I can attest to the fact that Gary's head swelled somethin' wicked but I reckon
it was closer to 10ft than 8! :)
Great fun was had and lots of beer was consumed over the weekendwe
even got to use our K3's occasionally too!
Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Elecraft K3 # 4257
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, I'd like to swap my 8 pole 400HZ CW filter for a 1.8KHz 8 pole filter.
I will pay the postage cost to send my filter to you if you do the same with
your filter that you send to me.
Please contact me off-list.
Thanks for your time,
Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Elecraft K3 # 4257 + PR6 + K144XV
features in version 4.12 and later that I wanted I
would never have changed from 3.97.
I guess you can't have everything...even in a K3! :)
Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Innisfail, QLD, Australia
Elecraft K3# 4257 + PR6 - K144XV = multiband goodness!
- Original Message -
From
per year. (Thats getting close to 20 feet of rain a year!)
I don't have gills yet but I am working on them. :)
Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Innisfail, QLD, Australia
Elecraft K3# 4257 + PR6 - K144XV = multiband goodness!
- Original Message -
From: Gary Gregory
To: Jeff Cochrane
(hurricanes) and all manner of other weather delights.
I am sure that if my K3 had the standard screws in it that it would have rust
stains all over the radio by now. (And the radio is not yet 1 year old!)
My $0.02c worth, keep the change!
Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Innisfail, QLD, Australia
Elecraft K3
of radio amateurs are not regarded
as commercially available equipment.
Buy yourself a K3 kit, it appears to be exempt from the EC marking requirement.
Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Innisfail, QLD, Australia
Elecraft K3# 4257 + PR6 - K144XV = multiband goodness!
- Original Message -
From: Jean
will find that your transmitted
audio to be pretty well 'spot on'.
Most people I have spoken to with K3's and MH2's use exactly the same settings
with great results.
(BTW, the same settings also work quite well for the CM500 here too!)
I hope this helps.
73 de
Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Innisfail, QLD
in the world)
See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Weltkarte_der_Netzspannungen_und_Netzfrequenzen.svg
for an interesting pic.
73 de
Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Innisfail, QLD, Australia
Elecraft K3# 4257 + PR6 - K144XV = multiband goodness!
- Original Message -
From: Ian White GM3SEK
manufacturers
support.
Both of which it has in spades.
Kudos to you, Eric and all the team at Elecraft for making (and allowing us to
buy) what is arguably one of the worlds best Amateur Radio transceivers, the
Elecraft K3.
Enjoy your holiday!
Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Innisfail, QLD, Australia
possible with earthquakes.
73 de
Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Innisfail, QLD, Australia
Elecraft K3# 4257 + PR6 - K144XV = multiband goodness!
- Original Message -
From: Fred Jensen
To: Elecraft Reflector
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 9:37 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] What made you
K3's owners
to be, wellK3 owners!
Cut him a good deal on his KPA500 (and mine too please!) :-)
Thanks for taking the time to read my drivel..
Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Innisfail, QLD, Australia
Elecraft K3# 4257 + PR6 - K144XV = multiband goodness
Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Innisfail, QLD, Australia
Elecraft K3# 4257 + PR6 - K144XV = multiband goodness!
- Original Message -
From: David Cutter
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2011 5:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] FW: FW: K3: KPA500 on a generator
gensets will generally require 2 100W floodlights to be
running for the same effect.
73 de
Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Innisfail, QLD, Australia
Elecraft K3# 4257 + PR6 - K144XV = multiband goodness!
- Original Message -
From: Brendan Minish
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Saturday
Ditto for Australia.
Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Innisfail, QLD, Australia
Elecraft K3# 4257 + PR6 - K144XV = multiband goodness!
- Original Message -
From: vtuff59...@aol.com
To: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 4:07 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] 120V vs
household electrical work must be done by a suitably licenced
electrician.
Damned silly rule if you ask me.
Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Innisfail, QLD, Australia
Elecraft K3# 4257 + PR6 - K144XV = multiband goodness!
- Original Message -
From: ab2tc
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent
So Eric,
When are you guy's coming 'downunder' then? :)
We'd love to see ya's!
Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Innisfail, QLD, Australia
Elecraft K3# 4257 + PR6 - K144XV = multiband goodness!
- Original Message -
From: Eric Swartz WA6HHQ - Elecraft
To: Elecraft Reflector
Sent: Friday
suppliers charge for gear here and you'll know why most Aussies dont
run more than 100W.)
Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Innisfail, QLD, Australia
Elecraft K3# 4257
- Original Message -
From: Bill K9YEQ
To: d...@w3fpr.com ; elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 10
is a snap to install, it's a matter of 2 or 3 TMP cables + a
power connection and your basically done once the KXV3A is there.
Good luck with it and welcome to the Elecraft fraternity!
Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Innisfail, QLD, Australia
Elecraft K3# 4257
- Original Message -
From
Thanks Wayne,
Firmware version 4.25 installed and running fine on K3 #4257.
Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Innisfail, QLD, Australia
Elecraft K3# 4257
- Original Message -
From: Wayne Burdick
To: Elecraft Reflector ; elecraft...@yahoogroups.com ;
elecr...@yahoogroups.com
Sent
Tune power here is set to 5.0 Watts on my K3/100.
No issues at all, even with my crappy antennae. :)
Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Innisfail, QLD, Australia
Elecraft K3# 4257
- Original Message -
From: Matt Zilmer
To: gold...@charter.net
Cc: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Friday
over 9 on any other
radio BUT the K3, it only shows the repeater as S9+5db on a good day and S9 on
most other days)
I have tried two different K144XV's with the same result.
Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Innisfail, QLD, Australia
Elecraft K3# 4257
- Original Message -
From: Robert Redmon
the main tuning knob to have a bit of weight in it to give a small
amount of 'flywheel effect'.
Apart from those, I have no complaints that are particularly noteworthy.
Good luck with your purchase, I am sure that you will really enjoy being a K3
owner, I do!
Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Innisfail
Hi Jamie,
Why not just make a couple of short (6) BNC to BNC cables using some RG58?
Thats what I did here with no detectable signal degredation and a whole lot
less room taken up behind the rig.
Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Innisfail, QLD, Australia
Elecraft K3# 4257
- Original Message
.
But, I have the 2M transverter installed and haven't had a good look around in
the guts of my K3 (Mine's a factory built unit) so I couldn't say if there is a
way to cable it internally.
Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Innisfail, QLD, Australia
Elecraft K3# 4257
- Original Message -
From
Hi Bill,
It's your choice, either will do the job with the P3.
But, If you want at some later stage to go with the internal K144XV transverter
then you will need the KXV3A, the only difference is that the KXV3A has the
connectors for the internal transverter that the KXV3 misses ou on.
Jeff
Paul,
It sounds to me like you have a voltage drop issue on transmit.
Have you checked your power supplies voltage under load and the supply leads to
the radio?
That's where I'd be starting to look first.
Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Innisfail, QLD, Australia
Elecraft K3# 4257
- Original
found that it's
hard to beat.
(As an aside, my TS480SAT was modified by it's original owner's dealer for
continuos coverage TX, including 27MHz though I never used it out of band,
apparently it's a quite simple task to do, involving one resistors removal I
believe.)
73 de
Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Benjamin,
Speaking from experience, the 'wideband' software 'tool' will indeed allow the
K3 to transmit outside of most bands but operation on 27MHz is still recieve
only even after the usage of said software 'tool'.
Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Innisfail, QLD, Australia
Elecraft K3# 4257
I use the following settings with my CM500 and my K3.
Mic Sel - RPL Bias
Antivox - 015
Xox Gn - 025
Mic Delay 0.50
Mic Gain 10
Cmp 20
You may need to increase the microphone gain setting to suit your voice.
I hope this helps.
Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Innisfail, QLD, Australia
Elecraft K3# 4257
It's working fine here Anthony.
Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Innisfail, QLD, Australia
Elecraft K3# 4257
- Original Message -
From: ANTNEE N3ANT
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2010 7:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: possible ham operation in the region
Barry,
Try disabling the ethernet port on the laptop, they are very good rfi creators.
Of course, if you need the network port for internet access, you cant do that
and your basically screwed.
Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Innisfail, QLD, Australia
Elecraft K3# 4257
- Original Message
you know what is was.
I do have it on good authority that a transmission at high power on or about
14.3MHz does wonders for the Plasma's power supplies though.
maybe that me be an option.
Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Innisfail, QLD, Australia
Elecraft K3# 4257
- Original Message -
From
Hi Craig,
Go here: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft
Then login and change your preferences on the following page[s]
Hope this helps.
Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Innisfail, QLD, Australia
Elecraft K3# 4257
- Original Message -
From: Craig D. Smith
To: elecraft
meters I cannot believe
that they are all out by so much and by such a consistant amount.
The overdoing of the 2m gain reduction has been the subject of a few emails I
have sent to Elecraft and to this reflector and to date I have not heard an
answer on the subject.
Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Hi Fred,
Goto Config PWR SET and change it to Per Band.
That'll fix it.
73,
Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Innisfail, QLD, Australia
Elecraft K3# 4257
- Original Message -
From: Fred Lozo
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 11:47 AM
Subject: [Elecraft
Gary,
It has been withdrawn from the website due to bugs.
Stay with 4.14 for the moment.
Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Innisfail, QLD, Australia
Elecraft K3# 4257
- Original Message -
From: Gary
To: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2010 2:00 PM
Subject: Re
of the internal unit. (10Watts vs
25Watts of the external transvertor)
Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Innisfail, QLD, Australia
Elecraft K3# 4257
- Original Message -
From: Adriano Perazio
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 6:54 PM
Subject: [Elecraft] K3
Hi Alexandr,
I have not noticed any drift at all with my K144XV with internal temperatures
to +60 degrees C.
I must admit though at this stage I have not used it for digital modes, only
SSB + FM.
No-one has ever commented about any drift on my signal.
Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Innisfail, QLD
it for the digital modes too?
Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Innisfail, QLD, Australia
Elecraft K3# 4257
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that there was a 180 degree shift, but I do now. (learning all
zee time.)
Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Innisfail, QLD, Australia
Elecraft K3# 4257
- Original Message -
From: Lyle Johnson
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 11:19 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 APF
that frustrated with it.
Jeff Cochrane
VK4BOF
East Innisfail QLD
Australia
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the K3 is a FCC type approved radio
that part of that type approval includes that it must not transmit SSB
bandwidths that are wider than permitted.
My $0.02c worth (Plus GST/VAT/Sales Tax as applicable)
Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Innisfail, QLD, Australia
Elecraft K3# 4257
- Original Message
watt test and go straight to the 50Watt
test.
I have tried it with the radio running on a battery and with a regulated power
supply.
I am using the latest version of the K3 utility.
Any idea's?
Jeff Cochrane
VK4BOF
East Innisfail QLD
Australia
Problem Solved!
I had to do a hard reset of the K3. (Power on whilst holding the NORMAL
button) and then reloaded my saved configuration.
I was then able to go through the whole TX Gain calibration procedure.
Ain't it marvelous what you can do when you read a book! :)
Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Thanks Dick,
Thats exactly what I did do, EE INIT followed by restoring my configuration.
All seems to be fine now.
Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Innisfail, QLD, Australia
Elecraft K3# 4257
- Original Message -
From: Dick Dievendorff
To: Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Cc: elecraft
Hi Douglas et al,
I checked the link you sent doug and got this message from YouTube:
This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by
TheOnLineEngineer.org.
Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Innisfail, QLD, Australia
Elecraft K3# 4257
- Original Message -
From: DOUGLAS ZWIEBEL
One of these days I will find a use for the programmable keys.
Until then, mine are virgins.
Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Innisfail, QLD, Australia
Elecraft K3# 4257
- Original Message -
From: Ken Widelitz
To: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 11:11 AM
01.10.
Radio responded with version 01.10
One has to wonder if there maybe an issue with the memory in the radio's
firmware?
Comments?
Jeff Cochrane
VK4BOF
East Innisfail QLD
Australia
+1
I even use that setup for the MH2 Microphone with good results.
Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Innisfail, QLD, Australia
Elecraft K3# 4257
- Original Message -
From: David Herring
To: Don Cunningham
Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 12:30 PM
quiet.
Even USB is noisy as it is capable of 12Mbit/sec at least (480MBits/sec in the
case of USB 2.0) and as a result has a high speed (RF) clock which generates as
much or more noise in and around the transceiver.
Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Innisfail, QLD, Australia
Elecraft K3# 4257
Yes Barry, it does.
Jeff Cochrane
VK4BOF
Innisfail QLD
Australia
Elecraft K3 #4257
- Original Message -
From: Barry Simpson
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 2:20 PM
Subject: [Elecraft] KPA 500
Does anyone know if the KPA 500 has a built in power
Whilst I am glad to see that some (if not most) of the contestants were using
Elecraft transceivers, aren't we getting more than a little off topic here now
folks?
After all, this is (if I am not mistaken) the Elecraft list, not the 'WRTC
Statistics' list.
Jeff Cochrane
VK4BOF
Innisfail QLD
is public, where can I see a copy?
And the biggy, how can we get stuff added to the list?
Thanks in advance,
Jeff Cochrane
VK4BOF
Innisfail QLD
Australia
Elecraft K3 #4257
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Thanks for your answer Don,
I appreciate it.
Jeff Cochrane
VK4BOF
Innisfail QLD
Australia
Elecraft K3 #4257
- Original Message -
From: Don Wilhelm
To: Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 2:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] The K3
simplex without having to remember to change the
offset back to simplex manually.
Can this be done?
Thanks in advance,
--
Jeff Cochrane
VK4BOF
Innisfail QLD
Australia
Elecraft K3 #4257
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Posted in the interest of maintaining the information flow.
Thanks for your time,
Jeff Cochrane
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Innisfail QLD
Australia
Elecraft K3 #4257
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Sorry for the off topic post,
But, can someone please advise me as to why I cannot see my own posts to the
reflector unless someone replies to them or I CC them to another email address?
Is there any way to fix it?
Thanks in advance,
Jeff Cochrane
VK4BOF
Innisfail QLD
Australia
Elecraft K3
that I still could not see my own posts.
That makes me wonder if there is a setting in Outlook Express that I need to
change.
Jeff Cochrane
VK4BOF
Innisfail QLD
Australia
Elecraft K3 #4257
- Original Message -
From: Don Wilhelm
To: Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Cc: elecraft
)
My only complaint is that the squelch in FM mode needs to have a faster attack
time but apart from that, all is good.
Jeff Cochrane
VK4BOF
Innisfail QLD
Australia
Elecraft K3 #4257
- Original Message -
From: pd0psb
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 3:27
Mike,
Have you tried another microphone?
If the rig checks out ok with another microphone, check the PTT switch in the
MH2, mines a bit 'ordinary' and occasionally does not make contact when the PTT
button is pressed.
Jeff Cochrane
VK4BOF
Innisfail QLD
Australia
Elecraft K3 #4257
signal.)
No, can we PLEASE go back to our normal programming???
Jeff Cochrane
VK4BOF
Innisfail QLD
Australia
Elecraft K3 #4257
- Original Message -
From: Dave
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Cc: d...@w3fpr.com
Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 2:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Clock
'protection' they might have built in.
Jeff Cochrane
VK4BOF
Innisfail QLD
Australia
Elecraft K3 #4257
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The K144XV works for me! :)
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The less external cables and things I have to go wrong or get lost / misplaced
the better. :-)
Thanks for your time,
Jeff Cochrane
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Innisfail QLD
Australia
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radials.
But, to most people, a SWR of anything less than 2:1 is sufficient for their
needs.
(And the needs of their transceivers)
73
Jeff Cochrane
VK4BOF
Innisfail QLD
Australia
Elecraft K3 #4257
- Original Message -
From: Chris Hembree
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent
Hi Deane,
I too have the MH2 and the XV144 and my FP MIC BIAS is set to High
I use Mic Gain 10, Comp 0 for FM and Mic 10, Comp 20 for SSB
Jeff Cochrane
VK4BOF
Innisfail QLD
Australia
Elecraft K3 #4257
- Original Message -
From: Deane Walkington
To: Elecraft Reflector
Sent
you get the button in, it must be only barely making contact that
as soon as you relieve any pressure at all from the button, the radio goes back
to RX mode.
Does anyone else have this issue?
Jeff Cochrane
VK4BOF
Innisfail QLD
Australia
Elecraft K3 #4257
was the clincher in me buying my Elecraft K3.
(Added to the fact that I was an 'authorised driver' of Gary - VK4FD's K3 #679
for awhile so that I got to enjoy what a 'real radio' was like. There's no
going back to a YaeKenIcom after driving a K3 for awhile :-) )
Jeff Cochrane
VK4BOF
Innisfail QLD
Australia
details.)
Thanks to all the gang at Elecraft for this wonderful transceiver.
(And thanks to all those people that purchased my old Yaesu, Kenwood and Icom
transceivers, I now have the best txcvr on the market today!)
73 de
Jeff Cochrane
VK4BOF
Innisfail QLD
Australia
Elecraft K3 # 4257
in a few days. :-)
(My new baby is on its way!)
Jeff Cochrane
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the user...
Well then, let's just freeze the K3 as it is today, and not make further
software or hardware changes.
VE7XF
Then we could call it a KenYaecom!
Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Innisfail, QLD
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and all my questions on
this subject have been answered very authoritatively by you and others in this
list.
Thanks to all,
Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Innisfail, QLD
Australia.
(But not for much longer!)
- Original Message -
From: Edward Cole
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Saturday
cost too)
But, I do need / want the two antenna sockets. (one for HF, one for 6M)
Has the option to have 2 x antenna sockets WITHOUT the ATU been discussed
previously?
Is there any possibility of it being implemented?
Thanks in advance,
Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Innisfail, QLD
Australia
really, I love my FT847, but the facts and figures dont lie, it
appears that the K3 + PR6 combo will do a better job than it can on 6M which is
what it's all about for me!)
The end result is that my K3 order is now just days away!
73 to all,
Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
Innisfail, QLD
Australia
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