Tony Estep wrote:
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 10:18 PM, Gary K9GS garyk...@wi.rr.com wrote:
a P3 driving a nice big 20 something inch monitor would be the way to
go
I set up a panadaptor display on my computer in parallel with my P3. It
gives a nice big, detailed picture, but I soon
This is what we used to call the shirt button antenna 'cos we used shirt
buttons as the insulators which saves and awful lot of work making them.
For light weight I would consider 300ohm ribbon for the feeder and a simple
choke/balun to the connector. Crock clips rust in our wx and slide switches
I also have an IC-910H (which is surplus to requirements now I have the
XV144, if any UK based person is interested.) I much prefer the sound of the
K3 receiver and having the standard K3 shift and width controls does help
pulling a weak SSB signal out of the noise.
John Ragle wrote:
Dunno if this is ideal, however, I have 2 Hustler 6BTV's and they can be fed
together as a dipole. I plan to put them in a pvc pipe, for wx resistance
and some mechanical stability, and use them as a 6-band slopper, leaning
toward my tower and fed with 7/8 line to handle vswr excursions.
Bob,
An interesting idea for a multiband centre-fed antenna was described by
W4JRW in the December 1960 issue of QST, Multiband Antennas using
Decoupling Stubs.
The decoupling stubs that he used are not hung at right angles to the
antenna wire, but are horizontal stubs which results in a tidy
*I have experienced this problem four times now and I see from the archives
that others have experienced it too. For no apparent reason there is a
total loss of receive audio in the SSB mode.
If the width is opened to above 3 kHz, receive audio returns to normal;
decrease the width below 3 kHz
Hi Lee,
So far I haven't been able to reproduce this. Please send me as much
detail as possible on what you were doing (and how the radio was
configured) just before it happened. Also include your firmware
revision. If you try an older revision that does not exhibit this
behavior, let me
Gosh I hope this didn't keep you up all night :-) I suggest you put the
shortcuts to the utilities in a desktop folder if you're running out of
space.
I'm perfectly content with one utility per product, Elecraft. Keep the
products coming.
Gary W2CS
Surely we don't need 3 separate
Rob:
There are separate utilities for the K3, W2, P3, K144XV, KPA500 and XG3.
Yes, a couple more of them are on the radar.
We considered putting these all into one larger software offering, but I
couldn't think of a way to keep it simple and focused.
If I made one utility that could
Dick,
Thanks for explaining the thinking in choosing to do separate utilities. My
comment about cluttering up the desktop with Elecraft icons was tongue in
cheek. Half the desktop is taken up with radio related programs! Sorry if I
came off more serious that I really meant to be. Thanks
Hi all, just a couple of quick questions
1. How often should one update the firmware on my K3 ?
2.Where do I look to see what the latest update is ?
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Chris Soames
G0TZZ
email :-
sem...@semaos.plus.com
www.norfolkamateurradio.org
Dick,
I like your approach -- one utility per product. Keep it up!
Dave, N4QS
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From: Dick Dievendorff die...@comcast.net
To: 'Rob May' roblitesp...@hotmail.com; elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2011 9:32 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KPA500 Utility
Hello, just getting back into Amateur radio after absence of 20 plus years. I
mainly operated CW way back. Have heard alot of good things about the KX1.
Looking for a reasonably price used station to get started again. On limited
income.
Thanks
Jim W0CZT
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Been enjoying KPA500 #32 for a couple of days now. Haven't yet made a
lot of QSOs with it, but the extra power on RTTY and to bust a couple
SSB pile-ups has been welcome.
However, the amp does not like my 40m setup. As soon as I transmit it
instantly goes into high reflected power fault and
Chris,
I would recommend staying current with all production versions of utility
software as it becomes available. This keeps you up-to-date regarding all
new features and products. For example, the latest K3 firmware v. 04.36
provides support for the KPA500 plus other improvements.
You can
Nels,
The K3 and your other rigs may be happy with it at 100 W, but at 500 W
it may be more critical. The present SWR level (actually, the
reflected power) could be just barely faulting the amp. Did you try
reducing the drive a bit?
Also: Is there any reason why the LDG tuner can't find a
On 5/15/2011 12:44 AM, Ian White GM3SEK wrote:
I came to the P3 from an SDR-IQ using a 15in second monitor [1], linked
to the K3 and N1MMLogger through LP-Bridge. For the moment, the much
tighter integration between the P3 and the K3 (particularly the tracking
cursors on*both* VFOs) overrides
Not a problem at all. It's a reasonable observation, and I'm not sure the
reasons are well understood.
We wrangled with this issue the P3 Utility effort began. I wanted to put P3
Utility functions into the K3 Utility, particularly as they use the same
serial port and to some degree the K3/P3
On 5/15/2011 8:11 AM, Wayne Burdick wrote:
Did you try reducing the drive a bit?
I had a beta version here for test during a RTTY contest with orders to
run it with all the lights lit. It occasionally saw SWR on the order of
2:1 and faulted. I simply dropped the drive a dB or so and it purred
Seeing the threads on the KPA500 and auto tuner problems, I've noticed a
possible anomaly in the K3's internal auto tuner. I have a very close to
resonant inverted L for 160 meters and a 3 wire fan dipole for 40, 30 and 17
meters. 40 and 17 are resonant exactly where I want them, but due to a
I tried lowering the drive to 1 watt (using the tune function) and that
still triggers the fault.
I suspect I'll only have the LDG tuner until the KAT500 comes out! It
more or less gets the job done but I think it could do better and I'm
not eager to got back to the manual tuner I have.
73
According to N1AL, here are 468 active FFT bins.
It's a little more complicated than that. The FFT is actually 1024
points. The digital filter rolls off the edges, so the outer 20% of the
points are thrown away. The remaining 800 or so are then interpolated
to obtain the 468 display points.
I am not sure I understand the feature being described. Are you planning on a
video output direct to a monitor or are you planning on some kind of interface
to a computer for display to a monitor via an application program (I am not
sure of the performance demands for this though).
73, phil,
We expect to sell out of K2 Internal Mic Adaptors sometime in the next three
to six months. The exact date will depend on demand, and it could be sooner
or later.
At the moment we are not limiting sales, but as our inventory gets critical,
we will likely limit sales to one per customer.
For
Having spent 30+ years in data process it is common to keep your hardware
supporting software separated. A utility for each is the way to go. Hard
drive storage is cheap, It's just a matter of organize your support software
and accessing it when needed.
There's no need to clutter a desktop with
But, then again, it is easy to view the K-line as one system and thus having
one software
application to manage your K-line makes sense. I am also a computer programmer
with
40+ years in the industry and I would prefer one application. I do understand
the need
to support those who do not have
The utility is just that...a utilitynot run very often and useful for
updating FW but for day to day operation is not really useful at all.
Sometimes the desires of some are not in tune with the desires of others?
One folder, several utilities is fine with me.
But then I use my K-Line daily
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What's the new frequency please?
Philip LaMarche
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14.3035 for the SSB net @ 1800Z..
matt
On Sun, 15 May 2011 13:45:41 -0400, you wrote:
What's the new frequency please?
Philip LaMarche
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I have not changed net frequencies. Of which net are you referring?
73,
Kevin. KD5ONS
On Sun, 15 May 2011 10:45:41 -0700, Phil LaMarche plama...@verizon.net
wrote:
What's the new frequency please?
Philip LaMarche
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Well, lots of suggestions for trap dipoles, multiple insulators with jumpers,
etc etc.
But I get excellent results with my simple antenna. I posted about this 4 or 5
years ago. I went to Radio Shack and bought a 50 ft roll of loudspeaker wire.
I un-zipped it. Turns out actual length of each
Philip LaMarche
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http://www.w9dvm.com/ www.w9dvm.com
K3 # 1605
14.303 now
moved due to another QSO
Very good signals from Oregon today
I normally have to strain to hear him
and usually need to be relayed into the net
GB 73
K5OAI
Sam Morgan
On 5/15/2011 12:45 PM, Phil LaMarche wrote:
What's the new frequency please?
Philip LaMarche
LaMarche
As of last week I changed my email address to ae...@cox.net
This change was necessary because my previous internet provider used
frequencies for the control link to their DSL box which directly relate to
ham frequencies. The result was extreme pixel ghosting when I transmitted.
I tried
From what I'm reading here there will be no computer in the formula.
Am I right Alan?
73,
Tom
Amateur Radio Operator N5GE
On Sun, 15 May 2011 09:24:17 -0700, Phil Hystad phys...@mac.com wrote:
I am not sure I understand the feature being described. Are you planning on a
video output direct
Sounds to like your LDG Tuner can't match the load...
73,
Tom
Amateur Radio Operator N5GE
On Sun, 15 May 2011 11:00:57 -0400, Nels Anderson n...@flightsim.com wrote:
Been enjoying KPA500 #32 for a couple of days now. Haven't yet made a
lot of QSOs with it, but the extra power on RTTY and to
Right, no computer will be required. You'll just plug a VGA monitor
into the connector on the back of the P3.
Alan N1AL
On Sun, 2011-05-15 at 13:29 -0500, n...@n5ge.com wrote:
From what I'm reading here there will be no computer in the formula.
Am I right Alan?
73,
Tom
Amateur Radio
We started the net this week on 14.303 MHz, fitting in between nets at .300
and .306. Propagation was mixed with a lot of QSB. We had 27 participants
over the 21 minute net. The discussions were on cabling options for the
KPA500. See you next week.
Here is the list of participants.
Station Name
Hi Gang
I never got around to buying the K3..truth is I like the K2 just fine!
Is there any possibility I could get the KPA500 painted to match the K2??
73.de.Fred N9TA
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On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Alan Bloom n...@sonic.net wrote:
Right, no computer will be required. You'll just plug a VGA monitor
into the connector on the back of the P3.
Since we are in question answering mode, will you be able to switch
between just monitor, just P3, and both?
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Our May sprint is this coming Wednesday evening local time (8:30-10:30 p.m.
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There you will find all the details as to time, frequencies and
Bob/AB5N wrote:
I guess I have come to the conclusion that nobody has really run the gamut
trying antenna designs for the KX-1.
And I guess I'd contest that statement. Testing portable HF antennas for
field and backpack use has been my principal ham interest for more than 30
years (but for
That would certainly seem reasonable.
Alan N1AL
On Sun, 2011-05-15 at 18:05 -0400, Alexander Sack wrote:
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Alan Bloom n...@sonic.net wrote:
Right, no computer will be required. You'll just plug a VGA monitor
into the connector on the back of the P3.
Since
I have just installed the latest Linux version of the K3 utility and
when trying to check the available K3 firmware version, I get the last
two lines of output immediately upon clicking the Check Versions Now
button.
19:17:33 Elecraft K3 Utility for Linux Version 1.4.1.8
19:17:34 K3 MCU version
Sounds similar to what my barefoot K2/100 was doing with an LDG tuner to
a multiband ladderline-fed doublet. It would tune up alright but as soon
as I started talking on 17m the tuner would go crazy. I replaced the
first few feet of feedline with dual coax, grounded the shields. That
moved the
Hello:
I am considering the purchase of a K3 for the purpose of 6M, VHF, UHF and
eventually Microwave contesting. Obviously this will result in using
transverters with all the associated cabling to achieve this.
I would appreciate hearing how you accomplished this, and why you picked the K3.
If a tuner gets you to a good match at low power where there is a balun
involved, but you run into problems at high power, I would first suspect
that the balun is getting saturated. Using a balun between an antenna and
the tuner many times is not a good thing to do. Using a balanced line tuner
Good Evening,
The two nets were plagued with QRM. Mostly tuners with one tester. I
sometimes wonder about people. Twenty meters was clear and I was able to
land two stations in Connecticut. One of them was Bill, K1EV. I asked
him to call the net and he got Dave, W8OV, who had just
It hasn't worked for me either -- just been too busy to let anyone
know. Downloading the files manually works.
Two other minor observations. 1st, a 64-bit build should probably be
made available one of these days. I chose to down-grade my machine
instead -- it was easier than
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