Re: [Elecraft] OT: Pets in the Shack
Hi Guys, Back in my Commodore-64 days I used to run Digicom which was a German Packet program. One night my cat PJ slept on the keyboard. This program would transmit anytime a key was pushed. My cat sent endless rows of various letters and numbers all night long. I printed a few pages out and sent them to my buddy in Montana and explained what had happened. A few days later I received in the mail printouts from his Digicom station that were simular. The caption was: :FROM MY CAT TO YOUR CAT 73 de Jack / W7LD / Lucky Dog - Original Message - From: Dick Roth--KA1OZ raro...@gmail.com To: Elecraft Reflector elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 10:40 AM Subject: [Elecraft] OT: Pets in the Shack I have two furry family members who often visit me when I'm operating...and often come into the shack when I'm not there. Naturally, being cats, they climb all over the place including my operating position. Heres a tip: if you leave your radio on when you aren't present, engage Tx TEST to prevent accidental carrier transmission if they want to try out their fists on your keys. Sure, I could shut the station off, but I tend to cling to my old ways when I used hollow state gear (last rig before the K3 was a National NCX-3) and it required long warm-ups. -- 73 de Dick, ka1oz Elecraft K3/100(K) #859 G5RV Doublet Titan-DX Vertical __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] OT: Pets in the Shack
Sometimes, it seems like my dummy load is my best antenna. 73, Fred K6DGW - Northern California Contest Club - CU in the 2012 Cal QSO Party 6-7 Oct 2012 - www.cqp.org On 8/9/2012 4:31 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote: Actually, the best prevention is to arrange your station antenna switching to connect a dummy load - then when you leave the operating position, just switch the antenna to the dummy load position and be done with it - no worries. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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: Pets in the Shack
Fred, I was very glad that all my ham equipment had dummy loads connected 2 nights ago - we had a thunderstorm, and a very close lightning event. Many circuit breakers tripped, 4 computers died, and I had to replace the network router and all switches as well as the NAS storage device I use as a file server. No data was lost, but I am in limp-along condition until I can get the file server up and running. The strike apparently was mostly confined to the Ethernet connection, although it took out a printer locally attached to my computer too. The network is back up and running and I am waiting for a couple of replacement computers for critical places in the network - the other two (media center and ham shack) will wait for a bit because I do not view them as critical. The bottom line is that it did not hurt any of the ham gear. 73, Don W3FPR On 8/10/2012 8:19 PM, Fred Jensen wrote: Sometimes, it seems like my dummy load is my best antenna. 73, Fred K6DGW __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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] OT: Pets in the Shack
I have two furry family members who often visit me when I'm operating...and often come into the shack when I'm not there. Naturally, being cats, they climb all over the place including my operating position. Heres a tip: if you leave your radio on when you aren't present, engage Tx TEST to prevent accidental carrier transmission if they want to try out their fists on your keys. Sure, I could shut the station off, but I tend to cling to my old ways when I used hollow state gear (last rig before the K3 was a National NCX-3) and it required long warm-ups. -- 73 de Dick, ka1oz Elecraft K3/100(K) #859 G5RV Doublet Titan-DX Vertical __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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: Pets in the Shack
Excellent suggestion, Dick. Such events, along with a person setting something of the operating desk that bumps the paddles, is one of the major causes of ditters. Not only are they annoying, a Ham in the USA is committing a serious Federal offense by allowing transmissions not under his/her personal control. (As an O.T. myself, one of the few old things I enjoy breaking are old habits, Hi) 73, Ron AC7AC -Original Message- I have two furry family members who often visit me when I'm operating...and often come into the shack when I'm not there. Naturally, being cats, they climb all over the place including my operating position. Heres a tip: if you leave your radio on when you aren't present, engage Tx TEST to prevent accidental carrier transmission if they want to try out their fists on your keys. Sure, I could shut the station off, but I tend to cling to my old ways when I used hollow state gear (last rig before the K3 was a National NCX-3) and it required long warm-ups. -- 73 de Dick, ka1oz Elecraft K3/100(K) #859 G5RV Doublet Titan-DX Vertical __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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: Pets in the Shack
TX TEST works great for the K3, but there is no equal on the K2. I would suggest for the K2, tap the mode button to put it into SSB of RTTY mode - especially if you use PTT and not VOX. If the dot paddle is closed, yes, it will go into transmit, but there will be no audio to produce a signal unless the cat purrs into the microphone. For the KX3, there is mo TX TEST, so there too, I recommend setting the mode to SSB. Actually, the best prevention is to arrange your station antenna switching to connect a dummy load - then when you leave the operating position, just switch the antenna to the dummy load position and be done with it - no worries. 73, Don W3FPR On 8/9/2012 7:11 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote: Excellent suggestion, Dick. Such events, along with a person setting something of the operating desk that bumps the paddles, is one of the major causes of ditters. Not only are they annoying, a Ham in the USA is committing a serious Federal offense by allowing transmissions not under his/her personal control. (As an O.T. myself, one of the few old things I enjoy breaking are old habits, Hi) 73, Ron AC7AC -Original Message- I have two furry family members who often visit me when I'm operating...and often come into the shack when I'm not there. Naturally, being cats, they climb all over the place including my operating position. Heres a tip: if you leave your radio on when you aren't present, engage Tx TEST to prevent accidental carrier transmission if they want to try out their fists on your keys. Sure, I could shut the station off, but I tend to cling to my old ways when I used hollow state gear (last rig before the K3 was a National NCX-3) and it required long warm-ups. -- 73 de Dick, ka1oz Elecraft K3/100(K) #859 G5RV Doublet Titan-DX Vertical __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] OT: Pets in the Shack
On 8/9/2012 4:31 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote: Actually, the best prevention is to arrange your station antenna switching to connect a dummy load - then when you leave the operating position, just switch the antenna to the dummy load position and be done with it - no worries. My operation is mostly PSK31 and SSB. My tsble microphone has a disable switch that neuters the PTT function, and my digital setup is fail safe with no signal. Everyone's setup is different. -- 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] OT: Pets in the Shack
But my friends have pasted their test. With multiple question test, their score was all over 70%. (They were allowed to meow their answers) ;-) a 'kosher ham' Robert -Original Message- From: Ron D'Eau Claire r...@cobi.biz Sender: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 16:11:17 To: ka...@arrl.net; 'Elecraft Reflector'elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: Pets in the Shack Excellent suggestion, Dick. Such events, along with a person setting something of the operating desk that bumps the paddles, is one of the major causes of ditters. Not only are they annoying, a Ham in the USA is committing a serious Federal offense by allowing transmissions not under his/her personal control. (As an O.T. myself, one of the few old things I enjoy breaking are old habits, Hi) 73, Ron AC7AC -Original Message- I have two furry family members who often visit me when I'm operating...and often come into the shack when I'm not there. Naturally, being cats, they climb all over the place including my operating position. Heres a tip: if you leave your radio on when you aren't present, engage Tx TEST to prevent accidental carrier transmission if they want to try out their fists on your keys. Sure, I could shut the station off, but I tend to cling to my old ways when I used hollow state gear (last rig before the K3 was a National NCX-3) and it required long warm-ups. -- 73 de Dick, ka1oz Elecraft K3/100(K) #859 G5RV Doublet Titan-DX Vertical __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] OT: Pets in the Shack
On 12-08-09 07:31 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote: TX TEST works great for the K3, but there is no equal on the K2. On a K2 you can put the unit in CW test mode or switch from VOX to PTT when in SSB mode. -- Cheers! Kevin. http://www.ve3syb.ca/ |Nerds make the shiny things that distract Owner of Elecraft K2 #2172 | the mouth-breathers, and that's why we're | powerful! #include disclaimer/favourite | --Chris Hardwick __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
