us. (well maybe just me...:-) ? ) Anyhoo, will see what happens next. 73's Gary -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679, P3 #546 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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: noise reduction performance
James, I concur. There is a noticeable drop in 'audio level' when I activate NR and it does not depend on the settings from what I can tell. I would hope this does creep up the list quite a bit as I feel it has been left as a dormant issue long enough. Gary On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 2:13 AM, James Sarte (K2QI) k2qi@gmail.comwrote: Hi Lyle! Indeed, this is a very subjective issue. One issue though that many will probably agree with me on is the decrease in audio fidelity whenever NR is engaged; i.e. volume of speech drops in relation to NR. Would it be possible to alter the algorithm to prevent this from happening? It seems to me like the current NR algorithm reduces *everything* within the passband, including spoken word. 73, James K2QI On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Lyle Johnson k...@wavecable.com wrote: Psycho-acoustics is fun! Some people swear by the K3 NR, others swear at it :-) Making further changes to the K3 NR remains a possibility, but is not a particularly high priority at the moment. Priorities can and do change... 73, Lyle KK7P I hope Lyle will read this and perhaps be able to comment directly. __ 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 de James K2QI President UNARC/4U1UN __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679, P3 #546 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] Interesting Conversation about FT-5000 vs K3
Actually there are 8 K3's on Kermadec...so they told us. Even have one set up as a 6M beacon. Forgot to ask what amps they were using...oh well..:-) 73's Gary On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 2:27 AM, Jim Sheldon w...@cox.net wrote: Yup, I just worked ZL8X on 30 meters a while ago. My IC-7000 (soon to be replaced by a K3/P3 combo) could barely hear them off my Butternut HF2V vertical, but once I got the split set to where they were listening, grabbed 'em first call. I know they have some K3's there and I'd almost bet dollars to donuts that the op on the Kermadec end was running one. I'd also bet that if I had a K3 in place of that little IC-7000, I wouldn't have had any trouble hearing them at all. Jim - W0EB Isn't it amazing the subjects that come up when someone's favorite non-Elecraft radio company is getting it's butt kicked in the contest wars. That more K3 than anything else combined at the WRTC really rankled some nerves. I don't think I have ever heard will the company still be here in 10 years used before in a discussion about what radio to buy. They are really getting desperate. 73, Guy. __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679, P3 #546 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] KPA-500
Seasons Greetings, Is there any further word on a possible release date/month for the 'new' tuner? Just curious as I could sure use one to make portable set-up a little easier for me. Regards Gary -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679, P3 #546 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] Re： KPA-500
Hi Johnny, Yes, me too. Also I got confused with the KAT-500 which I also really need so I can use the remote version attached to my trailer and just use a single feedline to the Motorhome. I can use the Yagi tri-bander, a 40M vertical and a double extended Zepp for 40/80M etc. I understand the KPA-500 is due out January/February and I think the tuner is due after that but that is old information and some indication from Elecraft would be beneficial for those of us waiting in limbo. Regards Gary On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Johnny Siu vr2...@yahoo.com.hk wrote: Hello Gary, I also like to know the time table. Otherwise, I will go for SPE Expert 1k-fa. cheers, Johnny VR2XMC - 郵件原件 寄件人﹕ Gary Gregory garyvk...@gmail.com 收件人﹕ elecraft@mailman.qth.net 傳送日期﹕ 2010/11/29 (一) 7:01:27 PM 主題： [Elecraft] KPA-500 Seasons Greetings, Is there any further word on a possible release date/month for the 'new' tuner? Just curious as I could sure use one to make portable set-up a little easier for me. Regards Gary -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679, P3 #546 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679, P3 #546 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] ZL8X on 160 from Arkansas
Grin...a mile wide... Heard ZL8X calling CQ so I thought heck, why not...went back on my Double extended Zepp and busted through on the first try...oh yeah..pass the kool-aid folks...how does it get any better than this? Without a K3 and the ever trusty toolbox supplied as standard I doubt I would have got throughwow Nothing else matter when you got the K3 rockin... :-) Now how can I get my head through the motorhome door now...:-) 73's Gary On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 3:55 AM, Roger D Johnson n...@roadrunner.comwrote: Nick-WA5BDU wrote: I've been turning on 160 the first thing in the morning for a couple weeks, ever since putting elevated radials under my inverted L, and hearing nothing but noise and a couple U.S. super stations calling CQ DX. Did I mention there was a wasp on the window outside my room yesterday? So this morning the cluster reported that he was on 1.826.5 and eventually I was able to barely hear him. Using every trick in the K3's tool box including APF, I could finally make him out sending his call, but he was ESP level. I put in my call a few times without much hope of working him. After one last time, I decided to go cook some oatmeal and maybe check again in 30 minutes, so I pushed the TX standby switch on the rig as I always do when I walk away from it. I don't want the cats working DX with my call. Just as I was pulling the phones off, I heard: DU? So I mashed the TX standby switch for the eternity of one-half second it takes to go back to active. While doing this, I felt a tiny breeze on the back of my hand -- that red wasp was attempting a landing. I heard the beep and moved my hand to the paddle, the wasp landed on the K3's display, and I sent 'WA5BDU' a couple times. He came back 'WA5BDU 5NN' and naturally he was 5NN too. New 160M country in the log and another thing to be thankful for. 73- Nick, WA5BDU WOW! A DX wasp! 73 and congrats, Roger __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679, P3 #546 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] P3 wish list
I would like to be able to 'switch' such a feature On/Off without any external 'box' As I am operating portable all the time there is a need for me to check this daily. YMMV Gary On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Howard K2HK k...@arrl.net wrote: I assume Alan monitors the reflector :-). Hope he is sufficiently interested. Howard..K2HK Smith's: Agreed, I concur with you. I don't need any more boxes on my desk either, especially when a button on the Menu could turn off the RS-232 'mute' control.. seems like a pretty easy thing to do to me. Just thought that I would give you a work around for the time being. Be sure to send your ideas to Alan.. he's the only one that can program it into the P3 From: k...@arrl.net To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 02:53:31 + Subject: Re: [Elecraft] P3 wish list That's an easy fix. But I have so many boxes on my desktop and it would seem more natural to me to be incorporated into the P3. Doesn't seem like it would be a major project. Howard..K2HK Smith's wrote: you could always use an A/B serial box and just switch to B when you want to do your testing. That's an easy up front solution if they don't add that ability for you. From: k...@arrl.net To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 02:26:25 + Subject: [Elecraft] P3 wish list I found checking and adjusting the K3 output on the P3 a useful function. Would it be difficult to make it a front panel function w/o the need to reach in the back and remove the RS232 cable? Howard..K2HK __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679, P3 #546 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] P3 wish list
Alan, I too find it useful BUT I am happy to wait for a 'better' solution. I understand 'in the future' there maybe be a hardware option to add this and perhaps 'other' features from previous emails so for now I wait and watch. I was never sure if the P3 would be a 'keeper' for me but it is here now and after playing with it I can't see how I got along without it in the beginning...:-) Sometimes Elecraft 'force' us to buy stuff..:-( Just too many good engineers with plenty of time on their hands eh? ROTFL 73's Gary On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 8:23 AM, N6JW j...@dslextreme.com wrote: Hi Alan: I certainly understand your reasons for nervousness here. However, I would like to express how much this unofficial feature has been helpful to me in setting TX equalizers for three different mic settings (macro driven) and two mics (front and rear). And I often return and tinker with these settings for optimization. In my P3 the feature works well, but right now it is clumsy to use, to say the least. Here is what I have to do: Open Config Menu: RS232 which will read 38000. Attach a dummy load (or tune to an empty spot in the band). Turn on Peak hold, then right away turn RS232 speed to 4800 (this is equivalent to removing the cable), talk into the mic, and then tap freeze to look at the cumulative audio spectrum! Set to a narrow span (I use 4khz) one gets a lot of good detailed data this way, but is it a bit of a fiddle! If you want to do it again, start over. Alan, I know there are interesting options coming down the line with some additional hardware required (what else is the sensor opening at the back for?) But in the meantime, the unofficial feature is very useful indeed! Thanks so much for the fine panadapter. It has proven itself to be more useful than I thought it would be. Regards 73 John, N6JW Alan Bloom-2 wrote: I'm a little nervous about making this an official feature, because the signal level is not well-controlled. It depends on stray leakage through a balanced mixer and blow-by past a couple of PIN diode switches. If the mixer in a particular K3 happens to be very well balanced or the PIN diodes have extra-low capacitance, there may not be enough signal level to adjust the equalizer properly. It also depends on frequency band and transmit power level. There may be a better way to do this. It's on my list of things to look at as soon as I get time. Alan N1AL On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 06:17 +1000, Gary Gregory wrote: I would like to be able to 'switch' such a feature On/Off without any external 'box' I found checking and adjusting the K3 output on the P3 a useful function. Would it be difficult to make it a front panel function w/o the need to reach in the back and remove the RS232 cable? Howard..K2HK -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/P3-wish-list-tp5750264p5753545.html Sent from the [K3] 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679, P3 #546 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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: USB port
I use the USB/serial cable and for me it would mean I junk one piece of cable. Being portable, I can set up the tri-band beam on the portable mast with rotator and feedline and secure it ready to operate FASTER than I can hook up the K3, P3, interconnect cables for the P3, amplifier, inline meter, rotator cable, paddle, footswitch, cm-500 headset, external speakers..etc, etc...go figure eh?...:-) And I set myself up to be on air in 30 minutes, which I can IF I just plug in the K3 and a hand mic...:-) The toys we must have eh? But it is a blast let me tell you..:-) 73's gotta go mobile and set up again for another month of DX'ing in a town called Ravenshoe, Queensland. Gary On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 10:57 AM, James Sarte (K2QI) k2qi@gmail.comwrote: Hi Mike, I'm not really asking for anything, other than whether or not the USB option was still in the works. I was just curious. The K3 works fine as is with its current KIO3 configuration. I didn't realize, as someone else had already pointed out to me off-list, that this topic is akin to beating a dead horse. I guess I must have missed those emails; sorry for bringing it up. 73, James K2QI On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Mike n...@nf4l.com wrote: I'm not sure how you envision moving the audio to USB. I think putting the USB port in the K3 would open a Pandora's box re: drivers. If you're asking to just move the serial to USB adapter into the rig, there is NO gain. If you're asking to do away with serial port comms entirely and go to USB only, you're creating a huge hassle for the software authors, as well as opening a Pandora's box re: drivers for it. 73, Mike NF4L On 11/18/2010 7:31 PM, James Sarte (K2QI) wrote: Hello group, I know Wayne has mentioned several times in the past that they had considered all possibilities when it comes to PC interfaces for the K3, including USB. In fact, he says the following on 16 June, 2009: The KIO3's digital I/O module could be replaced with one that has USB rather than RS232 -- or better yet, both. We planned for this. The reason we went with RS232 initially is that many hams are still using PCs that have only RS232 ports. Those who prefer to use USB can use an inexpensive USB-to-RS232 adapter. There is no difference in I/O performance between the two methods. Just wanted to revisit this topic and find out if anyone has heard anything more regarding a possible USB interface for the K3. I know it's not for everyone, but for myself and perhaps others out there, the ability to carry all data, including audio on a single cable would be convenient. Right now, I'm using a Keyspan USB to RS232 adapter for data, along with two separate stereo cables for audio. I don't have any real complaints with that setup, but could be problematic when transferring the rig around from computer to computer. __ 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 de James K2QI President UNARC/4U1UN __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679, P3 #546 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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: USB port
Joe, Guy... Amen. Now can we see the shipping dates for the KPA-500's and the KAT-500's please. Certainly of more interest to me at least than trying to wade through the MS-OS-BS...:-) 73's Gary (almost moving) On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Guy Olinger K2AV olin...@bellsouth.netwrote: READ the archives on this. The USB suggestion has been beaten to a bloody pulp over and over again. This subject is like Count Dracula. It's like the undead coming out of the corn fields. The devil in the proposal is having your K3 fail every time Microsoft decides to make another of its several million arbitrary subtle OS changes, this time to how Universal (ha! Ha!) serial bus actually operates. And WE will NOT be tested before they dump that into their automatic updates to a gazillion copies of MS OS, because we do NOT have 20 million K3 users out there to make the consequences of blowing us up scare them into actually checking FIRST if it blows us up or not, BEFORE they release it. Come to think of it, based on the record, 20 million isn't really enough, is it? The *U* in USB is a complete joke. Somebody kill this idea and make it die, and stay dead, please... 73, Guy On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 7:31 PM, James Sarte (K2QI) k2qi@gmail.com wrote: Hello group, I know Wayne has mentioned several times in the past that they had considered all possibilities when it comes to PC interfaces for the K3, including USB. In fact, he says the following on 16 June, 2009: The KIO3's digital I/O module could be replaced with one that has USB rather than RS232 -- or better yet, both. We planned for this. The reason we went with RS232 initially is that many hams are still using PCs that have only RS232 ports. Those who prefer to use USB can use an inexpensive USB-to-RS232 adapter. There is no difference in I/O performance between the two methods. Just wanted to revisit this topic and find out if anyone has heard anything more regarding a possible USB interface for the K3. I know it's not for everyone, but for myself and perhaps others out there, the ability to carry all data, including audio on a single cable would be convenient. Right now, I'm using a Keyspan USB to RS232 adapter for data, along with two separate stereo cables for audio. I don't have any real complaints with that setup, but could be problematic when transferring the rig around from computer to computer. -- 73 de James K2QI President UNARC/4U1UN __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679, P3 #546 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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: QST's review of the Yaesu FTDX5000MP
OTOH, locals here are impressed with the receiver and what the K3 CAN do and it's inbuilt versatility and great receiver. Nobody seemed too concerned withthe lack of size, knobs, whistles, clicks and bells etc offered with 'other' boxes. If enough people took the time to 'LEARN' how to set up there own K3 such as on SSB adjusting the Hi/Lo Cut then most would stop complaining about what some term 'edgy' AF etc. What constantly amazes me is the barrage of seemingly endless complaints about some perceived limitation or design deficiency in the K3 when a little more time spent in front of the K3 'learning' 'how' to use the K3 would enhance their personal appreciation of a superb radio. In Australia we live in a 'throw away' or 'trade-in' society due to lack of manufacturing and I for one appreciate very much the amount of thought and sweat that has gone into the production of the K3 and being badged Born in the USA' is a very real factor in deciding what next I will 'acquire'. Just about everything we turn over to look at the label states 'Made in China' and whilst many good products come from Asia it is still terrific to see a very well run company responsive to customer concerns without the common response of 'send it back for replacement' or trade it in on the next new 'box' being released to 'fix' the design or manufacturer faults created at birth. Oh well, turn of my mouth and sit and receive for awhile now:-) Flame suit on and zipped up, air bag at the ready :-) 73's Gary On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 11:11 PM, riese-k3...@juno.com wrote: There's the rub members of my local club were not overly interested in my K3 as it doesnt have all the knobs etc on the front panel, you cant change the color of the display and it isnt heavy I really find that sad ,, I would get lost from time to time placing my TS 850 in a unknown state by accidently pushing a wrong button ,, hasnt happened on the K3 the GUI is great but simple and some think simple relates to poor or ineffective as I am a casual operator and dont use 1/10 the features avaible but wanted a rig that would hold up to some of the nasty krap on HF ,,, K3 Rocks,, was fun to build and has great support Bob K3DJC Honestly, it looks like a great radio if you like a lot of knobs and buttons. I won't be buying an FTDX5000 anytime soon, as the K3 does all of that and more at the fraction of the cost, size, and weight. Plus, Elecraft has in my opinion the best support in the industry. For those however that want a big rig, I think this is the one to beat. -- 73 de James K2QI Become Six Sigma Certified Villanova Six Sigma Certification 100% Online Program - Free Info. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4ce06ccc49b0e5560bm03vuc __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679, P3 #546 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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: QST's review of the Yaesu FTDX5000MP
Aaah, the humble Holden Commodore. Yes it IS a great car (not a Ford) made by GM of course. Have a look at the website for HSV Commodore and you will see the Oz version of the Pontiac. Awesome cars. There are few consumer products made here now which is sad but as we only have some 22 million people here I guess the price of production makes it all uneconomical to produce...:-( Elecraft are quite amazing in both their ability to design and manufacturer a leading contender (if not the best which it is in my personal opinion) HAM radio transceiver available. Gee, look at what the dealers are asking for an FT-5000 here and the K3 is by far a better solution. Yaesu still like to have expensive add-ons to sell and to my way of thinking they do not give me good value for money. There service here is legendary...or if you like plain talk...lousy, slow, expensive and uncommunicative...sorry Eric, that is an honest opinion and I don't wish to start a kerfuffle on the reflector, but, as I was previously a Yaesu Dealer I feel I have a right to be critical without denigrating anyone..:-) With advent of the KPA-500 and shortly thereafter the KAT-500?...my needs will be filled and I don't want any of you guys telling Elecraft to build a K4 coz I aint got room for one and don't want to feel left out...:-) OK, back in my hole I go 73' to all Elecraft Rocks...now who stole my Kool-Aid? Gary On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 3:00 AM, Johnny Siu vr2...@yahoo.com.hk wrote: Hi John, Excessive birdies in K3 will consume a lot of the DSP power in eliminating them. I would think the DSP power should be used / reserved for other meaningful radio functions. cheers, Johnny VR2XMC - 郵件原件 寄件人﹕ N1JM johnn...@gmail.com 收件人﹕ elecraft@mailman.qth.net 傳送日期﹕ 2010/11/15 (一) 10:05:24 AM 主題： Re: [Elecraft] Re： OT: QST's review of the Yaesu FTDX5000MP One of my pet peeves of the K3 is the notch is not within the agc loop and yes I know it's not good for IMD but so what. It's not engaged all the time. The other is excessive birdies which the 5000 does not hardly have any. John N1JM Johnny Siu wrote: Hello Craig, Is there a 'manual notch within AGC loop' in the FTDX5000? I have not read the product review yet. I trust 'manual notch within AGC loop' is a must in any high end transceiver. cheers, Johnny VR2XMC - 郵件原件 寄件人﹕ Craig D. Smith cr...@powersmith.net 收件人﹕ James Sarte k2qi@gmail.com; Joe Subich, W4TV li...@subich.com 副本(CC) elecraft@mailman.qth.net 傳送日期﹕ 2010/11/15 (一) 7:03:33 AM 主題： Re: [Elecraft] OT: QST's review of the Yaesu FTDX5000MP I read and enjoyed the review. It looks like a very good product, and will no doubt sell well - as it should. For me the only advantage it would have over my K3/P3 is the integrated 200 W capability and integrated power supply with 12V power - both nice features. But I wouldn't consider buying one, the deal breakers being: size/weight, audible QSK relay and single color panadapter w/o waterfall. Not to mention the more intangibles, such as ease of firmware updates and ability to do 80% of the servicing myself. Close, but no cigar ;) 73 Craig AC0DS __ 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 -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/OT-QST-s-review-of-the-Yaesu-FTDX5000MP-tp5738046p5738771.html Sent from the [HAM] 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679, P3 #546 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] Re： OT: K440XV?
Um, guy's, I am surrounded by millions of acres of real estate and one 2M repeater...:-) I would need an eleventeen element yagi on a massive boom to just key it sometimes from some of the places I frequent...not a worth while investment for a three thousand dollar radio when my trusty old Yucksu 2M set get's used once in a blue moon..:-) On a more serious note though, I know of one K3 out here with the 2M module and it works quite well but Oz is not really the place where a 70cm option would sell well..I think Now if you guys were asking for 4 antenna inputs (tx/rx) that would sure get my attention...hence I am eagerly awaiting the desktop/remote tuner that is coming. Wouldn't that be nice to be able to squeeze inside a K3...wow!!! That would get me running for the check book...:-) 73's I gotta go do some DX on 20M Gary On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 6:36 AM, Johnny Siu vr2...@yahoo.com.hk wrote: Hello James and Gary, It is a good idea of K440XV. However, we have to look at the price as well. If you just want something in the FM mode, any price near the K144XV could be expensive. Any FM mobile rig will give you the answer. If you go for a real UHF based station, the frequency and power stability of K440XV are of primary importance. cheers, Johnny VR2XMC - 郵件原件 寄件人﹕ James Sarte k2qi@gmail.com 收件人﹕ Gary Gregory garyvk...@gmail.com 副本(CC) Elecraft Elecraft@mailman.qth.net 傳送日期﹕ 2010/11/13 (六) 1:10:01 PM 主題： Re: [Elecraft] OT: K440XV? That's a good point Gary. One big difference and advantage with the K3 though is its modular construction. If an internal transverter were to go kaput, I imagine that one could just disable it in the settings until its repaired or replaced. HF would still work fine. That may not be the case with something like the TS-2000 or Icom's upcoming IC-9100. Personally, a UHF rather than VHF option would have been better for me. I could see myself using the K3 as a UHF base station if that option were made available. There really isn't that much activity on 2m in my neck of the woods except for the local hams who hang out on 146.520. There are several 2 meter machines in close proximity, but I've never heard anything on them except for the occasional broadcast ID. On the other hand, NYC has a lot of activity on 440. More so than in any other part of the US I've been in. Anyway, I may still purchase the K144XV for experimentation. I've got good height at my location, and a small log-periodic for 2m on the balcony might be fun to play around with. 73, James K2QI On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Gary Gregory garyvk...@gmail.com wrote: Yep, wishful thinking I reckon. There are two options I would not contemplate, 2M and 70CM and for that matter any higher frequencies. DC to Daylight radios might be attractive until something goes wrong, then your 'all in one box' system CAN take you off air completely and that for me would be kinda bad...no, make that a disaster...I just gotta have my daily HF 'fix' :-) YMMV Gary On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 4:26 AM, James Sarte k2qi@gmail.com wrote: Hello group, Is there any hardware limitation preventing the design and implementation of an internal UHF transverter? In this day and age of DC to Daylight boxes, I'm surprised that Elecraft only has a VHF module available for the K3. For me, 2 meters isn't so useful in NYC. If given the option, I would rather have a UHF module in order to take advantage of the many active repeaters near me. I know it's a long shot, but it would be nice to have an all-in-one K3 that can go from 160 to 1.2Ghz. Wishful thinking perhaps? -- 73 de James K2QI President UNARC/4U1UN -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679, P3 #546 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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: K440XV?
Yep, wishful thinking I reckon. There are two options I would not contemplate, 2M and 70CM and for that matter any higher frequencies. DC to Daylight radios might be attractive until something goes wrong, then your 'all in one box' system CAN take you off air completely and that for me would be kinda bad...no, make that a disaster...I just gotta have my daily HF 'fix' :-) YMMV Gary On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 4:26 AM, James Sarte k2qi@gmail.com wrote: Hello group, Is there any hardware limitation preventing the design and implementation of an internal UHF transverter? In this day and age of DC to Daylight boxes, I'm surprised that Elecraft only has a VHF module available for the K3. For me, 2 meters isn't so useful in NYC. If given the option, I would rather have a UHF module in order to take advantage of the many active repeaters near me. I know it's a long shot, but it would be nice to have an all-in-one K3 that can go from 160 to 1.2Ghz. Wishful thinking perhaps? -- 73 de James K2QI President UNARC/4U1UN __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679, P3 #546 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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 Amplifier
Nope :-( But we are all living in hope :-) 73's Gary On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Phil LaMarche plama...@verizon.netwrote: I've been off the reflector for 5 weeks on a cruise in Europe. Has there been any announcement for anticipated delivery. Thanks Phil Philip LaMarche LaMarche Enterprises, Inc p...@lamarcheenterprises.com www.LaMarcheEnterprises.com http://www.lamarcheenterprises.com/ 727-944-3226 727-937-8834 Fax 727-510-5038 Cell www.w9dvm.com http://www.w9dvm.com/ K3 #1605 CCA 98-00827 CRA 1701 W9DVM __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679, P3 #546 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] Lock P3 frequency range independent of K3
A 'Nope' from me too please :-) I didn't think the P3 would be all that important to me, now it is a fixture, it ain't goin' anywhere. BUT, I still want to see it monitor the TX audio and CW and although I am most likely in the minority, it is a personal 'want' and not one that I find necessary to 'stamp my foot' over :-) 73's Gary On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:53 AM, Amateur Radio Operator N5GE n...@n5ge.com wrote: My vote is NO... Tom Radio Amateur N5GE QCWA Member 35102 On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:57:30 -0800, ga...@gary-gordon.com wrote: This is to support a previous suggestion on the reflector, to allow locking the P3 frequency range displayed despite tuning the K3. The defacto mode of draging and skewing the waterfall makes it unrecognizable, losing track of and tune to a new target QSO up the band. It would seem much easier if tuning the K3 just moved a marker across an unmoving P3 display. My thoughts are towards operating next Field Day, where I might set the P3 to display, say, 7.025 through 7.075 KHz. Of course there would need to be a provision for re-centering the P3, most likely to a round number, not the actual K3 frequency. For example the P3 could re-set its center to the nearest frequency marker at the top of the the P3. As an example, assume a P3 set to a span of 50 KHz, where its 10 markers at the top would then be spaced 5 KHz apart. Assume a K3 is tuned to 7.048 KHz, and the re-center button is pressed. Consistent with the suggestion, then, the center frequency of the P3 would snap to 7.050 KHz, and display a span from 7.025 to 7.075 MHz. Besides the pile-up value another post suggests for this mode, I see it equally valuable for contests and for looking for an ongoing QSO. 73 Gary K6kV __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679, P3 #546 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] Lock P3 frequency range independent of K3
And I couldn't give a hoot what is added..more the better..but for me I don't feel I 'would' use the feature so I am neutral on whether it appears or not. But, sometimes I cop those pesky incoming's and so i keep my flame suit at the ready every time I post a comment. At least I am getting my money's worth :-) Oh, and no I am not being sarcastic or whatever, just highly amused coz I got too much time on my hands. Speaking of using the P3, I placed a single CQ the other night and worked over 100 stations and so would not have used the proposed feature and as I don't get too serious in contests I don't feel I 'need' the feature either. Having said all this, I would not want to see others wanting this feature to miss out. Aaah..nuff bandwidth used my 2 cents worth..ya'all can keep the change :-) 73's back to the pile-up Gary On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 4:14 AM, Gary Gordon ga...@gary-gordon.com wrote: As a new subscriber I didn't want to stir up a hornet's nest, but rather to express, from my 55 years of contesting, DX'ing, and band surfing, that the exceptional P3 has a rather glaring need for an optional display anchor. 73, Gary, K6KV -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Tommy Alderman Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 7:44 PM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Lock P3 frequency range independent of K3 I think you are speaking for yourself again? I seriously doubt 'most' of us want this changed. This is a P3, made by Elecraft and it is not a screen from past experiences. It would be much more useful if owners would get used to the 'new' way a panadapter works instead of asking the Elecraft folks to just copy something because you are too (whatever) to learn something new! Tom - W4BQF -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of The Smiths Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 8:04 PM To: w4...@bellsouth.net; ga...@gary-gordon.com Cc: Elecraft Reflector Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Lock P3 frequency range independent of K3 The feature described is something that most of us have been waiting for. Being able to jump around inside a set area and not move the entire display along with it not only makes perfect sense, but is extremely helpful for those that like to know they're not chasing their tails back and forth around the band as they keep tuning in the same signal in a different location on the P3 screen OVER AND OVER again. Of course Jim, this would be a Feature that could be turned on and off. Nothing has to change for you at all. In the audio world, Locking the play head is something we've been doing since the first day digital audio was introduced. Now it's a REQUIREMENT. From: w4...@bellsouth.net To: ga...@gary-gordon.com Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:38:47 -0600 CC: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Lock P3 frequency range independent of K3 Personally, I would not change a thing. It is exactly what I want in a panadapter. 73s Jim, W4ATK On Nov 10, 2010, at 5:57 PM, ga...@gary-gordon.com wrote: This is to support a previous suggestion on the reflector, to allow locking the P3 frequency range displayed despite tuning the K3. The defacto mode of draging and skewing the waterfall makes it unrecognizable, losing track of and tune to a new target QSO up the band. It would seem much easier if tuning the K3 just moved a marker across an unmoving P3 display. My thoughts are towards operating next Field Day, where I might set the P3 to display, say, 7.025 through 7.075 KHz. Of course there would need to be a provision for re-centering the P3, most likely to a round number, not the actual K3 frequency. For example the P3 could re-set its center to the nearest frequency marker at the top of the the P3. As an example, assume a P3 set to a span of 50 KHz, where its 10 markers at the top would then be spaced 5 KHz apart. Assume a K3 is tuned to 7.048 KHz, and the re- center button is pressed. Consistent with the suggestion, then, the center frequency of the P3 would snap to 7.050 KHz, and display a span from 7.025 to 7.075 MHz. Besides the pile-up value another post suggests for this mode, I see it equally valuable for contests and for looking for an ongoing QSO. 73 Gary K6kV __ 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 JIM ROGERS w4...@bellsouth.net http://web.me.com/jimrogers_w4atk __ Elecraft mailing list
Re: [Elecraft] NB/NR info Request...
Dave, I use NR 'most' of the time on 5-2 for SSB. My ears find it better to understand etc. I usually adjust Hi/Lo cut to give me a nice rounded audio. I suffer from Tinitus so my ears are not the greatest :-( I also find I my bandwidth ends up around 1.7 to 1.9 and I have the 2.8 and 1.8 roofers for SSB YMMV Gary On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 6:24 AM, Dave Hachadorian k...@arrl.net wrote: By the way, I have never been able to find any benefit from NR or NB in a contest environment. Maybe my particular noises are uncooperative, or maybe I need to try even harder to find a good setting. I have read the advice, and have tried the recommended settings. Yes, I can get the s-meter to go down, but intelligibility is not improved. In my experience, intelligibility is always best with NR and NB OFF. Dave Hachadorian, K6LL Yuma, AZ . __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679, P3 #546 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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 APF Adjustable Q [END of Threads]
Barry said This is a real problem. Now I can hear more stations that can't hear me with my PW signal :.( Barry W2UP And soon our favorite Toy Store will have a fix for that problem with the KPA-500 :-) Yeay!!! Gary On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 8:06 PM, Barry w...@comcast.net wrote: This is a real problem. Now I can hear more stations that can't hear me with my PW signal :.( Barry W2UP Joe Subich, W4TV-4 wrote: I listened to XV2RZ for quite a while last night on 20 meters. He was only an occasional ping in the noise without the APF but perfectly Q5 for well over an hour with the APF engaged. With my 30 foot high Windom and barefoot K3, I did not stand a chance of working him but the benefit of the existing APF is night and day. -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/K3-APF-Adjustable-Q-tp5688670p5694971.html Sent from the [K3] 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679, P3 #546 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] Question
Eric, There you go again with the 'Giants'... :-) Go Raiders !!! Gary (quite a ways to go :-( On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 6:43 AM, Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft e...@elecraft.com wrote: Only if they are directly commenting on or promoting one of their non-elecraft products. In general we selcome everyone and it is not necessary to say who you are affiliated with on most other posts. If their email address clearly discloses who they are (elecraft.com etc.) it is not necessary to make an additional statement in the body of the email. 73, Eric WA6HHQ Elecraft List modulator --- Go Giants! (Two more to go.) http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com --- On 10/29/2010 12:27 PM, Richard Thorpe wrote: Should contributors to the reflector disclose and commercial ham radio affiliation when they sign their posts? __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679, P3 #546 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] Thought for possible feature - Do you want to update this setting Y/N?
Please don't!! Wondowz is bad enough now, I don't want my last bastion of Windowz hideaway removed...:-) We don't really want the Bill Gates mentality in our beloved K3 now do we? Gary Not computer literate...and staying that way!! On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 6:05 AM, Radio Amateur N5GE n...@n5ge.com wrote: On Sat, 23 Oct 2010 12:27:46 -0700, David Gilbert xda...@cis-broadband.com wrote: Put me down for a double resounding NO! too. My vote would be a resounding no. That would practically double the nuisance factor of an already deep and broad menu system. Dave AB7E __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679, P3 #546 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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 Shipped But Requires Signature!!!
Good Grief...what's next?...I shudder to think guys. Gary On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire r...@cobi.biz wrote: One person already suggested putting a signed note on our door. Another approach I've used is to contact UPS now, before it arrives, and tell them it's coming and you want it left without signature. They have a form you need to sign (driver will leave it in advance) and with that you can receive that and any other packages sent to you without signature. You can also tell them where to leave the box if your front porch is exposed, such as somewhere in the yard or on a back porch (assuming you don't have dogs in the yard) or some other out-of-sight location. Another option is to have it left at a neighbor's house if you have a friend home in the daytime. They are set up to do that and get the signature there. And then there's always your place of work if that's possible for you. Years ago I received lots of stuff while working at Hewlett-Packard and receiving would call me in the internal phone to tell me they had a package. Ron AC7AC -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of pastor...@verizon.net Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 6:00 PM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: [Elecraft] K3 Shipped But Requires Signature!!! I can't believe that Elecraft is sending my K3 requiring a signature! How do they expect a working person to be at home when UPS delivers to get a signature??? When I ordered the rig over the phone nobody told me that this is the way they ship. And to boot, I would have to drive over one hour to a UPS delivery center to pick up the radio. I certainly hope they will call me tomorrow and straighten this whole mess out. This certainly does not give me a good impression about the company. Just venting Mark KB3Z __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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: UPS signautre for delivery
Ken, Now that's too funny...:-) Gary On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Ken Kopp k...@rfwave.net wrote: Probably differs by locale ... Our UPS driver (Frank) just opens the shop/shack door and sets the box inside. Never have signed for anything ... in decades. Then there was the time a UPS operative drove off with Frank's idling truck while he was making a delivery. Frank's supposed to lock the doors as he steps out for -each- delivery. (;-) 73! Ken Kopp - K0PP elecraftcov...@rfwave.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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] P3 Beta FW
Doing a build of my P3 and wonder if the latest FW is .36? Had a poke around Nabble but no joy in finding any newer version. Appreciate any help from the group. TIA Gary -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] P3 - Displaying my signal
Don, Oh YES PLEASE.this has always been number one on my list of P3 features. It would cause me to no longer be called Grumpy...:-) 73s Gary On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 4:36 AM, Don Cunningham wb5...@martineer.netwrote: Alan, Is there a possibility down the road of displaying our signal so we might better see what we are sending?? 73, Don, WB5HAK __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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 K3] Volume Level with NR
Hmmm...this topic appears from time to time and in the early days I think it was relevant. Since Lyle has has worked on the DSP and introduced F1-x for CW and 5-x up for SSB there has been a huge improvement. Perhaps the settings used by those experiencing a big drop in audio levels are different to mine BUT I have just checked 7.055 listening to an Indonesian station close to the noise floor. The result is I hear a lot of band noise and a soft and difficult to understand SSB conversation, when I use NR (5-2) the noise drops significantly and the voice is marginally softer but now understandable. and a QSO would be easy to do providing the other station would be able to copy me. I am sure that Lyle will revisit the Algorithm and see if indeed any improvements can be made BUT for now I am quite satisfied with the NR functionality. Having said this, we all experience different band conditions and what works for one person may not work for all of us. My 2 cents worth...keep the change 73's Gary On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 8:15 AM, WILLIS COOKE wrco...@yahoo.com wrote: That sure is not what I have observed. My signals drop about 2 S units if they are strong. If they are near the noise level they disappear. I am running F 1-1. It is worse if I run a higher NR level. Willis 'Cookie' Cooke K5EWJ From: W4GRJ w4...@satterfield.org To: Dale Wiese dwies...@mac.com; Elecraft Email elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Mon, October 4, 2010 4:54:21 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] [Elecraft K3] Volume Level with NR Dale, Just for reference, my experience with the K3 NR is outstanding. I cannot notice any reduced volume on the tuned signal. The NR on my K3 does a great job of whacking out the noise without effecting the signal level. You may need to do some checking of settings and calibration, I am sure there are folks here that can help you. Jack W4GRJ -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Dale Wiese Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 2:31 PM To: Elecraft Email Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Volume Level with NR Wayne, I am going to disagree - I think its a real issue, and an area for K3 improvement. While I have not been to Jim's shack to hear what he is hearing, it sounds like what I have always observed, at least for SSB reception. Engaging the NR significantly reduces the overall audio level. When I engage the NR on my MkV or FT-847, the band noise drops away, but the perceived volume of the monitored voice stays about the same. It is rare that I need to touch the volume control. Yaesu NR is reasonably effective for turning a marginal signal into something that can be copied, and turning a strong signal with high band noise into something more pleasant to listen to. On the K3, engaging the NR in SSB drops both the noise and the apparent voice level substantially, requiring that the volume control be turned up [a lot] to copy the voice. But then the noise is also increased. Frequently it feels like the NR has done little to no good, but it is hard to tell. Perhaps the ratio between the band noise and the desired signal is improved, but overall I would say its not. Or not very much. The NR difference on SSB between the K3 and the Yaesu products I have used is large, and the K3 loses. It is the _only_ K3 feature I find which is sub-par, and only for SSB - NR for CW seems much more effective. 73, Dale N9XD On Oct 4, 2010, at 9:13 AM, Wayne Burdick wrote: Jim, Some drop in apparent volume level is typical with NR. Part of the drop is due to the removal of noise. Part of it may be a psychoacoustic effect (sorry, I'm not an expert on this). You might also try setting F5-1. Settings from F5-x to F8-x use a different algorithm. 73, Wayne N6KR On Oct 4, 2010, at 9:04 AM, Jim Harris wrote: Hi, I've noticed recently that when I press NR the volume level drops what could be called a considerable amount. I normally use NR setting of F-1-1 or -2. More than that tends to almost mute the receiver. I find that the volume control needs to be increased about 70 degrees or so to give the same loudness as before the NR was pressed with the above settings. I have to manually change the volume every time I engage or disengage the NR. I realize that most likely there should be some decrease in loudness but this seems to be excessive. Does anyone have any meaningful experience or recommendations they can pass along. Thank you. Take Pride in the USA! 73, Jim, W0EM __ 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:
Re: [Elecraft] SSB transmit audio - Where's the punch?
Nate, Could this be alleviated when using a Turner +3 microphone. in the case of a soft spoken operator? After reading your post I went and plugged the Turner in and immediately noticed a more punchy audio.. Does this sound right to you?..I am definitely guilty of speaking too softly..:-( 73's Gary On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Nate Bargmann n...@n0nb.us wrote: You're absolutely correct, David. Some people are just reluctant to get their diaphram into the act and speak with confidence, not just voice volume. I know some folk who will speak at a good volume until they grab the mic and then seem to drop 10 dB or so by speaking in almost a hushed tone of voice. As amateur rigs generally don't use compression amps in the mic circuits, a strong, confident voice level is essential to modulating the radio correctly. I tell new ops to belly up to the microphone as an SSB rig's power output is directly related to how well they speak in the mic. Some seem to get it and others don't. Even on FM I have tried to tell ops to speak up which they will for a bit and then lapse back into a whisper which is next to impossible to copy in a noisy vehicle. 73, de Nate -- The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true. Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://n0nb.us/index.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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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]TenTec Hamfest
NO, not yet. Objective discussion on the merits of design philosophy and construction and operability etc is helpful to many of us. Of course the Delete key is an option we all know how to use. I think Eric will wait till the postings become an issue with regard to the reflector guidelines and at that point he will slap us on the wrist for being naughty boys...Grin I have learnt a couple of things so far on the postings and that is a good thing for me. 73's Gary On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 6:21 AM, Mike Harris mike.har...@cwimail.fk wrote: The subject needs booting off the Elecraft reflector also. Regards, Mike VP8NO - Original Message - From: Steve Ellington n...@carolina.rr.com To: k6...@foothill.net; Elecraft Reflector elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 2:32 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] [OT]TenTec Hamfest The main TenTec group is on contesting.com. It's moderated and if you say anything negative about tentec they will boot you off. I made the mistake of complaining about their chirpy Omni VI+ and got the boot. Haven't had much to do with them for years now. There are Yahoo groups for individual TT rigs. Go to groups.yahoo.com and do a search for Eagle. Steve N4LQ - Original Message - From: Fred Jensen k6...@foothill.net To: Elecraft Reflector elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 12:34 PM Subject: [Elecraft] [OT]TenTec Hamfest Does TenTec have their own reflector? 73, Fred K6DGW - Northern California Contest Club - CU in the 2010 Cal QSO Party 2-3 Oct 2010 - www.cqp.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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] List SPAM again
I guess everyone got the email or am I just special? Seems to have come from (g3pjt @ btinternet. com) But not being computer literate (it's still a black art for me) I could be wrong...yet again. No Biggie, delete key is still working. 73's Gary -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] 700 Hz roofing filters
More to the point. Examine the filter shape AFTER installation and measure the actual skirt and width installed. I think this will tell what benefit it will be. 73's Gary On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 7:39 AM, Andrew Moore andrew.n...@gmail.com wrote: 10/4500 = 0.2% of K3s shipped. Popular? They were never offered with the K3s; this is a first run of this type of filter available for the K3. 10/10 * 100 = 100%;) __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] 700 Hz roofing filters
I have the same configuration as Wayne it would appear and use the same settings I think. YMMV 73's Gary On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Wayne Burdick n...@elecraft.com wrote: 700 Hz is a useful CW/DATA filter bandwidth, certainly. I'm not surprised that some K3 owners are interested in this. Personally, I prefer much narrow CW/DATA bandwidths, and I use all modes. The lineup I use (and generally recommend) is: FL1 13 kHz (FM) FL2 6 kHz (AM/ESSB) FL3 2.7 or 2.8 kHz (SSB and casual CW/DATA tuning) FL4 400 or 500 Hz (normal CW/DATA) FL5 200 Hz (CW/DATA in heavy QRM) 73, 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] MCU 4.12 DVR Mon
I have tried the new FW option Wayne has added and agree, it is of great benefit to the way I operate. I use the DVR a lot and find it is now greatly improved as I don't want to listen to my own voice on TX...if you heard my voice you would understand...:-) 73's Gary On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Wayne Burdick n...@elecraft.com wrote: Hi Martin, The new DVR MON adjustment (set up using CONFIG:TX DVR) only applies to DVR playback in transmit mode. DVR playback in receive mode can be accomplished with the AF GAIN control. The reason we added this feature is that some operators only want TX monitoring when the DVR is playing back, rather than at all times. Or, they want different levels for regular transmit MON versus DVR MON. 73, Wayne N6KR On Sep 21, 2010, at 2:02 PM, DM4iM wrote: Elecrafters, when hitting AF PLAY i notice that you can only adjust the DVR MON level when you are actually transmitting. There is no change in volume while you receive. In other words, when you test this new feature , you need to TX . Of course, you can set PWR to 0 or use TEST mode. Intended? Do i miss something? -- 73, Martin DM4iM __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] 700 Hz roofing filters
I feel compelled to state my objection to any TX capability from ALL amateur transceiver manufacturers to NEVER allow TX bandwidth in excess of 3Khz..period. ESSB is unwarranted and a waste of bandwidth and creates havoc wherever it is used. In VK we have a small minority who insist on ESSB operation and whilst we can all find alternative frequencies not suffering from QRM it should be no surprise to all that sure enough, on 17M were two stations running ESSB on 18.130 or right in about the centre of the SSB portion of the band. We all love to experiment with different modes but I have to admit I must be pretty darn slow (or worse) as I do not see why EESB is worth experimenting with. But then I may be just too slow..or worse..to understand. My 2c worth...keep the change (Flame Suit on) 73's Gary On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF vk4bof.elecr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Joe et al, I'm going to hazzard a guess here as to why Elecraft dont allow the 13KHz filter for AM/ESSB TX. Because it's illegal. SSB is called mode A3J in most of the legal documents that govern our hobby. The reason why the mode is called A3J in all the legal stuff is that the 3 is the maximum bandwidth in khz that is permitted.) Thus, anything more than the 3KHz SSB bandwidth is against the laws that govern us. The F.C.C. in the US of A and here in Australia, A.C.M.A. both allow a maximum of 3KHz for SSB TX bandwidth on any HF band. So it would be a fair bet then that because the K3 is a FCC type approved radio that part of that type approval includes that it must not transmit SSB bandwidths that are wider than permitted. My $0.02c worth (Plus GST/VAT/Sales Tax as applicable) Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF Innisfail, QLD, Australia Elecraft K3# 4257 - Original Message - From: Joe Subich, W4TV To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 9:44 AM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] 700 Hz roofing filters In general I agree with Wayne although I prefer to have a more narrow bandwidth option for SSB (1.8 or 1.5 KHz). In order to make room for the 1.5/1.8 KHz filter, I deleted the AM filter and use only the FM filter for the low priority modes wider than 2.8 KHz. However, it continues to frustrate me that Elecraft have *STILL* not allowed us to use the 13 KHz filter for AM/ESSB transmit (officially). In any case, given the measured performance of the INRAD/Elecraft 250 Hz filter (about 350 to 375 Hz), I can certainly see the utility of something like: FL1 13 kHz (FM/AM/ESSB) FL2 2.7 or 2.8 kHz (SSB and casual CW/DATA tuning) FL3 1.8 or 1.5 KHz (Narrow SSB and wide data modes) FL4 700 Hz (casual/normal CW/DATA) FL5 350 Hz (Narrow CW/RTTY in heavy QRM) While the 350 Hz filter would lack the absolute selectivity of the Elecraft 200 Hz 5-pole filter, it would be nearly optimum for 45.45 baud RTTY and still provide a useful narrow CW option. 73, ... Joe, W4TV On 9/21/2010 6:07 PM, Wayne Burdick wrote: 700 Hz is a useful CW/DATA filter bandwidth, certainly. I'm not surprised that some K3 owners are interested in this. Personally, I prefer much narrow CW/DATA bandwidths, and I use all modes. The lineup I use (and generally recommend) is: FL1 13 kHz (FM) FL2 6 kHz (AM/ESSB) FL3 2.7 or 2.8 kHz (SSB and casual CW/DATA tuning) FL4 400 or 500 Hz (normal CW/DATA) FL5 200 Hz (CW/DATA in heavy QRM) 73, 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 __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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 :: firmware update failure
Bill, You nailed that one. Manufacturers have no interest in giving the user a choice other than they expect us to load their software in the belief that when the next new model comes out we will all rush down and buy it. I do the same procedure as you have suggested and could not agree more. 73's Gary On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Bill K9YEQ k9...@live.com wrote: Chen, When it comes to cameras... all bets are off, as personally, I think they are bloat-ware and very processor overload. I have seen Canon, Kodak, Sony and Nikon programs which are so user friendly to make a great working PC turned into a sluggish piece of junk. I usually stop the startup processes of all of them and show my customers how to download from their cameras and sort their own so they don't lose the libraries and other dedicated to manufacturer systems which can be a huge hassle. Bill K9YEQ -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Kok Chen Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2010 12:34 PM To: Elecraft Reflector Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 :: firmware update failure On Sep 19, 2010, at 9/199:47 AM, Bill K9YEQ wrote: I find the process simple and it works well for upgrading any of the K3 devices. The procedures for firmware updating both P3 and K3 aren't fool proof. While better but still not 100% foolproof, the Canon cameras that I have can be updated by first copying the firmware file into the same memory card that holds the photos, and then commanding the camera through a menu to update firmware. It does take away most of the scare factor when updating the firmware. That being said, by now there are probably amateur rigs that update firmware through the ubiquitous USB memory stick. A memory stick could be a good way to save menus and configs of a rig, too. But you would need to add the cost of a USB connector and perhaps an additional $5 AVR microprocessor. That could translate to a burdened $20 on the end user, but it can save on support phone calls and companies can perhaps eat some of the margin :-). 73 Chen, W7AY __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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 beginners config setting?
Due to varying types of operating requirements it would be extremely difficult to come up with a One Operating Setup that would be any better than the supplied Default settings. I have tried many of the suggestions offered on this list from time to time and I would be very surprised if my now current settings were not a mixture of some of these suggestions. Without any intention to sounding condescending I firmly believe that new owners of any of the current crop of amateur radios should really follow the manufacturers suggestion to read the manual prior to operating. Certainly we get excited and need a quick fix by firing the rig straight out of the box. But still there is no way to replace fiddling with the new toy. The TX side is fairly straight forward and easy to enough to get right followed by small adjustments to get it just right for the individual. The RX is certainly more complex along with connecting and setting up auxiliary equipment and operating priorities and again there is no substitute for perusing the manual as you work through the setup. Some quick start guides may be advantageous to those who wish to speed up the learning curve but time spent in front of the rig listening on the bands is always going to get you to the point where you will find your own unique settings that work for you. I have found that starting with your most common mode of operation that you are most comfortable with will get you on the air quickly with little or no difficulty. Then simply work through other modes at a leisurely pace. Just my nickel's worth, keep the change..:-) 73's Gary On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Hank Garretson w...@arrl.net wrote: On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 2:18 PM, ussv dharma ussvdha...@yahoo.com wrote: Perhaps, since the K3 IS so versitle, there should be a setting for beginners. Using this setting sets everything to a reasonable setting for us that dont understand all the K3 settings. I dont mean a reset, but one for beginners. The Elecraft K3 default settings!?!? 73, Hank, W6SX Mammoth Lakes, California Elevation 8083 feet in John Muir's Range of Light __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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 77, Issue 27
Before we ask for Fn keys to be assignable to the K3 we may want to know just what added FW and HW are proposed for the P3? The future options may require or be better suitable with available Fn keys on the P3? Just thinkin out loud..:-) Gary On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 9:44 AM, 4CX250B 4cx2...@muohio.edu wrote: Hi All, I assembled and installed P3 s/n 497 this week, and it all works perfectly. Here are a couple of suggestions for firmware upgrades that I think would make the P3 more functional when it's used with a K3 (in addition, of course, to wider span range). I understand that some of these suggestions may not have broad enough appeal to warrant serious consideration, and I'm sure some have been previously mentioned. 1. The Center Frequency adjust isn't well described in the manual. Currently, it's really just a fixed offset from the K3 VFO A frequency, and moves as the K3 is tuned. To me, once selected, the center frequency should stay put. This seems so obvious to me that I wonder if the current implementation is actually just a firmware bug? 2. The Tap=QSY feature is nice, but it would be more convenient if the the K3 actually tuned in the peak being clicked on. Thus, if the K3 was on USB, it would QSY to the appropriate place on the peak signal's bandpass -- kind of an autotune, or AFC mode, analogous to that the K3 now uses for autotuning CW signals. 3. A Peak Search feature, which tuned the K3 to the biggest peak on the P3 display, would be useful on the 10m and 6m bands, where there is very often very little activity. A refinement on this concept would be a Peak Search Right and Peak Search Left mode. These are common features on spectrum analyzers. 4. Band Limit Settings on the P3, like those implemented on the IC-7700 and IC-7800. Here, one would specify upper and lower band frequencies (e.g., L=7000 kHz and U = 7300 kHz), so that whenever the K3 was tuned to a ham band, the P3 would show the selected fixed frequency range as a menu option. 5. Encoder default setting: It would be helpful if a menu choice could set the encoder so that it defaulted to Span or Level, when no other function had selected it. 6. Assign unused FN1 - FN8 to K3 functions. I suspect most P3 users will not assign all eight FN buttons to P3 menu functions. Since the P3 and K3 talk to each other via the RS232C port, how about using spare FN buttons to control K3 functions? In my case, I'd like to have dedicated mode buttons for SSB, CW, AM, etc., or possibly for band changes. 7. Color choices on the LCD. Currently, the P3 uses only white, blue and yellow. Assuming the display is actually capable of other colors, it would be nice to give operators a choice of other color combinations. (The current color choices are pretty, but a bit jarring next to the orange display on the K3!) 8. A brief explanation of spectrum analyzer terminology (since, the P3 is really just a spectrum analyzer) would be a nice appendix to the manual. For example, I suspect many users aren't familiar with the meaning of resolution bandwidth, why the sweep rate changes with span width, etc. I'm sure a short tutorial would be appreciated by many owners. Thanks and 73, Jim Garland W8ZR __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] P3: QSY knob mod
Hmmm, mind if I steal your idea?...:-) Gary On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Bob Cunnings bob.cunni...@gmail.comwrote: I use the P3 with a fairly wide span to spot and pounce on signals in the CW bands. The P3 is near the edge of the table and I find myself most comfortable when placing the heel of my hand on the table edge and twirling the QSY knob with the index and middle fingers to move the cursor around the band. This was hard to do with the stock knob, it seemed a bit small and I needed a little more friction also. While rummaging around in a drawer I found a couple of those dipped vinyl protective caps used made to fit SO-239 connectors was inspired. One of these fits snugly over the P3 QSY knob. It fattens the knob considerably and offers a lot more friction. I can twirl away effortlessly now, and tapping is easy too. Here's a photo link: http://www.whitemesa.com/nw8l/images/p3-knob.jpg Bob NW8L __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] KPA500
So buy an Alpha, or a Commander. or a Some of us don't have a kind regulator that will allow us more than 400W PEP...yep, some of us do comply...we are in the minority no doubt, but nevertheless we comply and the KPA-500 fits the bill nicely. :-) Gary On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Wes Stewart n...@yahoo.com wrote: Right, 500W is hardly worthwhile. Make it at least 2KW PEP. Got to make up for the tuner and coax losses and to live on RTTY. --- On Thu, 9/9/10, Greg n...@cableone.net wrote: Free market feedback...bring back the 1500 watt amp! 73 de Greg-N4CC __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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 - Ethic, Esthetic and Experience
Ian, Good comment...:-) Gary On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 5:55 AM, Ian White GM3SEK gm3...@ifwtech.co.ukwrote: Edward Dickinson, III wrote: I'd like to offer that my favored types of operation do not fit what are seemingly the foci of many of the participants that seem to constitute the Elecraft fan base. I am not a DXer, Contester, QRPer, CW or Keyboard Operator. In short, I am a nearly 100% SSB HF, Rag-Chew operator. December of this year will mark my 30th year as an amateur radio operator, though my exposure to the hobby began about 1960. The efforts of Elecraft are not wasted on me. Neither are they wasted on the DXers, Contesters, QRPers, CW or Keyboard Operators! The problem for Elecraft (and for this list) is that 4000+ owners have 5000+ different answers to the question: Which K3 is Yours? -- 73 from Ian GM3SEK http://www.ifwtech.co.uk/g3sek __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] KPA500
Phil, Many thanks for the good chuckle mate...unreal You remember where you put that penny jar now don't you?..or has age clouded the view? Seeya Gary K3 #679, KPA-500 (Photo) # On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Phil Townsend phi...@mac.com wrote: So I got me a ten watt k3... I like it... It is very good. It works. And I'm thinking of a KPA500. But to run the KPA500 I gotta get the 100 watt add-on first. Hu Is that a deal breaker? Might be. If I don't get the hundred water then I can't get fully output.!.?-¥xxx So the true cost of the kPA500 is way more... For me with just ten watts. I really only want ten watts. But when I feel the need, the need for speed (yeah I had to say it) I would like to hit the big lever marked kill and blast them out of their socks. Can't hear me OM?? He switches the amp to kill How's ur copy now om? The screenplay is in my head... Among other things. I would like to be able to upgrade with out the interim 100 watter. Yeah, I know, i won't work but I can ask those guys who sweat solder and cash flow and you never know they just might be able to do it. To me the K2 was a total mind melt...and the K3 is beyond my wildest dreams. Quite an upgrade from the old Heathkits I used to build... No disrespect meant the hotwaters and Indians that may be still lurking. Phil Santa Fe Build your own gear Grow your own food. Sent from my iPad On Sep 9, 2010, at 9:30 PM, Greg n...@cableone.net wrote: Free market feedback...bring back the 1500 watt amp! 73 de Greg-N4CC -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Doug Person Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 8:58 PM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KPA500 It's never as simple as that. I think announcing a product when its on its final approach is fine. I think getting tons of feedback on what you're about to invest heavily in is good business. Maybe the truth of the earlier amps was that there just wasn't enough positive response to them. Maybe this time they used all the input from the previous attempt to refine the price point and feature set. Maybe everytime someone here says the price is too high Eric makes another note. Or someone else says I'll order on the first day - is another note. This is free market research. Easy access to the most likely buyers. A big product mistake by a small company like Elecraft could sink them. I think they took a LOT of notes on the road to completing the K3. Nobody can argue with the results. And when the KPA-500 is released, it will be based on tons of feedback. Doug -- K0DXV __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] KPA500 thread...waiting for the END OF THREAD announcement
::-) Gary On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Wes Stewart n...@yahoo.com wrote: He says, as he adds his opinion. --- On Thu, 9/9/10, DOUGLAS ZWIEBEL doug...@gmail.com wrote: Far too many posts, most of which add little beyond opinion. __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] KPA-500 Features and Pricing
Plus a power supply and in VK land we pay very dearly for 100amp switcher. I would not see a lot of difference in an ALS-600 + Power supply and the KPA-500 with it's onboard power supply sitting alongside my K3...Grin Gary On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Doug Person d...@northroutt.net wrote: I use an Ameritron ALS-600 along with the MFJ 600 watt autotuner. Together, this combination just breaks $1500. It works superbly with the K3. The KPA-500 is expected to be priced around $2200. Worth every penny I'm sure and I'll be among the first wave to order it. But, it doesn't stop the ALS-600 from being an excellent, and less expensive by far, alternative. Doug -- K0DXV On 9/8/2010 1:12 PM, K4SC wrote: After 45 years on the air, I'm finally getting an itch to bump my power over 100 watts; 500 - 600 watts seems like a reasonable amount of 75 meter power for me. I'm seriously looking at amplifiers and tuners, but hesitant to make a purchase decision before getting at least some warm fuzzies about the KPA-500 pricing and availability. Been looking at a lot of new and used tube based amplifiers and 1KW tuners; getting the sense that I could spend upwards of $1500 for anything decent. If the KPA-500 is going to sell for close to that figure, or less of course, I can probably keep my money stashed and wait a few more months. It sure would look nice next to the K3 P3. If, however, the KPA-500 is going to cost much more than $1500, I will probably go the tube route. So, what I'm hoping to get from someone in the know is a ballpark figure on the KPA-500. I assume the antenna tuner is built in, and not an additional cost. If that isn't the case, then knowing the ATU cost would also be helpful. __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] Yamaha CM500
Good advice from Wes..100% Enjoy Gary On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Wes Stewart n...@yahoo.com wrote: Plug it in the back, turn on the bias and enjoy. --- On Tue, 9/7/10, Elliott Lawrence wa6...@roadrunner.com wrote: Received the unit today from BH. Packaging says it is an electret microphone! I thought it was supposed to be a dynamic element. Also the mike is a 3 contact miniplug. Thought that it would be a 2 contact (tip and sleeve) since that's all that is needed!! Any comments? Easy enough to return if it isn't as advertised! vy 73, Elliott WA6TLA __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] Big box K3
Oh no, not again. Didn't this thread end already? Been big, gone small..job done! Happy camper!...(:-) Gary On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 9:07 PM, Philippe Trottet trot...@unhcr.org wrote: K3 has been primarily designed for portable use/dx-speditions field days and honestly I'm more focused and impressed from the results than the design. Everything is functional and easy to access even with my big fingers and for those who are lack of space (it's not my case) it would be an add-up. A Steve says, to propose a base version would be a complete technical re-design of the K3 and really on the financial side what would be the market for a tiny company to invest in such a project ? Need to be sure to sold many thousands of units, enroll more staff, even new engineering equipment, larger premises, increasing exponentially the costs ... taxes etc... In that specific case, Wayne Eric are listening to most of our realistic comments and advises and the evolution of the K3 took our concerns to consideration that is the Ham sprit at a level where no major company has gone before. Human being is never satisfied of one's lot but I think we have to be modest and self adapted to the Elecraft rigs as they offer the best they can do. If they propose a new rig in the future it would be another issue and all our fears would have been analysed and well think over. Bst 73's Philippe A65BI K3#3616 *Elecraft, for Hams, by Hams...What else ? Steve Harvey n...@embarqmail.com 10-08-2010 22:18 I don't really have a horse in this race because I am personally very happy with my K3 (#693) and, knowing that Wayne's Engineering degree included emphasis on Engineering Ergonomics, I am satisfied that he has given us the best possible radio in the form factor that is most popular to most people who represent his target market. However, while there is nothing wrong with dreaming and asking for changes, I wonder how many of the Big Box k3 requesters have considered the magnitude of the effort required on Elecraft's part to deliver such a thing. First, the job would not be as trivial as simply re-packaging the insides in a bigger box. It would involve the design and testing of a new RF board and front panel in order to remove controls and displays to a different front panel (which would also have to be designed and tested) and to remove ports to a different back panel. Internal cable routing, shielding, and structural support would have to be altered with consequent testing as well. Cramming the P3, KPA500, and a power supply inside would only complicate things further. Also, because functions would have to be removed from menus and associated with front panel hardware, the firmware would have to be rewritten, which would require two versions to be maintained in parallel and alpha/beta tested for each release to keep them in sync. Elecraft is a small company, and most of the design and programming is done by only a couple of people whose jobs would grow enormously, and which would deprive other, more critical projects of their time and effort. Second, how much would the Big Box people be willing to pay for the upgrade, and how many could Elecraft expect to sell? My guess is that in order to amortize the time and materials to develop such an upgrade given the considerations above, each unit could cost as much as the K3 itself (possibly more depending on expected sales volume), which could bring it into the price range of some of the big iron with which it favorably competes, both cost- and feature-wise. I suspect that there would not be many takers at those prices. I'm sorry that some of the current owners of K3s seem to be disappointed in it. Every engineering project is a trade-off, and I think that Wayne and Eric represent the Burt Rutans of the radio world. Given that, I don't think that even Burt Rutan would consider adapting a VariEze (K2) or a Starship (K3) into an AirBus form factor, and I doubt that very many customers would buy one. 73 de Steve, NN0B -Original Message- From: Nicholas Farrar [mailto:nfar...@bfpacs.com] Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 7:32 PM To: elecraft Subject: [Elecraft] Big box K3 * So stop making noise just to be heard. What Im asking for would affect you anti-changer zero. And we all got it a few post back Phil... you dont like change fine. Then if you dont have any thing constructive to add, don't play. Some of us do want something new. Something more. The K3 is GREAT! But even the Queen of England could stand to refine herself a bit more. The beauty of what Im asking for in not the end of the K3. Its just enhancement. Why do some people fly off the handle of something so small. Take your toys and go home. Dont spoil our party on the idea of a larger K3(K3A). Phil Hystad* phystad at mac.com elecraft% 40mailman.qth.net?Subject=Re:%20%5BElecraft%5D%20Big%20box%20K3In
Re: [Elecraft] OT: following Amazon's lead regarding FOREX fees on international orders by cc
Yes Please. Gary On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Chris Wagner kf6...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Guys a fair share of K3s and other kits are sold overseas. The buyers' credit cards are denominated in some other currency like GBP, AUD or EUR. Henceforth, their bank often charges up to 2% for the currency conversion. On a $ 2,500 order that's $ 50! If Elecraft could get their cc processing company or bank to quote sale prices in the leading currencies by customers' transaction volume, folks would save thousands. Amazon is doing it... When their computer noticed me entering a UK cc, they offered to pay in GBP. Vy 73 de Chris (I spent over $ 250 on such FOREX charges over the years) 760 820 4980 __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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 Wiki Site
Hmmm...seems like I am not the only one who didn't know it even existed so I guess you can put me in with the group who didn't support the wiki. Then again I don't use any Wiki But I can take that without bad feelings. Gary On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Thom LaCosta k3...@zerobeat.net wrote: Isn't it amazing,after all our hard work that was ignored and unthanked...now I'm supposed to give it to someone else? The time for folks to participate was when we had it up and running. No thanks guys.I've had my fill of the Mouth full of gimmee and a hand full of take that's been displayed by both Elecraft and the K3 community. The wiki and the forum for Elecraft users was a classic example of No good deed goes unpunished. 73 Thom k3hrn __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] New Heil Elite iC pro set with HC-6
Joe, Good advice. I concur I have never been happy with any of the 3 Heil Mic's I have had. Too much money for so little quality..just my 2cents..keep the change!...(:-)) Gary On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Joe Subich, W4TV li...@subich.com wrote: Does anyone use the newer Heil Pro iC Elite headset with the HC-6 element? Elecraft does not have that model available. I imagine that you will have to set the bias voltage for the mic. The Heil HC elements are dynamic ... no bias! Can you use this with the K3 mic/earphone adapter? It's a mic PTT adapter (Heil AD1-K). How well does the Elecraft Heil Pro iC headset work with the K3? Do I need to spend more money on the HC-6 version? I'd strongly recommend the Yamaha CM-500 instead of any Heil headset. The CM-500 is every bit the equal of the Heil ProSet iC for less than 1/3 the price (ca., $45 at BH Photovideo). The CM-500 mic behaves just the same as the iC element ... roll off the bottom three bands and add some modest boost at 1600/2400/3200 Hz and you will have super audio with plenty of punch. 73, ... Joe, W4TV On 8/26/2010 7:44 PM, Linda and Bob wrote: Does anyone use the newer Heil Pro iC Elite headset with the HC-6 element? Elecraft does not have that model available. I imagine that you will have to set the bias voltage for the mic. Can you use this with the K3 mic/earphone adapter? Is that a separate option from Elecraft? How well does the Elecraft Heil Pro iC headset work with the K3? Do I need to spend more money on the HC-6 version? Thanks. Bob Wilderman, K3SRO dlrwi...@comcast.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 __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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 Wiki Site
That would be my guess. 73's Gary On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 10:14 AM, David Christ radio...@mchsi.com wrote: I wonder if this list with all the helpful people and the participation from Elecraft affected the interest in the wiki. The Drake people don't have that. David At 7:22 PM -0400 8/24/10, Thom LaCosta wrote: snip Just as an aside, I maintain a web site, forum and mailing list for R.L. Drake users.the difference in participation, help and gratitude is like day and night. snip 73, Thom k3hrn __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] Externmal ATU
Or wait for the Elecraft auto-tuner when released in the new year. Till then use manual mode. Just my 2cents worth...keep the change...(:-)) Gary On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Don Wilhelm w3...@embarqmail.com wrote: Phil, I am not certain if you or someone else originally asked the question - but -- The K3 can provide a lower power RF source for tuning. As others have mentioned - first set the Tune power in the menu. Then use TUNE (not ATU TUNE) and the K3 will transmit at the power you set in the menu. How you command the tuner to initiate its tune is quite a different matter. Perhaps RF sensing is appropriate - or one would put the K3 into TUNE and then operate the TUNE button for the tuner. 73, Don W3FPR On 8/24/2010 8:56 PM, Phil Debbie Salas wrote: The K3 should certainly be able to handle a relay-switched tuner on short-term tuning without a problem ... it certainly does with the KAT-3. I believe that the K3 tunes with low power (5 watts?) when using the KAT3. The thought of running the K3 at full output into momentary infinite SWR conditions as autotuner relays switch makes me somewhat uncomfortable. Phil - AD5X __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] P3 additions
Hi All, I would really like to see the P3 display the config and main menu with the ability to select and make changes (as did the FTdx9000D) and a waveform audio display on Tx and Rx. Both of course as optional displays so as to not take away from the current versatility of the P3. These features, when announced officially as future enhancements, would have me reaching for the plastic yet again. 73's Gary -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] Button HOLD time
Ian, I like your idea, would work for me and I would certainly change my default setting as they are now. 73's Gary On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Ian White GM3SEK gm3...@ifwtech.co.ukwrote: Don Wilhelm wrote: I can't help with eliminating the ATT hold button. But Elecraft could. How about this? CONFIG:HOLDDLY. Increases the HOLD time required to activate secondary functions of push buttons and knobs. Minimum (and default) is 0.5 seconds. Further option: for extra-long HOLD times on the BAND and MODE rocker buttons, tap [1] to multiply the selected HOLD time by 1.5; tap [2] to multiply by 2; tap [0] to reset BAND and MODE buttons to the same HOLD time as all others (default). For further protection against accidental activation of HOLD functions, see CONFIG:SW TONE and CONFIG:PWR SET (tap [1] to lock). Any K3 owner who hosts a multi-op station will understand why. -- 73 from Ian GM3SEK http://www.ifwtech.co.uk/g3sek __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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 - OK - who has P3 #83? Got #54
Good Grief!Grin Comedy relief on this reflector can sometimes exceed brilliance. Now to try and heal my sore ribs from laughing. 73's Gary On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 4:38 AM, Don Nesbitt n...@yahoo.com wrote: Shame on Ken for starting all this and shame on me for yielding to peer pressure. Got #54, want #83 - - - K3/100 #83 is lonely for it's sibling! Reply off list - thanks - Don N4HH __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] P3 Manual Rev A3
I just tried the download and got the same error message here also. Not seen this before. Gary On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 6:02 AM, Mike WA8BXN hubb...@hotmail.com wrote: Are you using Google chrome? I have had similar problems when using Chrome, but no problem with Explorer. There is also an option that can be set in Adobe Reader to open in a new window rather than in the browser, that seems to work if one wants to use Chrome. 73 - Mike WA8BXN __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] Fwd: Fwd: P3 Manual Rev A3 corrupted - more
Yhanks Brian, all worked FB now. Gary On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 7:23 AM, Brian br...@elecraft.com wrote: Thanks for the feedback, folks! The P3 Owner's Manual Rev A3 link has been fixed and will now download correctly. 73, Brian, W6FVI P3 Production Manager Elecraft,Inc. Original Message Subject:Re: [Elecraft] P3 Manual Rev A3 Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:44:19 +0100 From: David Ferrington, M0XDF m0...@alphadene.co.uk To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net I can't download on a Mac either - tells me the file may be corrupted. 73 de M0XDF, K3 #174 -- I don't mind that you think slowly but I do mind that you are publishing faster than you think. -Wolfgang Pauli, physicist, Nobel laureate (1900-1958) On 10 Aug 2010, at 21:30, Mike WA8BXN wrote: Looks like its some other problem from what I described I have seen with PDF files and Chrome. I tried to download with Chrome and Explorer and got the same error. The Elecraft web site says the file is 2.5 MB in size, but the during the download the size was around 655 KB, so I suspect now there is a problem with the file on the server. 73 - Mike WA8BXN ---Original Message--- From: Gary Gregory Date: 8/10/2010 4:05:53 PM To: Mike WA8BXN Cc:elecraft@mailman.qth.net cc%3aelecr...@mailman.qth.net; Don Cunningham Subject: Re: [Elecraft] P3 Manual Rev A3 I just tried the download and got the same error message here also. Not seen this before. Gary On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 6:02 AM, Mike WA8BXNhubb...@hotmail.com wrote: Are you using Google chrome? I have had similar problems when using Chrome, But no problem with Explorer. There is also an option that can be set in Adobe Reader to open in a new window rather than in the browser, that seems To work if one wants to use Chrome. 73 - Mike WA8BXN __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] Fwd: Fwd: P3 Manual Rev A3 corrupted - more
Good Grief...me thinks the correct spelling is ThanksArgh!! On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 7:29 AM, Gary Gregory garyvk...@gmail.com wrote: Yhanks Brian, all worked FB now. Gary On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 7:23 AM, Brian br...@elecraft.com wrote: Thanks for the feedback, folks! The P3 Owner's Manual Rev A3 link has been fixed and will now download correctly. 73, Brian, W6FVI P3 Production Manager Elecraft,Inc. Original Message Subject:Re: [Elecraft] P3 Manual Rev A3 Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:44:19 +0100 From: David Ferrington, M0XDF m0...@alphadene.co.uk To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net I can't download on a Mac either - tells me the file may be corrupted. 73 de M0XDF, K3 #174 -- I don't mind that you think slowly but I do mind that you are publishing faster than you think. -Wolfgang Pauli, physicist, Nobel laureate (1900-1958) On 10 Aug 2010, at 21:30, Mike WA8BXN wrote: Looks like its some other problem from what I described I have seen with PDF files and Chrome. I tried to download with Chrome and Explorer and got the same error. The Elecraft web site says the file is 2.5 MB in size, but the during the download the size was around 655 KB, so I suspect now there is a problem with the file on the server. 73 - Mike WA8BXN ---Original Message--- From: Gary Gregory Date: 8/10/2010 4:05:53 PM To: Mike WA8BXN Cc:elecraft@mailman.qth.net cc%3aelecr...@mailman.qth.net; Don Cunningham Subject: Re: [Elecraft] P3 Manual Rev A3 I just tried the download and got the same error message here also. Not seen this before. Gary On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 6:02 AM, Mike WA8BXNhubb...@hotmail.com wrote: Are you using Google chrome? I have had similar problems when using Chrome, But no problem with Explorer. There is also an option that can be set in Adobe Reader to open in a new window rather than in the browser, that seems To work if one wants to use Chrome. 73 - Mike WA8BXN __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] Amplifier
KPA-500..new Elecraft Slogan...I JUST WANT ONE! Oh well, back in my cave. Gary On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Tony Fegan VE3QF jafe...@rogers.comwrote: If we want to split hairs, the 1K-FA is actually advertised as having a gain of 16dB!! So they are not hiding anything. 73 Tony Fegan VE3QF Brett Howard wrote: Why be sorry I'm only wondering... I'd thought that over 15dB of gain was against the rules. 10W is 40dBm thus +15dBm is 55dBm or a little over 300Watts. ~Brett (N7MG) On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 5:58 PM, W4GRJ w4...@satterfield.org wrote: The Expert 1K-FA is FCC Certified.maybe my meter is not accurate Jack W4GRJ On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:37 PM, W4GRJ w4...@satterfield.org wrote: Depends on the Amplifier, I have a SPE Expert 1K-FA.10watts drive = 500 watts out Jack W4GRJ __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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 endless menus
For all the money it cost's...check out the FTdx9000 menue display...IF your eyesight can see them, they are numbered also...good idea, bad engineering, and don't even start about the cost of the radioGrin The K3 sure does have a lot of great features and for me they are all easy to follow and read etc. 73's Gary On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Rick Tavan N6XI rta...@gmail.com wrote: Remember the menus in the FT-1000MP? All numeric and very obscure. The K3 is a sweet dream in comparison. /Rick N6XI On 8/10/10, eric manning eric.mann...@engr.uvic.ca wrote: Don Wilhelm said: Brett, I think the K3 gets an undeserved bad rap for the menus. The main menu has only 13 items in it, and those are the items most likely to be changed during operation. ___ I agree. I was intially overwhelmed by the CONFIG menus. However, after I got my K3 tailored just the way I wanted it - took about a month elapsed time - I only change a parameter very occasionally, except for two which I assigned to the PF buttons. [QSK + and SPKRS ON ] -- Rick Tavan N6XI Truckee, 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] Big Box K-3
Lu, You know you really should not smile so much at 2AM, it can be heartbreaking for some. (Not to even mention a back or two?) Grin Gary On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Lu Romero lrom...@ij.net wrote: Reading this duscussion brings to mind possible magazine headlines: QST: Elecraft builds a Big Front Panel K3! Car and Driver: We drive the new Ferrari Motorhome! Flying: Meet the new Cessna Jumbo Jet! MacUser: First look: The Apple Refrigerator Freezer! My 57 year old bi-focal assisted eyes and arthritis riddled fingers can work the existing panel just fine, thank you very much... And after this weekend's NAQP, where I watched a partner schelpp his Yaesu 1000MP, draging it into the shack and lifting it up to the table, then puting it back into a car at 2am, that is, after watching the other guys move the ICOM 7700 that was on the table originally before the contest and then putting it back on that table at 2am, Im S happy to own a K3! -lu-w4lt- K3 S# 3192 Message: 19 Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:09:06 - From: GD0TEP gd0...@manx.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Big Box K-3 To: 'elecraft' elecraft@mailman.qth.net Message-ID: 032401cb38b7$200a2ee0$601e8c...@net Content-Type: text/plain;charset=us-ascii snip because they want the band scope built in or some thing else. So, I've said more than my peace. Elecraft if you ever build a larger case count me In. Yes, I'd have one.. I miss the scope on the front of my 756pro2. Well, I don't actually as it sits next to the K3. :-) but I sure would love a larger K3. 73, Andy http://gd0tep.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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] Big box K3
Well said...I never once wanted to move my FTdx9000D, except out the door when I found a buyer. The heat generated by these big box radios, the weight, the physical size etc, all these make the radio impractical for portable use. The large screen display provided by these high end radios are not a patch on the P3 performance and practicality and if you were to measure the total width of a K3, P3 and a KPA-500 and maybe even a desktop tuner and you soon realise that desktop space is going to be at a premium and you still need more space for Laptop for logging? I believe Elecraft have designed the K3 in as small a footprint as practical and with good reason, I think they have expressed their intention to not release a K4 big box radio, again, with good reason. Just one operators opinion. 73's Gary On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 9:19 AM, r miles greenacres...@charter.net wrote: Being a six footer able a palm a basketball in my youth I don't find the K3 too crowded. I don't have small hands to say the least. I seem to be able to use the radio just fine. At least in the 18 months I've owned one. Our radio club is small. At Field Day we've used two K3s a K2. No complaints from the various operators. No big box 50+ lb. radios brought out tho. Too heavy to lug around I guess. When I contest I log with a laptop. Being an awful typer I watch what I type. For me a P3 I' d move for my best view would be better than having to stare at the transceiver straight on. If you ever wanted to try DXing from a DX location bet you can't drag a 60 lb. radio as a carry on. K3, switcher PS acc. under 20 lb.s Being a lefty only partly ambidexterous my only K3 complaint is the message pad is set for rightys. Oh well just a small problem. In my 51 years of hamming I've sat in front of just about everything made. I'm keeping my K3... K9IL PS: Going to be ruff dragging that little KPA 500 around instead of a big box 80 lb. amplifier. __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] Big Box K-3
Hopefully soon. Gary On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Jim Cox jcox...@bellsouth.net wrote: Amen, will this thread never end! Jim K4JAF - Original Message - From: David Gilbert xda...@cis-broadband.com To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 7:00 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Big Box K-3 I don't understand why this keeps coming up. Search the archives under K4 and you'll discover that the topic has been flogged to death several times, and after each extended thread Elecraft announced that they have zero intention ... none, nada, zilch ... of spending time and effort on a big box K3. 73, Dave AB7E On 8/9/2010 4:28 PM, r...@aol.com wrote: Hi Elecrafters, I think it's great to dream... that's what gave us the magnificant K-3! I'd love to have my small K-3 plus purchase a Big Box K-3. Some of my Big Box K-3's dream features would include: -Larger box with more spacing between controls. (keep the same location for the controls just space them out) -Band switch for each band. -Mode switch for each mode. -Bigger LED display for: SWR, Power Output, ALC, Proxessor. -Built-In Power Supply. -Both 10dB and 20dB Attenuators. -200 watts transmitter output. Thank You Elecraft! 73, Dick- K9OM Hi John and others, I myself am very pleased in general with the operation and layout of the K3. It has stood 3 years of discussion and criticism and in general has passed with flying colours. That said, there is always room for add-on improvement. I don't think anyone is suggesting a change in the present layout of the K3. If you are 100% happy with what you have there is no need for further discussion. The main improvement for some of us is to the ergonomics of the front panel. The suggestion is for a larger front panel either as an option to replace the present panel or for a stand-alone panel/case that could even be used for remote control. Maybe we could get to use that RJ45 socket which has kept us intrigued for so long. Why do radios have a vertical front panel? A panel set at 45 degrees would be much easier to see and operate. In recent years (I'm 79) my various body senses have started to deteriorate (I don't think I am alone!). My sight is not good. My sense of touch and manual dexterity has also deteriorated. Yes I manage to type but with the ring finger of each hand. It is difficult to change the width control on the K3 without moving the VFO. I cured this by fitting extra large and long knobs on the width and shift controls. Not pretty but it works. My only gripe with regard to the buttons is the control of VOX (aka the sneeze/cough button). The VOX always seems to take so long to disable and if the sneeze comes too soon you end up changing bands. I don't like foot switches which is another option. So, there is lots to dream about. Unfortunately it would be very difficult for an individual to design and build his own version of front panel. Any takers? 73 Tony Fegan VE3QF __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] Big Box K-3
Brett, I think somewhere in the archives there is a comment from Elecraft regarding the PF buttons on the P3 being able to operate some features/menus on the K3?. This will of course be a future FW version. Modular is a much better way to go and Elecraft have done a great job. I would NOT go backwards to a 66Lb monstrosity that is so deep I had to buy a new desktop to sit it on otherwise I had no room for the base microphone. Tell me again how I miss that radio...NOT The K3 is a great size for me, and many others. I can accept that there is a small percentage of K3 owners that would like a larger faceplate, and then they want to add buttons and knobs and their opinions should be respected. Those of us who prefer the status quo should also be respected. A K3 with an internal 500W amplifier, power supply and a P3 would be rather large and heavy. The footprint and weight would render it pretty darn restrictive to ship out on a Dxpedition where weight and volume are more often than not of critical importance, let alone the cost involved in shipping etc. But we still get a lot of creative ideas on the reflector and that's a good thing eh? Gary On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Brett Howard br...@livecomputers.comwrote: The P3 has a keyboard port on it and will allow you to do that. Personally I like things more modular so that if/when I need to take things I only have to take the pieces I need. I'm ok with cables an really like the additional buttons the P3 brings. I'm certain that at some point one will be able to associate macros with buttons on the P3 and I also feel like the P3 could be integrated to also make the menus of the K3 more user friendly. ~Brett (N7MG) On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Lou Kolb louk...@gmail.com wrote: I certainly agree on the keyboard port. I'm currently using a k1el k40 external keyer with a keyboard because I'm a better typist than iambist to coin a term. It works fine but I'd love to just be able to plug the keyboard right into the rig and use that fine internal keyer. Lou -- WA3MIX - Original Message - From: Nicholas Farrar nfar...@bfpacs.com To: elecraft elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 8:45 PM Subject: [Elecraft] Big Box K-3 Im not asking for a K4. Im looking for a K3A upgrade. A larger case I can put the guts of my K3 in with a larger face(bigger screen and more buttons). This is not a completely new radio but a OPTIONAL upgrade to the K3 for those that want it. I understand a lot of people are happy with the size of their K3. Great they wouldn't want the K3A upgrade. I how ever would. I think a P3 built into the K3A face would be GREAT! Maybe the option to house either power supply OR amp! With the exception of the case and faceplate buttons and screen and power supply these are off the shelf parts. P3 is already in production and the KPA500 is rumored to drop this winter. I would also like a keyboard port. I want to be able to type PSK31 and RTTY with out an external PC. Imagine that! 500w RTTY in one box! Yes it would be heavy and some people wouldn't like it. Others would. Again Im not asking for a whole new radio. All that i'm asking for requires little development by elecraft, more repackaging. In the end would result in a top shelf KILLER. In closing the Elecraft K3 is GREAT! I am the VERY proud owner of K3 #4455(great number!). the K3 has exceeded almost every expectation I had for a kit radio. That doesn't mean it couldn't be even better. I think yes. I personally would like a larger desktop K3(a). I would like the be able to perform this fictonal upgrade on the K3 components I have now. It you dont want or need these upgrades... Don't order or install them. This is a challenge to Eric and Wayne. -- Nicholas W. Farrar Network Engineer / IT Coordinator Brown Folse PACS nfar...@bfpacs.com Office 318-595-0451 Mobile 318-381-9863 Fax 866-248-6128 __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] P3 - Will it be able to monitor K3 output
I am waiting for this feature to be announced before I order a P3. I don't mind the wait but until it is announced that it will be made available then I feel I have limited application for a P3 given my type of operation. From what I am reading though the P3 certainly looks like a valued accessory. Gary On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 6:00 AM, Joe Subich, W4TV li...@subich.com wrote: The rear panel would certainly indicate that possibility if the hole marked sensor is any indication. 73, ... Joe, W4TV On 8/5/2010 3:54 PM, David Wilburn wrote: Will the P3 (at some point) be able to monitor / display the output of the K3 (or any other radio)? Such as a band scope to check modulation levels or transmit frequency. Dave Wilburn NM4M __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] LPPan vs. P3
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 8:21 AM, David Cutter d.cut...@ntlworld.com wrote: I cannot reference this, but I understand there is a difference in sensitivity of the two systems, ie minimum discernable signal, so that should be on your list; also dynamic range or do I mean third order intercept? Don't forget there are several panadaptors out there like Perseus and they all have a price/performance ratio. David G3UNA Hi Folks, We have seen all these posts before when the P3 was first announced. Of great interest to a lot of us monitoring the reflector is real world comments from the new recipients of the P3 and any comparisons they may offer on the P3 vs after-market Pan Adapters. I personally have not ventured into the pan-adapter field as I don't want to use a PC for this purpose. I use my notebook for computer logging only when operating casual and in contests. I think I can see the advantages of using a pan-adapter but I would also want to monitor my TX/Tx audio in a waveform such as the SM-220, again, without the need to use a PC based system. The suggestion has been made to use the P3 with a plug-in keyboard to run PSK31 and RTTY, again, this interests me greatly and I see the benefits of such a system if and when it should become available. I read also where the P3 will have an extended bandwidth at a later date and in VK many 6M operators monitor 49.750 (Chinese TV) and 50.110 the international Dx calling frequency and so an increase in bandwidth would be a major carrot for those operators to aquire a P3. Add all the above to the advantages of running field operations (a common type of operation in VK) without a PC (some of us do paper logs for just Dx operations) and the P3 will suit a lot of potential customers. I base my assumption on the comments I have received from several K3 owners in VK4 that have expressed their interest in the P3 but have decided to wait awhile to see just what announcements Elecraft will make on any P3 improvements or added features. I also understand that Elecraft's focus at the moment will be on getting the current version of the P3 out in the field where they expect to hear back from the owners on any shortcomings they feel the P3 has. It is these individual customers that give feedback direct to Elecraft so that any improvements or added features can be placed on a list to be worked through as time permits. Originally I felt a P3 was not for me, however I must admit that in the last few days I have decided that I will most likely buy one when the picture is a little bit clearer on the P3's future expansion. Just my 2 cents worthkeep the change Gary VK4FD - Original Message - From: k...@aol.com To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 8:53 PM Subject: [Elecraft] LPPan vs. P3 I am using the LPPan and am very happy with the large screen, the interface, etc. I can also see the P3 being very intriguing. Perhaps they are two versions of the same thing, maybe they are meeting two different needs. I'd be interested in hearing some comments from folks who have tried both. How do they compare? I don't think this is a question of which one is better as better is going to be defined by your operating style and needs. Just tell us how they're different and what features of each you like or not and why. To start off LPPan P3 Dual core computer No Computer needed High end sound card No Sound card needed Big ScreenLittle screen k4ia Craig Buck Fredericksburg, Virginia K3 #101 __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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} Mic gain/noise on xmit
Don and all, I also use the CM-500 and run Bias L Mic @ 19 Comp @ 15 I do have a soft voice and do speak softly as well as I am in a quiet operating position. (Under the awning of my Motorhome) until the Cockatoos start to scream. Gary On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Don Wilhelm w3...@embarqmail.com wrote: Mike, That sounds like you have your MIC SEL menu set for H - try tapping the 1 button to change it to L so you can set your mic gain higher (and gives you more range). I don't know if it will help your noise, but it would explain the difference between your setting of 9 and the other fellow's 30. BTW, mine is set at 38 for the Elecraft MD2. 73, Don W3FPR Mike wrote: This afternoon, chatting with a couple of locals on 6M, they mentioned I had some noise on my signal. One said it sounded like a radio in the background, the other characterized it as a loud hiss, with some intermittent high pitched blurbs. I disconnected the computer(RS232 audio IO) and external speakers, and the noise was still there. I turned on the monitor and could hear it. I'm using a Yamaha CM500 connected to the back panel. One of the guys was using a K3, and he commented that he was using the Elecraft hand mic, and his mic gain was set at 30. Mine was set at 9, which gave me 8/9 bars on the ALC meter(ops). A gain setting of 1 gives me the desired 5 bars. Now the monitor sounds like mild atmospheric noise, with a slight static burst every now and then. Is the CM500 that hot? Where else could the noise be coming from? Does the monitor pick up from received signals, or just the mic? __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] P3 future features
Alan, I'll have one the minute you release the keyboard and text decode features for PSK31 and RTTY..on the P3...(:-)) Now stop reading these postings and get back to work..Grin Gary..VK4FD On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Alan Bloom a...@elecraft.com wrote: Hi Tom, I definitely want to add a readout on the P3 for the K3 text decoder. As soon as I have time (pant, pant!). I think a plus sign tuning indicator would be way cool, especially if I can make it look slightly sloppy to imitate the CRT analog tuning indicators on TTY demods of old. Simple, but would begin to wean the radio from the computer I like the idea of being able to operate RTTY or PSK with the K3/P3 from the field without a computer. I find that sending RTTY with the key paddle works fine, but the 7-character display on the K3 is a limitation. Text readout on the P3 would fix that problem. A keyboard option would be great too. You can get a miniature USB keyboard without the numeric keypad etc. that doesn't take up too much space. Too many cool features, too little time... Alan On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 12:46 -0700, tom kenville wrote: Eric co. observing that there is some indication of keyboard on rear of P3, is it your intention to provide support for (example) a complete PSK QSO ? if so, features that come to mind - display of received text - area to type/compose sent text - CQ, QRZ and 73 macro's - some type of internal logging that could be uploaded to computer also, neat if some type of X:Y tuning pattern was available ! Simple, but would begin to wean the radio from the computer 73 Tom Kenville -- W6TJK __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] Reward for P3 S/N 56
Heaps...Grumble...(:-)) Gary VK4FD On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Bill K9YEQ k9...@live.com wrote: What would you charge for a lifetime subscription to your service, Don? Bill K9YEQ -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Don Wilhelm Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 11:22 PM To: Vic K2VCO Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Reward for P3 S/N 56 AHHH Vic, You shouldn't have. Now there will be a real mountain of KX1, K1, K2, K3 and P3s out there with falsified serial numbers, and we can't tell the difference. I guess we still need to engrave our call onto each and every board in the assembly :-) . This should move to a new thread labeled K? identity theft - there are probably insurance companies that will provide tracking of that for a fee. Starting my own business -- I will track your Elecraft serial numbers for $10 per month and provide you with an annual report of any discovered attempts to duplicate your serial number :-) . 73, Don W3FPR Vic K2VCO wrote: On 8/2/2010 4:59 PM, George A. Thornton wrote: There could be a black market in fake Elecraft serial number stickers. I shouldn't reveal this, but they are easy to make. I have a little Brother P-Touch label maker, and it does an excellent job -- almost indistinguishable from the real thing. My K3 is so old (serial no. 7) that it came with an old version of the rear panel. Elecraft decided that they wanted everyone to have the newer one, so I got a replacement. But it didn't have a serial number, and taking the old one off destroyed it! The labelmaker saved the day. __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] K3DVR vs CW Memories
I prefer to use the KDVR for CQ calls and contesting etc. More natural audio is transmitted than my laptop recordings sound using N1MM...Just my 2 cents worth...keep the change...(:-)) Gary On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Brett Howard br...@livecomputers.comwrote: It only functions in SSB mode it provides no advantage in CW mode other than the fact that it can record over the air signals... ~Brett (N7MG) On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 8:11 PM, Stan Gibbs s...@ajaxsoftware.com wrote: I've read the manuals and searched the archives, but I'm still unclear what benefits, if any, the KDVR3 provides over the built-in CW memories for CW mode. I'm also unclear how the two interrelate; does the KDVR3 override or replace the CW memories when it is installed, or does it function only in SSB mode? - 73, Stan - KR7C -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/K3DVR-vs-CW-Memories-tp5371027p5371027.html Sent from the [K3] 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] New 2KW amp from the HB1A folks (YouKits)(PetrOurednik)
Eric, Yep, future generations will most likely blame us for not trying harder. Although I am obviously not in the US now, I have spent some 15 years living and working in the US (had my own business for 7 years) and I am very impressed with Elecraft products. The amazing thing about Elecraft is not so much their technology, which is top shelf, but their commitment to their customer base and their total support of all their products, old and new. I have been scratching my head for some time trying to think of a company in Australia, in any area of manufacturing that enjoys the level of customer appreciation that Elecraft receives from it's customers and I am afraid I have come up short, yet again. When I first read about Elecraft I was stunned to find out that not only were they a US company, but all design and manufacturing is actually done IN the US. We all know about components etc, but to manufacture their products in the US really surprised me. No more rice boxes for me...Grin 73's Gary On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 2:49 PM, eric manning eric.mann...@engr.uvic.cawrote: Tom W8JI said: If we want to see what manufacturing we have left survive I think you'd d**n well better want to see US manufacturing survive! An economy based on the financial products [aka snake oil] produced by the kids in red suspenders on Wall Street is a house of cards, a recipe for disaster. Nor can it generate enough worthwhile employment for the population. Future generations will look back on the outsourcing of US manufacturing jobs, the dismantling of a very large chunk of your economy for short-term gain, and shake their heads in amazement that the perpetrators were allowed to get away with it. And no, it is not off topic for this reflector - Elecraft provides proof by example that electronics manufacturing can be done profitably and well in the US. eric VA7DZ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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 Feature Request - Stopping CW Memory Playback with PTT
Andy, If tapping the Footswitch (PTT) stops transmitting of the DVR in SSB...I don't see why it should be any different for CW either. I think I would have difficulty in learning to use software (keyboard keys) to stop transmitting. Although I don't like to use VOX as I tend to mess up too often, if VOX was being used then maybe it too should be used to stop transmitting. The DVR in a contest is great and although I use N1MM most of the time I seldom use the function keys in the software. Obviously I am not a great contester, but I do enjoy the challenges it throws up and it certainly has helped me improve my general operating procedures and practices. I think it is fair to say it has knocked off a few bad habits I think I had gotten into. I think that puts me in your camp Andy? 73's Gary On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Brett Howard br...@livecomputers.comwrote: While this is true I still feel that any KEY_IN source be it PTT or VOX or the paddles it should interrupt the memory keyer. ~Brett (N7MG) On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 02:53 -0500, Bob Naumann wrote: The paddle is the most logical device to use to stop the CW from the radio's memories. In a contest, you should probably be using the CW sending capability of your logging program instead of the radio's memories as it most likely allows hitting of the Esc key on your keyboard to stop the CW which I'm sure you'd find more convenient. 73, Bob W5OV -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Andy Wood Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 9:57 PM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: [Elecraft] K3 Feature Request - Stopping CW Memory Playback with PTT I have recently entered into the world of CW and participated in my first contest using both SSB and CW modes. I noticed that you cannot stop the CW memory playback by activating the PTT (either from a microphone attached to the front panel or a footswitch plugged in the rear). It could only be stopped by touching the paddle. Could this be implemented in a future firmware version? There is also the possibility that there may be a very good reason not to. Andy VK4KY __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] added protection for rs232
Brett, I guess it's a fancy PC but then what was the 94 cents for...(:-)) Gary On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Brett Howard br...@livecomputers.comwrote: Holy heck what all did you have to get replaced for it to cost that much? Or was it mostly in time spent to find all the broken bits... ~Brett (N7MG) On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 21:02 -0700, Allen Griffith wrote: elieve that a surge from the AC line through the computer WILL damage a K3.to the tune of $984.94!!! __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] SDR with a Twist
Dan wrote: Lyle wrote: Low risk way to evaluate a lot of the technology for the KX2 and possibly the K4 IF section (QSD/QSE, no tune BPF and LPF, Si570 Synth, switching regulator A K4 in the worksPlease tell me more :-) - Show quoted text - Uh Ohthis is gonna get real interestingnow what what was that I read about cat's and bags N stuff? H I'm gonna lay down, I feel a headache coming...:-)) Gary On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Dan Copeland n...@mchsi.com wrote: Lyle wrote: Low risk way to evaluate a lot of the technology for the KX2 and possibly the K4 IF section (QSD/QSE, no tune BPF and LPF, Si570 Synth, switching regulator A K4 in the worksPlease tell me more :-) __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] 25 July 2010
Good trek Fred, best of luck and stay safe Gary On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Fred Jensen k6...@foothill.net wrote: Hi, I'll be in the Flight of the Bumblebees this coming Sunday, 25 Jul 2010. I have a bee number but you have to work me to know it :-). I'll be on Bald Mt, California [38+54+15N 120+42+14W 1,400m (4,592ft) AMSL] from 1700Z to 2100Z. Rig will be a K2 @ 5W, and a Buddipole in ground plane configuration. CW only, I don't have a mic for my K2, around 14.040, and maybe 18.080 if it's open. I'm pretty sure my batteries will last for the full 4 hours, they always have in the past, and I'll solar charge one while using the other. This will also be a Summits On The Air activation [ www.sota.org.uk ] of Summit W6/SN-047, my first since getting the mountain added to the W6 list. At the SOTA URL, click on Associations, and find W6. I'll be worth 4 points for any summit hunters. I'm a little mobility challenged, so I'll drive to near the summit, and schlep my gear to my operating spot [a schlep is less than a hike but more than a stroll] to conform to the spirit of the SOTA and FOBB rules. 73, Fred K6DGW - Northern California Contest Club - CU in the 2010 Cal QSO Party 2-3 Oct 2010 - www.cqp.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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] Some Interesting WRTC Statistics
Probably none as they did not supply Forklift Trucks from what I have read so far...Grin Gary On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:58 AM, N1JM johnn...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder how many K3s would have been there if they were the size and weight of the FT-9000? -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/Some-Interesting-WRTC-Statistics-tp5311415p5319345.html Sent from the [HAM] 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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 Locked
Hi, Well I have shot myself and managed to put the PWR, MIC controls into Locked and now I can't remember how to Unlock it. If somebody can take pity on me and remind me how to do unlock the K3 I would appreciate it very much. (:-)) 73's Gary -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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 - WRTC Customs Pro Forma listings
Grin...good comment I used to think I had superior intellect after I got my K3...now it seems they are multiplying at an ever increasing rate in my area...ya think I educated the masses too well? 73's Gary On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Wayne Burdick n...@elecraft.com wrote: Elecraft didn't influence anyone's WRTC rig choice. It's possible some of our customers did. If so, thanks :) Wayne N6KR Lu Romero lrom...@ij.net wrote: Incredibly interesting between-the-lines reading here. http://www.wrtc2010.ru/press/R3_license_for_SVO.pdf http://www.wrtc2010.ru/press/R3_license_for_DME.pdf What I find amazing in these lists is... __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] Regarding the K3 and high QRN levels
Nate, Whilst the K3 may not be the 'Holy Grail', I have owned enough different HF transceivers to know it is the closest yet to achieving that goal. It does take time to learn the capabilities of any excellent quality transceiver and the K3 is no exception, but over time you do learn how to use the many tools Elecraft have placed in the K3 and it has been a learning curve for me and when I now operate 'other' manufacturers equipment I am unable to find any of them capable of producing the quality of signals that I have become accustomed too. Add to the above my hearing issues, (Tinnitus) and the difference is truly remarkable in my case. The assistance provided by posters on the reflector is an added bonus. 73's Gary On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Nate Bargmann n...@n0nb.us wrote: Thanks to all who have replied. You have helped me learn more about the K3 and it's capabilities. 73, de Nate -- The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true. Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://n0nb.us/index.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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] 6M CW
Cookie, You are not alone. My sentiments exactly. Gary On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 5:29 AM, WILLIS COOKE wrco...@yahoo.com wrote: I don't feel that way at all. A contact in which only grids are exchanged leaves me with little satisfaction at all. I at least like to exchange names and QTH. I get enough of the quicky QSOs with contests. I don't need more on six meters or digital contacts. I know I am out of step with the avant guarde, but I don't enjoy six meters much because of these quick exchanges. Willis 'Cookie' Cooke K5EWJ From: Jim Brown j...@audiosystemsgroup.com To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Mon, July 5, 2010 10:41:55 AM Subject: [Elecraft] 6M CW On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 08:29:08 -0700 (PDT), Ken McGuire wrote: I was frustrated at how slow the chats were on SSB (FM was even worse) - it seemed like they were wasting a perfectly good band opening ragchewing Yep. Same here. Often, an opening on any given path may be there only long enough to exchange the grid and report. It's quite frustrating to wait to call a station that was S9, then S7, then S5, then S3, then fumes, while the time is filled with innanity. When I turned down to the CW portion of the band, it almost sounded like a CW contest weekend. Yes. I've gotten to the point that I spend most of my 6M efforts on CW, only tuning up to the SSB portion of the band when nothing is happening on CW. And thanks in part to the proliferation of K3s, there is a lot more CW activity than there was only 5 years ago. 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 __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] rather provocative advert from Kenwood
Interesting advertising by MLS Would have thought that even MLS would have recognised by now that when you want to promote a product you get more buyer response when the advertising is of a positive nature. If they feel that to sell their new product they have to use a negative advert, then I think they may find it doesn't work as well as they might hope.. I wonder if they truly think that K3 owners are going to sell their K3's to buy a Kenwood? Kenwood still have to produce their radio and independant testing will show if indeed they got it right. The TS-480SAT is not what I would call a great radio and yes I sold mine, the K3 is a great radio that is still evolving and being improved. I don't expect Kenwood will update their firmware too much after they are enter production.The TS-570 was also not what I would call a great radio, better than the IC-718 I found, but not in the class of any Elite radio. They will need to greatly improve their DSP user adjustments and do it far better than the TS-480 rigs which I found terrible to use. I decided to try the TS-480 I had for a week and not turn on the K3 as I was hopeful the TS-480 would make a good backup and mobile rig..I became disheartened after a few days and put it on e-bay. No regrets here. 73's Gary On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 7:51 AM, ussv dharma ussvdha...@yahoo.com wrote: Kenwood does not see the trees for the forestthe usual Kenwood non customer friendly support will probably prevail. One of the best things the K3 has going for it is CUSTOMER SUPPORT: END OF STORY SUSAN If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA --- On Fri, 7/2/10, Lew Phelps K6LMP k6...@me.com wrote: From: Lew Phelps K6LMP k6...@me.com Subject: Re: [Elecraft] rather provocative advert from Kenwood To: Elecraft elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Friday, July 2, 2010, 11:19 AM I downloaded this PDF file and uploaded it to a site anyone can access: http://public.me.com/lewphelps Has anyone seen specs and price for the new Kenwood? Lew Phelps K6LMP On Jul 2, 2010, at 2:11 PM, Grant Youngman wrote: Any chance this exists somewhere where creating a Google account isn't a prerequisite On Jul 2, 2010, at 3:43 PM, DOUGLAS ZWIEBEL wrote: https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0Bw6A6YLa6L3rZjhjNWRiMGUtODZiMi00OWM3LTljYmItNWM3ODY2YWU0YjVihl=enauthkey=CLe25YAE __ __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] rather provocative advert from Kenwood
The suggestion that K3 owners should consider placing their K3 on e-bay is not necessary. Perhaps they might have considered that many HAMs own more than one radio and more emphasis could have been placed on adding the new Kenwood to their station rather than implying that K3 owners sell their K3 to fund a Kenwood purchase even before the full specifications of the new Kenwood have been published and prior to release of the TS-590. I thought it odd that MLS found it necessary to even mention the Elecraft radio. I can't imagine what they hoped to achieve other than to promote the new Kenwood offering as the best radio available. Independant testing (Sherwood Labs, RSGB etc) will no doubt run their tests and if the Kenwood rates close to or even tops their list then this will do more for Kenwood sales than any advertising a dealer may make. I may have missed previous advertisements in the past where resellers have advertised a specific brand/model over another one. I can only assume that in this case MLS sell major brands but as they do not sell Elecraft they felt it necessary to promote the idea of K3 owners selling their K3's and buying a product from MLS. Whilst you/some may think I am being critical of MLS, I would say that at first read I felt it odd that the K3 got a mention. Given my past work history it is not the wording I would have used. Further, I would have accentuated the positives of the new product I was advertising with no reference to any other manufacturer whether I was a reseller of those brands or not. I was simply making a comment and I make no apologies. 73's Gary On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Wes Stewart n...@yahoo.com wrote: I had the same question. --- On Fri, 7/2/10, Al Lorona alor...@sbcglobal.net wrote: From: Al Lorona alor...@sbcglobal.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] rather provocative advert from Kenwood To: Cc: Elecraft elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Friday, July 2, 2010, 4:50 PM What was it about that ad that you thought was so negative? __ __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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 Repair
Hmmm, Still like to know just what the ratio of units sold vs units requiring return for repair. Not likely to see those figures I suppose but it would perhaps throw some light on the reliability of the radios. These figures would need to have the operator caused repairs shown as separate figures. I suspect the figures would be quite good (read low) when it comes to actual component failure. When you add upgrades, building of new K3's, preparing for the P3 I would imagine the picture would be a little clearer. Turn around time for my K3 was about 7 weeks, however, between 2 and 3 weeks was postage between the US and Australia and the Kangaroo's seem slow to deliver here when they have K3's strapped to their back...(Grin) Turnaround time by Icom in Australia was about a month the two times the 706MKIIG suffered terminal issues and Yaesu here are not too bad either. Kenwood is somewhere between slow and unresponsive from the stories we hear down under. The biggest difference I hear with Elecraft is that a lot of the problems can be resolved quicker if the problem can be isolated to a board so that a simple swap can be done and thus eliminates return to the factory for repairs. For those that are unable or not confidenrt in their ability to take the radio apart they at least have to opportunity to use the factory repair facility. Just my 2 cents worthkeep the change 73's Gary On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 7:26 AM, NZ8J n...@woh.rr.com wrote: Hearing at least a month before it hits the bench, was discouraging, stories of 7 weeks in the recent past is even more disappointing. At least I hope the theories are correct in that it is due to an unusual amount of upgrades and not an increase in failures. 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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] Low headphone audio level
H Guess I missed the point completely. Apologies to all Gary On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 2:52 AM, Steve Ellington n...@carolina.rr.comwrote: Ok guys...now calm down! I shouldn't have said anything. The K3's audio is just fine and there's plenty of it. I was just comparing it to the IC-7000. I never use internal speakers. Yes I know about the hi/low setting in the menu and yes I'm using an efficient speaker and no I'm not deaf. I'm just saying that some other rigs have more AF power and perhaps there is a reason. Looking at the K3's specifications, I don't see what the AF power rating is so it's hard to compare. So YESThe K3 has plenty of audioat 8:00 o'clock or whateverOf course at 11:00 o'clock I do turn it down! Steve N4LQ - Original Message - From: rfenab...@gmail.com To: Steve Ellington n...@carolina.rr.com; elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net; Tom W8JI w...@w8ji.com; n...@nf4l.com; Elecraft Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2010 12:19 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Low headphone audio level Steve, I have never found a radio with an internal speaker that I liked. The FTdx9000D came close. (But what a price tag) I have always used external speakers as well as put up with degraded hearing. The K3 driving various speakers (non amplified) provides good audio levels for me to the point whereby I can clearly hear voices at 10 plus metres from the radio. This was not always the case. I sent mine to Aptos for upgrades to the current spec earlier this year and the audio has been improved dramatically since it's return. I wonder if you have the problem I had? Mine (#679) is now superb to my ears. I run the AF at 10 o'clock or less with or without the CM-500 headphones. 73's Gary VK4FD Sent via BlackBerry® from Telstra -Original Message- From: Steve Ellington n...@carolina.rr.com Sender: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 11:32:56 To: Tom W8JIw...@w8ji.com; n...@nf4l.com; elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Low headphone audio level As far as I'm concerned, all the audio is weak on the K3. Using the same speaker, the little IC7000 blows the K3 off the desk. Maybe it's got something to do with current drain. The Icom does use considerable more power in receive mode and runs pretty hot. The K3's audio is quiet adequate but just not very loud. Steve N4LQ - Original Message - From: Tom W8JI w...@w8ji.com To: n...@nf4l.com; elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2010 9:16 AM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Low headphone audio level We sort of got sidetracked from the original posters remarks. It's about low headphone level on the K3. If the level were a bit higher there would be no need to plug the headphones into the speaker jack. Similarly each pair of headphones you grab seems to have a different level. I have 3 different headphones and don't intend to buy a forth. Naturally the one that is the most comfortable is also the one with the lowest level. And I understand that most people don't seem to have this problem. It might be better hearing or better headphones. A good audio line with lots of volume headroom is everything. I can't imagine spending so much time on everything else in the station and then not spending any time on something used and changed all the time like the audio output lines. I have never liked nor used the headphone jacks in anything from my boatanchors up through my FT1000's of all flavors and the K3. I've never found them suitable or flexible enough for my tastes. I always run the speaker line out to a switching system, and I terminate that line in a load safe for the radio. Then I bridge off that line with either a good big speaker and audio amp, or headphones. I have virtually no problems at all with any headphone bridging across the speaker output lines of any radio, and I can bridge multiple headsets at once. The toughest thing for me is to get guest ops to stop using the headphone jacks on receivers and transceivers, and to use the desk mounted jacks. http://www.w8ji.com/cables_and_wiring.htm I have to finish that page some day. :-) 73 Tom __ 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:
