[Elecraft] UK Elecraft net report for Sunday 21st December

2008-12-21 Thread Dave G4AON 
Conditions were quite good this week with only a little QRM.

Topics were:

French amateurs running AM nets on 3550 KHz, usually active most
mornings, plus the usual fishing boats...
S-Meter calibration on both the K2 and K3. General view was that the K3
can be very accurately calibrated.
Softrock and Rocky, pay attention to the cables between the Softrock and
the sound card input, especially watching the balance.
CW sending while on SSB, press key 1 in the CW weight menu option.
The recent speaker resistor grounding modification to protect the AF
amplifier IC.
Aluminium flight cases for the K3, the suggested Maplin case
(www.maplin.co.uk order code N70AP) that is often on sale for £14.99,
may be too small to accommodate the K3.
The Expert 1K-FA linear amplifier

Stations were:
G4ARI, Tim
M1PAF, Paul
G0VGS, Ian
GM0ELP, Doug
GM3SEK, Ian
M0MRW, Mike
G4CWB, Dave
G4NWJ, Jim

Merry Christmas!
Dave, G4AON
K3/100 #80, Acom 1000 linear, dipole.


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Re: [Elecraft] UK Elecraft net report for Sunday 21st December

2008-12-21 Thread Trevor Smithers 
Softrock and Rocky, pay attention to the cables between the Softrock and
the sound card input, especially watching the balance.

I didn't listen to the UK Elecraft net this morning so I'm not aware of the 
context, however when I 
started building Softrock's I encountered the familiar centre frequency 
spike/noise problem. This 
was cured completely by changing the cable between the SR and soundcard to a 
Maplin L44AU  
http://www.maplin.co.uk/  

The photo on the Maplin page is not clear enough to see, but there are actually 
two separately 
screened cables, one for each channel, rather than the more common (cheap) 
version which 
has both signal cables wound together inside a single screen.

Anyway, its works for me.

73 to all
Trevor  G0KTN



   
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