[Elecraft] dayton seems rto be OT
talk about off topic posts...what about all the dayton posts. If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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] reflectors
Peter Some of us seem to forget that there are hams that may be beginnersto them it is ROCKET SCIENCE. Just like the hams that insist on 40wpm cw...no matter how slow the other ham is..anyway, thanks for your comments. If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA From: Peter Eijlander (PA0PJE) pa0...@xs4all.nl To: Ussvdharma ussvdha...@yahoo.com Cc: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2012 12:28 AM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] reflectors Did'nt we all agree somewhere in the very past to start our device specific messages with that specific device in the subject directly after the [Elecraft] signature? I have created filters in Thunderbird that routes all [Elecraft] mail to an Elecraft folder and all device specific to a subfolder with that device specific name. Unfortunately not everbody seems to understand or forgot about this simple rule... Do we really need to create a howto? It isn't rocket science... 73, Peter PA0PJE Op 20-05-12 12:03, Ussvdharma schreef: how about seperate reflectors for k2, k3, p3??? this single one is getting out of control in length If you don't change direction you'll arrive where you're headed!Sent from my iPad __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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] High sierra ads in qst
High Sierra often charges considerably more than their advertised prices the current issue of QST. They are also horribly deficient when it comes to customer servicea number of hams have voice this concern.BE CAREFUL IF YOU ORDER FROM HIGH SIERRA If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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] 6 meters
I am moving to HS0...they do not allow K3 import because it has 6 meters (not allowed in thailand). Is there a way to eliminate 6 meters from my K3 so I can try to get it type accepted? They do allow the K2. If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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] N9AA
N9AA...per your comments...then since you like cwbut it is an outdated modegive it up and join the rest of the cb=ers and get on ssb. Sorry, just venting my spleen. Pactor is in sections of the band normally not used by cw. I, myself am an avid cw user. Pactor users should, like all amatuers, listen firstDO YOU? I think there is room on the bands for all modes and uses. no non amatuer contact on the bands Guess you are a new ham and do not remember the NTS and hamgrams. If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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] PACTOR iii
eVERY ASPECT OF HAM radio is not for all hams.I do not do jf65However that said, Pactor III is a godsend for us hams that are cruising on our boatshere in the south pacific, I can send/rec email, and get all kinds of weather charts/info to make my sailing safer. Pactor III may not be for you, but it is for me If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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] PACTOR iii
Aloha: I use pactor III with both my ICOM 718 and my K3simple hook up on both xcvrs. If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA From: Johnny Siu vr2...@yahoo.com.hk To: ussv dharma ussvdha...@yahoo.com; elecraft@mailman.qth.net elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2012 1:30 PM Subject: PACTOR iii Pactor 3 is heavily used by the marine operators. I ran SCS pactor 3 modem with my Icom radios in the past and it was very good. Regrettably, there is still no specific cable to link up my K3 and the SCS Pactor 3 modem. To respect the intellectural right of the software developer, I would not expect 'free ware' or 'open source' from SCS. ham should be willing to share for free should not be applied here for pactor 3 which is not quite a ham product. Of course, I would not have any objection if SCS eventually let us have 'open source'. There are other digital modes for the ham community to choose and use. In fact, we can use Pactor 1 which is free but slower. We share our radio experience and knowledge within the ham community for free. However, just a statement 'ham should be willing to share for free' is just over simplied the situation. Elecraft, Icom, Yaesu and Kenwood do not 'open source' their DSP. This is nothing wrong, they need to recover their RD and protect their own intellectural right. TNX 73, Johnny VR2XMC 寄件人︰ ussv dharma ussvdha...@yahoo.com 收件人︰ elecraft@mailman.qth.net elecraft@mailman.qth.net 傳送日期︰ 2012年04月30日 (週一) 7:20 AM 主題︰ [Elecraft] PACTOR iii eVERY ASPECT OF HAM radio is not for all hams.I do not do jf65However that said, Pactor III is a godsend for us hams that are cruising on our boatshere in the south pacific, I can send/rec email, and get all kinds of weather charts/info to make my sailing safer. Pactor III may not be for you, but it is for me If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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] (no subject)
K3BI I would have thought one such as yourself on arrl, etc...would know that pactor/winlink does not allow any commerical type traffic. That is relegated to sailmail and marine frequencies. If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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] High Sierra in qst
Be careful...very bad experience with HIGH SIERRA advertising in QST If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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] High Sierra in qst
Sorri peoples...I was referring to co. named High Sierra advertising in QST...I find them somewhat lacking If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA From: Steve Reed ai...@arrl.net To: e...@elecraft.com Cc: David Cutter d.cut...@ntlworld.com; ussv dharma ussvdha...@yahoo.com; elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 8:09 AM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] High Sierra in qst I use the High Sierra HS1800 Pro antenna with my K3 at the QTH (I live in a restricted neighborhood). It works flawlessly, can't be seen by the neighborhood HOA cops, and has low SWR across all bands. Not sure if the HS1800 is made anymore, but from my experience High Sierra is a good company. Steve, AI7AZ On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft e...@elecraft.com wrote: I use the High Sierra Sidekick screwdriver antenna for my HF mobile. It is very reliable and works great. Excellent service from Jim at High Sierra too. 73, Eric WA6HHQ --- www.elecraft.com On 4/24/2012 10:54 AM, David Cutter wrote: Haven't seen it in QST yet, but I've used mine a few times without mishap. They are a bit noisy when tuning: the mast amplifies the sound quite a bit - shouldn't be fitted to a wall or chimney joining to your neighbour's. What is your experience? David G3UNA __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] k3 and yamaha cn500
Aloha: Yamaha cm500 is best headset found yetfor K3...works greatvery comfortable If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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] ts140/ts680 manuals
I know this is not Elecraft, however I have both operator and service manuals for rthe TS140S/TS680S. If anyone can use them, They are freeemail ussvdha...@yahoo.com If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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] control knobs lously
when adjusting the knob (power level) the value jumps up, down, slow, fast, all over the place. Sent rig back for upgrade ...came back and this is still a problem...anyone else have this? If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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] control knobs lously
This happens wheb in the rec mode and I adjust the power...course same thing hPPENS WHEN trying to adjust band width. If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA From: Guy Olinger K2AV olin...@bellsouth.net To: Ron D'Eau Claire r...@cobi.biz Cc: ussv dharma ussvdha...@yahoo.com; elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Sunday, December 25, 2011 8:57 AM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] control knobs lously Does this only happen when the rig is keyed, or does it also happen when you adjust pwr when K3 is in RX mode. If it ONLY happens when you adjust AND rig is TX, be sure you aren't suffering from RF in the shack. RF in the shack often presents as something totally weird, that doesn't seem to make any sense. 73, Guy On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire r...@cobi.biz wrote: Skipper, I believe that can be caused by a bad connection in the antenna system changing the load on the amp. That would explain the factory not seeing that behavior. I believe you are using a K3. Does it do that when connected to a dummy load (use a different cable/adapter than you use to connect to your antenna)? Be sure the KAT3 tuner is bypassed (if you have it). Ron AC7AC -Original Message- when adjusting the knob (power level) the value jumps up, down, slow, fast, all over the place. Sent rig back for upgrade ...came back and this is still a problem...anyone else have this? If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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] KH3 PERMISSION TO LAND
KH3 TO BE ACTIVATED. USAF has finally granted me 10 days at end of jan first of Feb to land at johnston atoll...will be a solo dxpedition. Frequencies will be14036, 14236,18090, 28450, 28036. One operate...me. RTTY, PSK31, AND PACTOR avail upon request. QSL will be via kh6cg.SASE REQ'D as this dxpedition is being fully funded by my social security...green stamps appreciated. If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA RTTY __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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] pactor on k3
Aloha: Prior to sending k3 to elecraft for updating I worked Pactor with no problems. Multi connector of Pactor Modem .to RS232 on back of k3 RCA Ptt of Modem..to PTT IN on back of k3 Audio of Pactor Modem...to line in (stereo) on back of K3 Now however, I can still do psk31 with no problem, but can not get any output when trying to use pactor. I hear everything swithcing, but no power out COMMENTS.HELP If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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] pactor on k3
My mistake in typingit is in the out jack of the k3sorry. If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA From: Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF vk4bof.elecr...@gmail.com To: ussv dharma ussvdha...@yahoo.com; elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Saturday, October 1, 2011 10:50 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] pactor on k3 Change the audio lead to Line Out on the K3. That *should* fix the issue. 73 de Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF East Innisfail QLD, Australia K3 #4257, KPA500 #161, P3 #1216 - Original Message - From: ussv dharma ussvdha...@yahoo.com To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2011 6:21 PM Subject: [Elecraft] pactor on k3 Aloha: Prior to sending k3 to elecraft for updating I worked Pactor with no problems. Multi connector of Pactor Modem .to RS232 on back of k3 RCA Ptt of Modem..to PTT IN on back of k3 Audio of Pactor Modem...to line in (stereo) on back of K3 Now however, I can still do psk31 with no problem, but can not get any output when trying to use pactor. I hear everything swithcing, but no power out COMMENTS.HELP If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] pactor on k3
Stupid meoperator head space...one of the cables from the pactor modem not connected.thank you peoples...you got me on the right track..pactor now working. If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA From: Dr. Werner Furlan fur...@gmx.net To: ussv dharma ussvdha...@yahoo.com Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Sunday, October 2, 2011 7:31 AM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] pactor on k3 hi Susan, PTT to PTT in RCA connector RX Audio - Line out RCA (stereo) TX Audio - Line in RCA (mono) Transceiver Control Connector TxD-V24 (pin 13) - RS232 pin 2 RxD-V24 (pin 17) - RS232 pin 3 TGND - (pin 18) - RS232 pin 5 When you have your cables right and get no mod out you have to check the microphone and Line settings in your K3. Mode is DATA A, USB Menu Function Sync DT -S on Menu Mic Sel Line in I suspect you have the mic selector wrong or Line gain turned low. When you adjust Mic Gain, Line should appear in the K3 display. 73! Werner oe9fwv ussv dharma schrieb am 2 Oct 2011 um 1:21: Aloha: Prior to sending k3 to elecraft for updating I worked Pactor with no problems. Multi connector of Pactor Modem .to RS232 on back of k3 RCA Ptt of Modem..to PTT IN on back of k3 Audio of Pactor Modem...to line in (stereo) on back of K3 Now however, I can still do psk31 with no problem, but can not get any output when trying to use pactor. I hear everything swithcing, but no power out COMMENTS.HELP If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA -- The problem with being in the middle of the road is that you tend to get run over. Email powered by Pegasus Mail free at http://www.pmail.com Homepage: http://www.qsl.net/oe9fwv/ Fone +43 5522 75013 Mobile +43 664 6340014 Fax: +43 5522 22505 __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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] ham radio delux
I am unable to get to a ham radio delux site.keep getting an error message from something like netnuke.net or whatever. can anyone access the ham radio delux site? Grandmaw susan If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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] What made you decide on purchasing an Elecraft transceiver?
Aloha: I wanted a state of the art rig...and my experience with the K3 and the customer service from wayne and daleI MADE THE RIGHT CHOICE. SUSAN If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA t: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] K3/Pactor IIe help
My k3 has worked great, however, now it will not do pactor...it is great on rtty, cw, ssb, etcbut when I try to do pactor the rig is keyed, but no output. Cant figure out MENU settings.any comments. Great Grandmaw Susan If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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] good earphones
finally found a good set of phones for K3Kenwood HS-5. Audio now at 9 oclock and volume is great...with the Heil it had to be 3 oclock and then volume was poor. susan If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA --- On Tue, 10/19/10, Terry Schieler terry.schie...@wirelessusa.com wrote: From: Terry Schieler terry.schie...@wirelessusa.com Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KPA 500 To: 'Guy Olinger K2AV' olin...@bellsouth.net, 'Joe Subich, W4TV' li...@subich.com Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 10:53 AM Guy, K2AV wrote: I want them PROFITABLE so I get to keep them. That's a message I've used in our business for many years. You NEED me to be profitable so that I am around to continue to serve your needs is a statement that I've ingrained in my sales reps. When you are not the low priced spread in an industry you are constantly faced with customers who admit that they really prefer your level of quality, service and attention, but keep on reminding you that somebody else is doing it cheaper. I had a customer tell me that I used to buy this model from XX for much less than you are charging me. When I told him that I then would recommend that he go back to that supplier and continue to purchase from him, the customer's response was I can'the's no longer in business! H. Wonder why he's out of business. Many hams don't understand that. Guy gets it! 73, Terry, W0FM K3 #474 -Original Message- From: Guy Olinger K2AV [mailto:olin...@bellsouth.net] Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 10:34 AM To: Joe Subich, W4TV Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KPA 500 There are a bunch of guys on this reflector, however decent and technically competent, that I would never want to run a business I had stock in. Decent folks, probably be great neighbors, and favored ham buddies, would trust my kids with them, but they would do what 85% of all startup businesses do, go bankrupt. There is a concept they are edging toward in their K3 nit-picking, and it's called mil-spec. They just don't want to admit it. A company that makes mil-spec MUST charge for it. A company that allows construction options MUST charge for it. The screws themselves either add bucks to ALL of the products, OR options increase production complexity and therefore cost for the option. However embedded, LABOR is the major cost of a radio. Even the cost of a screw has labor embedded in it. There ARE mil-spec radios that exceed K3 specs. You can buy them. You can get a LOT of that mil-spec in a K3, but not all. Exactly what part of that lot of a mil-spec was a business decision. If Elecraft were to go bankrupt, I'm fairly convinced that would make some posters happy. But bankrupt would bring further development and features to a crashing halt. And who repairs K3's then? Who will line up a source for your stainless screws and make them available then. There's a real easy answer for the malcontents. Are you peeved? Put it up for sale right here. I've noticed that they sell REALLY fast, usually in a couple hours for most of the retail price. Then you can go to another reflector and complain about Yakencom. They'll be happy to have you back. They might even put you in an ad about how you switched back to Yakencom because you didn't like the screws. OR, you could go out and buy 4000 K3's worth of stainless steel screws, drop your day job, spend several thousand dollars on advertisements for your new stainless steel screw replacement service, charge four times the minimum wage for your assembly time plus screw cost, and then wait for the business and profits to roll in to pay your mortgage and grocery bill. Myself, I hope Elecraft keeps making SOUND BUSINESS DECISIONS. I already know they have the technical moxy and the most customer-centric policies in this business niche. At this point, for me personally, their greatest worth is that they stay in business and keep developing. I want them PROFITABLE so I get to keep them. I feel good about that because Elecraft was developing products and making a profit right through the worst recession since the great depression on a product line that is completely optional to everyday life. They must be doing SOMETHING right smack on dead center to have half of all the transceivers at WRTC and made it through these financial conditions. 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
Re: [Elecraft] OT aluminum oxide
break free is available at hardward or auto parts stores If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA --- On Tue, 10/19/10, WILLIS COOKE wrco...@yahoo.com wrote: From: WILLIS COOKE wrco...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT aluminum oxide To: James Sarte k2qi@gmail.com, 2Cents 2ce...@charter.net Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 10:42 AM What is Break Free? Where do you get it? Does it always work, on only sometimes? Willis 'Cookie' Cooke K5EWJ From: James Sarte k2qi@gmail.com To: 2Cents 2ce...@charter.net Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Tue, October 19, 2010 3:35:01 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT aluminum oxide Hi Chuck, I usually have good results with Break Free and a mallet. I usually let the solution soak for a bit then tap around until the tubes dislodge. YMMV depending on how bad things have oxidized. I usually also put some anti-seize around joints when putting things back. James K2QI On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:38 PM, 2Cents 2ce...@charter.net wrote: Does anyone have experience freeing antenna parts that have seized with aluminum oxide? I'm trying to free up the sections of a 32' boom for transport. The sections are swaged 6 and penetrating oil doesn't seem to be cutting it. Please reply direct so as not to clutter up the reflector with a non-Elecraft topic. Thanks, Chuck Teague NN7U __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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 __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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] Help
Aloha: I have looked in the manual and must have missed it but: When I select 10mhz band , 12mhz comes up instead...how do I get the K3 to come up with 10.1mhz when I select tht band? Susan If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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] Problem
Aloha: PROBLEM 1. I rely upon my K3 for downloading weather charts, email, etc. I live on a small boat. 2. From day one front panel phone jack, TOUCHY. \ 3. Electraft said send it backno radio 3 weeks or more 4. Front panel phone jack finally totally dead 5. No schematic in manual 5. rear phone jack next to label that says stereo...is the phone jack mono or stereo...I dont know, cant tell. Now I ask: Why no schematic...I have never had a radio without a schematic in the manual. QUESTION: what is the rear phone jack mono? Stereo? if Stereo, which connections for a normal pair of phones. Wish I had never got this radio, but living on social security, I am stuck with it. Susan If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA --- On Tue, 10/12/10, W5UXH chuck.broadw...@gmail.com wrote: From: W5UXH chuck.broadw...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 AGC THR doesn't go low enough - SOLVED To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Tuesday, October 12, 2010, 4:08 PM Did 1.3.7.26 have this problem? I just used it for RF cal a few minutes ago. Chuck, W5UXH Bill W4ZV wrote: If you do get an XG2, be sure to download the latest K3 Utility (at least 1.3.10.11 or later) which correctly saves the parameters. If anyone else has done RF Cal recently (i.e. in September), you should redo it with the new Utility when released. 73, Bill -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/K3-AGC-THR-doesn-t-go-low-enough-tp5614723p5629318.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] need help
My k3 has developed a mind of its ownI have looked in manual but cant find anything to help. when I select 10mhz band I get 12mhzhow do I get the radio to go to 10.1mhZ when I select that band If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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] Fw: Re: need help
Aloha everyone: Thanks for all the help, I think I have the problem under control now. Real bad week, got robbed, lost over 500 dollars and eqpt, chased her for almost two blocks...at seventy five I am too old...had a small stroke from over exerting myself. a/c crashed, but I was able to fix that Bilge pump went out...still have to get to that Outboard engine on my dinghy died Oh, well, I am afraid to smile as things just might get worse. Thanks everyone for the help. susan If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA --- On Sat, 10/9/10, riese-k3...@juno.com riese-k3...@juno.com wrote: From: riese-k3...@juno.com riese-k3...@juno.com Subject: [Elecraft] Fw: Re: need help To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Saturday, October 9, 2010, 11:32 AM The damned thing does get ornery at times if I tune to the BC band or 600 meters it wants to go back there when I band change from 80 to 160,, my quick fix is to switch to am mode which allows for fast frequency change and tune the frequency up to 1.8 mhz and then it is happy again for me that is quicker than direct frequence enter but either works looks like band change is just that,, not so much a ham band change as a frequency renge Bob K3DJC My k3 has developed a mind of its ownI have looked in manual but cant find anything to help. when I select 10mhz band I get 12mhzhow do I get the radio to go to 10.1mhZ when I select that band If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA Get Free Email with Video Mail Video Chat! http://www.juno.com/freeemail?refcd=JUTAGOUT1FREM0210 __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] K3: DRM
aLOHA: Yes, DRM is alive and well...I wish elecraft would include DRM on the K3, being a single hand cruiser, when at sea for weeks at a time, DRM would be very welcome. Susan If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA --- On Sun, 10/3/10, Stephen Prior s...@sjprior.fsnet.co.uk wrote: From: Stephen Prior s...@sjprior.fsnet.co.uk Subject: [Elecraft] K3: DRM To: elecraft elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Sunday, October 3, 2010, 10:09 AM Having been tuning around 6MHz and enjoying greatly the P3, I rediscovered the existence of DRM. I read some time ago that DRM was dead in the water, but notwithstanding, there does seem to be a significant number of stations out there broadcasting. Susan mentioned this sometime ago I believe, and I don't believe I've seen an answer from Elecraft. Is DRM possible within the SDR of the K3? Or do we have to take the IF output and down convert? If that's the case, what's the best way to go? 73 Stephen G4SJP __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] K3 beginners config setting?
Aloha: 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. susan If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA --- On Sat, 9/18/10, ab2tc ab...@arrl.net wrote: From: ab2tc ab...@arrl.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] [K3] Why do they still use 1/4 inch phone jacks? To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Saturday, September 18, 2010, 8:31 AM Hi, 100% agreement with you here. The other real question ought to be: Why do reputable manufacturers like Heil put the crummy connectors on their products? I have a late model Proset now connected to the rear of the K3 and the connectors both have a wobbly and awful feel to them. I do not currently have any connection problem, but frankly I don't dare touch them. My cables from Radio Shack connecting my LP-Pan to the sound card I have to reset every so often when suddenly spurs occur in the middle of the display and/or the image rejection drops to 0. AB2TC - KNut Carl Clawson wrote: Absolutely. The real question ought to be: Why do we put up with the crummy little ones? snip -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/K3-Why-do-they-still-use-1-4-inch-phone-jacks-tp5543920p5546276.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
Re: [Elecraft] CW Sidetone
Guydont complain, I have to use usb to copy cw as the cw mode is entirely too noisy. 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, 9/17/10, Guy Olinger K2AV olin...@bellsouth.net wrote: From: Guy Olinger K2AV olin...@bellsouth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] CW Sidetone To: W5UXH chuck.broadw...@gmail.com Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Friday, September 17, 2010, 8:17 AM Yes, it has been debated. But I've gotten used to CW REV for audio higher = frequency higher. I *CAN* set the radio so audio freq higher = RF frequency higher on CW. I have gotten used to making sure that logging programs reset to CW REV, not CW, so I don't constantly have to hit MODE ALT during a contest to return to audio freq higher = RF freq higher. And YES I DO sometimes flip to CW, open up the bandwidth and scan higher frequency to lower frequency so that new stuff rolls in higher to lower audio, just to get away from the crowd that is scanning low to high frequency using their CW USB. And yes, I still think CW USB and CW LSB is a better label, and USB is really normal, and no, it doesn't mean a thing to me that the K2 has a USB/LSB that flips on high bands and IT has REV. A K2 is a K2, which is a wonderful compactness and function with minimal parts. After all it only has15 buttons. How much can one expect... But I've gotten used to all the CW REV stuff. But I've never gotten used to the K3's clunky, stop everything in a contest and guess the right sidetone level while the RX audio is cut off sidetone adjustment. It STILL bothers me and I have not found a way around it. Actually it bothers me more now because so much other stuff has been fixed, added, adjusted so neatly. I've never gotten used to it, and I really don't think Elecraft has this one right. I'm not sure how to implement it, but I need to be able to adjust the level while I'm transmitting, while sending CW, and I need to do both MON and PITCH without turning off RX, and it really is a by-band adjustment. I think an option CW MON ADJ:TX ONLY to go with CW MON ADJ:NOR would do it. Currently hitting MON in TX **cuts off the RX audio**. That makes it useless during a contest, because I have to find a space of time when I'm not RX OR TX. Which means the current setup is strictly set-it-in-advance-and-live-with-it. I don't care whether NOR is something I can't use. It's like CW REV. This MON adjustment clunker on the irritating scale is more like CW with no way to do CW REV. If one wanted to get crazy, you could just switch how it works based upon whether the rig is in CW and has transmitted in the last second. Can we please get this one on the list? Every time I have to come to a complete halt to adjust sidetone level, its just like the faucet dripping in the sink at night. I think that the reason it is done this way and no joy yet, is because Wayne is using code wrapped around the PITCH function code to do both that and MON, and will have to code the blend to make it happen like an analog radio, one of these simple-to-say-dickens-to-code things. 73, Guy. On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 9:32 AM, W5UXH chuck.broadw...@gmail.com wrote: I just had my first qso with a K3 and Steve's point was one of the very first things that jumped out at me. I would like to be able to adjust the sidetone level easily while in qso. I could probably get used to the push/hold step if the tone was only present when I key, but having the steady tone will probably drive me crazy along with Steve. Identifying the best level for given band conditions (full qsk of course) is best done while sending. With lots of band noise, I need a higher level of sidetone but with quiet condx, I tend to want a lower level. It would be nice if I could magically remove the compression function and replace it with sidetone level (but no tone if key up). I would then leave that knob set to the sidetone level state except when I need to change power. Chuck, W5UXH __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Antennas and other.
Aloha Pete: No, I use the internal K3 tuner and then that feeds into an MFJ 986. this seems to work out just fine, even when I am loading up all the rigging on the boat. For a ground you can never have enough...I strongly suggest visiting a stained glass supply store. They sell copper ribbon in various widthsthe widest normally being around 3/4 inch. It is extremely thin, but remember rf travels only on the skin of a conductor. It is also sticky backed and it is around ten buck for a forty foot roll instead of 50 dollars for the wide, thick stuff sold at west marine. In the bilges of the boat, above the water and on the tumble home run three strips of copper ribbon down each side of the boat...solder them together at various points. then cover them over with varnish,shellac, etc. It is rather hard to hid a big ground wire running from the rig down into the bilges, however the ribbon is easily hidden. Now, remember, the ribbon is a conductor, the boat is an insulator, and the sea is a conductorVOILA...condenser. You have capacitive coupled into the ocean. Number TWOdo not cut the back stay and put in insulators...firstly, it is impossible to adequately connect the copper wire to the stainless backstay. Instead, run a sep. wire up to the top of the mast, with insulator at top, and insulator just above head heighth on the bottom. Use this as an antenna,. A cut backstay is a future failure point. No, the extra wire will not present problems because of all the rigging, heck if used, the back stay would do the same thing. If the back stay MUST be used...shine up the stainless steel, shine up the copper wire and , wrap then together first having applied. WELDERS HIGH TEMPERATURE COPPER WELDING PASTE. It is transparent to rf and makes a really good connection between the back stay and the copper wire. Then put onj a hose clamp, then two layers of electrical tape, and then COAT WITH TWO COATS OF LIQUID ELECTRICAL TAPE. You now have a bullet proof back stay connection that should last for years and years, instead of the normal way with its need of redoing every couple of years. I would look for a used Icom 718really good starter rig, at a reasonable price...and a plug and ply as far as pactor III, rtty, etc is concerned. I have used one for years...Now it is my backup as I have the K3 Susan If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA --- On Thu, 9/16/10, Pete Barth peteba...@gmail.com wrote: From: Pete Barth peteba...@gmail.com Subject: Antennas and other. To: Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA ussvdha...@yahoo.com Cc: ronald finkelstein sailmar...@gmail.com Date: Thursday, September 16, 2010, 8:33 AM Hello Susan, from Pete Barth W6LAW. I have seen your posts forever now on the Elecraft pages. I have had a K2 since they came out, a K3 of serial number that matches my K2 serial number, a KX-1 that is more fun than I could ever imagine. Recently an old work buddy of mine (now we are both retired) that has had a sailboat for years just passed his technician license. He is Ron Finklestein KJ6KIU. I was pleasantly surprised when he joined our ham ranks. He wants more comms. onboard, and the safety of the ham radios while on the water. He is in the marina near LAX and goes to Catalina often. He was just out watching blue whales, he saw about 150 of them. I was going to recommended a used IC706MK2 with a LDG tuner, or something like it for him to start. I was going to help him with a mast mounted 144 / 450 vertical on the mast top. And some kind of sloping vertical (with two insulators) as a backstay antenna for the lower bands. Would that become a lightning rod? I think he has one noble plate for the thru-hull water and head, and another wire running to the prop shaft. He thinks neither of these are tied to any ground on the boat. I will have to check this stuff myself. I am hoping that you might offer any hints that you have learned the hard way. Ground for the radios? Counterpoise? Best ant for the lower bands? Vertical or inverted vee? He thinks an inverted vee will get in the way of the sails. Angle might be collapsed enough to ruin teh antenna pattern too. I think you use LDG tuners? He will not be getting a K3 for a year or two. And he wants to use the boat radio in the car (Prius) and his house to start. I know this will get old for him, but that is how he will get more radios like the rest of us! Any help will be appreciated, Pete peteba...@gmail.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Antennas and other.
Oh yes, Pete, I forgot...for an antenna tuner I can not over emphasize the use of the SGC 239...1. it is not dependent upon any particular rig 2. It senses rf and tunes itself, 3. it will handle 200 watts, 4, it is built by SGC...they supply tuners for the military. 5, IT IS ONLY $192.00. Now, it is not waterproof...in the manual they say to mount it in a tupperware type container up on the overhead back in the lazarette...near the bottom of your antenna. When running the feedline from the tuner to the antenna, keep it a couple of inches away from any metalagain capacitive coupling and loss of signal. If necessary use short pieces of small pvc pipe with a zip tie thru the pipe drawing the feedline to one end of the pipe and attaching the entire thing to the back-stay at the other end. If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA - __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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] Do I have a problem?
It seems that most signals I hear are rather weakis it that the K3 is now allowing me to :hear: signals I didn't before?, OR is it that something is deficient? Susan If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA --- On Tue, 9/7/10, The Smiths notforc...@hotmail.com wrote: From: The Smiths notforc...@hotmail.com Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3: Low speaker output problem To: jcox...@bellsouth.net, ve...@dccnet.com, Elecraft Reflector elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Tuesday, September 7, 2010, 9:05 AM I've found that if you're working weak signals, and you have your NR on, and perhaps your NB on, with a tight Width setting it's almost necessary to run the AF audio pot at 3 o'clock to all the way up. This is normal as far as I can tell. If an S9 signal attacks though, you best watch out, you will find the it's going to be MUCH louder than the rest of the band noise and signals. For this you can set the AGC threshold and Slope to try and compensate some. But the answer to your question is, There's nothing wrong with your rig.. All 3 of the K3's that I've used exhibit this same operation. A little more speaker gain on the external speaker would be a nice thing. From: jcox...@bellsouth.net To: ve...@dccnet.com; elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 07:14:00 -0500 Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3: Low speaker output problem It appears you have something defective in the K3 as 9 to 10 oclock on the volume control is loud here, I couldnt stand 3 oclock. Have you talked to Elecraft support and what did they say? Jim K4JAF - Original Message - From: Ralph Parker ve...@dccnet.com To: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 1:16 AM Subject: [Elecraft] K3: Low speaker output problem Hi gang: Here's the situation - Headset audio level is OK, AF gain at 11 o'clock with my Sony MDR-V6es. I get barely enough audio output from the speaker with the gain at 3 o'clock. I have to set it full CW to hear the audio while I work around the shack. Audio is not distorted at his setting. Same problem with the built-in or separate speakers. AF GAIN is set to HI. I just did the DSP UPG to ol' 1823, and uploaded the newest firmware. It made no difference in audio output. This situation has existed since I first got the radio. Here's the question - Anybody else notice this? Did I miss a mod or upgrade? Should I get out the schematic and make my own mod? Suggestions gratefully received. VE7XF __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Yamaha CM-500 (was Heil Elite thread)
what impedance is the headphone jack on the k3? If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA --- On Fri, 8/27/10, Dave Hachadorian k...@arrl.net wrote: From: Dave Hachadorian k...@arrl.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Yamaha CM-500 (was Heil Elite thread) To: Elecraft Reflector elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Friday, August 27, 2010, 8:49 AM -- From: Hector Padron ad4c2...@yahoo.com Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 10:33 AM To: Gary Gregory garyvk...@gmail.com Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] New Heil Elite iC pro set with HC-6 100% agree,I have been using the CM-500 for almost a year now on my K3,TX and RX audio is awesome,construction quality is superior to Heil boomsets,and the price is just $54 - $44.99, free shipping, no tax for most: http://www.samash.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_CM500%20Headphones%20with%20Microphone_-1_10052_10002_-49969751?cm_mmc=Froogle-_-Studio%20Headphones-_-CM500%20Headphones%20with%20Microphone-_-YCM500XXX Dave Hachadorian, K6LL Big Bear Lake, 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 __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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 CM-500 (was Heil Elite thread)
the yamaha cm500 are 120 ohms...is this ok with the K3 If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA --- On Fri, 8/27/10, Ron D'Eau Claire r...@cobi.biz wrote: From: Ron D'Eau Claire r...@cobi.biz Subject: RE: [Elecraft] Yamaha CM-500 (was Heil Elite thread) To: 'ussv dharma' ussvdha...@yahoo.com, 'Elecraft Reflector' elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Friday, August 27, 2010, 12:13 PM As you've seen from other comments, the impedance requirement is rather broad. As a benchmark in the real world I can hurt my ears easily with a pair in inexpensive 60 ohm phones by turning up the volume too loud. Ron AC7AC -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of ussv dharma Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 1:19 PM To: Elecraft Reflector; Dave Hachadorian Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Yamaha CM-500 (was Heil Elite thread) what impedance is the headphone jack on the k3? If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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 request?
Aloha Elecraft: Thanks again for fantastic piece of equipment. Best ever. Since the K3 is basically an SDR, with knobs, would it be possible to add DRM to the Modes? Lots of us do listen as SWL's. DRM would be a great additionand I may be wrong, But I think it would be only software. Susan If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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] need advice on rig
Aloha: I have had my K3 since last October. I think I have given it a fair trail. It is just too darned complicated for me. I have never been able to get it to give the same background noise for cw as it gives for ssb. I think I want to get rid of it. Can anyone advise me of a rig, same price range, for me to purchase? 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, 8/20/10, Joe Subich, W4TV li...@subich.com wrote: From: Joe Subich, W4TV li...@subich.com Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 : SSB modulation To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Friday, August 20, 2010, 8:49 AM Are any of you guys driving your K3 with W2IHY or other audio rack gear? Why bother? The K3 already provides all of the capability of the W2IHY 8 band EQ/noise gate, adds downward expansion in the noise gate and there is no issue with external hum loops, RF pick-up, etc. I'm still waiting for my K3 to get back from the factory, but I plan on running the full stack of W2IHY gear with a Heil GM-5 Mic. I've used wide range (broadcast style) mics and the Heil HC-5 element with the K3's internal EQ and find that configuring the K3 for a 6 dB per octave roll off below 400 Hz (50 Hz: -16dB, 100 Hz: -12dB, 200 Hz: -6 dB), a -6dB notch at 800 Hz and 6 dB per octave rise above 1000 Hz (1600 Hz: +6dB, 2400 Hz: +10dB, 3200 Hz: +12dB) yields extremely good audio reports with the broadcast mic and a lot of presence without the restricted sound on the HC-5. Coupled with CMP at 25, this provides plenty of punch without sounding over processed and all highs like the HC-4. 73, ... Joe, W4TV On 8/20/2010 11:54 AM, Tim Tucker wrote: Are any of you guys driving your K3 with W2IHY or other audio rack gear? If so, I'm curious as to the settings you ended up with on the rig. I'm still waiting for my K3 to get back from the factory, but I plan on running the full stack of W2IHY gear with a Heil GM-5 Mic. I imagine I will probably end up with the comp and EQ on the rig turned off, but I'd like to hear what others do. Tim AE6LX On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 7:57 AM, Philippe Trottettrot...@unhcr.org wrote: Hi James, I'm using MH2 also for Field day opertions and almost same as you, set MIC=2 COMP=20 TX equalizer has been adjust to my loud voice given preferential to medium high audio. Great 73's Philippe A65BI K3#3616 k2qi@gmail.com 20-08-2010 18:54 Who uses the Elecraft hand mic? I do and mic gain has to be set low; i.e. around 8 or 9 to prevent clipping and flat topping as viewed on a monitor scope. This is with mic sensitivity set to low in the menu. I was once told that the hand mics are a tad hot, but mine seems to be excessively so. Regardless, my comp is set to 15 or 20 and I get excellent audio reports. James K2QI Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -Original Message- From: Stephen Priors...@sjprior.fsnet.co.uk Sender: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:21:00 To: elecraftelecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 : SSB modulation I use the Heil MD2 microphone which has an electret element. I have both compression and mic gain set to 25, and mic set to front panel low with bias. I have far more 'talk power' than I have enjoyed with any previous radio. 73 Stephen G4SJP On 20/08/2010 04:24, Joseph Trombino, Jrw...@bellsouth.net wrote: Hi We are the proud owners of 6 K3/100 used at the FY5KE contest station. These radios has been delivered around mid-2008 and their serial numbers are in the 012xx range. After using mostly these rigs for SSB contesting in FY5KE or in other places, we are still facing a lack of dynamics, punch, penetration, power, whatever you call it. In other words, when comparing this rig to our radios we previously used (TS-850), with the same microphone (Heil HC-4 element) and the same output RF power, the K3 is clearly way behind in term of average power we can read on the Bird wattmeter wired on its RF output. Even if observing the wattmeter needle is not a very scientific measurement (we admit it), various comparative reports on the air do confirm our feeling. We spent time on various available settings (mic gain, compressor level, etc), with no luck, excepted a very distorted and awful audio to roughly reach the same level, which is not acceptable. After a little Googling, it appears that other contesters suffers the same issue (e.g. www.bavarian-contest-club.de/projects/K3_english.pdf pages 6 and 10). Some questions : - Do other contesters (or not) here have noted the same problem ? - What settings did you modified (or not) to achieve a good result ? - Is there any possible HW or SW upgrade we
[Elecraft] Bigger K3
Why of course...it is the american way.100 watts is all that is needed. Work on your antenna, WORK ON YOUR ANTENNA REPEAT, WORK ON YOUR ANTENNA. GREAT GRANDMAW SUSAN If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA --- On Mon, 8/9/10, Dan Atchison n...@aol.com wrote: From: Dan Atchison n...@aol.com Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Big box K3 To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Monday, August 9, 2010, 1:26 PM Of the things I thought I'd dislike the most about the K3, it was its size. Having been a big box user for so many years, I thought I'd never adapt. Eat those words. The thing I DO like most about the K3 is its size. It freed up so much real estate that my shack became much more ergonomic than prior renderings. Oh, and what were the other things I thought I'd dislike about the K3? Darn if I remember. Dan -- N3ND __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] My First steps on CW
Gosh, I wish there were cw activity out here in KH6 land...I listen every day and at different times in the nightonly hear the russian K and M beacons. susan __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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 Frequency Memory Editor
Aloha: I have downloaded the freq. memory editorentered my frequencies, etc., but it will not upload to the K3. ? Susan If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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] off topic but need HELP
Aloha peoples: Sorry to be such a pain in the LKJNMNX but I again need your advice. Since I live on a small sailboat, I need a handheld that operates in the 150mhz region (Marine freqs). Is there any ham handheld, that easily opens up for MARS/Marine Freqs. thanks for letting me go off topicto save room on reflector please respond to ussvdha...@yahoo.com.thanks If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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 Frequency Memory Editor with Win98SE
Dead systemsheck I still use GWBASIC for my inhouse programs. Great Grandmaw Susan __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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] headphones in phone jack makes meter go up ...
i HAVE had the same problem from day oneI am hesitant about digging into the k3 to hold the board while I try to tighten the phone jack. Is the boat easy to get to? Seems like a lot of people are reporting this problem. Susan If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA --- On Sun, 8/1/10, Duncan Carter d...@vibrotek.com wrote: From: Duncan Carter d...@vibrotek.com Subject: Re: [Elecraft] headphones in phone jack makes meter go up ... To: Guy Olinger K2AV olin...@bellsouth.net Cc: Dale Farmer d...@elecraft.com, elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Sunday, August 1, 2010, 7:28 AM K3, S/N 3543 with a recently exchanged dsp board. Dunc, W5DC Guy Olinger K2AV wrote: Is this a K3 or a K2? On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Duncan Carter d...@vibrotek.com wrote: I'm in process of slowly troubleshooting the same problem. One thing I've found is that there are intermittent ground resistance issues between the front panel grounds and rear panel grounds. I also had the problem of intermittent HI RFI indications and perhaps, because of the same problem, I have noise from other sources coupled to the line out and other rear panel audio jacks. Dunc, W5DC n...@comcast.net wrote: when i plug in the phones ...front panel the s meter goes up to 40 over previous owner had plug and jack behind mic jack misaligned causing other issues with the phone jack being plugged inno audio out of spkr in no: config,,, but why the s meter action ???/ otherwise seems ok.. bill __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Speaking of off-shore manufacture...
Ok gentlemen, here is your chance to be of service to God, Country, and mainly me. It looks like I will finally get out of KH6 and head for KH3, V7, V73, T32, 5w, ETC come November. QUESTION: this is a solo dxpedition, I am 75 years old. the antenna farm will most likely be vertical and located right at the shore line. What suggestions do you have for me to construct for antennas? Susan If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA --- On Sun, 8/1/10, Vic K2VCO v...@rakefet.com wrote: From: Vic K2VCO v...@rakefet.com Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Speaking of off-shore manufacture... To: WILLIS COOKE wrco...@yahoo.com Cc: Elecraft Reflector elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Sunday, August 1, 2010, 3:47 PM On 8/1/2010 5:36 PM, WILLIS COOKE wrote: You did not have a rectifier and filter on the secondary did you? The windings are specified in AC-RMS and if you measure DC on the secondary or peak AC you will get a higher reading. No, I just measured the AC voltage from the transformer. Actually, why I noticed was that when I DID have it hooked up with a rectifier/filter, the DC output was close to 200V! -- 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 __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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] 4 x K3 Elecraft Station
Oh wonderfulencourage the use of illegal callsonly a complete call sign is legalperiod When I am in KH3, V7, V73, T32, etc...next Nov/Dec/Jan only full call signs will be answeredcall me old fashioned, but I like to be 100% legal. If you hear meuse your complete call sign orNO qso. Also...no 599 wham thank you) qsos. Honest report on how I am receiving you. Great Grandmaw Susan If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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] off topic
Aloha Peoples: This is off topic, but can anyone access Winlink.org? I have tried for days and cantis it here in Hawaii, or is Winlink down? It works via ssb/pactor, but cant get the web site. Great Grandmaw Susan If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA --- On Mon, 7/26/10, Jim W6LG hamc...@gmail.com wrote: From: Jim W6LG hamc...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Elecraft] [K3] DC Power cable To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Monday, July 26, 2010, 6:44 AM Anderson PowerPoles, wire and accessories can also be purchased from www.hamcq73.com, www.NewHamStore.com and www.PowerPoleHQ.com. 73, Jim Heath W6LG K3 #629 -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/K3-DC-Power-cable-tp562p5338795.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
Re: [Elecraft] [K3] DC Power cable
The power pole connector cable I recd with my k3 has no place for a pin. The darned thing keeps disconnecting. HELP Great Grandmaw Susan If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA --- On Sun, 7/25/10, Jim Brown j...@audiosystemsgroup.com wrote: From: Jim Brown j...@audiosystemsgroup.com Subject: Re: [Elecraft] [K3] DC Power cable To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Sunday, July 25, 2010, 6:41 AM On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 11:13:22 -0700 (PDT), ab2tc wrote: Where should I look for a top quality connector? I've converted all of my DC wiring to Power Poles, so I've put together more than a hundred of these connectors. There are three sizes of pins that fit the red and black shells used by Elecraft. The small size is best for wires smaller than #18; the middle size (most common) works up to #12, the larger size goes up to #8 (and can be a very snug fit in the shell). I've always bought them from hamfest vendors, but there are several vendors who advertise in QST who sell them. They usually come in packs of ten, or ten pairs. I've never crimped them, always soldered. Remember that voltage drop is proportional to length, so shorter is better. 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
[Elecraft] K3 recorder
I have finally just given up. I no longer try to use the K3 recorder to show the other ham how his signal sounds.just too darned confusing. Great Grandmaw Susan If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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] hearing aids
since there is so much ado about hearing aids...I just solved a problem for Veterans and hearing aids., I did the internet research of chief of staff meetings and minutes and presented Honolulu VA Chief of Prosthetics with the info. IF you have 179 or more days of Honorable Service, retired or not, you are entitled to two hearing aids (at VA expense) if your hearing loss impacts on your daily living. Have your primary care Dr. certify this.I now have mine and they were $3500 each. Great Grandmas 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, 7/23/10, Casual Observer casualobserver...@msn.com wrote: From: Casual Observer casualobserver...@msn.com Subject: [Elecraft] Please post my ad To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Friday, July 23, 2010, 8:50 AM Priced lowered (again). For sale a K2 kit with the following options: KSB2, KDSP2, FDIMP, KPCA-F, KIO2, KUSB, KBT2, KAT100-2, EC2, and ETS2. All of these are New and un-built. The S/N is 006972. It includes the pre-wound Toroids and manuals. $ 1,000.00 firm. Thank You! David Home (301) 866-5771, Cell (240) 298-3278, casualobserver...@msn.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] K3 recorder
I do use headphones 24/7...it is just that using the recorder and getting it to playback while transmitting is overwhelmingI gave up. Great Grandmaw Susan (Ex Msgtgot a problem sonny?_ If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA --- On Fri, 7/23/10, w...@w5ov.com w...@w5ov.com wrote: From: w...@w5ov.com w...@w5ov.com Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 recorder To: David Pratt da...@g4dmp.fsnet.co.uk Cc: ussv dharma ussvdha...@yahoo.com, elecraft elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Friday, July 23, 2010, 8:18 AM You can hear what you're transmitting with the monitor feature. Wait - I think I know what the issue is - I'm guessing that you are not using headphones, so you don't want the monitor on except when playing back a DVR recording. My mistake. I presumed you would be using headphones to get the best results from your K3's receiver. 73, Bob W5OV (always uses headphones) Don't worry about it, Susan. Wayne has on his 'list' to include some refinements to the KDVR3 to enable us to actually hear what is being transmitted. Until then, my own KDVR3 is on hold. 73 de David G4DMP In a recent message, ussv dharma ussvdha...@yahoo.com wrote ... I have finally just given up. I no longer try to use the K3 recorder to show the other ham how his signal sounds.just too darned confusing. Great Grandmaw Susan -- David G4DMP Leeds, England, UK -- __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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] what are x marks
Peoples: I know this is off topic but I need helpI switched to Mozilla and now a box called xmarks keeps popping up asking me to use it ,what is it? Great Grandmaw Susan If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA --- On Sun, 7/18/10, FredJensen k6...@foothill.net wrote: From: FredJensen k6...@foothill.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] WRTC - Rig choices for the contest explained! To: Elecraft Reflector elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Sunday, July 18, 2010, 5:53 AM Many years ago as a teen ham [OK, way more years ago than many, dirt was young then] I had an SX-28 receiver. For the newbies, radioblvd.com/SX28Notes I sold it when I was about to graduate from Cal Poly in 1962. Several years ago, I inherited a stock SX-28 with speaker from the estate of Woody, W6ANX. Nostalgia reigned for awhile, I used it on CW with my K2 as the TX on SKN and a few others. Then nostalgia faded, and I began to realize: 1. The RX, which sounded really good on AM left a lot to be desired in the stability, resetability, sensitivity, selectivity, noise reduction, AGC, and size departments, not to mention SSB reception capability. 2. It weighed in a close to 100 US lbs, I could no longer lift it by myself as I could at 16, and it's primary purpose in the shack seemed to have faded to holding down the operating desk against gravity outages. I finally donated it to the radio museum in Virginia City where it was restored and resides today. Scroll down the above URL a bit to S/N H-130170 for a peek. I had a little problem at first with the lack of weight of my K3 ... pushing the buttons caused it to slip a little on the rubber feet. I cut a piece of that non-slip stuff [sort of a lacework] and solved the problem. I do not want a heavy radio anymore, K3 is great for me. 73, Fred K6DGW Lu Romero wrote: A 7800/7700 would have collapsed my operating table. I really dont want to call my neighbor to help me lift it out of the shipping crate. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] K3 S Meter behavior
Aloha Peoples I rarely ever give the other station an s meter reading, Instead I usually describe how I am receiving him. S meter readings dont seem to tell me how well I am understanding what is being said by the other station. Grandmaw Susan If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA --- On Thu, 7/15/10, Richard Hill reh...@ix.netcom.com wrote: From: Richard Hill reh...@ix.netcom.com Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 S Meter behavior To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Thursday, July 15, 2010, 3:58 AM I don't really understand, but would be interested in more discussion on this. I think I understand that the apparent power of a signal to your ears/brain may vary even though the actual received power is the same. Commercials on TV seems much louder than the shows these days, but I'm hearing that the actual power stays the same. We can alter the TX or RX equalization in the K3, I think that means we can use a standard 100 watts, but change the apparent loudness we hear by focusing the power in the audio bands that are best heard or for the best intelligibility, and that varies according to age, long proximity to artillery/machines, and other factors. The Heil 4/5 mics give the same effect. That seems to mean that a standard S7 signal could sound like something else. I wonder how meaningful an S meter reading is. It seems that it is more important to tell the other op how well you are receiving their message (as apposed to their signal strength) and that is the result of more than the meter reading. Rich NU6T On 7/15/2010 5:49 AM, Robert Mitilieri - N9EF wrote: Thanks all for your comments. It's nice to get so much feedback so fast! While I'm not very concerned about this, I do like to use my S meter to give the Strength report and believe that an S7 signal should read S7 even if the RF gain is turned down a bit (just for info, I set the S meter to Absolute and have PRE and ATT off, don't have a Sub rcvr installed). I've heard many perfectly readable signals that sounded like they were S9 but were, to my surprise, an S3 or S5. Except for contests I like to send and receive accurate strength reports. Last night I ordered an XG2 and will align RF gain and the S meter when it arrives. I'll post again once I've completed the alignment. Till then I'll be on the air enjoying my awesome K3! On Jul 15, 2010, at 1:03 AM, The Smiths wrote: Check your RF gain calibration using the Elecraft Utility, check your S meter calibration. Make sure that you don't have something else like the Pre-amp on causing an error in the reading. Make sure that you don't have the Sub receiver on and the Sub AF audio up, or RF up causing it to look like it's getting stronger. r. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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] contest rst/s meter reports
I have to agreeit UPSETS me that almost every station gives 599 or 40/9 sig reports but asks for call signs three or four times. My usual responsesorry, no qso with lids and I change frequency. Cranky? yes!, out of tune with the times? Maybe!...but having been on the air steady for over 56 years, and being 75 years old...yep, that's me. I give accurate how I hear you reports...many times that is enhance by the radio I am using, communications is the operative word. Grandmaw Susan. If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA --- On Thu, 7/15/10, Gary Dezern g...@garyndenise.org wrote: From: Gary Dezern g...@garyndenise.org Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 S Meter behavior To: The Smiths notforc...@hotmail.com Cc: Elecraft Reflector elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Thursday, July 15, 2010, 8:13 AM As this drifts further from the original topic... I find it amusing that a station will ask me to repeat my callsign and name several times, and then give me a 59 report. I think I messed up several people over the weekend contest by giving them 5-7 08 reports instead of what they expected. One station actually lost their contest tempo when I came back with 45 zone 8. Working back toward the original topic... I generally give signal reports based on what I think the signal would be with the RF gain fully clockwise, and attenuator and preamp both turned off. To me, that would be the natural and unmodified smeter reading. (I've never given better than 57 on 10 meters.) This best meets my understanding of what that portion of the signal report should be: A report of signal level as it is received by my rig (and not a signal level as my rig has modified it.) Of course, I'm a newbie ham, so I'm probably doing it all wrong. 73 - Gary / k3wow On Jul 15, 2010, at 1:21 PM, The Smiths wrote: Exactly! Regardless of the fact that in 1934 (as was indicated to me in off reflector email) we used to not use the meter for the S report, at some time (1970's when proper calibration and standardizations' came about) we were able to shift that OLD antiquated 1934's definition over to a STANDARDIZED S meter reading as part of the RST. Now R is just that, Readability. How well can you copy someone. S is Strength of the meter, which everyone should have set to the same approximate level, and T for quality of tone. Some old habits die hard. Not everything first invented in Ham radio has to be forced until the world ends. Much to some peoples Chagrin, we DO evolve as ham radio operators. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Let's Try This Again -- was [K3] ... A 750 Hz, 8-Pole ... Filter?
Lets really mess with contesters mindsgive them a report of 20db over S2. grandmaw Susan If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA --- On Thu, 7/15/10, Wayne Burdick n...@elecraft.com wrote: From: Wayne Burdick n...@elecraft.com Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Let's Try This Again -- was [K3] ... A 750 Hz, 8-Pole ... Filter? To: Jim Brown j...@audiosystemsgroup.com Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Thursday, July 15, 2010, 8:01 AM It *is* difficult to build very narrow 8-pole filters with low loss. That's one reason Elecraft offers a 5-pole, 200-Hz unit. 5 poles is entirely adequate at these narrow widths. Our 2-kHz IMD dynamic range using the 200-Hz filter is outstanding. We've had some requests to offer a 270 or 300-Hz 5-pole filter, which would be better optimized for narrow-shift RTTY than the 200-Hz filter. We're also considering a dual-passband filter (500/270 or 500/300) that would fit in one slot. 73, Wayne N6KR On Jul 15, 2010, at 10:18 AM, Jim Brown wrote: On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:53:10 +0100, Ian White GM3SEK wrote: Agreed. 250-270Hz would be the sweet spot for an 8-pole filter, to guarantee good sales for the manufacturer *and* good performance for a range of users in heavy QRM. Now let's see if Inrad or Elecraft take the bait :-) Hang on a minute, guys. Inrad builds a nominal 250 Hz filter, Elecraft tests and re-sells it, and we buy it, because we've agreed that it's a sweet spot operationally. The issue is that it's wider than than at the -3dB points. So the problem appears to be that it's pretty difficult to build an 8-pole 250 Hz filter at 8.8 MHz, and that Inrad has given up on doing better. 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 __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] K3 S Meter behavior
Aloha Peoples: being raised in tube type electronics I do not profess to understand solid state beyond the hole theory. Thus, I REALLY DON'T CARE WHAT THE RECEIVER/ANTENNA DOES TO THE SIGNAL...the main thing is that I can hear you and understand what you are saying. Is it arm chair copy? Do you have an old time 75 meter bodacious signal? Bottom line, It all does not matter as my antenna/receiver/filter/hearing aid/ear combination effects the received signal that I just cant say how strong your signal isnow, if I had a station equipped with all the lab equipment I want, perhaps then I could tell you your 'RELATIVE' signal strength. my last post on this subject. Grandmaw Susan If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA --- On Thu, 7/15/10, Tom W8JI w...@w8ji.com wrote: From: Tom W8JI w...@w8ji.com Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 S Meter behavior To: drewko drew...@verizon.net, The Smiths notforc...@hotmail.com Cc: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Thursday, July 15, 2010, 6:27 AM Personally, I would prefer that the s-meter not operate in this way in ABS mode. RF Gain should have no effect on the s-meter action when in ABS mode, just as ATT and PRE do not. It would probably screw up (highly technical term) how the system works, or require a separate receiver just for the S meter. The RF gain must be ahead of the DSP system. This means the real signal level to the DSP could be reduced 30 dB or even significantly more than that amount. How and why would someone design a DSP system that could measure the level on a signal that was not actually present??? There is no cheap or easy way to do that, so Elecraft does what everyone else does. Ever since receivers began, the RF gain will either affect the absolute S meter reading in relationship to input level, or the S meter will show the increase in gain reduction by increasing resting S meter reading as the gain is reduced. I think you want something that cannot be done. Besides, S meter are pretty much meaningless anyway. I only use mine to tell me when I need to use an attenuator pad or a preamp. 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: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Very Efficient Ear Buds
AHfor the good old days. When I could tune across twenty meters and loads of signalsnow, here in kh6, I have to hunt just to find a signal. Grandmaw Susan If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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 battery power
Strongly suggest you look at tech data for Mr. Solar, MPPT charge regulator before you do anything with batteries/chargers/solar panels. New Technology...sure does fine job on my full time live aboard boat Grandmaw susan If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA --- On Thu, 7/15/10, Steve Ellington n...@carolina.rr.com wrote: From: Steve Ellington n...@carolina.rr.com Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 battery power To: David Guernsey mooo1...@yahoo.com, elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Thursday, July 15, 2010, 3:32 PM Is anyone using full time battery power and trickle charging? Considering the high price of power supplies and the security of a full time backup system, it would seem to make sense. The K3 draws so little current on receive that it would make sense to run it this way. I would be a bit concerned about gas from the battery however. Currently I use an Astron 35m and I love it but I just bet that it consumes more power than the K3! Perhaps the battery/charger concept would be more efficient? Steve N4LQ - Original Message - From: David Guernsey mooo1...@yahoo.com To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 8:32 PM Subject: [Elecraft] K3 on Order I have an Astron RS-35M as my power supply through a Rigrunner to my K3/10. Enough left to upgrade to K3/100. 73s de Dave KJ6CBS __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] 6M CW
I work from various dx locationsI DO NOT, AND WILL NOT give the wham bam thank you mam type of qso. I talk with the other stationwhat, you don't like it...well, you spend all the money to get to dx spots and then you can do as you like. susanthe cranky old lady If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA --- On Mon, 7/5/10, WILLIS COOKE wrco...@yahoo.com wrote: From: WILLIS COOKE wrco...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [Elecraft] 6M CW To: Jim Brown j...@audiosystemsgroup.com, elecraft@mailman.qth.net elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Monday, July 5, 2010, 9:29 AM 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 __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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] Reduced-height bail
Come on people...get real.but then the power cord on my k3 is too long fro the distance from the k3 to the 12 vdc supply...guess maybe an option on power cord length.. Come on get real and let this list do what it is intended for. If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA --- On Mon, 7/5/10, Jim Wiley jwi...@alaska.net wrote: From: Jim Wiley jwi...@alaska.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Reduced-height bail To: n...@contesting.com Cc: Elecraft List elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Monday, July 5, 2010, 12:13 AM Pete - Yes, Elecraft does offer a 1.5 high tilt-bail (they call it a tilt-stand). Part number ETS15. I purchased one of these for use with my K2, and another for the KPA100 / KAT100 combination that I built into a EC2 cabinet. The regular 3 tilt-stand that comes standard with the K2 was too high for my liking. Unfortunately, the new web site makes both the EC2 cabinet and the optional tilt stand somewhat hard to find. They are found on the K2 page, under K2 and accessory pricing. You will have to search around a bit, but they are there. The current price for the ETS15 is 14.95. Seems a bit high for a piece of bent wire, but I guess you pays your money and takes your choice. This is one area where Elecraft could do it's customers a favor by offering a trade-in price, similar to what is sometimes offered for board upgrades. - Jim, KL7CC Pete Smith wrote: Recently I read something on this list about a reduced-height bail for the K2. I think my K3 would be a bit easier to use if the height of the bail were reduced about in half, but so far as I can tell Elecraft doesn't offer sch an option. Is there an after-market supplier? __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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
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Is anyone using Ham radio Deluxe, Vista, AND K3I cant get it to run over three to four minutes. 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, Ken Roberson kwrober...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Ken Roberson kwrober...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [Elecraft] WJST and the K3 To: Elecraft Reflector elecraft@mailman.qth.net, Lee Buller k...@swbell.net Date: Friday, July 2, 2010, 7:36 AM Lee, 99% of all digi modes are on USB, However I use the digi mode on the K3. In WSJT program Go to setup , Option , then select your com port. GL 73 Ken K5DNL - --- On Fri, 7/2/10, Lee Buller k...@swbell.net wrote: From: Lee Buller k...@swbell.net Subject: [Elecraft] WJST and the K3 To: Elecraft Reflector elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Friday, July 2, 2010, 12:14 PM OK I got the 6 meter bug...as you all know by now I have been trying to set up WJST for the K3. Can anyone send me some information as to how to do this? I am under the impression that it needs to be on SSB - but can't find information on which sideband. How do you key the rig on SSB, it does not want to do so because I think it wants to see DATA. I have a SignaLink USB - works great on RTTY and PSK...but seems to not want to deal with WJST. I've RTFM several times but am lost. Anyone can give me a hint...a web page to read (I've read a lot of them today)..or something... I am missing something somewhere. Who is the expert I can communicate off the list! Lee K0WA = Ham Radio Operators: Kansas QSO Party is August 28-29, 2010. See www.ksqsoparty.org for details In our day and age it seems that Common Sense is in short supply. If you don't have any Common Sense - get some Common Sense and use it. If you can't find any Common Sense, ask for help from somebody who has some Common Sense. Is Common Sense divine? Common Sense is the image of the Creator expressing revealed truth in my mind. - J. Wolf __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] rather provocative advert from Kenwood
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
[Elecraft] cw vs ssb noise level
When in ssb, I have an acceptable noise level, but change to cw and wow does it ever risewhat is going on? or as they say in brooklyn Wha hoppen? If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA --- On Thu, 7/1/10, Andy Engle andy.en...@live.com wrote: From: Andy Engle andy.en...@live.com Subject: [Elecraft] Best approach for K1 rx alignment? To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Thursday, July 1, 2010, 3:31 PM Hey guys! New Elecrafter here...building myself a K1 and having a LOT of fun. Altogether, I'm assembling the K1 with 4-band filter, noise blanker, and tuner. I've built a lot of smaller kits in the past, but this has been by far the most ambitious build yet. I'm happy to say that studying all of the builders' guides and instructions have kept me from running off the road. I do, however, have one question for the group. Specifically, I have reached the point in construction (Ch. 7, Pg. 39) where I am to perform receiver alignment. The instructions suggest, in preference order, a signal generator, another ham transceiver, or an antenna. Since things have gone so well this far, I am motivated to use the best option and hopefully continue my success through this step. I don't have a signal generator, per se. I do, however, have a VE3DNL marker generator assembled and functioning. Would this be appropriate to use for the intended purpose, or do I need a transmitter that is natively (that is, not through harmonics like the VE3DNL does) transmitting in-band? Alternatively, would the Elecraft XG2 be a better tool for the job? I am building for 40,30,20, 15but the XG2 is 3-band only? Thanks to all for help and kindness to this newbie! --Andy K0ADE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Low headphone audio level
Peter: I had exactly same problem, finally sole my heil headphones for twenty dollars , bought the ones advertised in QST for forty nine dollars and everything is fineimpedance of heil does not match rig. If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA --- On Fri, 6/25/10, Pete Smith n...@contesting.com wrote: From: Pete Smith n...@contesting.com Subject: [Elecraft] Low headphone audio level To: Elecraft List elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Friday, June 25, 2010, 8:53 AM I have just gotten around to trying headphones with my new K3, and am surprised by how much audio gain is required for an adequate listening level with my old Heil BN-10 (?) headset. I often find it at 2-3 o'clock. Is this normal? Output from the internal speaker seems normal relative to the gain control - rarely requiring beyond 10 o'clock. A tangentially related question - when I plug into the headphone jack, it appears that I have to push the phone plug into the jack quite firmly before the speak is cut off. Again, normal? -- 73, Pete N4ZR The World Contest Station Database, updated daily at www.conteststations.com The Reverse Beacon Network at http://reversebeacon.net, blog at reversebeacon.blogspot.com, spots at telnet.reversebeacon.net, port 7000 __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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] Contest cw speed and a ham since 1952
Peoples: I operate from quite a few dx spotsI have been on the air steady since 1952,,,call me old fashioned,call me crotchedy...BUTI never , ever answer or qso with a high speed cw station that does not slow down to my speed. Yes I do 35wpm, but I prever 20.sorry, had to vent my spleen somewhere. My, My, there are a lot of lids on the air todaybut then most of them do not know what lid refers to. Susan (Old lady of 76 years) If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA --- On Sat, 6/19/10, Guy Olinger K2AV olin...@bellsouth.net wrote: From: Guy Olinger K2AV olin...@bellsouth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 Beta Firmware Rev. 4.03: CW+ mode (Ultra-fastbreak-in; VOX-CW up to 100 WPM) To: The Smiths notforc...@hotmail.com Cc: Elecraft Reflector elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Saturday, June 19, 2010, 6:09 AM For speeds that people can send with a bug (usually) the regular CW seems to work quite fine. CW plus is primarily intended to support very fast speeds, often heard now with operators sending with keyboards and other electronic keying devices. Debouncing a bug to prevent false starts when someone has poor contacts on one side is not one of the design goals for CW plus I've heard passed about, though the buffering of keying circuits used in most transmitters now has a small amount of debouncing effect which has likely been hiding the glitch. This would include the regular CW of the K3. With CW plus, however, that small false start has to be taken as legitimate, because pausing a small amount to make sure that the operator really means it, would make high speed CW sound jerky. CW plus was made to faithfully reproduce the keying at very high speeds, and has to take the blip seriously. Cleaning and proper adjustment of bug contacts were always needed in the day, because the condition you are talking about would result in scratchy keying...which was never blamed on the transmitter, only on the op who was not keeping his bug greased. The need is greater now because noone is keying the +100V or more found on the old open cathode circuits any more, and bad bug contacts will easier bother a mere 12 volts on the key, and bother 5 volts even worse. 73, Guy. On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 11:11 AM, The Smiths notforc...@hotmail.com wrote: I've noticed this as well. For me it's a Tick sound EVERY time I hit the Dah side of my bug. Nothing on the dit side, regardless of the speed or preasure. I thought at first it was the force that I was using.. So I tried pushing the lever slowly and carefully against the Dah contact, and it didn't make the sound.. So then I tried lighting my touch on the dah side while I was sending, and sure enough it was still there. So, I switched from my Begali Intrepid to my Vibroplex Original, and then I found that the ticking sound was GONE all together! Now I'm competely confused. What does the one dah side have that the other bug's doesn't??? Gold Contacts? A bad ground connection? More surface contact area, a larger area? You tell me. I LOVE the new QSK (QRQ), but if I had to deal with that Tick sound on the dah contact, I would just not use it. Shame. Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 05:37:18 -0700 From: drew...@verizon.net To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 Beta Firmware Rev. 4.03: CW+ mode (Ultra-fastbreak-in; VOX-CW up to 100 WPM) Yes, I noticed this on my bug also. This happens almost entirely on characters that start with a 'dah'. I think this is because the index finger is off the paddle between characters and the initial attack is a little more forceful. Subsequent dahs in the same character sound fine, but that first one has a 'tick' (a spike by the sound of it). No problem at all with the dits. BTW, I don't think this is a matter of bug adjustment; you can get the same effect by tapping down on a straight key from a slight distance. So it is a matter of technique. I can avoid it on the bug by keeping my index finger resting against the paddle all the time and avoiding that first hard strike, but can't send as well that way; maybe with practice... 73, Drew AF2Z _ The New Busy is not the old busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_3 __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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] Did I do right
I know this is off topic, but this seems to be the only place where people know what they are talking about. I tried IE8hate it.couldnt get rid of itso I downloaded firefox. Did I do right using firefox instead of trying to find ie7 Susan If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA --- On Sat, 6/19/10, drewko drew...@verizon.net wrote: From: drewko drew...@verizon.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 Beta Firmware Rev. 4.03: CW+ mode (Ultra-fastbreak-in; VOX-CW up to 100 WPM) To: WILLIS COOKE wrco...@yahoo.com Cc: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Saturday, June 19, 2010, 10:16 AM Hi Cookie, I have seen that video and it is well beyond the degree of motion that I use on the bug. In fact, I have a Viz right-angle bug which is a lighter key and requires a lighter touch than the typical Vibroplex. And I use it without benefit of any epoxy, superglue, and/or anchor bolts holding it down to the desk as a lot of bug users seem to do. If I was really slamming it like in the video it would walk off the desk in short order, haha! Even so, that slight initial tap on the leading dahs is enough to make my K3 go TICK! 73, Drew AF2Z On Sat, 19 Jun 2010 10:05:52 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: Drew, you have been watching the lady operator with the long finger nails on the Night-of-Nights Utube video too much. You don't need all that hand waving and finger motion to send with a bug! Willis 'Cookie' Cooke K5EWJ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Antenna for KX-1
I used to think, :just put a wire in the ocean...and voila good ground. Not soneed area of contactbronze screen wire cage works great. Susan If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA --- On Sat, 6/19/10, Albers alb...@embarqmail.com wrote: From: Albers alb...@embarqmail.com Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Antenna for KX-1 To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Saturday, June 19, 2010, 10:50 AM This antenna has worked great for me with the KX-1 autotuner on 80, 40, 30 and 20: I bought a 50 ft spool of speaker wire from Radio Shack and un-zipped it to make two 50 ft wires. I think it's 18 gauge, but I'm sure that's not critical. Mine actually measured 51 ft 8 inches long (and I'm sure that's not critical either) Get one wire as high in the air as you can via any handy support(s) and lay the other on the ground - straight if I can, random directions if not. By the if I'm in, say, a third floor hotel room, one wire might go out the window to a tree in the parking lot, and the counterpoise drops out the window and goes along the ground next to the building. Ray K2HYD __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] K3 Beta Firmware Rev. 4.03: CW+ mode (Ultra-fast break-in; VOX-CW up to 100 WPM)
I use the cw to rtty all the time, here in KH6. However, I have not found anyone using thge 75wpm..few sigs get out here. If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA --- On Mon, 6/14/10, Lyle Johnson k...@wavecable.com wrote: From: Lyle Johnson k...@wavecable.com Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 Beta Firmware Rev. 4.03: CW+ mode (Ultra-fast break-in; VOX-CW up to 100 WPM) To: Julian, G4ILO julian.g4...@gmail.com Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Monday, June 14, 2010, 12:50 PM * 75 BAUD (100 WPM) RTTY SUPPORT: The built-in encoder/decoder (DATA/FSK-D) now supports both 45 and 75 baud. To select the desired rate, hold the DATA MD switch, then rotate VFO A. Has anyone tried the built-in RTTY? When I tried it, I could copy other stations perfectly but no-one would come back to me... I tried it and had no trouble copying using Cocoamodem on a Mac, and MMTTY on a PC, as well as another K3's internal decoder. I sent FSK using MMTTY and a RigExpert Plus interface, and had no trouble copying on the Cocamodem/Mac and on antoehr K3's internal decoder. Might just be a case of the wrong FSK polarity setting in the CONFIG menu? 73, Lyle KK7P - Julian, G4ILO. K2 #392 K3 #222. * G4ILO's Shack - http://www.g4ilo.com * KComm - http://www.g4ilo.com/kcomm.html * KTune - http://www.g4ilo.com/ktune.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] new high speed rtty software
installed it todayit works great If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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] build?
I ordered the osc kit from elecraft, but find that the parts are so small that my 75 year old eyes just wont do the job. I emailed a couple of the builders available but get no response. Anyone interested in building this thing-a-ma-bob (there that tells my age) for me? Susan If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA --- On Sun, 6/6/10, Merle Bone merleb...@charter.net wrote: From: Merle Bone merleb...@charter.net Subject: [Elecraft] KDVR To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Sunday, June 6, 2010, 7:04 AM I have a couple of questions about the DVR that I could not find answers to in the manual. If you are using Speech Processing does the DVR record the audio before or after the SP when you are recording from the microphone? Also, when you playback a message from the DVR, does the audio from the DVR go through the Speeech Processing if you have the SP turned On? Thanks 73, Merle - W0EWM __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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] 2 meter Mars operation
Does anyone have any info as to if the 2 meter module for the K3 will operate on close-in MARS frequencies. susan If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm AFA9SM USSV DHARMA __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
