I just have to chime in. How about an infra red key interface so our
wonderful bugs, simplex and iambic paddles can have tiny attached infra
red LEDs to make them wireless? Help eliminate the wire clutter on
the desk.
Jozef WB2MIC
Donald Rasmussen wrote:
So we've got the K3 copying code,
Lucky man. Me too! We live on 16 acres in the hills of rural Vermont
(past 22 years). There is an antenna farm including tower and
tribander. Wife, JeanneE, helped me put in 40 radials for the 40 meter
1/4 wave vertical. The longest is 250 feet! Some at 128 feet, etc.
She even suggested
Happy to listen for you. Would that be 20 meters and what
frequency(ies) would you be hanging around?
Jozef WB2MIC
Karl Anderson wrote:
Hi Folks,
I'll be operating my K2 tomorrow morning at the Johnson Ridge Observatory on
Mt. Saint Helens in Washington State. My location will be about 3
If anyone has had any experience with invisible RF dog fences please
drop me an email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am concerned about RF
getting into the dog fence and RFI from the dog fence. TNX.
73,
Jozef WB2MIC
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I have been using TruValue twin lead at $14/100 feet for the past 4
years on both my G5RV and my 40 meter loop. Works just fine. Best
bargain around. Since I only need 40 feet on either antenna, if it goes
bad, I just use the other half of what is left with some to spare.
Jozef WB2MIC
A single sheet of white paper cut into strips placed between the
contacts with some pressure on the paddle while you pull through will
clean the contacts without damage. Run a strip a few times through an
you will see the results. I use just under the amount of pressure that
rips the paper.
Satellite broadband is available most everywhere in the USA. Our
daughter lives in Glover VT which is about as rural and out of the way
as you can get. She is content with the broadband that she has. See:
http://www.4wildblue.com
Jozef WB2MIC
Kevin Rock wrote:
Currently I have a 21.6
Here's what I do I use double sided PC board material. I design the
Manhattan style PC board I want on paper with the islands or buildings
(squares and rectangles for pads) clearly defined making sure that the
spacing between the components I am going to solder is correct. I then
use good
My parents bought me a Swan 400 when I passed my general at age 14 in
January 1964. I went from WN2MIC to WB2MIC and CW at 13 wpm was a piece
of cake. That rig with no bells and whistles was $1,000 new. Inflate
that over 44 years! Rigs today are a bargain, and feature packed, by
comparison.
Sorry:
Nonsense. The ability to talk via ham radio overseas, Norway. etc., is
indeed unique when you can consider that no hardware corporate, nor
any other, infrastructure is necessary to achieve the task. Shut down
the cell-phone infrastructure and/or the Internet and communications
I always remember wanting to be a Ham. I have now been a ham for 43
plus years having acquired WN2MIC in 1963. It is a respectful term as
well as one of endearment, in my opinion. If the public at large is
unfamiliar with or find the term ham as odd or unusual, then I suggest
an
Agreed. Me too, by the way. My Elmer was W2FVB, Walter Muller. In my
33 year high school teaching carrier, not one student ever made fun of
the term ham. I taught a ham radio class for science credit (for
graduation) that met daily, but you had to have acquired a callsign to
get the
FWIW. And for those big loops! TruValue (Granville NY) was selling #17
electric fence wire for $22.99 for a 1/2 mile. #14 for a 1/4 mile was
$29.99. I have a 40 meter loop I made with scraps of the #14 put
together using wire nuts and homemade PVC insulators. It has been up
for years and
Agreed. However, at $0.00 for antennas that have worked 228 DXCC
entities since January 1, 2005, I'd say such antennas are a good
bargain, and, work well enough.
Jozef WB2MIC
Ken Kopp wrote:
RF travels on and/or near the surface of a conductor. The plating on
fence wire tarnishes /
I believe the character he played was Sergeant Bilko, if memory serves
me -- with big dark rimmed glasses and a balding head.
Jozef WB2MIC
Stan Rife wrote:
Was that Phil Silver Not sure if he was 40's era or not, but I used to
watch him back in the 50's on TV when I was a kid.
Didn't offend me. I have a delete button that is easy enough to use.
Jozef
W2AGN wrote:
Well, I apparently have offended one of the folks on the list, who
advises me I am a sarcastic malcontent, due to my earlier post in
reference to the rather odd topics that seem to have taken over the
Simply put: when I call CQ and I have multiple stations respond, I give
preference to the station that is the weakest or who signs /QRP which is
not always one and the same.
Jozef WB2MIC
Dave Sergeant wrote:
On 12 Jun 2007 at 4:03, GM4SLV wrote:
As far as I can read in our regs there's
Yes. And, this is the FISTS 10th anniversary this year. To celebrate
FISTS is offering the 20/20 award. Your work 20 FISTS for 20 minutes
each (at least) in each of the 12 months during 2007. The first month
you get the certificate and and sticker for that month (say January).
Then for
I must chime in a bit. If workers were not pitted one against the
other, and if they received the same renumeration for their wage-power
everywhere, then they would not be exploited. Some may rest content
that their consumer products are produced in slave like conditions. I
do not. The
A few years back I bought a Buxcom G5RV and running 600 watts into it,
the balun that it came with was toast. I replaced it with 10 turns of
coax wrapped around a Folger's coffee can. Reading what G5RV had
written about his antenna, he recommended that a balun not be used with
his antenna.
Indeed they did. My Navy MARS callsign used to be N0HNG.
Jozef
WB2MIc
Bob Nielsen wrote:
The MARS callsigns have changed a bit over the years. At one time
they used prefixes which are now allocated to amateur radio.
Bob, N7XY
ex- AF6SWE - Air Force Mars (~1954), N0KHM - Navy Mars (~1968)
It would seem to me that new rigs today might benefit from a built infra
red or wireless CW key connection. Elecraft could then also sell as an
accessory a wireless paddles, perhaps even a wireless touch paddle. Of
course the same could be for microphones for those that are not CW only.
I have a solution to the YW/OM issue:
OM: WB2MIC Josef
YW: KA1PMS JeanneE (yes, her real call see http://www.qrz.com/ka1pms
1H: KA1ZWK Guinnevere
2H: N1UKP Dylan
Club: W1PAZ
Jozef WB2MIC
Wells VT
Darwin, Keith wrote:
Ah, Cathy, this is priceless!
My wife and I are both familiar with that
Here's my contribution:
K3 by Elecraft: It's not your father's radio.
Jozef WB2MIC
Wells VT
Jesse Justiss wrote:
K3 The affordable expensive radio.
K3 Thousands less for better performance.
K3 The Winners choice.
K3 The standard bearer.
K3 Uber Alles
K3 And K2 Still better than the rest.
K3
a note at
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Jozef WB2MIC
Wells VT
Original Message
Subject:Re: How's...
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 18:42:18 -0500
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Looking at the K3 backside, an DB9 serial connector. Was thought given
to USB and/or Ethernet?
Jozef WB2MIC
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Dear OMs/YLs:
I thought you might be interested in my spatial CW reception project. See:
http://www.metaphoria.us/hamradio/ham_radio.htm
It's the second link down.
Jozef WB2MIC
Jim Wiley wrote:
Wayne or Lyle - whichever one of you is awake after the flood of
emails you have been working
A bit more on the what can the K1 do front. I completed my K1 #02326
on Feb 26, 2007. It went together flawlessly. I have worked 3 QSOs
this morning from the mobile on 40 meters with a Workman hamstick.
Since Feb 26, I have worked 414 QSOs in 48 DXCC entities and 29 states.
All the QSOs
With all the talk about Elecraft amps, I have a question. I have a K1
which I am very happy with. I plan to take the rig fixed mobile as I
find myself often in situations where I often find myself waiting for
long periods in my car. I have a 40 and 20 meter mobile antenna coming
and plan to
I run my Elecraft K1 at home off of four Siemens 55 watt panels. I use
a 30 amp charge controller which feed six golf cart batteries that are 6
volts each at 200 amp-hr. I have them wired in three pairs go give 12
vdc at 600 amp-hr. The panels and the batteries are now 12 years old
and
Yes. My shack does have a low light environment. I was through direct
email by two list users that this very slight flicker is normal as there
is data that is shared on the line. It's not a problem. I was curious.
Jozef WB2MIC
Current Subscriptions wrote:
Hi Jozef WB2MIC,
I have checked
I completed my K1 on 2/26/07 and have worked 44 countries, 27 states and
285 QSOs. I love the radio and it has performed well. I have a
question about the battery voltage readout and was wondering if this is
typical or not. When I put the display function into battery voltage
the LCD reads
I have been a ham for 43 plus years (12/23/63) and up to now have not
heard of any such limitation.
Jozef WB2MIC
David Wilburn wrote:
Just working from memory here, but wasn't there also a limit that the
amateur could only build one such amp a year?
David Wilburn
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K4DGW
K2
but admire Theodore Roosevelt McElroy and his
ability to copy CW at 77 WPM. See:
http://www.telegraph-office.com/pages/mcelroy.html This was an amazing
accomplishment as were his famous McElroy speed keys (bugs). I would
hardly call McElroy's using his keys as cheating.
Jozef Hand-Boniakowski
The K1 with the speaker does the same thing albeit at a higher
frequency. A couple of extra screws dead center on the top cover on
either side might cure that? What do people think? I use headphones
most of the time, but the lid resonance is not the best thing when
showing the rig off.
I used an Icom IC701 from 1978 thru 2006. A decent radio for its time.
I replaced it with an IC 756 PRO III (Dec 2006) and the new radio blew
the IC701 out of the water. In my opinion the PRO III is a superb
radio. When looking for a new radio I was told to stay away from the
Jupiter. I'm
Last summer, using spare tubing and tubing from an old 14AVQ I put up a
33-foot 1/4 wave 40 meter vertical. I laid down 32 radials of various
sized with 16 of them being 32 feet long. There is an RF choke at both
the tuner and the base of the vertical. Using this vertical I have
worked 150
I completed my K1 about a month ago and have worked 124 QSOs in 25
countries and 18 states. DX on 40 has been as easy as DX on 20. I run
it on four 55-watt Siemens solar panels and six 200 amp-hr 6 volt deep
cycle batteries (now 12 years old). The RIT on my K1 does nothing when
it is off.
Perhaps, I will run afoul with the list crowd, but from the get go on my
first Elecraft kit, a K1, S/N 02326 (finished 5 days ago), I could not
get fond of burning the enamel off. I tried the fine sand paper route
wrapping a 3 inch long X .5 in wide strip around a plastic drinking
straw and
My observations. 2 years go, I put up a homebrew made of leftover
tubing 33 ft vertical using an old Hustler 5BTV mount. A 3-1/2 inch
galvanized pipe, hacksawed at one end into a 30 degree (angle) point was
sledge driven into the ground as a mount stake. It is guyed with 3
ropes at the
Thank you all for the help so far. I just completed the (K1) receiver
and the receiver alignment. Everything is perfect. I was just a couple
of KHz off before calibration on each band. Signals are jumping out of
the receiver on 40 and 30 meters. The 20 meter band is in fair to poor
shape,
Hello to the list.
This is my first posting on my K1 kit building issues via the Elecraft
reflector. Thanks to all in advance. I am awaiting the delivery of a
digital multimeter for making resistance/voltage checks, but started
construction nonetheless. I have a cheap analog meter,
Hello Don and others:
Thank you kindly. This lists collective wisdom appreciated. I will
cease and desist using the analog meter until my DMM arrives. May I
suggest that Elecraft consider upgrading their recommendation about not
using an analog meter to a warning which includes the
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