Re: [Elecraft] K3 - No speaker output

2014-01-14 Thread David Honey
Check that the speakers have not been turned off in the menu. I leave my speakers connected and then use the PF2 key to execute a macro to toggle the speakers setting. Sent from Samsung Galaxy Note Original message From: Stewart stew...@twinwood.me Date: 14/01/2014 16:36

Re: [Elecraft] OT-P3 capture of a 17M intruder

2013-01-14 Thread David Honey
On 2013-01-14 17:37, Richard Fjeld wrote: There is one that is about -70 dB at my Minnesota qth on 3.950-60 MHz (as I recall). It is ten KHz wide with a second 10 KHz wide signal right above it in frequency, but about half as strong. However, I have seen times when the second one wasn't

Re: [Elecraft] Sudden K3 AGC pop-off after adding P3

2011-10-08 Thread David Honey
Dan, This is a known issue with HRD used with the K3. It happens with me a few times a week with my K3+P3. Reducing the polling rate of the K3 in HRD may reduce the frequency of this issue, but it won't eliminate it. The choice seems to be either put up it, or stop using HRD. Simon Brown has

Re: [Elecraft] The tortuous road from Aptos to UK

2011-09-19 Thread David Honey
I have used international parcel post twice. The first time it got lost and I had to wait about 2 months for a reshipment from Elecraft that did get through. I don't think the original shipment was ever found. The second time, it came to Parcelforce's international clearing centre (somehere in

Re: [Elecraft] Tech Writing

2011-06-29 Thread David Honey
Absolutely Mel. One of the skills is getting engineers to put themselves in the shoes of users and put aside much of the technical detail they know so intimately and tell a story without assuming the reader is an equal expert in the subject matter. In the software industry, it can be quite

Re: [Elecraft] Dissable AM

2011-05-04 Thread David Honey
One thing that seems to work fairly well is that if you have the 2nd RX, you can have both on AM, but shift the 2nd RX by around 2.7kHz or 2.8kHz with respect to the 1st RX. In effect, it gives you AM bandwidth of about 5.6kHz. Of course that means you don't get diversity RX. 73 de David M0DHO

Re: [Elecraft] AGC Problem

2011-04-06 Thread David Honey
At 01:08 06/04/2011, W4CCS wrote: Recently I have been experiencing a problem with the AGC on my K3 (2090). When I return to receive from transmit, the AGC is turned off and the speaker system is overloaded. This happens on about every 10 to 15 transmissions. It has happened with the K3 sitting on

Re: [Elecraft] dangles

2010-12-07 Thread David Honey
I remember hearing Stephen Fry in a radio show talk about prepositions at the end of sentences. He mentioned a competition to find the most used in a sentence. The winner was a line about someone reading a book about Australia and bringing it upstairs: What did you bring that book about down

Re: [Elecraft] Lead based solder on RoHS boards?

2010-04-21 Thread David Honey
At 13:19 21/04/2010, David Ferrington, M0XDF wrote: The PC police come and take you away! :-) 73 de M0XDF, K3 #174 Should that be the PCB police? :-) __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft

Re: [Elecraft] Import tax and VAT (UK)

2008-11-24 Thread David Honey
I think it also depends on the point of entry and where the customs centre is located. Parcelforce International have a big clearing centre where all internal packages arrive. Unfortunately, as I was told by a customs officer there, their computer system does not accept the full TARIC code. So

Re: [Elecraft] Extended Warranty

2007-07-09 Thread David Honey
At 10:25 2007-07-09, G3SJJ wrote: There are some sill typos here. Apologies. I am hurrying because I am so keen to get on with some decorating tasks!! Chris, you can get medical treatment for that condition ;-) Have fun with the decorating - guess with all the rain we've had it's a quiet

Re: [Elecraft] One-Way Propagation?

2006-12-01 Thread David Honey
At 10:39 01/12/2006, Tom Althoff wrote: Consistantly over the past 40 years I reaffirm on a daily basis that, at least on 40M, as the sun lowers in the west I can hear European stations about 45 minutes to an hour before they can hear me. I have no explanation for it but suspect that the

Re: [Elecraft] SSB output overshoot

2006-11-03 Thread David Honey
At 22:55 02/11/2006, Mike Harris wrote: G'day, I have now done the resistor mod to no effect and will probably revert 'cos I don't like how I had to add the 1K0 in series with the base of Q1. Hi Mike, ISTR making the ALC *very* much more aggressive to tackle this, especially on 80m. I think

Re: [Elecraft] Acom Amps

2006-05-11 Thread David Honey
At 01:10 11/05/2006, Mike Harris wrote: G'day, Anyone out there driving an Acom 1000 or 1010 with a K2/100. Particularly interested in QSK performance, relay noise etc. I run CW at training wheel speeds! Hi Mike, I regularly use my K2/100 with an Acom 1000 for SSB and CW. The Acom 1000

Re: [Elecraft] Acom Amps

2006-05-11 Thread David Honey
At 15:56 11/05/2006, Vic K2VCO wrote: David Honey wrote: I regularly use my K2/100 with an Acom 1000 for SSB and CW. The Acom 1000 uses a vacuum relay for switching. I found that using the standard T/R delay of 5ms led to some complaints of key clicks. So I use a longer setting for semi

Re: Translation - RE: [Elecraft] Color code help?

2006-04-10 Thread David Honey
Some friends of mine from just outside Boston were amused some years ago when they were holidaying in the UK, and the landlady of the BB asked what time they want to be knocked up in the morning. vy 73, David M0DHO ___ Elecraft mailing list Post

Re: [Elecraft] K2/100 SSB Power Control Problem

2005-12-19 Thread David Honey
At 23:07 18/12/2005, Steve Kavanagh wrote: Everything seems reasonable except at 11 watts, where the output and current drain appear to be about the same as at 80 watts requested. By comparison, here are the numbers for 20m USB, where there is no problem: It seems to me that perhaps the

Re: [Elecraft] K2 problem with tracking ALC on 40m

2005-10-13 Thread David Honey
At 19:45 12/10/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone told me my audio is not okay. I recognized : On 40m SSB operation the output of the PA is much higher on normal modulation level, when i compare it to other bands. I turned on ALC meter to check the the level. ALC

RE: [Elecraft] Why Lead Free? (WAS: Solder requests - STOP)

2005-09-18 Thread David Honey
ISTR someone also had previously posted a link to some pictures on the NASA web site showing the problem with crystalline whiskers with tin. I think the issue here was that such whisker growth is significant less with traditional leaded solders than the lead-free ones. If this is true, and as

Re: [Elecraft] Re: Ordering form PA (AND UK!)

2005-09-05 Thread David Honey
At 00:47 05/09/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be great if all this worked, but am sad to say you are still at the mercy of the official at the point of import who may not understand or want to understand the rules and can place import duty on the package. This ramps up considerably

[Elecraft] Balanced tuners

2005-05-13 Thread David Honey
Strictly speaking, the term balanced tuner should not be used for ATUs that have the balun on their output. They are inherently unbalanced. With highly reactive or mismatched loads, the balun could give rise to significant losses. A true balanced tuner has the balun at the input where, once

[Elecraft] NT

2005-04-18 Thread David Honey
According to IBM (big Add in Computerworld, when NT came out after Big Blue and Uncle Billy split over OS/2), in HUGE LETTERS, they proclaimed it meant Nice Try. Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456 snip I thought NT meant New Technology? /snip Many software customers I have visited who are Unix fans have

[Elecraft] KPA100 problem

2005-03-15 Thread David Honey
I've been testing the KPA100 that I've just finished building and have found a problem. The symptoms are a little weird, so bear with me. On 40m and 80m SSB, once the K2 PWR control is set to 11W or over, the RF output corresponds to peak full power. This seems to be frequency dependent and