[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

2022-03-20 Thread kevin
Good Evening,     During a lull in the recent storms I had a chance to raise the vertical wire of a 1/4 vertical.  I have twenty radials in place with four wire segments left to fill in any gaps.  Each element is cut for 1/4 wavelength at 40 meters.  I started stripping the end of each wire

Re: [Elecraft] Knowles HC-3 Mic Element Replacement For Heil HC-5

2022-03-20 Thread Jim Brown
On 3/20/2022 4:56 PM, Fred Jensen wrote: Designed for a very specific purpose.  Don't know how any would sound in ham service with a pre-amp, but Jim, K9YC, is on this list, he retired from a career as an audio professional and so far, he's my go-to-guy. Maybe he'll read this and offer his

[Elecraft] 80M Elecraft SSB Net 3/20/2022

2022-03-20 Thread Dave New
Meets Sunday evening 9pm ET (0100 UTC Monday morning) weekly on 3775 kHz (Yes, we know it's in the Advanced class portion of the 80M phone band, but we really couldn't find a clear frequency in the General class portion, my apologies). Note that we've kept the same local time, since

Re: [Elecraft] Knowles HC-3 Mic Element Replacement For Heil HC-5

2022-03-20 Thread Fred Jensen
Tony, Every single "military microphone" I've ever encountered [a lot] required very close talking to get any output.  They're often used in extreme noise environments and that's one simple way of removing the ambient noise such as on an aircraft.  They are often used right up next to your

Re: [Elecraft] Knowles HC-3 Mic Element Replacement For Heil HC-5

2022-03-20 Thread Tony
All: I finally got the chance to test the Knowles HC-3 military microphone element I ordered. The eBay seller claimed that it had the same frequency response as the vintage Heil HC-5 and it is very close in that respect. However, it's not nearly as sensitive as the Heil HC-5 so it requires A

Re: [Elecraft] Got my repaired K3s back on the air

2022-03-20 Thread Ronnie Hull
Hopefully, someday, my K3 will be accepted for repair…. Again… Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 20, 2022, at 8:34 AM, Jim Sheldon wrote: > > Boy 20 meters is nicely open into Scandanavia this morning around 13:30 UTC. > Just had a real nice 10 minute chat with Mika, OH6NVC on 20 CW. Great to

[Elecraft] Got my repaired K3s back on the air

2022-03-20 Thread Jim Sheldon
Boy 20 meters is nicely open into Scandanavia this morning around 13:30 UTC. Just had a real nice 10 minute chat with Mika, OH6NVC on 20 CW. Great to be back on the air and I can now get back to running my KX2 as a portable rig instead of primary - LOL. Also great to see more solar activity