Re: [Elecraft] K3 DSP Board Testing Procedure

2010-02-27 Thread Jan Erik Holm
Would be interesting! Beats me why Elecraft can´t present the facts, I´m sure they have measured since I bet they know how to. / Jim SM2EKM -- Oliver Sweningsen wrote: > Does anyone have side-by-side test results from old and new DSP boards? Or, > can someone suggest

[Elecraft] K3 DSP Board Testing Procedure

2010-02-27 Thread Oliver Sweningsen
Does anyone have side-by-side test results from old and new DSP boards? Or, can someone suggest a good test procedure to quantify low frequency performance improvement? I have one modified and one unmodified K3 and plan to run some tests. Oliver, W6NV ___

[Elecraft] [K3] LED brightness

2010-02-27 Thread Al Lorona
Question for K3 owners: Do you find that the setting of your LED brightness has an effect on the level of high frequency audio artifacts heard? i. e. LED BRT = 8 corresponds to louder audio tones? Note that I am NOT trying to re-open an old topic, only trying to determine a correlation between

Re: [Elecraft] K2 - Poor Audio Reports

2010-02-27 Thread Steve Ellington
Logic tells me to first hook the K2 to a dummy load and listen to yourself in another receiver. That should tell you a lot. Steve N4LQ - Original Message - From: "David Heinsohn" To: "Elecraft_List" Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2010 11:09 PM Subject: [Elecraft] K2 - Poor Audio Reports

[Elecraft] K2 - Poor Audio Reports

2010-02-27 Thread David Heinsohn
On 160 mtrs, SSB as I move up the band I begin to get poor audio reports at about 1.900mhz. The tuner is showing less than a 2:1 swr at that point and I retune often as I move up. The antenna is a dipole centered on 1.825mhz. Other than adding a shorter element to the dipole, any ideas what

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

2010-02-27 Thread Kevin Rock
Good Evening, The week has been rather good. I have spent much of it at the bench working on circuits and a little software. One of these days my web site will go live. I took a good hike on the semi-dry terrain before the clouds broke and the rain returned. The nearby stream is very low;

Re: [Elecraft] laptop digital interface (Mac specific query)

2010-02-27 Thread David Christ
Well, I was in somewhat the same position and decided to take the easy way out. I bought a SignaLink USB. I plugged the USB into the Mac and the other cable into the K3. No drivers to be loaded or anything. Seems to work just fine. Others on the list may be able to tell you what the downsi

[Elecraft] laptop digital interface (Mac specific query)

2010-02-27 Thread Lew Phelps K6LMP
I own a MacBook Pro laptop -- current vintage, which means it has only one audio port. It's a 3.5mm jack that is designed to interface with the headset plug on Apple's "earbuds plus throat mike" headset. The plug on the Apple headset has a tip plus THREE rings, rather than the usual two for a 3

[Elecraft] thought for the day

2010-02-27 Thread mark crossland
I did not intend to cc this joke to the reflector--apologizes   W1VJ Regards, Mark Crossland Crossland Landscape Inc. 508 693 bus. 508 693 7888 fax. 508 802 8296 crosslandlandscape.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http:/

[Elecraft] For Sale: Extreme Isolation EX-29 headphones

2010-02-27 Thread John Unger
Sorry if this is a duplicate of a post that I tried to make a few days ago through nabble. It wasn't clear that I was able to post the message successfully that way. I learned about these headphones from earlier enthusiastic posts on the Elecraft reflector. The isolation and fidelity they deliv

[Elecraft] FW: Thought of the day

2010-02-27 Thread mark crossland
Regards, Mark Crossland Crossland Landscape Inc. 508 693 bus. 508 693 7888 fax. 508 802 8296 crosslandlandscape.com --- On Sat, 2/27/10, bernie crossland wrote: From: bernie crossland Subject: FW: Thought of the day To: "lee alwardt" , "mark crossland" , "sue crossland" , "shaun DePr

[Elecraft] KIO2 - DS cmd shortcoming

2010-02-27 Thread Mike Markowski
I'm writing some code to work with the KDSP2 and have run into what I believe is a shortcoming in the DS command. When moving into kdsp2 menus where two numbers can be modified (e.g., filter, nr, nt settings) a flashing decimal point indicates which of the two numbers will be edited. However, the

Re: [Elecraft] CW/PTT

2010-02-27 Thread Don Wilhelm
Jim, That is true. If you need PTT and the paddles separate, take a look on my website www.w3fpr.com - article on CW PTT for the K2. 73, Don W3FPR Jim Dunstan wrote: > Hi, > > A K2 question. Will the CW key line at the key jack act in the same way as > the PTT line at the 8 pin mic connector

[Elecraft] CW/PTT

2010-02-27 Thread Jim Dunstan
Hi, A K2 question. Will the CW key line at the key jack act in the same way as the PTT line at the 8 pin mic connector when the radio is in the SSB mode. Conversely, will the PTT line at the mic connector key the CW line when in the CW mode ? It appears they are the same line. Tnx Jim, VE

[Elecraft] K2/100 for sale

2010-02-27 Thread L. D. Ingram
Hi, The K2/100 is sold. 73, Larry Ingram AG4NN __ 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://ww

Re: [Elecraft] K3 - N1MM and RTTY - DATA/DATA A OR USB mode ?????

2010-02-27 Thread Joe Subich, W4TV
> N1MM shows PSK mode on top of the logging window when the K3 > is in Data A mode but seems to transmit RTTY OK. Depends on what you have set in the "Mode Control" tab of the N1MM Logger configuration dialog. I generally set RTTY to RTTY for FSK and set PSK to PSK (DATA A) for PSK. If you

[Elecraft] K3 - N1MM and RTTY - DATA/DATA A OR USB mode ?????

2010-02-27 Thread Jim Miller KG0KP
newbee questions (dumb). N1MM shows PSK mode on top of the logging window when the K3 is in Data A mode but seems to transmit RTTY OK. Does it matter or am I supposed to be using USB mode. I prefer to use the Data modes when possible. Contest starts in an hourand a half. Nothing like disco

[Elecraft] [OT] - Spectrogram software for Linux

2010-02-27 Thread Joe Planisky
As has been mentioned several times recently, audio spectrum analysis software can be very useful for aligning the filters in a K2 and for lots of other purposes as well. "Spectrogram" is frequently mentioned as a good program for Windows. For those of us who run some variant of GNU Linux,

Re: [Elecraft] Power supply voltage reading different than K3 reading

2010-02-27 Thread 4Z5TO
Klaatu barada nikto... - You're gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola company. -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Power-supply-voltage-reading-different-than-K3-reading-tp4644777p4645492.html Sent from the [K3] mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _

Re: [Elecraft] Power supply voltage reading different than K3 reading

2010-02-27 Thread Bob - W0GI
In config, set test mode on then, the select ADC REF. The procedure is on page 53 of the manual. -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Power-supply-voltage-reading-different-than-K3-reading-tp4644777p4645259.html Sent from the [K3] mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___

Re: [Elecraft] (spectrogram) K2 crystal filter question

2010-02-27 Thread lstavenhagen
Hi John, Ok, tnx for the info. I think it'll be easier to just borrow my work laptop for this anyway hi hi (I don't keep my MacOS VMWare up to date since I'm completely Microsoft-free here at home as of a few years ago). 73, LS W5QD -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/K2-cr

[Elecraft] (spectrogram) K2 crystal filter question

2010-02-27 Thread John R. Lonigro
LS: As a test, I just installed spectrogram 16 on my Sun VirtualBox virtual Windows XP machine (Ubuntu). It installed with no problems and seems to run. I didn't take the time to insert an audio input to the sound card, but I suspect that should work as well. Haven't tried VMware. lstavenhag

Re: [Elecraft] K2 crystal filter question

2010-02-27 Thread lstavenhagen
Ok thanks Don. I'll be darned hi hi. Unfortunately, I'm Mac only so can't use Spectrogram. It's not really critical tho as the chances of me adding the SSB module are pretty close to zero. Will Spectrogram work in a Windows VM (i.e. through VMWare)? If so might be nice to tweak the filter setti

[Elecraft] ARRL CW & K3 mini split...

2010-02-27 Thread Chuck Guenther
Darn... my secret got out! :) 73 de Chuck NI0C K2, K3 CX7TT wrote: "I worked many guys who were S3 abv and below the run freq while the zero beat guys to my xmit freq were S9 plus." __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.

[Elecraft] Power supply voltage reading different than K3 reading

2010-02-27 Thread 4Z5TO
Picking nits here, everything is within spec but... I just received an Astron power supply. Out of curiosity I was looking at the voltage readout on the K3 and noticed it was at 14.7 VDC. I adjust the Astron to 13.8 VDC and looked at the K3 and noticed a difference in the voltaged, I would have

Re: [Elecraft] Programming language and tools used by Elecraft and other for PIC programming - OT

2010-02-27 Thread David Ferrington, M0XDF
Eeh you wos lucky, we had 't toggle boot strap in't PDP 11/05 in Octal on front panel to even get Assembler! I kid you not. Digital PDP 11/05 with Teletype. On power up, I used to load a bootstrap program of about 20 instructions with switches (0 or 1) on the front panel, so it would read a mac

Re: [Elecraft] Programming language and tools used by Elecraft and other for PIC programming - OT

2010-02-27 Thread AD6XY
What I would find most useful is a code in a PIC that decodes K2 auxbus commands to set an output pin according to the selected band. A bit like a KRC2 but embedded. Then I could build my own transverters/amplifiers/switches. I realise auxbus is proprietary so the PIC would have to come ready prog

[Elecraft] UK Elecraft Net

2010-02-27 Thread Ian Maude
Hi all, Plenty of notice this week :) I will be running the UK Elecraft net on 3658 +/- QRM at 09:00z tomorrow (Sunday 28th Feb). The net is always well attended and a great place to try out settings and discuss mods etc. I look forward to hearing you all then. 73 Ian -- Ian J Maude, G0VGS Sys

Re: [Elecraft] Programming language and tools used by Elecraft and other for PIC programming - OT

2010-02-27 Thread AD6XY
Assembly language! We had to write code in Hex. -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Programming-language-and-tools-used-by-Elecraft-and-other-for-PIC-programming-OT-tp4530561p4644179.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___

Re: [Elecraft] For Sale (or Trade): XV50 6 Metre Transverter

2010-02-27 Thread AD6XY
And note these can be converted for the 70MHz band which greatly increases their value in Europe. -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/For-Sale-or-Trade-XV50-6-Metre-Transverter-tp4640908p4644178.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___