Gary,
Take time out, study the manual learn to embrace the modern features and
play, play and play some more
to learn your way around. You have taken the tests, passed the exams etc so
practice what has been preached.
Get rid of the big rice box, keep the TS590s (best value on the ham market
My guess would be that the local oscillator of the KX3 (which is on the rx qrg)
is emitted via the shield of the coax cable (common mode?) received by the
charger's usb cable, modulated with the 60Hz by non-linearities in the charger
and than re-emitted (maybe by the wiring a a whole) and
Nick,
The wire should run outside. It can and should be buried. It does not
have to be down very far, but deep enough it will not be damaged by the
lawn mower or shovels if you should dig in that area.
A perimeter wire around the house would not be a bad idea either, it can
divert a
Steve,
How does the OP1 filter passband look when viewed on Spectrogram? It
should show a nice flat passband. If it has a dip or valley in it, look
for a bad connection on one of the capacitors or crystals.
What is the possibility that you damaged one of the thru-plated holes
when removing
Hi George
I am keying the AL=811 from the key jack on the adaptor via the CAT-6
cable.
I also reinstalled the beta f/w files, for the KXPA, and it just
occurred to me to reintall the config file for the KX3.
I will do that after breakfast.
73, Al ve7ear
On 09/02/2014 10:02 PM, george
The major thing he alluded to, I agree with. Elecraft needs more stable
firmware and displays.
I may be wrong but it seems there are too many instances of hiccups, bumps or
whatever.
I have a friend looking to buy and did not recommend the k3 without those
disclaimers.
73
Mike R
RIP- Mr
Anyone having this problem?
This is everything I can think of:
When running digital, my computer looses contact with my
K3/P3/KPA500/KAT500. In other words, DM780 stops working necessitating
shutting down HRD, pulling and re-plugging in the USB connection,
restarting HRD. Sometime the K3 is
H ... My K3 (S/N 0056) has never missed a beat, so to speak.
Firmware updates have always gone smoothly. It sees heavy contest usage,
FD, and sometimes travels in an RV with dirty 12V / solar / wind power,
etc.
Could you elaborate about what you meant to say? More stable firmware and
Now that you mention it, I did notice the buzz went away when I turned on
the preamp, but I thought it was just my imagination or that the static had
just become sufficiently loud that my own hearing wasn't responding to it
anymore.
Nick
On 10 February 2014 03:02, Ralf Wilhelm
Similar to others I had major problems with FSK-D RTTY with the latest beta
firmware this weekend on my K3 #1210.
I often found that my K3 didn't appear to recognize on the first attempt on
a band that the KPA500 was even present at all and instead put out the full
100W that I normally run when
Just wanted to pass along that I have downloaded all the Beta updates for
the K3, KAT500 and KPA500 and all works well. I worked some the contest this
weekend with no issues. The KAT500 does search a bit more often but seems to
find a better match condition in the process which is good in my book.
Absolutely textbook example of common mode (conducted) RFI on the
antenna cable. See the K9YC and GM3SEk documentation on common
mode chokes. In your case, I'd suggest one at the remote tuner
and one at the ground rod where your feedlines enter the shack.
The problem occurs because the RF
Mike, it seems that simply bypassing the beta
versions would avoid such issues re F/W. But I
don't get the displays comment.
My criterion would be to have only mods which
require no disassembly, soldering, etc. -- which
can happen early on. I don't yet have one, but I
reckon the K3 should
Don,
I am not the original builder of the K2, so I will be downloading
Spectrogram. I will go through the individual connection points for the
swapped crystals and capacitors with the ohmmeter to make sure that there
are no connection issues. Thanks for identifying a troubleshooting path!
I
I'm reading with interest, Steve. I build my K2
early on (#380) and have done many of the mods,
but not that one as yet -- xtals earlier but not
all the caps, etc.; I'm not excited by working on
that closely-spaced board. (I'm just returning to
it after a ten-year hiatus, and have done other
Mike,
I believe if you carefully examine the reports of hiccups, bumps, and
whatever, you will find that many (if not most) of them are the result
of computer setup with the various logging and rig control applications
that users attempt to set up or use with the K3. Another area of
frequent
I recently ordered a K3 and had a problem with the order. I called Elecraft and
talked to Mike, who tracked down the problem, and had it taken care of in about
5 minutes. Two days later my K3/10 arrived.
The box arrived Saturday afternoon and by noon on Sunday I made my first contact
with it
An up converter from 10kHz to 500kHz with typical Elecraft quality would be
acceptable by me. I have one already but not of the quality I would expect from
the boys in Aptos, so would gladly purchase build their kit.
John Hendricks K7JLT
Bonus points for fitting in place of the 2 meter transverter!! Although I'd
settle for just the 630M band coverage.
73
jim ab3cv
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 10:59 AM, K7JLTextra k7jltex...@gmail.com wrote:
An up converter from 10kHz to 500kHz with typical Elecraft quality would
be acceptable by
Mike,
It's occurred to me that I should ask ...
Do you have / use an Elecraft radio? If so, have you had a firmware ...
or display issue with it and did you ask for and / or receive help? I
have the impression you're just echoing other poster's comments.
On Feb 10, 2014 7:01 AM,
As someone coming back to the K3 family, the only hiccups I ever had with my
K3s were operator error induced like trying to load new firmware through a
virtual port.
No issues whatsoever with displays or firmware unless you consider some minor
degradation of CW decode functionality a few
Sick seems to be the word the kids at the Olympics now use to describe an
exceptional performance, as in, Dude, that gold medal run you just did was
totally sick!
So, I tune in to 10 meters CW this morning to see what FT5ZM is up to. As
usual, the pileup is S9 and about 20 khz wide. I'm running
I've watched this thread now for several days and finally decided to
comment. I have owned several very good rigs in the past and when I bought
my first K3 I still owned a FTDX-5000MP and a FTDX-1000 Field well equipped
in a SO2R setup using MicroHAM products. I had owned the 5000 for about 2
yrs.
That is a wonderful idea I certainly
73,
Fred/N0AZZ
K3 Ser # 6730--KX3 # 5210--K2/100 # 6470-KAT100
P3/SVGA--KAT500--W2
Amps Elecraft KPA500 HF/6m--Alpha's 9500 HF--87A HF--Mirage B-5030-G
300+w--(2) B-5016-G's 165w 2m
would be a buyer as long as NO SMC involved.
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Hi Nick,
Turning on the preamp increases the isolation between the local oscillator and
the antenna port. I also wasn't sure if my buzz went away when I turned on
the preamp (I couldn't hear it any more) but I used the spectral display of the
MixW-Software and the microphone of my laptop to
Ain't it fun? Did basically the same thing this morning but instead of my K3,
I fired up the KX3 and using my SPLIT macro (sets it up 2KHz). Had it on a
non-resonant vertical and forgot to switch over to the beam. Heard a K6 just
2 KHz up from FT5ZM's TX frequency finish and I jumped in
Sick as a superlative really caught me by surprise. I learned it from my
daughter who was 12 at the time. Thirty years earlier it was bad, another
lesson in irony. I hope Websters is keeping up.
Wayne
N6KR
Sick seems to be the word the kids at the Olympics now use to
describe an
exceptional
Interesting, and if I may ask a potentially-dumb question, what do we
really mean when we use the word isolation in this context, and how does
it provide the benefit of keeping the buzz out of the detector (or to ask
the question in the reverse, how does the buzz get in, in the absence of
Hi Bill,
Thanks for the report. We're also getting good reports on our field-test
releases for the KAT500 and K3 that allow the ATU to track the radio's VFO as
you move around the band.
73,
Wayne
N6KR
On Feb 10, 2014, at 6:56 AM, Bill W bw39...@yahoo.com wrote:
Just wanted to pass along
I agree with Don W3FPR here. I subscribe to several boards like this and I am
finding the same thing. The problems hams are having in general have very
little to do with the actual product, but how the ham is interfacing with it.
It also seems to me that in this board and others like the HRD
With permission, I'm posting a brief synopsis of my Field Test experiences with
the new KAT500 and K3 firmware that allows the KAT500 to track the receiver's
VFO. Once it becomes generally available (shortly) be sure to read the FW
release notes carefully and follow the instructions. (I
The problem with all receivers using a local oscillator (direct conversion or
superhet) is that they emit a small part of the local oscillator power via the
mixer to the antenna port (maybe a typical number of L.O. to R.F. Port
Isolation of a mixer is 40 dB or something like that). In a
I really like the ability of K3 and KX3 (I have both) to code and decode
RTTY and PSK31. It is very helpful to work those expeditions without need to
change logging software. It was also very helpful when operating from DX
locations and being asked for a quick digi QSO.
Now here is the
Makes sense. And that's why the RX SHFT also works, because then the
reflected signal is shifted away from the RX frequency by the same amount
as the shift. That was a great explanation, and I thank you for it!
Another solution in my case, then, might be to just move the antenna
further away
It is Beta. If it doesn't work, roll back to a version that does.
On 2/10/2014 7:51 AM, Jim Miller wrote:
[snip]
Eagerly awaiting a fix!!!
73
jim ab3cv
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Of course...
Was just adding to the info. Including the bit about the K3 not honoring
the internal tables for KPA500 being attached.
jim ab3cv
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Wes (N7WS) w...@triconet.org wrote:
It is Beta. If it doesn't work, roll back to a version that does.
On
Hmmm ... Everyone is entitled to his or her opinion. We are not however
each entitled to our own facts.
The latest K3 Firmware Production Release on the website is 4.67 with a
release date of 16 April 2013 -- coming up on a year old.
Beta software/firmware versions are versions-in-test.
You have written earlier that you could pull the coax plug half out
(disconnecting the shield) and that this also helped. So maybe you have common
mode current on the coax which would also increase the coupling to the wiring
(because not only the antenna itself but also the coax would emit the
You can never completely achieve isolation, but as a practical matter Isolation
is adequate
when feed through of the offending signal is no longer a problem because the
circuits
involved can handle the magnitude of interference that is present. So the
magnitude is
subjective. The buzz heard
Ken,
Yes,I have a Elecraft radio thank you very much.
I misspoke about the display but I have had some issues, not as many as some. I
have received help as well.
I'm sure there is a tendency to confuse beta with non beta. That's pretty hard
to do unless you keep a list.
I like the radio,
Hi Mike !
What would make it more rock solid in your view?
What about the radio and / or production firmware isn't?
73!
Ken Kopp - K0PP
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 11:20 AM, mikerodgerske5...@yahoo.com wrote:
Ken,
Yes,I have a Elecraft radio thank you very much.
I misspoke about the display
On 2/10/2014 10:20 AM, mikerodgerske5...@yahoo.com wrote:
I like the radio, I'd just like it to be more rock solid. Apparently some or
many think it already is.
Most owners DO consider the K3 to be a mature product with good
reliability. That said, NO product that any of us can afford to own
Gary..
I sure wish I had a K3/P3 here. I have a TS-590 still with the plastic on
the front if you want another..(hint hint..lol)
Scott W0SGM
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I think that is very likely to be the case, yes. It's worth noting that it
is a somewhat badly unbalanced antenna at the moment. Normally it would
have a set of el-cheapo tape measures attached as radials, but the weather
and time have not been kind to them, so they're not currently attached...
The LPA board protection for one. This occurs usually when using some amps.
The tell tale is reduced output and TX Gain calibration unsuccessfull.
73
Mike R
RIP- Mr 500. STP's Andy Granatelli from racing fans everywhere.
On Feb 10, 2014, at 12:27 PM, Rose elecraftcov...@gmail.com wrote:
You are all sick if you think that 5 watts from a K3 is some how magically
greater
than 5 watts from some other brand like Yaesu 5000mp or Kenwood TS590. The
brand
probably is the least likely variable as to whether you are heard or not.
Most modern
transmitters are equally as bad as the next.
I think Chris summarizes the issue pretty good.
Gary, it kind sounds like you have not taken the time necessary to
really get familiar with your K3 (excuse me if this is incorrect). I
found it took me about three weeks of playing and reading the manual
until I became fairly comfortable with
I beg to differ for one simple reason; many of the K-I-Y transmitters send out
a variety of noises, excessive width and IMD, that is not from users
overdriving but is the manufacturers simply cheaping out to save money.
Elecraft does it right; focus on quality, always. (Go big or go home.)
And as I said in a private message to him... Fred's book is a godsend to those
that just got an Elecraft K3 or KX3...
KK4QDZ - Now with Extra Class Priv's, and a tiny KX3 to enjoy them!
From: Edward R Cole kl...@acsalaska.net
To: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net
If someone is not intimately familiar with the K3's behavior, and
prepared to look for and document bugs, I don't understand why they
would install BETA firmware.
I've had limited operational time with my K3/P3 and therefore would be
uncertain if behavior was a bug or cockpit error. My
Check your light bulbs, especially if using CFL or LED. I have had both
emitting bad noise. Shutting them off rid my whole station of the issue.
Bill
K9YEQ
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From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net
[mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Nicklas Johnson
With only about 8000 K3's and what 3 or 4+ million other radios. I don't
think the Ham world cares much about that. And those 8000 aren't making
much difference on the air. But drink another glass of Kool-Aid and you
might even think because the K3 uses less power it's going to solve
global
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On 2/10/2014 9:14 AM, Larry Wassmann wrote:
the majority of reported problems have something to do with the digital modes.
I am always amazed that a ham will go out and buy the latest rig, tower,
anteannas, and such and try to run it all on a peanut
Another vote for this one.
Elwood, WB0OEW
An up converter from 10kHz to 500kHz with typical Elecraft quality would be
acceptable by me.
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I should have been more clear. I'd like a transverter for that band not
merely an upconverter. Bonus points for internal still apply!
73
jim ab3cv
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Jim Miller j...@jtmiller.com wrote:
Bonus points for fitting in place of the 2 meter transverter!! Although
I'm interested in getting a P3 and need to find a used one that has
no issues, to save some money. If you have one that fits the bill
please contact me directly.
73,
Gary
KA1J
Gary at ka1j dot com
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You still haven't explained what you feel isn't rock solid about the
radio ...
Dave AB7E
On 2/10/2014 11:20 AM, mikerodgerske5...@yahoo.com wrote:
Ken,
Yes,I have a Elecraft radio thank you very much.
I misspoke about the display but I have had some issues, not as many as some. I
I'd buy one regardless if or not it was internal or external, if it was
a transverter or simply a receive upconverter...
On 2/10/2014 2:44 PM, Jim Miller wrote:
I should have been more clear. I'd like a transverter for that band not
merely an upconverter. Bonus points for internal still apply!
Sorry if this has been on the reflector before but the searches I've done
didn't really home in on what I am looking for.
I've owned my K3 for nearly four years. Adding the P3 to it made operating so
much more enjoyable, for a variety of reasons that I need not get into here. I
recently got a
Hi Don and All,
Just to keep you updated about my KX3 problem. Now I put a piece of plastic
separating the two side of the box. It was an advice from a friend and a KX3
user.
Anyway, now the behavior of the radio is exactly the same as three months
ago when I bought it.
I can hear the relays
Jim,
I have a newer field-test release, 4.83, that fixes the primary problem of
power-setting in RTTY mode (FSK-D). While I still have little more work to do
to get power to settle quickly, 9 out of 10 ops testing 4.83 said it was
working well enough for their needs. (Definitely fixes the
Jim,
On the panoramic display question, I recall last year at Dayton the KX3
I/Q outputs were driving an iMic to an iPad. I believe the software
came from Pignology, but I did not pay that much attention to the
details, so you may have to do some searching.
So the answer is, yes, a
Friends,
Surely you can understand that there are going to be hiccups with Beta
firmware.I seldom use Beta Firmware because I want to avoid hiccups.
Then even with the final version of the update there are people using the
products in so many different iterations that there may well be
If you want to run something natively on the Mac, I would suggest quisk:
http://james.ahlstrom.name/quisk/
I haven't tried it yet myself, but it appears to allow some level of
integration with the KX3 by means of hamlib.
In order to build it and get it working, you'll need to install some
Both look and work fine. But I now have a P3.
LP-PAN serial #66.
External EMU-0202.
Cables included between 0202 and LP-PAN plus USB cable from 0202.
$220 includes shipping CONUS.
Paypal or check.
N2TK, Tony
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Used PR6, but works like new. Includes PR6, plus new still in bag both BNC
adapters and Power Cable assembly #E850348.
Includes shipping in the US. $100.
Paypal or check please.
73,
N2TK, Tony
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I recently decided to concentrate on single band contesting (vs. SO2R) from my
new
western Colorado QTH thus one of my beloved Elecraft transceivers is surplus to
my
needs.
I purchased my K3 (sn 03489) and P3 (sn 1385) assembled from Elecraft. They
are in
superb condition. In addition to
When I first saw peanut whistle, I assumed that Larry was talking
about QRP rigs. Then I re-read what he had written.
Maybe not so much today, since a computer has become such an integral
part of the hamshack, but there was a time 10 or so years ago that guys
would scour the swapmeets and
True that all modern ham-digital modes can be decoded on a bare-bones PC.
However its the software suite that provides rig control, spotting, digital
modes, logging, propagation, kitchen sink, fast food order status, etc etc
etc is what makes even a modest computer turn into a chuggy
I solved the real estate problem Bought a 39 inch 4k resolution monitor for
less than 500 bucks. That plus my 30 rotated vertically takes care of this
nicely lol..!
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From: Frank Precissi vad...@gmail.com
Date: 10/02/2014 20:27 (GMT-05:00)
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Cc:
I hate you guys that have room on your desks for those monster monitors! I can
just barely fit a pair of ACER 22 inchers and an old Lenovo 15 square (for the
P3/SVGA) on mine and have room for everything else I need on the shelf.
Jim, W0EB
Sent from my iPad
On Feb 10, 2014, at 7:32 PM, Tom
Hi Matt,
Thanks for the info. After I thought about it a bit, running an application on
Win/XP under Fusion wouldn't be all that bad. My iMac is pretty powerful and
has no problem grinding up anything I toss at it. The problem I've seen is
that nearly every application I come across tries to
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On 2/10/2014 5:27 PM, Frank Precissi wrote:
is what makes even a modest computer turn into a chuggy drive-thrashing
monster.
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More RAM will cure most of those problems.
Even my ancient HP DC7700, which goes back to the stone age and has
Now before you guys think I too am complaining--no, I just have a curious mind!
Two questions that I am sure you more experienced can help me with:
1. When I begin narrowing the DSP down, on filter 1 (2.7, std, offset -0.84)
only the lower freq side moves. The DSP switches to the 2.1 filter,
I was tidying up the shack yesterday, and came upon a box with the
Elecraft label.
Curious, I looked inside and found a couple of wire antennas from PAR
Electronics that I bought at Dayton and not one, but two, 6 kHz AM
filters for the K3.
Apparently I didn't install one when I ordered the FM
OK, I tried this. Fairly cool! Doesn't work in contests when N1MM owns
the CAT, but all the other times, it just does work. I'm pretty much
CW, I pretty much run the CWT, so I see nothing on the S-meter above S9.
Now, I've been in this hobby for 60 years, I know none of this really
For what it's worth: The DXLab Commander program also reads the K3
S-meter in digital form.
Works great.
73, Bill W6WRT
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I am looking for advice in how to set up my K3 with N1MM incorporating
rig control at least to the extent of having the radio control the
logging frequency and mode shown in N1MM primarily for AFSK RTTY using
just the Elecraft USB to serial adapter cable (in addition to the audio
in/out
Dave, the thing that sometimes gives grief is the operating system. I have no
difficulty with the XP operating system, but when I upgraded my computer to WIN
7 I could not get my serial adapter to work. The word that I got was that
there was a chance to get the FTDI chip set to work, but the
If you are happy to run Windows XP under VMWare, then NaP3 will give you a good
experience.
I briefly had a closer look at Quisk -- the problem is that is depends on ALSA
sound libraries, and since macports doesn't support this, a little bit of
hacking is required to remove this dependency and
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