Re: [Elecraft] INRAD will be soon making custom RX filters for the K2?

2007-03-17 Thread Vic K2VCO
Fred (FL) wrote: Did anything ever become of the idea of "INRAD will be soon making custom RX filters for the K2"? I saw this concluding remark, in an article on Elecraft site, about K2. Maybe it was a rumor, wishful thinking, or didn't make sense to INRAD. INRAD did make a few 400Hz CW filte

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2007-03-17 Thread Kevin Rock
Good Evening, Another week has flown by. Already it is Saturday and I just got started; where did it go? There were a couple days of sun and yesterday I was outside for an hour in my t-shirt. I think spring may be here soon since the snow has gone at this elevation. Rain is back this

[Elecraft] INRAD will be soon making custom RX filters for the K2?

2007-03-17 Thread Fred (FL)
Did anything ever become of the idea of "INRAD will be soon making custom RX filters for the K2"? I saw this concluding remark, in an article on Elecraft site, about K2. Maybe it was a rumor, wishful thinking, or didn't make sense to INRAD. Fred, N3CSY ___

[Elecraft] March RFTB Announcement

2007-03-17 Thread Larry Makoski
This Sunday evening, the Flying Pigs Amateur Radio Club International will be holding its monthly Run For The Bacon. This is a friendly, two hour QRP CW Sprint, which is open to ALL radio amateurs, will last from 9:00 - 11:00PM EDT (0100-0300 UTC Monday). You may work stations once per band o

Re: [Elecraft] RTTY Problems

2007-03-17 Thread Ken Alexander
--- Steven Pituch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As far as the other story goescenter them on > 2210 Hz or whatever the > RTTY center frequency is, then narrow them down to > about 400 hz wide and > then it will work fabulously. Actually, I was just reading about that on Don Wilhelm's website

RE: [Elecraft] Filters and Spectrum Analyzer.

2007-03-17 Thread Ron D'Eau Claire
Spectrogram is also limited by the dynamic range of many sound cards. I've used it on some computers that had an internal noise floor barely 30 db down! Also the accuracy of the crystal clock in the sound card affects the accuracy of frequency measurements. Even so Spectrogram is an extremely wor

Re: [Elecraft] Filters and Spectrum Analyzer.

2007-03-17 Thread Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy
Jack, Thank you, I should have clarified this point. As I do not own a tracking generator with built-in programmable offset, when looking at a filter when there is a receiver signal mixer between the generator and the spectrum analyzer I use the outboard mixer plus generator approach, with the sp

Re: [Elecraft] RTTY Problems

2007-03-17 Thread Steven Pituch
(The crystal filters in RTTY mode are unusable for RTTY because they're centred on voice audio frequencies and not RTTY freqs. But that's another story.) Hi Ken, As far as the other story goescenter them on 2210 Hz or whatever the RTTY center frequency is, then narrow them down to about 400

Re: [Elecraft] Can't search the email archives successfully, looking for K1 VFO

2007-03-17 Thread Scott Richardson
Mike, RF-C2/C2A is the capacitor choice for selecting K1 VFO range. My K1 manual addresses this on pages 12 and 38. You may need to change a crystal for 30 m, too. Scott N1AIA ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must b

[Elecraft] RTTY Problems

2007-03-17 Thread Ken Alexander
Hi folks, I'm operating in the BARTG RTTY contest this weekend with my K2 with a Tigertronics SL-1+ audio interface and a MicroHam CW Keyer, which handles the computer control of the K2. I'm using MMTTY and N1MM logger. Everything worked fine last night. I was in RTTY mode because the DSP filte

RE: [Elecraft] Reflector Archive Problem?

2007-03-17 Thread Gary Hvizdak
On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 Darrell Bellerive (VA7TO) wrote Is there something wrong with the reflector archive ... it seems to only go back to March 14. Is there an alternate archive? Darrel, The search is broken but the archives themselves are still intact. The archives at http://www.ac6rm.net/

[Elecraft] Can't search the email archives successfully, looking for K1 VFO

2007-03-17 Thread n2htt
I am trying to search the archives on the Elecraft website for information on changing the bandwidth of the VFO on my K1 - I know there are threads out there on this, in fact I can see some browsing back in Sep 2006... but the search does not find them. I tried a search target of "K1 VFO" (with

Re: [Elecraft] Filters and Spectrum Analyzer.

2007-03-17 Thread Jack Smith
I should add another option would be to use an outboard mixer and signal generator and create a mirror image of the K2's internal process. Tracking Generator --> MIXER --> to K2 Mixer LO driven from a signal generator set to provide the correct offset and frequency inversion. Adds a bit of c

Re: [Elecraft] Filters and Spectrum Analyzer.

2007-03-17 Thread Jack Smith
Geoff: Your approach assumes that the tracking generator has a programmable offset, doesn't it? RF Generator output, for example, sweeps from 7 - 7.4 MHz with the K2 tuned to 7.2 MHz, but the detector needs to sweep 5115 - 4715 KHz, if I've got the maths right. (Sweep also must be inverted to

Re: [Elecraft] spectrogram for mac or linux?

2007-03-17 Thread John Lamoreaux
is there a suitable program for mac or linux? For Mac OS X ... I used iSpectrum, from Dog Park Software. I used the free demo version. It was a snap, taking all of ten minutes. ``iSpectrum is an easy to use audio spectrum analyzer that allows the user to view live audio in a standard fre

[Elecraft] Filters and Spectrum Analyzer.

2007-03-17 Thread Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy
Hi Brett, My personal preference when looking at the response of any filter is to use a RF Spectrum Analyzer and a tracking signal generator. When it comes to looking at the response of IF filters already built into a receiver the tracking generator can work at the antenna frequency rather tha

[Elecraft] Reflector Archive Problem?

2007-03-17 Thread Darrell Bellerive
Is there something wrong with the reflector archive at http://www.ac6rm.net/mailarchive/html/elecraft-list/ No matter what I search for it seems to only go back to March 14. A search of K2 produces on 43 results. Is there an alternate archive? Darrell -- Darrell Bellerive Amateur Radio Stati

RE: [Elecraft] Kit arrived...

2007-03-17 Thread Tom Hammond
Hi Brett: I got my front panel board done today, and started on the RF board. So far all seems good, very easy to build, at least so far In case anyone is wondering, they are up to SN 6065! I have read a bit here about setting up the filters, and it being critical, and you need the spectr

Re: [Elecraft] spectrogram for mac or linux?

2007-03-17 Thread David Wilburn
Very awesome, thank you. This is one of the reasons I have played with Spectrogram yet, as I have to get over to the Windows machine to set it up and do it. Anything special you had to do to setup baudline to get it working? Not from the install point of view, but settings and such. David W

Re: [Elecraft] spectrogram for mac or linux?

2007-03-17 Thread Marteinn Sverrisson
Top class software Baudline is a time-frequency browser designed for scientific visualization of the spectral domain. Signal analysis is performed by Fourier, correlation, and raster transforms that create colorful spectrograms with vibrant detail. Conduct test and measurement experiments with