You can also of course, use a minature 12V fan (CPU cooler type for example) to
waft some extra air over either the back of an unmodified KX3, or any of the
after market heatsinks if you need extra cooling, or the environment is
somewhat warm.
Even a low speed (audiably quiet) fan will have a
The only time, I have had a resolution to an issue is when a well
know person from Microham, reported the issue in a much more, how can
I say, forward way that I do, and it was resolved within a month.
Elecraft is quite responsive (issues a fix) if an issue is serious.
However, I have always
And that's why people came with Open Source concept.
Historically, proprietary platforms have been eliminated or converted to either
completely Open Source or partially, similar to what Apple did:
the platform is semi-open in the sense that nothing goes to Production without
their validation and
Using Wine is not really Linux. Wine is the Windows emulator for Linux and like
all emulators (mostly) it has issues with hardware.
Because its an abstraction layer between the OS and the target device.
Why don't you just use Linux natively?
There are programs that run on Linux, although not as
test
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My complaint is that I feel deceived about this product(P3SVGA add-on).
Looking at the description I am lead to believe that the P3SVGA add-on board
will allow me to view what I am seeing on the P3 on a large external screen.
That is the way I read the ad. But this is NOT the case. I feel
Are you complaining because you see *more* info on
the SVGA than on the P3? Or is this your NB issue?
Has the NB on the P3 gone beyond the beta stage?
If not it cannot be advertised at all. Anyway, I
seldom use it with the P3.
Phil W7OX
On 8/15/14, 7:24 AM, XE3/K5ENS via Elecraft wrote:
I am saying I see signals on the P3 with the NB on that I can not see on the
P3SVGA screen.
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Has the NB on the P3 gone beyond the beta stage?
Yes, it is in production firmware 1.29 although the Owner's Manual
(Rev D) and Programmer's Reference (Rev A4) do not appear to have
been updated to include the feature.
73,
... Joe, W4TV
On 2014-08-15 10:45 AM, Phil Wheeler wrote:
Are
To me that is just a silly expectation for ANY ham radio manufacturer to
consider. Can you just imagine what a quagmire Elecraft would generate if
they open-sourced their firmware? They would have to stop producing
profitable products just to spend time trying to pull software 'expurts' out
of the
Well, you just described my day job. We sell hardware (Ethernet
controllers) and the driver I support is open sourced Linux and FreeBSD.
There are also closed-source versions but I only do backup-support on
those.
Yes, it would require more support on Elecraft's end but it wouldn't be
impossible
On 8/15/2014 7:24 AM, XE3/K5ENS via Elecraft wrote:
The ad needs to be changed to reflect this point.
The P3SVGA display is NOT a copy of the P3 screen. I know the digital
decoding is added. By the way has, for me using a K3 for 6 years, never
worked well enough on weak signals to be
Greetings all!
My KX3 has the set of internal NiMH batteries and currently reads 9.9v while
idling (I haven’t charged the batteries recently). When I power the KX3 from an
external 12V SLA battery - which reads 12.2V on my Fluke DMM - the KX3 reports
10.2V while idling. I might expect the KX3
Jim,
You are mixing 2 completely different items. The decoding of the digital
signals I could care less how that works. I don't use that function. I am
saying that on the P3 screen with the NB on I can see weaker signals than I
can see on the P3SVGA screen. The noise blanker does not work on
I wish to manually key the transmitter with VOX, and while transmitting have
the VOX activate to LISTEN between words so that I can hear if I double.
I don't want VOX on all the time to key the transmitter when I sneeze,
someone talks to me, I murmur, phone rings, wife pours hot soup in my lap,
Is it possible you have confused PTT and VOX? I can't imagine VOX being
controlled by a foot switch.
73, Mike NF4L
On Aug 15, 2014, at 12:40 PM, KB7WVB kb7...@gmail.com wrote:
I wish to manually key the transmitter with VOX, and while transmitting have
the VOX activate to LISTEN between
On 8/15/2014 9:36 AM, XE3/K5ENS via Elecraft wrote:
I am
saying that on the P3 screen with the NB on I can see weaker signals than I
can see on the P3SVGA screen.
http://www.elecraft.com/P3/p3.htm Scroll down to see a photo of how the
SVGA compares to the P3 screen.
Repeating my advice --
Looking for some additional volunteers who would be interest in helping
out that Elecraft booth this weekend.
Eric and LErma are there setting up now and could use some extra help
this weekend if you are available.
You can email me directly ( l...@elecraft.com) and/or stop by the booth
at
Jim,
The NB in the P3 is a completely different animal than what is used in the
K3. It is more of a visual aid and does not need to worry about the audio.
My understanding of this NB is that if used on the audio all you would hear
is sounds like a typewriter. The NB in the P3 does an excellent
Also my congrats!
I intend to use my KX3-2M and K3 + 432 transverter* for crossband
duplex satellite operation. Typically current satellites uplink on
2m and downlink on 435, so I have added a RFC 2-23 linear amp which
can provide output up to 30w on 2m to a 7-element yagi which is way
more
On 8/15/2014 10:14 AM, XE3/K5ENS via Elecraft wrote:
I hate how every time someone
makes a comment that they think is negative to Elecraft the person making
the comment is flamed.
Who is flaming whom? Certainly not me -- I'm simply trying to help you
and others get the most from your gear.
Hi all ... it's been a few years since I've made any noise here (and a little
while since I've been on the air). Life has taken some interesting turns and my
radio focus has shifted. I bought a K3 a while ago and love it. I'm not ready
to let go of my K2 (that will probably *never* happen), but
I think the point is to have VOX inactive until PTT is keyed. In this mode,
PTT wouldn’t key the radio, it would simply activate VOX. If PTT was not
keyed, the radio would not respond to audio and key the transmitter, even with
VOX turned on.
Another way to do this of course, would be a
I think it's an interesting idea. It seems it should be feasible to
implement in firmware, but maybe non-trivial.
Thinking outside the box; what if you route the mic signal through the
footswitch instead of PTT? Or maybe through a relay that the
footswitch triggers... and keep VOX on all the
An alternative if one is using an electret microphone is *not* to apply
bias from the K3, but to bias the microphone from a 10k resistor fed
from mic jack pin 6 (to mic jack pin 1). Put a relay in series with the
resistor and operate that relay from the foot switch.
The microphone will not
Jim,
And there is nothing on the P3 webpage that would lead me to believe that
the display on the SVGA screen would differ, other than resolution, than
what is seen on the P3 screen.
Keith
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Also -- the K3 NB is really two NBs, and the one that looks at
broadband noise DOES work in both the P3 and P3SVGA.
Jim, that information is incorrect. The K3 NB can not possibly have
any impact on the P3 or P3SVGA as the IF pick-off is at the output
of the first mixer - *before* any noise
It occurs to me that another option might be to connect the footswitch,
with a pullup resistor to 5VDC, to pin 7 of the ACC connector, and set
CONFIG:TX INH to HI=INH. This should prevent the K3 from transmitting
except when the footswitch was pressed. You might want to wire an SPST
switch in
I use Tom ' s software. It is stable and controls the elecraft line like no
other. There are a few issues that he has told us about and did say
elecraft was notified and later I recheck and he did not hear back from
them.
This software should be on the elecraft site. It controls the K-Line as
well
I had the following error message on my KX3..ERR TXG d=200 after pushing
the Tune button to see my SWR
This was my setup at the time..
KX3 on CW, filter setting 300, VOX on, ATU off, Pre on and the band was 20m
Antenna was mobile whip on my car and RG8 coax.
I had another unusual
Mike,
That sounds suspiciously like you have a problem with the antenna and
feedline in the mobile installation.
Check everything for good tight connections, especially the connections
to the vehicle ground.
73,
Don W3FPR
On 8/15/2014 2:49 PM, Mike Weir wrote:
I had the following error
I am sorry, I found the P3SVGA add on to be quite adequate. Perhaps you
can share your findings of the short fall.
I may be in error, but I believe the P3SVGA is operating on the data
from the P3 FFT. I expect a panadapter to display what is impinging my
antenna, not the result of
Re: …reads 12.2V on my Fluke DMM - the KX3 reports 10.2V while idling.
Arlen,
My first thoughts are that you need to fully charge the battery. I don’t have
a lot of experience with lead acid batteries, though.
The input diode (CMS04 if my memory is correct) should only account for
Another clueless replier...
Have you even tried the NB in the P3 vs the SVGA screen. Obviously not.
Sounds like your ideal radio would have no NB, NR, and heck no AGC. Just
noise,noise,noise
Keith
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Arlen,
I wonder if what you are seeing on the display is the internal battery pack
voltage rather than the external power supply voltage, either are selectable
from the menu. The internal pack may increase slightly when the load is removed
if you are running from external batteries.
Sorry if
I still have my 12 KE Log-Log Duplex Vector rule, here on the desk,
and I use it for a few things for which I can't remember the equations
but I do remember the motions. Every so much quicker than looking
functions up in the HP48GX books. I mourn the final demise of the
HP41CX. The case for
If my memory serves me, I believe Paul announced the NB function would be
available on the P3/SVGA at a later FW update. I must go back a few weeks to
find that posting or perhaps you could do a search.
I'm in digest mode so hopefully this will get though.
73
Dale, K9VUJ
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In addition to my 12 and 5 inch Post slide rules, I have my Dad's KE.
Bob
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Fred Jensen k6...@foothill.net wrote:
I still have my 12 KE Log-Log Duplex Vector rule, here on the desk, and
I use it for a few things for which I can't remember the equations but I
Clueless??
1) The radio is to select a specific signal and provide the tools to
decode it. It very well could be to determine the source of undesirable
noise. Those tools include noise blanking, noise reduction, agc,
selectable filtering, a panadapter, etc. Each tool applied as
I agree with Gerald. I have used Win4K3 in place of the HRD rig control
software. It not only works much much better but also has
shared con ports for other software to also control the K Line. Plus he
responds to any problem with a much more professional
attitude than others do.
73,
Tim
I appreciate all of your thoughts.
And the thinking questions, helped to understand what I was trying to do
better.
I believe your understanding the problem better than I do. I'm Good.
VOX terrifies me, it can really mess up a net if left on accidently and the
phone rings, we had to move
I have a couple nice bamboo Hemmi slide rules, one even devoted to
electronics calculations, but my most cherished is a cheap 12 log-log
plastic Sterling. My late mom bought it for me from a drug store when I
was in 8th grade. It took weeks of begging and groveling till she gave
me the $6
On 8/15/2014 11:29 AM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:
Jim, that information is incorrect. The K3 NB can not possibly have
any impact on the P3 or P3SVGA as the IF pick-off is at the output
of the first mixer - *before* any noise blanker gate.
Joe,
I've never studied the schematic or signal flow in
I've recently replaced one of my computers with a Win7-64 Pro machine,
and my XYL's with a Win 8.1 box. There are certain wierdnesses with
both of these OSs that I'm finding baffling, so I've decided that I must
RTFM.
I used to do this by grabbing a bunch of such books from the rack at
/I appreciate the alert to the existence of the P3 NB. I last updated
firmware about six months ago, and it was not in that version. It does,
indeed, work pretty well/.
*And it would be great if it worked with the P3SVGA but it does nothing on
that screen.
*
Keith
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Here's a start: some articles on Windoze 7 and 8. A few of them have
links to reference material you might want to download.
http://www.howtogeek.com/t/windows/
73,
matt W6NIA
On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 14:20:22 -0700, you wrote:
I've recently replaced one of my computers with a Win7-64 Pro
Agreed. This is on the firmware task list for the engineer working on P3 and
PX3 code.
73,
Wayne
N6KR
On Aug 15, 2014, at 2:23 PM, XE3/K5ENS via Elecraft elecraft@mailman.qth.net
wrote:
/I appreciate the alert to the existence of the P3 NB. I last updated
firmware about six months ago, and
I often study the screen of my P3, which DOES show reduction of noise
when the wider NB is active. 2-4 dB is typical for the types of noise
for which it is effective.
2 - 4 dB may be due to upsetting the impedance at the IF feed but given
the circuit topology it is not possible for the NB to
Since his last release for F/W upgrade to the P3SVGA card was on February
27th, 2013 we should be careful holding our breath on the next release. hihi
Keith
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Hi all,
Is SSTV demodulation/display something we should add to the long term wish-list
for our panadapters? I hear SSTV signals in the 20-meter SSB segment pretty
regularly, and I think it would be nice to eavesdrop on the visuals, in living
color, with all the HF-induced idiosyncrasies. But
Hi Mark,
Thanks for the response!
I’m guessing that perhaps you’re considering that the voltage of the SLA is
sagging when it’s running the KX3. I wondered that too - so I measured across
the terminals of the SLA while it was powering the KX3. It still measured
12.2V, so it wasn’t sagging.
David,
I wasn’t aware of the ability to choose which supply (internal Vs. external)
was being reported! Thanks for bringing that to my attention. I’ll bet you’re
exactly right - that the internal battery voltage rises a bit when external
power is supplied. I’ll check this out as soon as I get
Perhaps it's different people involved in programming, but I would like to see
instead of this, some effort put into making the K3 memories actually remember
and recall what was input to them.
Wes N7WS
On 8/15/2014 2:56 PM, Wayne Burdick wrote:
Hi all,
Is SSTV demodulation/display
CLOSURE
I appreciate all of your thoughts.
And the thinking questions, helped to understand what I was trying to do
better.
I believe your understanding the problem better than I do. I'm Good.
VOX terrifies me, it can really mess up a net if left on accidently and the
phone rings, we had to
With the exception of figuring out how to deal the 'web cam' or 'capture
card' needed to view the P3, I have been seriously considering Win4K3.
Unfortunately now that I know the 'Mothership' is resistant to working
with Tom, I will wait until I hear that has changed before I take the leap.
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Wayne Burdick n...@elecraft.com wrote:
Is SSTV demodulation/display something we should add to the long term
wish-list for our panadapters?
hi Wayne - If you were to do decoding/processing like that, I'd much rather
see an extended form of RTTY decode. The
I would like to see the NB added to the P3SVGA first.
Keith
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On 8/15/2014 2:56 PM, Wayne Burdick wrote:
Hi all,
Is SSTV demodulation/display something we should add to the long term
wish-list for our panadapters? I hear SSTV signals in the 20-meter
SSB segment pretty regularly, and I think it would be nice to
eavesdrop on the visuals, in living color,
How about being one of the first to implement FreeDV?
Keith
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Whatever happened to the RF Sensor?
Gary
Vk1ZZ
K3, KX3, KPA500-FT, KAT500-FT,P3.
On 16/08/2014 8:55 AM, XE3/K5ENS via Elecraft elecraft@mailman.qth.net
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How about being one of the first to implement FreeDV?
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The capability to see my transmitted signal would be really great, much
more useful than SSTV, at least for me. Probably very hard to do with
the PX3. Probably also harder than many think with a K-Line because you
want to see what's heading up the coax, not something from inside the
K3. But
Arlen,
As far as I know, there is no selection for observing the battery
voltage vs. the external voltage. The displayed voltage should be the
higher of the internal batteries or the external batteries. There is a
diode drop, so expect a reduction of 0.3 volts from the measurement at
the
I'd rather see the long ago promised enhancement to separate VOX in SSB from
VOX in Data modes.
73, Mike NF4L
On Aug 15, 2014, at 7:21 PM, Fred Jensen k6...@foothill.net wrote:
The capability to see my transmitted signal would be really great, much more
useful than SSTV, at least for me.
Agreed. Never mind SSTV. Let's focus on useful stuiff.
I also (and many others, I am sure) would like to see this developed.
Getting transmit monitoring via an external sensor would greatly enhance the
P3's usefulness. Many of us have been waiting for this (patiently) for YEARS
now.
Bruce, N1RX
Is like to see this, but
I'd rather not have work on other updates like something to put in the Sensor
hole in my P3 and others.
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On Aug 15, 2014, at 5:56 PM, Wayne Burdick n...@elecraft.com wrote:
Hi all,
Is SSTV demodulation/display something we
In the works as we speak.
Wayne
Gary Gregory vk1zzg...@gmail.com wrote:
Whatever happened to the RF Sensor?
Gary
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Wayne,
Whew, hope it's not too far away.
Thanks for the news.
Gary
On 16 August 2014 10:02, Wayne Burdick n...@elecraft.com wrote:
In the works as we speak.
Wayne
Gary Gregory vk1zzg...@gmail.com wrote:
Whatever happened to the RF Sensor?
Gary
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Arlen,
I just measured the terminal voltage of several SLA and AGM batteries.
After not being charged for over a week, they all measured in excess of
13 volts. So my conclusion is that your wall-wart charger is not fully
charging your battery.
A normal float charge for an SLA battery should
Microsoft has some on-line info and tutorials at windows.microsoft.com which
might be of help (try the how-to section.) If you need more in-depth info
MS Technet is a resource we tecchies sometimes go to. (Scroll down to
the Info for section and click on IT professionals to get to Technet. A
I'm looking for volunteers to test the latest KX3 field-test revision. It
includes the following changes:
* CW-IN-SSB-MODE IMPROVEMENT: The operator’s specified CW QSK delay is now used
during CW-in-SSB-mode, even with *external* CW keying. (This was already
working with the internal keyer.)
So far, I have received Skeeter summaries from the following:
WD4EXI
N4EWT
W3ATB
WA1GWH
K4ARQ
NA3V
WD8RIF
WB8ENE
N0YET
N2JJF
KB1PBA
K1SWL
K4YND
KQ2RP
K0ALN
WA4PIG
K0RGI
VE3XT
K2ULR
N4KGL
WA8REI
AD4S
K4UPG
WI2W
N1LT
W1PID
K2WO
K2AL
WB3GCK
WH6LE
WD4MSM
NQ2W
K2TD
AB4QL
N1ABS
AI4SV
W3BBO
K3RLL
AB9CA
Just a note: I forgot to edit the KX3 reflector reference out of one of the
email addresses, so my email to all of you went to the reflector as well. No
big deal, but you might respond to *this* email instead if you have comments.
This will reduce traffic on the reflector.
tnx
Wayne
N6KR
The K3 and KX3 both have an FSK-D data mode, which allows you to decode and
display RTTY signals right on the VFO B display. If you've never tried this
feature, now would be an excellent time. Signals are coming in from all over
the world, from about 14.080 MHz up.
You'll need to go into DATA
Check it out ~ this works too ~ and the reverse-side is neat also
http://www.antiquark.com/sliderule/sim/n909es/virtual-n909-es.html
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is a Mirage B215 - 2 in 150 out. FM -SSB sw, Preamp on-off sw, power sw.
73, Jim
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I was getting together items to take out for an event on Saturday and spent
hours trying to sort out what was happening with my USB cables. My K3 would
not see the serial port. As a last resort, I plugged the cable into the P3
and everything worked! Why does it work through the P3, but not
I'm with you Wayne although it looks like we are very much the minority at this
time. I would really like to have SSTV added to the P3.
Tx monitoring would good too.
Dave VK4FD
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In 58 years on the air, I've never known anyone who was/is active on SSTV,
and I have no interest ... FWIW. (;-)
73
K0PP
On Aug 15, 2014 3:56 PM, Wayne Burdick n...@elecraft.com [KX3]
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Hi all,
Is SSTV demodulation/display something we should add to the long
Still looking for the stand Elecraft discontinued for the K1.
If you have one you don't want or use, let me know.
Contact me off line @ ekac...@yahoo.com
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Perhaps the P3 and K3 are set to different baud rates?
Alan N1AL
On 08/15/2014 08:26 PM, Bill Conkling wrote:
I was getting together items to take out for an event on Saturday and spent
hours trying to sort out what was happening with my USB cables. My K3 would
not see the serial port. As a
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