[Elecraft] K3 #27

2007-10-27 Thread Jeff Stai
I wish to report that K3/100 #27 arrived at WK6I today with a perfect inventory. Assembly about half complete with no major gotchas or surprises (that I know of :). About 4.5 hours to this point, including 1.5 hours for inventory. This thing is a work of art. You take the pieces out of their

Re: [Elecraft] K3 KFL3B-FM Change?

2007-10-27 Thread David Woolley
In the telephone world, equipment allows out to 4Kc. That was considered optimal for intelligibility vs bandwidth. The telephone network bandwidth is 3.1kHz (300 to 3400Hz). 4kHz was the analogue bearer channel separation, and allows for realistic shape factors on the channel filters. On

Re: [Elecraft] K2 power control loop damping (was 'KPA100 Problem')

2007-10-27 Thread Don Wilhelm
Jim, A bit of operational theory first: The K2 power control circuit is a feedback control loop which includes the gain of the entire transmit chain in its control loop. As a result, when the KPA100 is added, the loop gain for some K2s is increased so much that the loop oscillates. A quick

Re: [Elecraft] Pactor I via soundcard

2007-10-27 Thread R. Kevin Stover
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Phil. As far as I know there is no sound card software to transmit Pactor I. In it's wisdom SCS has kept that proprietary and patented, along with P II and P III. You get to buy their $1K modem if you want to transmit Pactor of any flavor. Phil

Re: [Elecraft] Pactor I via soundcard

2007-10-27 Thread Rick Kunath
R. Kevin Stover wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Phil. As far as I know there is no sound card software to transmit Pactor I. In it's wisdom SCS has kept that proprietary and patented, along with P II and P III. You get to buy their $1K modem if you want to transmit

Re: [Elecraft] Pactor I via soundcard

2007-10-27 Thread Lyle Johnson
As far as I know there is no sound card software to transmit Pactor I. HFTerm (for linux) URL:http://sourceforge.net/projects/hfterm does Pactor I Tx and Rx. In it's wisdom SCS has kept that proprietary and patented, along with P II and P III. You get to buy their $1K modem if you want

[Elecraft] FS: Elecraft K2 (15W, tuner, NB, AF) $695

2007-10-27 Thread Andrew Moore
I know I'll regret this but it's the only way I'll force myself to build the QRP homebrew station I've been saying I'll build for the past 20 years. As long as there's a working rig in the shack, I find the homebrew stuff easy to talk about but hard to get moving on. Especially if the existing

Re: [Elecraft] Pactor I via soundcard

2007-10-27 Thread Phil Kane
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 08:18:37 -0700, Lyle Johnson wrote: Some HAL Communications products, including the DXP-38, support Pactor, which they call P-mode. You can also buy old AEA PK-232MBX TNCs cheaply at hamfests and you-know-where, and later versions of the PK-232MBX included Pactor I. If your

Re: [Elecraft] Pactor I via soundcard

2007-10-27 Thread Phil Kane
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 11:08:23 -0400, Rick Kunath wrote: HF under Linux will do Pactor 1. It isn't trivial to get working though. Thanks for the reply. I have tried Linux (Red Hat and Mandrake) in the past and have not been totally happy with the setup and the fact that several programs

Re: [Elecraft] Pactor I via soundcard

2007-10-27 Thread Phil Kane
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 09:35:05 -0500, R. Kevin Stover wrote: As far as I know there is no sound card software to transmit Pactor I. In it's wisdom SCS has kept that proprietary and patented, along with P II and P III. You get to buy their $1K modem if you want to transmit Pactor of any flavor.

[Elecraft] Re: FS: Elecraft K2 (15W, tuner, NB, AF) $695

2007-10-27 Thread Andrew Moore
Current Elecraft price is $639 plus shipping, unassembled. Correction... elecraft price $9xx... typo. My selling price stands. $695. On 10/27/07, Andrew Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know I'll regret this but it's the only way I'll force myself to build the QRP homebrew station I've been

[Elecraft] K2 power output/power on Oddidity

2007-10-27 Thread Will
Hi all, After some weeks away from my K2 construction, I'm just at the point of going through the Part III Alignment, when I noticed two odd things about my K2: -First, whenever (in fact always now) I power up my K2, I see he usual 'Elecraft' display light up as normal. But instead of

[Elecraft] Elecraft] K3 #27

2007-10-27 Thread Don Rasmussen
Sounds like you got my radio Jeff. That's the new radio experience I want. You have earned your spot on the early serno wall of fame. ;-) http://www.zerobeat.net/mediawiki/index.php/K3_Serial_Numbers You are not likely to wine about it. ;-) Elecraft] K3 #27 Jeff Stai jds at twistedoak.com Sat

[Elecraft] KPA100 capacitor question

2007-10-27 Thread Dr. Werner Furlan
hi, I am working on the KPA 100 and I have a problem to identify C26 (33pF, 50V) and find C 41 (100pF, 101) in the provided capacitors. I found one disk capacitor labelled 33, CO, but then I cannot find C5F, which should also be 33, but 500V or 1KV. From the 100pF, 101 should be QTY 2, I

[Elecraft] First time to hear K3 sigs

2007-10-27 Thread a.yoshida
Hi all I am one of those who have been waiting for K3 arrival. I worked Victor, K2VCO on 14MHz CW with my K2 this morning. His K3 is #7 and my K2 is #4503. This is my first experience to hear K3 sings. de aki, ja1nlx ___ Elecraft mailing list Post

[Elecraft] WTB

2007-10-27 Thread jpgabbard
I am looking for an HW9 parts radio to get warc band parts for my restoration project. Thanks for the BW, John KF7OM Nv. ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr.

[Elecraft] K3: who are the FTers and how many have been shipped?

2007-10-27 Thread DOUGLAS ZWIEBEL
HI all: Being very part time QRP in the CQWW SSB (phone -- yuck), I was outside today playing with antennas, planning, tracing coax runs under the leaves, etc. I somehow managed to have my RG17 run hooked up to the 80m inverted V. Guess there's little loss there! I'll be rolling out the 7/8

[Elecraft] K3: one more FT

2007-10-27 Thread DOUGLAS ZWIEBEL
Forgot N6XI...I think that's the call. ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help:

Re: [Elecraft] First time to hear K3 sigs

2007-10-27 Thread Vic K2VCO
a.yoshida wrote: Hi all I am one of those who have been waiting for K3 arrival. I worked Victor, K2VCO on 14MHz CW with my K2 this morning. His K3 is #7 and my K2 is #4503. This is my first experience to hear K3 sings. de aki, ja1nlx ___ Hi

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report for October 21st 22nd, 2007

2007-10-27 Thread Kevin Rock
Good evening, If there are any errors in the following lists please remember I am getting some of this information third hand. Be kind :) The trip back from Pacificon was quite pleasant. The wind was not howling (well at least after the first two hours) and the rain was not pouring down