Truly a neat location! The place I went for the eclipse was no where near as
cool... a boat landing at the Congaree river.. but there were pump up boats
going out with dogs and the like to visit vegetation islands in the river..
I just stayed on shore because my back and small boats do not do
off list because it isn't on topic.
An old retired friend worked in Telcom for decades (including the shore station
that AT had in Florida to connect to their subscribers in the Caribbean...
He mentioned that the really LONG underground fiber links across the country
(down 6-8 feet) attract
with that sort of power level, you are looking at several devices failing, and
making the system deaf as a post.
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From: David Gilbert xda...@cis-broadband.com
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Thursday, July 2, 2015
Walter: you forgot the really fun option for the KX3 -- the tuner.. which
makes my downspouts into excellent dummy loads.
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From: Walter Underwood wun...@wunderwood.org
To: elecraft elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Sunday,
When it comes to microphones, you get into religious wars. I happen to like
doing live recording work with a stereo ribbon mike that has the capsules
basically touching vertically. (Open sound, natural sound field.)
A single point pickup results in a 'coherent' recording. The sound is in
I told him to look for Don in a direct email. He's up on the north side of
Raleigh and does incredible work.
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From: Phil Wheeler w...@socal.rr.com
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Friday, November 7, 2014 12:01 PM
The 4 meter module is not usable in the USA.. the 2 meter gets you an all-mode
2 meter transverter. That plus an external amp gets you side band on 2 meters,
cw and so on if you want more than 2 or 3 watts.
4 meters is in the middle of a VHF TV band here in the states, and the FCC has
no
22. Control method PWM pulse-duration modulation charge mode
Ok.. you have a square wave doing the charging. This puppy is going to be VERY
noisy electrically. Probably good for lead-acid flavored batteries, but not
for the new lighter varieties.
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So far, the first 14 had nothing to do with anything other than this
discussion, or toroids that were damaged by heat because they had power (DC)
fed to the output of the radio.
Then there was a toroid that was wound incorrectly... in a K2 kit, purchases of
cores, Antenna discussions of an
In the broadcast stations I worked at over the year, the audio patch panels had
a lot of activity.. but there were basic ground rules to make sure something
'bad' didn't happen in the middle of a live show..
1) you plug and unplug the connection 2-3 times before leaving the cable
hanging.
I'm thinking homebrew 4 element cubical quad. Can feed either on the side for
vertical polarization, or bottom for horizontal... Cheap to build, light
weight. Will work on almost any small rotor, no problems with wind load, and
small enough to hide...
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And another warning: Nearby (like next door) lightning will be picked up by
ANY long wires which end up acting as antennas.
I did computer repair in Florida. I had a time share/multitasking system in a
law office that had thousands of dollars in damage after the building next door
got hit.
The question is how long are they? - Ethernet cables are typically 6-20 feet
long. A jumper between the rig and amplifier, much shorter.
Length determines how well it acts as an antenna. The cables I worked with
were perhaps 20-50 feet long, and made good antennas. Some of the ethernet
if I did, I'm sure some of the connectors would
simply not last.
I suspect others have similar situations.
73 de Brian/K3KO
n 7/15/2014 10:58, Bill Blomgren (kk4qdz) via Elecraft wrote:
And another warning: Nearby (like next door) lightning will be
picked up by ANY long wires which end up
up to $5000 in losses for $136/yr
including Mechanical Breakdown. The two policies are very different so
review
them to decide which is best for you.
If you love your K Line as much as I do, you'll get it insured.
Buck
k4ia
On 7/15/2014 6:58 AM, Bill Blomgren (kk4qdz) via Elecraft
as they say oops -- forgot to do the reply all. Sorry about that.
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From: Bill Blomgren (kk4qdz) billblomg...@yahoo.com
To: rgconner rgcon...@gmail.com
Sent: Sunday, May 4, 2014 6:49 PM
Chances are good, since it is a PHP site, that the rather porous security of
PHP has been exploited, and they are using the site to deliver root kits.
A nasty. That's assuming it isn't just a click by shooting that took over his
email.
KK4QDZ - Now with Extra Class Priv's, and a tiny KX3 to
There was horrendous interference here in North Carolina.. Sounded like a radar
like signal.. (Shlubshlubshlub shlub shlub) - along with folk doing extended
tuneups on the frequency long after people were trying to talk.
I could occasionally get bits and pieces of Phil in the mud.. clearly
A friend (who is a mechanic at heart) threw together a 4 element quad for 2
meters, along with a moxon for 2 meter sat work. The feed for the 4 element
quad is *straight* coax. To an ugly balun below the antenna.. It feeds at 50
ohm rather nicely. And easy to build. (Spreaders are just
You may want to use a divide and conquer operation.
Test on the local lan... plugged into ethernet locally. If everything is clean
there, it is outside the K3 and the local lan.
Lots of ISPs tend to throttle users of bandwidth that they consider excessive
- Time warner runs ALL the traffic
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...
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From: Edward R Cole kl...@acsalaska.net
To: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Rats. Tried to unicast this back to you Phil..but your email provider
apparently thinks anything from Yahoo is spam. (That is only partially true at
this point.)
I tried to get in, calling a minute or two before the net... Someone who was
barely over the local noise indicated he could help,
This last Sunday, I think Netcontrol didn't come down anywhere near me. (The
Raleigh NC area)
Just a few hz away there was the marine net on 14.300 that was booming in from
Texas. - NO problem hearing them.. but 14.3035? Nope. Nothing.
There was traffic up at 14.305 something.. so I know the
I wonder if this would be a good 'fund raiser' for Hamfests. There are a bunch
of wounded warriors here in NC fighting their battles with the VA.
One of the local veteranarians has setup a pets for vets to help some of the
folk with PTSD. (Having a dog that loves you unconditionally, and
Band conditions here were also dreadful. I tried the same process. I could
occasionally hear some voice like artifacts in the noise, but the noise was s8
and s9 solidly for the first 30-45 minutes. I tried calling for a relay, but
heard nobody. Noise here was horrible. Earlier in the
Tried to find the net today, but 20 is a bit of a mess here in the SE. (My
antenna orientation due to available tossing options also may make a shot
toward the NW difficult since its orientation is se-nw making it an off the
end shot) (Dipole that looks center fed from the outside, but
With my antenna roughly perpendicular to where the signal needs to get to the
net, I could hear occasional snippets, but not enough there to listen to. I
need to rotate the antenna about 90 degrees to make a difference. (Perhaps
next week.) - There was a fair bit of activity at 2-3 on 20, so
The plasmas were not really 'outlawed' - but California made sales there a
problem because they are rather inefficient users of electrical power. (As in
close to a KW to create a picture on early models.) - That said, their picture
is usually vastly superior to the LCD sets, even those with
The problem with that tea was the tax stamps they put on every leaf... Ruined
the flavor...
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From: Rick Johnson w3bi.r...@hotmail.com
To:
This evening I added a gator clip equipped chunk of line to the KX, and had it
grab hold of the downspout on the gutter, and about 50 feet of line spread over
the ground
End result: could get a 1.1:1 match on 40 and 20.. 10, 1.5:1... 160 wouldn't
tume effectivly. Then again, it is about
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From: KENT TRIMBLE k9...@socket.net
To: Bill Blomgren (kk4qdz) billblomg...@yahoo.com
Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2013 10:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Problem on the first weekend...
Also the KX3 has
Well.. I have the buddypole set up on the porch in back.. and was doing some
attempts to hear and explore the bands.
Well, I limited operations to 20 meters... and the tuner said it was running a
1.0:1 or 1.1:1 so I got that very close...
I went into the menu system, and noticed that
The UPS tracker changed about an hour ago..
rebel yell YEEE HAAA! /rebel yell
The shipment arrived about 120 miles east of me today... It will make it to the
RDU area tonight.. and be out for delivery tomorrow.
Makes me wonder if UPS shipped it cross country on truck, or if it went by
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