I would really like an external signal that tells whether ANT1 or ANT2 is
selected. Any way to do that? 73, Guy
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Oliver Dröse dro...@necg.de wrote:
Hi Dave,
unfortunately not, it's just one BCD code per band.
73, Olli - DH8BQA
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I would really like an external
Sorry to interject, but a fullwave fed at the 25% point has a clover leaf
pattern. It only has the two halfwaves in phase colinear behavior when fed
very near the center. Even fed at 45% it has a significant cloverleaf lobe
and a NULL in the center Easy to verify with any modeling program. 73,
You speaking of digout0 or digout1?
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV li...@subich.com wrote:
The only official use right now is for turning the PR-6 on/off on
six meters.
73,
... Joe, W4TV
On 8/25/2011 2:02 PM, Guy Olinger K2AV wrote:
Joe Fred,
Hmm, I
Gotcha.
Is what goes on with DIGOUT0 firmwired in the firmware, or is that
available somehow with some sneaky procedure? TWO signals I could work, one
of them via software command to K3, would be simply splendiferous and get
rid of ugly relay logic board. But I know I'm reaching here...
73,
E.g. does something else when KIO3 is set to NOR, besides stay high.
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Guy Olinger K2AV olin...@bellsouth.netwrote:
Gotcha.
Is what goes on with DIGOUT0 firmwired in the firmware, or is that
available somehow with some sneaky procedure? TWO signals I could work
An EFHW is a very efficient antenna, but the usual tuner needs help. One
way to use the EFHW is to put a toroidal winding at the base of the antenna,
between the tuner and the antenna. Bifilar or trifilar or quadrifilar
windings configured as a tapped winding will reduce the tough impedance to
Try turning on NB, with LEVEL to T 1-7, 2-7, or 3-7. Set IF OFF. I use
that for key clicks on CW and it's marvelous. I leave NB set to 1-7 that way
for use when clicky stuff comes on. 73, Guy
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Don Wilhelm w3...@embarqmail.com wrote:
Gary,
There are several
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Ian Liston-Smith ian...@hotmail.co.ukwrote:
I’m still trying to pin down the cause of
the low-ish volume of my K2 (s/n 6905), which seems to be something
occasionally reported with
this transceiver.
There are some number of things you do not mention.
1)
I'll repeat W2CS suggestion, get a UPS, then plug the K3's power supply into
the UPS. Since you are trying only to allow yourself to shut down cleanly,
you can get the smallest capacity, and therefore the cheapest version. It
will handle the K3's RX current for quite a while, even with a small
To Ed...
Ed, what is your firmware version? One of the reasons for DATA A was
to remove SSB features that were inappropriate for data modes.
73, Guy.
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 6:14 AM, Dr. Werner Furlan fur...@gmx.net wrote:
hi Ed,
Edward R. Cole schrieb am 13 Aug 2011 um 11:22:
I checked
I don't understand why you want 13 kHz for JT65.
The system requirements from their webpage are
System Requirements
• SSB transceiver and antenna for one or more VHF/UHF bands
• Computer running the Microsoft Windows, Linux, or FreeBSD operating
system
• 800 MHz or faster CPU and 128 MB of
The going back to the last saved frequency is a dead giveaway that
the power has been EXTERNALLY removed or glitched without the benefit
of manual power off (which allows K3 to go through all its save
stuff shutdown routines). This will bring you up on the previous
frequency. If the previous
I would also add to consideration that most playbacks are to let the
other end know exactly what they sound like. So adding any equalizing
or processing messes it up. This would be an issue for me because
hard TX EQ and fair amount of CMP are what transforms my soft voice to
something with
85/17 or 43/9 is a good multiband antenna for use with a KAT2. I have
found my KAT2 capable of matching loads that I couldn't match with my
stand-alone QRO tuners. I have a K2/10 with battery and KAT2 for all
kinds of portable uses including my RV. I have a separate
KPA100/KAT100 in an EC2 that
Isn't SHIFT remembered separately? 73, Guy.
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 6:28 PM, iain macdonnell - N6ML a...@dseven.org wrote:
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV li...@subich.com wrote:
I just looked at my passband, with spectran, in DATA A and USB modes
with the bandwidth
These make a lot more sense for connectors with multiple functions
that go to different units. They are also the cat's meow for DB9 and
DB25 connectors for Microham u2R and such. 73, Guy.
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 4:31 PM, AB3EN ab...@amsat.org wrote:
Have you looked at the products at
Ed,
A 32' wire with a 16' counterpoise is not a resonant antenna on 40
meters. It will not load well unless you have an antenna tuner to
turn it into 50 ohms. I have a KAT2 in my K2 #1239 to allow me to use
miscellaneous antennas. I am assuming that by your calling it a
counterpoise it is not
Make sure that using the Prolific device that the OS is assigning the
same COM port number you think it is. It most likely will stubbornly
assign different COM numbers for the two devices.
73, Guy.
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Dick Dievendorff die...@comcast.net wrote:
I use my original
Yup, 270v times .707 = 191v to get max RMS RF properly blocked. Using E
squared divided by R, gives you 728 watts blocked by 270 VDC on diodes for a
well matched 50 ohm load. Various tricks increase this range, but that
explains the order of magnitude.
73, Guy.
On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 4:26 PM,
I could be wrong, but assembled I think means that you send your K3
back to Elecraft and they install it for you. There was no assembly
OF the K3 per se, other than putting it's parts in the K3.
You can see the assembly steps easily enough in the downloadable docs
from the website.
73, Guy.
On
Some people are remembered for all the help they gave, how situations
were always improved because they were there, how they were always a
clarifying influence, an advancer of anything they embraced.
Of such N0SS.
Rest in peace, Tom, and nicely done.
Guy K2AV.
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 10:00 AM,
Many of the K2 settings are somewhat relative, depending ultimately on
your actual component values, which are not exact, but within a
manufacturing tolerance. Listen to your transmitted dots on a
separate RX and see if they SOUND equal. Adjust the number if you
think dots are too long or too
Trust your ears. If it sounds good, it is good. Other people are
copying with their ears too. They are not using an oscilloscope to
copy.
73 GL,
Guy
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Pedro Correia
pedrocorreia1...@hotmail.com wrote:
Thank you for your rapid reply. I am not very good at
If you have one of those smallish 3 to 4 inch open end wrenches that
fit the nut exactly, torquing it by putting pressure on other end of
wrench with pinky finger only, can tighten it permanently with no
danger to any component.
Long term operation of VFO B without that nut tightened properly is
May not have been properly seated when you tightened it, and when it
did seat, then the nut was loose.
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:01 PM, W5UXH chuck.broadw...@gmail.com wrote:
I used a small wrench and would guess I applied a reasonable amount of
torque. Of course there is the question of why
That is really easy to do. I did and went through a couple weeks of
consternation before I got all the manual and postings about it in my
thick head. Thank you very much, I had successfully repressed all
memory of that episode :)
73, Guy.
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Alan D. Wilcox
Probably what is most important at this point, is that the K2 is over
a decade old design, and your uses of it (data, etc) are probably as
afterthought in the original design as one can possibly get. Have to
remember that single sideband was (and is) optional. That people have
been able to adapt
It is possible that there is a problem in the RF gain pot. It IS a
potentiometer. It has a standard voltage across it, and the variable
voltage in the pot's wipe is sent to an analog to digital converter,
which converts the pot setting to numerical advice which can be more
easily sent to the CPU
My Gmail mail client takes care of threading, and with two hot keys (J
and K), I can delete a days worth of ENTIRE THREADS of posts I don't
care about in 10 or 15 seconds, including a good deal of technical
posts that don't interest me but are useful and interesting to others.
So what's the big
As Don has said, this is normal.
The reason why some of this is done is because the items which are
disabled in plus mode require settling time and are users of CPU
budget during RX/TX/RX transitions. Blinding QSK doesn't have any
time to mess around. There is an as yet only outlined intention
64 bit Windows 7 drivers seemed to have the problems (true for many
things other than Prolific USB chips). The newest drivers for 64 bit
W7 work for my old Elecraft Prolific cable, and I now use it for
various chores. Before the problems were solved though, I gave up and
put in a PCI express
Last time I looked at Waddle K. Knowitall's Authoritative Real
Meanings Dictionary, 70 wpm, indeed 50 wpm was QRQ all the way.
If you want QSK, you should set the TX DLY to minimum 8 and leave it
there forever. I don't like the way it behaves at higher delays
anyway. If you want to keep RX
By common usage, the language has moved beyond the old CW procedural
meanings. QRQ clearly also means faster than common usage. Same
thing for QRO, which has more of an absolute sense these days.
Otherwise how would you interpret the sentence, Do you consider 35 WPM QRQ?
73, Guy.
On Sat, Jul
You insist on making this an either/or kind of choice, and it simply
is not. APF does not make a result in your brain, it simply listens
to slower CW with a very narrow bandwidth. It seems to have times when
it will pull something out of noise, and other times not, by use of
the narrowness.
RF in the shack. 73, Guy
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 5:00 PM, vicki glover glover3...@comcast.net wrote:
Guys,
My K2 goes into transmit with the first tap of the hand key and stays in
transmit until I remove the key plug from the K2's key jack. What gives?
mikeKB3QJA
Your question reads like, Do I have enough rocks in this bucket, or
do I have more hammers in this bucket?
The APF does not do what diversity does for you. APF is a monaural
concept. Diversity allows you to spread the noise while signals
remain discreet. This is something which your ears
Have to remember how Win 7 does these things. REMOVE the USB
device(s) from the computer until you are done, and DO NOT reinsert
them until after you are successful and have installed the correct
drivers. What you call install and what happens the first time the
drivers are called for are two
This has been due to too-frequent polling by HRD. You will find a lot
more information and discussion of this in the Elecraft reflector
archives.
73, Guy.
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 2:23 PM, telegrap...@q.com wrote:
I am running HRD but i don't see the AGC changing. However the control
panel,
The most likely cause of your problem is that the filter placements as
viewed in the K3 utility and as actually installed on the main board
do not actually match. Next is that you have left an empty slot
ENABLED in the K3 utility. After that, a filter not plugged all the
way in or defective.
If NR was available on data, it would be expected to work by the
newbies with endless complaints, even if there were mounds of reports
out there saying why it shouldn't be used. Then the vagaries of
digital operation would be blamed on Elecraft. Each digital mode has
a specific collection of
This would be something you have to take up with QTH.com It's not
particular to Elecraft and is a function of the reflector software
they are using.
73, Guy.
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 12:01 PM, TRB trbpoin...@aol.com wrote:
Elecraft,
I received an email from ...qth.net that contained my login
is indeed a
switcher. I have a battery that I'll be hooking up to it to see if this is
still a problem.
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Guy Olinger K2AV
olin...@bellsouth.netwrote:
A repeated 12 kHz would be echoed all over the room and lose a lot of
it's pulse nature. This continues
That would be: You get this while in TX Test Mode?
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Guy Olinger K2AV olin...@bellsouth.net wrote:
You get this while in TX mode?
Do you have the top cover on or off for this?
Guy
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 1:49 AM, Geoff Wolf AB3LS
liltechdud...@gmail.com
Hi Geoff, below...
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Geoff Wolf AB3LS
liltechdud...@gmail.com wrote:
And, for even more information, I analyzed the audio that I recorded and the
squeal is right around 12Khz. It peaks at -48dB (louder than the QSK relay
clicking)
http://imgur.com/V8o5t - image
A repeated 12 kHz would be echoed all over the room and lose a lot of
it's pulse nature. This continues to look suspiciously like crap from
a 12 volt switching power supply that is somehow finding something
mechanically resonant in the K3.
Back to asking for 12 volts from a linear supply
There has been talk off and on from Wayne of completing the firmware
that would interpret the TCXO cal figures. Given that, those who
really want this (for whatever reason - I won't comment on that)
could, with a separate precise frequency standard, actually develop
their own TCXO cal figures
Don may weigh in here, but as I recall this part is looking for shorts
and wrong orientation of chip in socket. Check very carefully and
triple check that U6 U8 U1 are properly oriented. That ok, you do not
indicate shorts to ground by those values. My guess is then that you
are OK and should
Check to make sure that the cables routed in front of the fans are not
touching. A light touch will result in a sound like that. It will
change or go away with the fan speed.
73, Guy.
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Adi Andrei e.adi.and...@gmail.com wrote:
I have the same thing happening,
If you can do it, see if you still have the noise running off a
battery. 73, Guy.
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Adi Andrei e.adi.and...@gmail.com wrote:
The fans are still but I still hear it. Almost like some switching PSU
noise.
Adi
2e0ttx
On 27/06/2011 15:21, Guy Olinger K2AV wrote
Depending on your antenna, the answer can be as simple as ground
moisture. Would need more detail about your antenna to speculate
farther. 73, Guy.
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Kate Hutton katehut...@gmail.com wrote:
I am often on the same frequency daily - 3.575 MHz, but the ATU does
Per the manual shipped with the Heil set, the AD-1-K red adapter is
REQUIRED. The manual is only two pages and you might have misplaced
it. If so see
http://www.elecraft.com/manual/E740063_ProSet-K2K3_Rev_C.pdf
73, Guy.
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 3:46 PM, William Levy wgl...@gmail.com wrote:
I
However much we try to be kind and accepting of wherever a poster may
be, RTFM remains pertinent, not reading or not carefully reading the
manual the number one cause of problems in assembly, understanding,
operating.
At SAS institute, the world's largest private software company, with
paid
a test first?
Wayne
N6KR
On Jun 24, 2011, at 1:23 PM, Guy Olinger K2AV wrote:
However much we try to be kind and accepting of wherever a poster may
be, RTFM remains pertinent...
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Having managed to break a few myself (have to remind myself I'm not
rebuilding an auto engine), I think what is going on is that the knobs
are (or were) still curing, causing them to shrink a tiny bit after
being tightened on the shaft.
I think the curing accelerates after being put on the radio
Does the rounding off change with the various settings of FINE,
COARSE, either on the front panel or CONFIG:VFO CRS, or mode?
73, Guy.
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 2:55 AM, Stephen Prior eastbrantw...@gmail.com wrote:
Alan, I'm sorry to say this but nothing seems to have changed for me in the
Just to note firmly that this is not a problem with the K3. Radio
firmware cannot be expected to provide workarounds for any and all
programming mistakes in third party software.
I have noted over the years that some firms, usually small software
suppliers, can be very stubborn in not dealing
Does the KPA500 tolerate a 67% on, 33% off, RTTY duty cycle
indefinitely? That would be the worst actual contesting cycle I know
of.
73, Guy.
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Lyle Johnson k...@wavecable.com wrote:
Yes.
500W peak power. In SSB, this would be PEP. In CW, it is key down. In
10:5 on:off is the worst contesting cycle I can think of. Thanks. Guy
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 7:18 PM, Bruce Beford
bruce.bef...@myfairpoint.net wrote:
Who'll be the first to liquid cool their KPA-500? 8-) -Bruce, N1RX
Lyle KK7P wrote:
If you have cold enough air, in sufficient quantity,
There are two kinds of dead bands: 1) the band is really dead and
it doesn't matter whether anyone is on or not. 2) nobody is on the
band and it's open.The contests prove how many times it's really
#2.We have a Summer Stew Perry coming up tomorrow and we will see
what really goes on in
No more hard sky like 1956 in my lifetime if that actually plays
out. In 1956 watched my friend's ham dad work the west coast from
Ohio, on 10 meters AM, 5+9 both ways, with a Johnson Ranger 35 watts
AM literally into a wet salty spaghetti noodle. REALLY impressive and
fun to a seventh grader
I think you have one cell in the battery that has gone shorted. Hard
charge on a 6 cell is 14.4. 5/6 of that is 12. 12.1 volts is what
you get when a charger expecting to charge something at 13.8 to 14.2
is put across 5 cells instead of 6.
On discharge a normal fully charged battery will near
I think you have to do that yourself. See the url at the bottom of
every send prefixed with Home. 73, Guy.
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Scott McDowell n...@yahoo.com wrote:
Hello
Please un-subscribe me from this reflector.
Thanks
Scott N5SM
n...@yahoo.com
Actually he's been on the list as far back as 2004, though not all that
common a poster. His current (May '11) QRZ blurb shows him as a K2 owner,
into using it as a data modes platform.
He did go through the ZL earthquake earlier this year. There was some text
that hinted at losing employment
ERR PTT means that the PTT line was being held low as the K3 is starting up.
This sounds more like a poorly done connector (short), or a bit of that
tiny wire used in a shield shoved back in a male connector. Betting odds
are on the side of a physical problem with cords/connectors.
[see
Without thinking at all about it, many people run with the preamp on all the
time. Since one has AGC, this has the effect of compressing the signal to
noise ratio. It IS really important to get used to setting ATT/PRE to move
the noise down to where it is only moderate. Just as true on a K2 as
Well, that's wonderful procedure for someone who has a rich easy to
understand voice. Really.
I don't have such a voice. Even when I'm trying to stage project, I sound
like I'm talking through a muffle.
What the K3 voice processing does for me is to elevate the highs enough so
that a
Yes, a water-proof completely enclosed housing that will float.
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Dave-Boat Guy anavig...@yahoo.com wrote:
With all this interesting talk about the KX3, about the only thing that I
can think that this radio needs is a ruggedized housing. It may be a nice
He didn't design it for a fixed station, that at least is clear and on the
record somewhere. His problem would be somewhere there is internal space to
support the jacks. In a different box with more space in the rear, it could
be rewired to the back. What I suspect, though, is that the jacks on
That seems like it has to be firmware. Perhaps an off state that goes
away with any key input. Or a command to tune, no key out, which is toggled
off by tapping tune?
On a related topic, what do people do with the XMIT button? I never use it
as an alternate to footswitch or a panel mounted
Perhaps counter-intuitively, dropping the code requirement for ENTRY and
making CW voluntary, seems to be at the base of a CW RESURGENCE.
Since people CAN get pretty good copy with software, they are able to
participate in CW events. Rather than dumbing down the events, most enjoy
the increased
Yes, yes, yes You're right. I keep forgetting this one. I have some
mental block about it. Sorry all for the blather.
It's one of the few control leads that are not driven by their own state
output from the CPU. It's run off of 7R to add the transition time to the
state change in the amp
Exactly, which is what most people expect, without knowing that they
expect it, since 99% of ham receivers have done that since AGC first
showed up.
This behavior is CODED INTO the K3 firmware algorithm for the S-meter
presentation. It is not mandated by the way hardware is wired. It is
a
I find that I finally have to make a set of short jumpers and adapters
for EACH of my instruments and keep them with THAT instrument and
nowhere else. I would need some place to store a row of adapters,
barrel, bnc to uhf, uhf to N, etc. That's like another compartment.
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at
Hi Phil (WA7URV),
Click on start.
In the typing window that has search etc in it, type device
manager without the quotes. This brings up a Device Manager window.
Look down the list to the line Ports (COM LPT). Double click on
it to expose all the COM and LPT devices. Leave this window open
I use the Gmail client for email. Even with a pile of 70 or 80
messages, I can use the J and X hot keys to go down the list and mark
entire threads for deletion in less than 60 seconds. It's limited by
how fast I can read the titles. I click on the delete button and all
that remains is stuff I
Using a stereo jack as RS232 is quite common. I have some number of
non-Elecraft devices that do that, including Microham boxes. It does
preclude use of RTS and DTR for anything. All has to be done in the
ASCII stream, but it has worked just fine.
73, Guy.
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 2:39 PM,
XG3 cable is female RS232 (holes) to stereo jack. 73, Guy.
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 2:36 PM, iain macdonnell - N6ML a...@dseven.org wrote:
I would expect there to be a DB9 on the computer end of the supplied
cable. My guess is that the KX3 end will be a 1/8 TRS jack, like the
W2, to save
Deal me in. 73, Guy.
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Paul Saffren pa...@elecraft.com wrote:
I have a new version of XG3 firmware that includes a RTTY sender along
with some new features to the CW beacon. If you're interested in loading
and testing this firmware, let me know an I'll email it
A PEP rating higher than CW is always going to be heat related. One
should always inquire about the brick-on-key rating, e.g. the CCS or
Continuous Commercial Service rating. For an Alpha 9500 and 8410 it
is 1500 watts. For my 76CA it is 750 watts at the low voltage (CW)
setting. For obvious
Having a lot of water around means that the antenna impedance changes
with the power level. I have seen this many times here on 160 with
wet leaves very close to wires, and sometimes touching. I can watch
the SWR vary under a steady 1500 watts, something not seen or far less
obvious at 5 watts.
This sounds like too small a battery for the given charger. Or too
large a charger for the battery.
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 2:21 PM, n...@n5ge.com wrote:
If the spec sheet on the K3 say's 15V max, then the voltage is too high, no
matter where the voltage comes from...
73,
Tom
Amateur
Ah. Extremely important point. NOT at all apparent from the KX3
page, especially when used to the one filter, one bandwidth paradigm.
As it stands it reads like four available, but only one installable.
On the web page, you may want to change...
Narrow roofing filter option with four
It is also engaged/bypassed per band per antenna according to the
remembered setting on that band/antenna combination. 73, Guy.
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 6:38 PM, Fred Jensen k6...@foothill.net wrote:
Automatic is a word with lots of meanings. When it is in AUTO and
you tap ATU TUNE, it will
How about a top that is fastened to different drilled screw holes on a
base mounting. The operator uses the screw holes that suit the angle
desired. Not so difficult as a detent.
73, Guy.
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 1:21 AM, Wayne Burdick n...@elecraft.com wrote:
They are detachable.
They could
Nice overview of the chip at http://focus.ti.com/lit/an/spra526/spra526.pdf
It's not a NR chip. It's a CPU with embedded memory and gizmos
designed with digital signal processing in mind. You could use it in
a model airplane if you wanted to, or construct a mini PC out of it.
So it allows
Wayne was talking about an optional roofing filter that is in the
audio range ahead of the DAC in the YouTube video. So it is
seriously down-converted before it goes digital. It's not a Flex
5000. 73, Guy.
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire r...@cobi.biz wrote:
And I'd not be
Doesn't your speculation presume that all the noise reduction
functionality IS IN HARDWARE? Last I looked at the K3 functionality,
all the NR is in PROGRAM CODE, not burned into hardware chips. Go
read the schematic. And since Wayne has been good about keeping up K3
firmware, why would he code
I would use the KTCXO3 if I ever intended to use it apart from the
reference source. I take my K3 to multi op contest weekends, field
day, IOTA dxpedition class.
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Dan AE9K a...@pkts.net wrote:
Ed,
Thanks for the response. Let me clarify my question. I'm
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Lew Phelps K6LMP k6...@me.com wrote:
On May 19, 2011, at 8:38 AM, Grant Youngman wrote:
Have you considered replacing the bottom panel with an inch thick piece of
lead :-)
Lead is for sissies. If you really want to add weight, get the real stuff:
Usually docking stations are highly proprietary. How do you know that
the laptop doesn't have drivers on the installed OS? These frequently
have Windows, etc that are highly customized for the particular
laptop, including a docking station.
73, Guy.
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Ron - PE8E
But with CW, even a small fraction
of a second delay would make full break-in impossible. You wouldn't be
able to listen to your own transmitted signal since the delay would make
it hard to send. You'd have to generate the sidetone locally and accept
the fact that the RF comes out a little
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 7:19 PM, stan levandowski sjl...@optonline.net wrote:
Plus, anyone can
buy the 100 watt K2 option and put it in a separate container, modify
the driving rig as necessary, and be on the air.
Actually that is not true, as it requires the proprietary K2 auxbus
You haven't told us what settings you have on ATT/PRE, per band. That
would make a huge difference in how things worked out. 73, Guy
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 7:59 PM, Fred Jensen k6...@foothill.net wrote:
Lots of good info comes from this list. I segregated all the recent
How to set AF and RF
,
nothing on 20 and 30, occasionally Attenuator on 40, always on 80 and
160. I've never tried 60m.
...is the most important part of what you described.
73, Guy
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Fred Jensen k6...@foothill.net wrote:
On 5/19/2011 5:30 PM, Guy Olinger K2AV wrote:
You haven't told
I learned Elecraftish from the K2. Had my fun with that for sure, as
probably does everyone that comes from a Yakencom background. I also
had a hard time first learning an FT1000MP, as I did an Orion.
The K3 layout philosophy developed because Elecraft started with very
small boxes that
They're not likely to see this, rolling up to Dayton, but rolling the
s-meter up scale as you roll the RF gain back is making a digital
radio behave like an analog radio just to keep from all the complaints
that it's broke because it doesn't act analog. The designer knows
full well that we
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire r...@cobi.biz wrote:
Don't forget that the K3 *is* a largely analog radio. The signal path only
goes digital at the second I.F.
I believe the K3 (and K2) handle manual RF gain control just like any analog
radio does - they insert an adjustable
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire r...@cobi.biz wrote:
Guy, you obviously didn't read my post.
I said the signal path was analog all the way to the second I.F.
Actually I DID read your post. You said:
Don't forget that the K3 *is* a largely analog radio.
I quite disagree
Maybe because it would introduce an unknown change in behavior to the
uninitiated and generate tech support calls.
He'd have to take the time to make the change smooth and gradual based
on what was turned on and the keying speed and how much the offset
was.
At least if you turn the option on,
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