This weekend, Jan 14th, is the North American CW QSO
Party. As usual, all 50 states and other American
Territories will be on. A great time to fill in those
missing states and have a ball of fun. 12 hours (you
can work 10. Check the rules at ncjweb dot com)..
Starts Saturday at 1800 UTC. 160 thr
Stephanie,
Outstanding! I always love to hear someone who has
made that 1st CW contact and is ready for more. At
age 15 I made my 1st CW QSO. That was almost 50 years
ago. I've never tired of CW. In fact I usually have
to hunt down my Heil headset for a SSB contest. I've
had a K1 for a little ove
I have an unopened 4 band K1 with backlight and stand that, unfortunately,
due to a recent setback and disability, I will have to part company with. I
can offer it either as is unbuilt immediately, or I can build it and then
sell it to you built with the bands of your specification.
Please email m
Rick,
Yes, the soldering is a good place to start.
A few simple things - did you forget to install C6 on the bottom of the
board? Did you install C6 properly in the two outer holes of the set of 3
holes? Did you install the jumpers?
Try some 'Quick and Dirty Signal Tracing' - Tom Hammond has pr
Hello All, This is my first post. I have gotten to the point of finishing
part II test on my K2 #52**, everything came out great with the exception of
the last test. The IF alignment, all I am getting on 40m is very faint white
noise with no birdie or other noise. I also have to have the AF gain al
I'm going to try to join all of you on the 40 meter net. 20 meters would be
better I believe, but my KAT2 isn't finished yet. I'm antenna-challenged at
the moment. I'll be using a temporary 40 meter dipole I have strung around
my den. If successful, this will be my first QSO with my new K2 (S/N 524
I have a like new Random Wire Vertical Antenna that I would like to sale.
The antenna is made of high quality aluminum tubing from Texas Towers. It
is portable and is 6 1/2' collapsed and 33 1/2 feet when extended. It has a
guy set with it and can be
erected in 5 minutes easily. You can find
I reiterate Ms. Stephanie: please join us on the Elecraft CW Net. We
don't mind anyone's fist. If you have ever heard mine you would know!
Tom, N0SS, is in the middle of the US (near St. Louis, Missouri) and has
great ears. If he can hear you he will log you. Ric VE3XL has checked in
with
Hello All-
Just installing the KBT2 battery. The first time I tried the battery
arced and became too
hot to touch for about half an hour.
Just tried again and there was no arc, but the battery started to get
warm so I pulled it
out of the bracket. The battery is not connected in any way, a
Hello all!
As some of you might know, the January full moon is called the Wolf Moon
and we polar bears plan to actively celebrate this event.
Check out the cool certificate you can receive for working a
Polar Bear! Remember there will be a den full of bears at the Mohican
Outdoor Center (MOC) in t
In a message dated 1/7/06 5:56:46 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I know it's nothing, no big deal.
It's not nothing. It's everything.
And it is a big deal.
But it got me excited.
>
>
>
Me too - just reading about it!
73 es CU on the bands
Jim, N2EY
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It's been a month since I got my K1, and I finally overcame my 'key-
shyness' and resonded to a CQ.
My morse skills are still pretty bad, but the CQ (on 40 Meters) was slow
enough that I was pretty confident. VE2DPO in Quebec was my first CW
contact in almost 8 years -- and only my secon
It's been a month since I got my K1, and I finally overcame my 'key-
shyness' and resonded to a CQ.
My morse skills are still pretty bad, but the CQ (on 40 Meters) was
slow enough that I was pretty confident. VE2DPO in Quebec was my
first CW contact in almost 8 years -- and only my second C
That's great news Harry!
Just one small correction:
I thank Stephanie VA3UXB for his suggestions on component values.
That's "her suggestions" - I'm a YL, not an OM ;-)
73 de Stephanie
va3uxb
K1 #02132
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I fashioned a hombrew legstrap mount for my Palm Mini Paddle, made from
a stainless
steel Cross Country Ski wax scraper and a couple of nylon straps
intended to secure a
Rock Climbers chalk bag. Details are documented on my website at :
http://www.qsl.net/ve3wmb/palmlegstrap.html
I also disco
Don Wilhelm wrote:
[...]
> change and the Extremely Strong signal Handling diodes (no parts kit for
> this last one, but it takes only 2 1N4148 diodes).
I'm guessing you could order 2 * E560002 if you really wanted.
For what it's worth, most recent E560002 "1N4148" diodes seem to be
actually "PH4
Harry,
Thanks for your 10/12 meter modification details. (And thank you, too,
Stephanie!)
Given your success on these bands, there's the possibility of a future
KFL1-4H option ("H" for "high bands"): a version of the 4-band K1
module that covers some combination of 10, 12, 15, 17, and 20 met
Hi, all.
I built my KFL1-2 as a 12m/10m board.
I thank Stephanie VA3UXB for his suggestions on component values.
Values of components I used are as follows:
Band 1: 24.8MHz
C1, C5 - 100
C2, C4 - 47
C3 - 1
C11, C15 - 270
C12, C14 - 33
C13 - 2
C21, C23 - 68
C22
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 20:11:36 -0500
From: Ed K1EP
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Weller Soldering Station
I would also second that about Greg. He has a vast knowledge of Weller
irons
and is a great person to do business with.
Ed
Thank you for the kind words.
BTW, thanks to Ed's keen observation
John,
If you are on PTT and have the PTT pressed then the voltage on U4 pin 3 will be
< 0.6v.
If the voltage on U2 pin 2 is around 2.2v then when VOX operation is selected
then PIC U1 measures this voltage from the COMP OUT signal on U1 pin 3 and
commands the DAC U2 to output a similar voltag
> -Original Message-
> KNB2 Rev C dtd 3 Feb 2000
> KAT2, Rev B, dtd Feb 14, 2000
> KSB2, Rev B, dtd Nov 15, 199
> but are there any upgrades to the un built modules?
KSB2:
I am aware of the ALC upgrade mod for the KSB2 dated Sept 2001, see
http://www.qslnet.de/member/la3za/K2/mod.html and
Stewart -
Remeasured. Between pins 2 and 3 I get 3.6v. But, if I press and release the
PTT, it goes to .8v. It remains at .8v regardless of SSBA setting.
73 de NA8M
John
Please re-measure the voltagesBETWEEN pins 2 and 3 on U4.
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Here's a video explaining why!
Dan
http://www.visioncomm.net/images/pooterGnome.mpeg
I find during my day (I work in IT), I must treat them
like any of the female employees, with great respect,
and it's really funny, when they act up, I only show up at the office
door, and the person (usually f
John,
Please re-measure the voltagesBETWEEN pins 2 and 3 on U4.
If it is still 3.1v then you have really got problems, and the VOX should not
work at all.
73
Stewart G3RXQ
On Sat, 7 Jan 2006 09:40:29 -0500, John Huffman wrote:
> I followed Stewart's advice and measured the voltage between pins
Congratulations on your Spain to Georgia qrp contact. I t is always good to
hear about why we build these fine radios.
Ed Findley WB2KUI
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Stewart and Don and anyone else -
I've gotten back to trying to fix my VOX. It seems that with any microphone the
VOX wants to key the radio until shut off. Sometimes right away, sometimes
after a bit. Disconnecting the microphone doesn't help. PTT works fine.
I have followed Don's advice
Hi
I use 14 volts times the current delivered to calculate the wattage of a
panel. The open circuit voltage is only useful to get an idea of how much
overhead you have and is determined by the number of cells in series. Each
cell will produce about .5 volts at a current determined by the size o
Hi all,
Just built a KX1, everything checks out fine but occasionally I'll reach for
the paddles and as soon as I touch them, it goes into some kind of cycle and
transmits "ditdit.ditditdit" at about one dit every 500ms and
then stops. Unless I switch bands or power cycle the
Hello to all
I am happy to be able to report that I managed to work W4FOA on 20m on
the 5th of January. Although band conditions were not good we finally
exchanged all the infos to fulfil the 2xK2 QRP QSO. Tony was running 5W
into a 3 element Yagi while I was running 4W into a 8m vertical marine
w
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