Hi, Does anyone have a spare KIO2 they will part with?
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True, I use kpa500 as well. 28mhz seems very good
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A thank you to the Elecraft team for the excellent engineering and
performance delivered in the KPA500.
Team VE2DXY contest DXpedition from zone 2 is using a KPA500
I have the P3 S/N 1581 which I put together earlier this month and it came
with the manual Revision B. The change must have occurred between now and
the 1st week of October.
73, Delwyn KH6DC
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Hi,
I've a question about L9, in the manual it states that its a Micro
Size. I only seem to have a Mini size L9, and it looks a bit on the
large side.
I checked the latest manual and it still says Micro in the Manual.
Thoughts?
John
EI7IG
John,
Use the inductor supplied - mount it at an angle or fold the leads under
the body.
All the inductors in the KX1 are the mini size now - they are not as
prone to damage when bending the leads, even so, form the leads with
care - use fingers rather than a tool.
See the errata sheet.
73,
GOtta agree with Ron re: mangled code. Code sent with a bug, straight key, or
sideswiper is a bit like handwriting. Some people have very sloppy handwriting,
or in this case, send sloppily. I think these things really add character and
make the whole thing a lot less sterile. Heck, if I wanna
Do you have your Quick Memories set up? For me they are at least as useful
as the band stacking registers I had on my previous radio.
Not really, as they only go back to the last saved location, therefore
requiring a save if one wants to go back to the last mode frequency.
It would be nice
Hello
I just notice that my K3 have a delay when I speak at the mike, about
2-3seconds.
Usually I could not be copied from the first time when I say my call sign,
only the last two letters from suffix. This wasn’t bothering me until now
because I use the rig 90% on CW where everything is
SPLIT+2 is my second favorite MACRO
PF1 = SPKR+PH # Very useful if using the back panel phone jacks.
PF2 = SPLIT+2
The SPLIT+2 is so valuable, why is it not a standard front panel
setting? Maybe AB triple hit. Or a new option for the AB double hit to
also do the +2 and SPLIT on. And free up PF#
Thanks Delwyn,
Mine is S/N 1694. I just like the manuals with the color photos and was going
to print it out. It will probably be available soon.
73,
Bob W6VY
Subject: RE: [Elecraft] P3 Manual
I have the P3 S/N 1581 which I put together earlier this month and it came
with the manual
I used an Omni VII for several years and while the receiver specs aren't up
to K3 standards, it had three features that I miss on the K3.
Band stacking registers-four per band
Separate volume settings for Spot and Sidetone
An external heat sink so that fans are not necessary
-
73,
Gary
If you use DXLab's Commander rig control program, it has buttons to do quick
splits up or down 1, 2, 5, and 10 kHz. http://www.dxlabsuite.com/
Another technique is to set VFO B on the DX station and tune the pileup with
the larger VFO A knob with split turned off.
I plug a Radio Shack stereo
Hi Bob,
FWIW, Chapter 9, The P3 Panadapter from The Elecraft K3: Design, Configuration
and Operation can be found at
http://www.ke7x.com/home/guide-to-the-k3/the-p3-guide. It has color screen
shots. (Unfortunately, the spiral bound book and pdf from Lulu is only
black-and-white :-(. )
73,
The newest addition to the K3 family, KPA500 - # 488, arrived at 3:50PM EST
and is now joined with its brethren K3 P3. The hardest part of getting it
in line, was carrying the box from the car into the shack!
This morning, I added the TU2T to the DXCC count using it. Direct affect of
the
If you do not normally use the M1 thru M4 memory buttons, you can use
them a pseudo band-stacking memories within each band.
If you are tuned to a frequency that you may want to return to, tap VM
and then tap one of the M1-4 buttons - that frequency/mode/etc will be
stored. To return, tap MV
I have KPA500 #429, and I really love the amp, but have been confused by the
ALC threshold settings.
Maybe someone on this list can help me with a question I have concerning what
it operation.
The ALC settings are from 0 to 210, and I find that it has no effect on power
out regardless of
I also had an Omni VII previously and, as I said, I prefer the quick memories
on the K3.
The four separate buttons were nice on the Omni VII but they took you back to
the last frequency you were on in that position. Whereas, the Quick Memories
on the K3 ( I have M1 set for CW, M2 SSB, M3
Hey Buddy - glad you're enjoying that Cootie.
Maybe we can 'mangle' a Cootie QSO on 40M one of these days. I now use
my HST for 'swiping (it has a switch for that).
73, Stan WB2LQF
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Buddy Brannan wrote:
So give me a well-handled bug any day of the week; in my
Yes, I greatly miss the band stacking registers in my old TS850S. As I
recall, the feature was actually called Quick Memories. You could hit one
button and it would store up to 5 quick memories. You then could hit Memory
Recall and you could use one of the rotary knobs to cycle back and
Don,
This solution doesn't work for me since I have all M1 - M4 buttons used on
all bands from 160 through 6 meters to allow me to quickly go to the CW ,
RTTY, and SSB portions of the bands. I use these stored sub-band memories
all the time. I suppose one workaround would be to use the M1 to
Based on the replies, the MODE button may not be used much once the
quick memories are set up.
Why not a CONFIG menu option which converts the MODE button to cycle
through two or four band memories. Three options to the MODE CONFIG
option; OFF, BM2, BM4.
John, KN5L
Good idea!
Dave, N4QS
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From: John Oppenheimer j...@kn5l.net
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Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2011 11:18 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 band stacking suggestion
Based on the replies, the MODE button may not be used much once the
quick
A very good idea!
Udo, DK5YA
On 29.10.2011 18:18, John Oppenheimer wrote:
Based on the replies, the MODE button may not be used much once the
quick memories are set up.
Why not a CONFIG menu option which converts the MODE button to cycle
through two or four band memories. Three options to
It sounds like everyone is saying sending sloppy code is desirable. How
odd; I always thought hams took pride in their sending. Well formed,
well spaced characters are much easier to copy. I find nothing quaint
or charming about sending dits at 30wpm and dahs at 10 wpm, which is
typical of
Hi
I just finished to build KPA500 #455. Unfortunately I found several
problems.
1/ fan is not working (I already checked that the 2 wires are a the right
place on the plug - no inversion like someone reported earlier)
2/ I coupled the KPA500 to the K3 with the KPAK3aux from Elecraft. For some
Hi Ken,
I think it's safe to say no one likes sloppy code, and the comments were
saying only that less than perfect code is pleasing to the ear. But
less than perfect doesn't mean sloppy. The tiny imperfections add a
human quality to an otherwise somewhat stark method of communication.
That might work for me.
Rick
K6LE
On 10/29/2011, at 9:18 , John Oppenheimer wrote:
Based on the replies, the MODE button may not be used much once the
quick memories are set up.
Why not a CONFIG menu option which converts the MODE button to cycle
through two or four band memories. Three
Kurt,
Have you set the drive power level as indicated on page 9 of the KPA500
manual?
After setting the drive power level, run the KPA500 at full power output
and then adjust the ALC Threshold as indicated on page 10 of the manual.
If you are not driving the KPA500 to full output, you should
Nobody is saying 'sloppy code' is good! Just that you can send good code with a
bug and it
is more pleasing than code from a keyer.
You can send rotten code with any kind of key. I would much rather try to copy
CW sent
with an exaggerated dah/dit ratio than one of those guys who uses a shiny
This is a fairly new K3 and I am finally getting around to checking it out
after what I thought was an uneventful assembly.
CW works fine. Have not tried data. However, SSB from the front jack does not
work. I am using Elecraft MH-2 microphone. MIC SEL is set to FP.L bIAS.
Microphone works
I am not saying that sloppy code is desirable. There's a huge difference
between sloppy and hand vs. machine code, just as there is between someone
who mumbles badly and someone who speaks normally, albeit perhaps with a
regional accent. I also agree with your frustration over too-fast dits.
This sounds like a problem I had when building my KPA - improperly inserted
ribbon cables. It is very easy to insert some of the connectors offset by
one pin or even an entire row of pins. Check all ribbon cable connections
very carefully.
/Rick N6XI
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Nicolas
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Verify the 5-pin connector between the DSP PCB and the FP PCB are
mated. This is located near the headphone jack, mic jack and concentric
pots. It is very easy to have the male pins slide next to the female
receptacle rather than engage.
73,
Lyle KK7P
... However, SSB from the front jack
For those who may be unaware, Vibroplex sells a Vari-Speed for both
round and flat arm bugs. I have one and it works quite well. K4VIZ
also produces a vertical bug at
a modest cost which slows down remarkably. And the Begali INTREPID has
a unique mechanical action with two weights that also
Hello
this was exact my problem with #400
The problem was the 10pin ribbon cable to the I/O board. It was attached in
the wrong direction on the power supply board and then therefore also on
the I/O board, because the plugs are coded. I did reset the ribbon cable
in
the right way and
Thanks for the good advices and for the schematics.
I found the problem... a beginner mistake (shift of a ribbon cable) and
everything's fine now .
Best 73
Nicolas
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They could and they did.
Thanks very much Lyle. I'm glad it was nothing more serious.
73,
Bob
W4ZY
On Oct 29, 2011, at 2:49 PM, Lyle Johnson wrote:
Verify the 5-pin connector between the DSP PCB and the FP PCB are mated.
This is located near the headphone jack, mic jack and concentric
If there were some memory manipulation commands in the K3 macro set a
lot of stuff could be done... Like shifting banks of freqs into the
0-9 quick memory space. You could have a a bank of CW, another of SSB,
another of RTTY, SWL, AM Bcst, etc. You could have ten band stacking
memory pairs in
Yeah I know. It's like debating about the best equalizer setting for
optimum transmit audio...very subjective. Anyway, I've said my piece
and Eric will probably be happy to see we've moved on without any
prompting on his part! :-)
73 - Ken, VE3HLS
On 29/10/2011 2:50 PM, stan levandowski
I don't believe anyone said sending sloppy code is desirable, only that it's
sometimes a fact of life. What I, at least, am saying, is that I think that
code that is somewhat less than perfect is OK. Well spaced code, well formed
characters, are certainly desirable and a worthy goal. But I also
I bought two FM roofing filters when I bought my K3 thinking that I
could observe 13-KHz of bandwidth spectrum while in diversity mode
using the KRX3 subreceiver. But I subsequently discovered that audio
bw is limited to 4-KHz so the FM filter is not usable for what I
wished to do (running
I just completed the install of my K3EXREF, and am feeding the 10MHZ reference
from a Trimble Thunderbolt.
After a couple of hours of warm up and settling out my reference osc is reading
49.379.945. I have the OXCO and was expecting to have better results that are
closer to 49.380.000.
Are
When the radio is warm, mine sits around 49.380.071. About 49.380.015 cold.
Did you do a manual calibration and compare it to the GPS-stabilized value? Or
just check cal against WWV. It's probably fine.
Grant/NQ5T
On Oct 29, 2011, at 4:38 PM, Mark Goecke wrote:
I just completed the
Results seem to be different for every TCXO. My REF*CAL starts about
around .693 and settles to .778 after a couple hours. I borrowed a
Rubidium clock from work and got nearly identical results. The only
difference was freq source, so the chracteristics must be K3-specific.
Another K3 owner
Can someone advise me if the KEYOUT-LP will still activate if the TX-INH is low
(on the K3 ACC socket), I am looking for suitable way of introducing a
sequencer into the keying chain, mostly to bypass mast head pre amplifiers. If
any one has any suggestions I would be grateful to take them on
Roger,
Yes, I believe the KEYOUT-LP is active even though TX INH is asserted.
To test your sequencer, I strongly recommend using TX TEST - no RF is
transmitted, but all controls will occur normally allowing you to test
the sequencer timings in detail.
73,
Don W3FPR
On 10/29/2011 7:35 PM,
The weekly Elecraft SSB net which normally meets on Sundays at 1800Z on
14.3035 MHz is cancelled for this week. The CQWW DX Phone Contest has taken
over the band. Let's not fight it. Work some DX instead. We will be back
next Sunday. Have a great week.
73,
Phil, NS7P
At 12:57 PM 10/29/2011, Edward R. Cole wrote:
I do not need FM on the subreceiver as I do not use diversity
receive on VHF-FM. So I am selling the extra filter for $99 FREE
shipping to the USA. The FM filter lists for $139.95+shipping
currently. I accept PayPal or money orders.
This is part
We are now 24 hours into the contest and the KPA 500 is perking right along
with no issues just keeps pumping out the watts and running cool.
We brought it on the VE2DXY DXpedition to give us the ability to band-hop
and chase multipliers and it's really helping our score.
It's been running
Hi,
Thanks to all who replied, I have my KSIO2. NOW If I could find a
HEXKEY for a KDSP2 I will be estatic.
Bob w7wo Lacey, Wa
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Check the ribbon cable. A few people have missed a set of pins.
Mike W0MU
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J6/W0MU November 21 - December 1 2011
W0MU-1 CC Cluster w0mu.net
On 10/29/2011 11:21 AM, Nicolas Drin wrote:
Hi
I just finished to build KPA500 #455. Unfortunately I found several
Greetings;
I'm new to the K2; just got SN 2676 10w CW only, with firmware 2.04P 1.09. I
put in the audio filter option.
I wonder how excited should I be to do some mods like the CW waveform mod,
the BFO mod, and the PLL temp compensated mod. Things like this that really
just get it
Hi Matt,
I'm in Ohio and waiting for the storm to pass and roads to be
cleared before going back to NJ so do not have the hard data available but I
ran checks too. In my case the reference is an external Trimble Thunderbolt
and I also saw shifts in the same range. Even if the
Good Evening,
Weather has really gotten cooler and wetter this week. Rainy days
alternate with sunny days but the temperature does not go up. Winter is
very close as those folks who shoveled their first snowfall in New York
will agree.
Propagation is very good so this should be
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