Re: [Elecraft] [K2] K60XV - No longer available?

2019-09-11 Thread Gwen Patton
Bill, It's not just a matter of deciding to sell the thing without a few parts. Manufacturing and distributing hardware, whether pre-assembled or in kit form, takes a LOT of work. Check out this video from Dave Jones at the EEVBlog on the economics of manufacturing your own hardware:

Re: [Elecraft] [K2] K60XV - No longer available?

2019-09-11 Thread Fred Jensen
There are some thing the universe does not allow.  Driving faster than the speed of light is one, discarding angular momentum in an isolated system is another.  So is "A small cost, small design change."  I lost count of the number of customers who said, "How come so much, it's only a few

Re: [Elecraft] Width adjustment of Manual Notch Filter on K3S

2019-09-11 Thread Nr4c
Could you switch to “other” time slot so you don’t TX at same time? Sent from my iPhone ...nr4c. bill > On Sep 11, 2019, at 5:02 PM, Ken Bandy, KJ9B wrote: > > Hello. Is it possible to manually adjust anything other than the position > of the notch filter on the K3S. I recently was working

Re: [Elecraft] [K2] K60XV - No longer available?

2019-09-11 Thread Don Wilhelm
Bill, Before this "idea" gets too far, let's look at the practical side of it. You are forgetting the resources required to do that - there is still work to design the kit, test it, and write the assembly and test instructions. Firmware would have to be re-written to remove the band switch

Re: [Elecraft] Width adjustment of Manual Notch Filter on K3S

2019-09-11 Thread John Simmons
A better technique would have been to turn off the AGC off and reduce the RF gain.  I do this for FT8 and it works quite well. -de John NI0K Ken Bandy, KJ9B wrote on 9/11/2019 4:02 PM: Hello. Is it possible to manually adjust anything other than the position of the notch filter on the K3S.

Re: [Elecraft] [K2] K60XV - No longer available?

2019-09-11 Thread Bill Coleman
Here’s a radical idea. Why not just sell the K60XV, minus the 60m parts? That way, no one has to design a new board. You could call it the K—XV, where the 60 part has been subtracted. > On Aug 27, 2019, at 1:32 PM, Wayne Burdick wrote: > > The high-value, low-temperature-coefficient trimmer

[Elecraft] Width adjustment of Manual Notch Filter on K3S

2019-09-11 Thread Ken Bandy, KJ9B
Hello. Is it possible to manually adjust anything other than the position of the notch filter on the K3S. I recently was working FT8, when a ham relatively close to me was desensing my receiver when working FT8 on the same band. I was able to notch him out by manually setting the filter, but it