G'day,
|I wonder if you laptop can deliver enough current? This is an important
| consideration that is often overlooked, some USB chipsets are feeble.
The USB cable that came with a recently bought Iomega external slim-line
hard drive had two PC USB port plugs to a single hard drive plug just
G'day,
Time flies, I didn't realise it was so long since this was posted.
Regards,
Mike VP8NO
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From: KEN BROWN [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
| From: John, KI6WX [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 20:51:50 -0700
| Subject: [Elecraft] 4 MHz
G'day,
Well my set up here is:
Mode B
PdLr
I'm mainly left handed and send dashes with my thumb
Have a Bencher BY-2 or whatever the two paddled horror is called and I
don't like it
Will probably get a single paddle soon, probably Kent kit. My first keyer
was a Samson (sp) ETM-2B which I used
G'day,
| I've just bought an old FL-2100B amp to do up, and run with my K2 (I
have
| the bits and pieces on order for the external keying circuit!!).
| Are you getting reasonable output on the bands where the SWR is OK? If
| so, then the problem is not the tubes (valves). Check that the
|
G'day,
snipo
I only thought that the EU was a problem for it's member countries, now I
see
that it is a problem for the rest of the world.
snipo
Not a problem here, no vat, no duty except on booze and cigs. None of
that RoHS stuff here either, yet.
We have signed up to Kyoto (sp?) though.
G'day,
| due it had less ringing while using AF-2 narrow band receive filter.
There are alternate component values for the AF-2 filter to reduce the
ringing. Developed by John Grebenkemper KI6WX
Modifications to the KAF2 frequency response. I'm not sure where I got
it from, it might be
G'day John,
| During last night's Spartan Sprint I got a report from a friend that my
CW signal was 597 with poor tone. He said it had an AC
| power sound.
| Turned out I have an older high intensity light within 6 inches from the
side of the K2. Turning off the lamp cured the problem.
Did
G'day Ian,
| I built my K2 with no static precautions other than
| touching an earthed metal power supply case every so often,
| especially after moving away and returning to my seat.
| No problems for me.
|
| Ian, G4ICV, AB2GR, K2 #4962
Same here, no problems.
Mike VP8NO
K2/100 et al #1400
G'day,
| Right now as I write this (2nd June 1615UTC UTC) I'm listening to
| N4HLF/B and W3HH/B in Florida and KG4VVV/B in South Carolina, from
| London Ontario. The antenna is a 3.5m HF
| whip at 11m AGL feeding back to an Icom PCR-1000 via ~30m of buried
| Belden9913, so
| nothing spectacular
G'day,
snipo
I wore the strap all the time. That way, while I'm handling the rig or
the board, things are protected. Also, it is way too easy to forget the
strap if you only put it on for the times you need it.
snipo
Well, I've never used one and never popped an IC/transistor. All I ever
do
G'day,
This thread was getting to me.
| http://www.ilikejam.dsl.pipex.com/audiophile.htm
All is forgiven!
Regards,
Mike VP8NO
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G'day,
Think I may have to wait 10 years or so to catch a used one on ebay
for under 2,000, Cant do that 4 and 5,000 thing.
Sadly Elecraft has been unbelievably coy about these items. Sure you
can go to an Hamvention and look at one and apparently Eric has now
lost his voice telling all.
G'day,
Not plugged into the wrong socket on the RF board is it? The one you
want is near the front right hand side not half way down the board,
aux 12v or something like that from memory. A common mistake when
reassembling.
Regards,
Mike VP8NO
At 07:07 AM 16/05/06, you wrote:
Ok---this
G'day,
Many thanks gents for all the responses on and off the list. Much good
info, much appreciated. It leads to the conclusion that if the opposition
is the chosen route the 1000 wins over the 1010, quieter and 6M which by
current prediction could be humming big time in a few years. Will
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!
I know the KPA800 will no doubt be excellent in that respect but it will
likely have a hefty price premium. And, for the life
G'day,
| L's - and the LED Display changes little or flickers
| side to side. An analog display, or meter would seem
| so much more accurate.
Spot on.
Digital displays are rubbish when it comes to peaking anything. It is so
much easier to peak the swing of a meter needle than follow changing
G'day,
snip
Has anyone had any experience with the Tokyo Hy-Power amps,
particularly the HL-200Bdx or HL-100Bdx models?
73,
Bill Allen - WA5PB
snip
On the subject of amps, what news the Elecraft QRO linears. They've
been a long time brewing. I could just go over to the dark side.
On
Hi,
Had the chance to play with a Yaesu MP1000-M Mk.V (apologies for swearing)
today and was most impressed with the functionality that the second RX
path gives when working split. Never experienced that before. Other than
that a bit OTT for me.
Wouldn't it be nice to have a second RX
G'day,
Brain fade. What I really meant was an FT-1000 MP Mk.V not all that other
mumbo jumbo.
Regards,
Mike VP8NO
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G'day,
Been looking at Winkey but being short of serial ports I am leaning
towards the USB MicroHAM CW Keyer. Any comments out there in K2 land
about this unit?
Regards,
Mike VP8NO
p.s. Thanks to all for comment about the KX1 boots. I might just be
heading out for a longish holiday in far
G'day,
FWIW, if you have any of the digits on the frequency display blanked,
holding spot restores the digit(s) and step size. Both SSB and CW.
Been readjusting filters from 700Hz to 650Hz and had to zero beat the
spot tone with the audio from the 7MHz birdie to so that I could adjust
the
G'day folks,
snipo
Let's widen the question to make it KAF2 or KDSP2 or NOTHING? Does the
basic K2's crystal filtering work well enough that you (any of you)
would be happy with no AF filtering or does the AF/DSP filtering add
enough that you wouldn't want to be without it?
snipo
Unless there
G'day,
| Today I fed an S9 CW signal into Spectrogram and find that its third
audio
| harmonic is down approximately 10 dB from the fundamental. The 5th,
| 7th, 9th, are down about 4 db sucessively from the next-lower odd
| harmonic.
Sounds like overdriving the sound card to me. I never run
G'day,
| There is a neat way to check whether you are going to experience a
dangerous
| amount of RF pickup. If you can find a Radio Shack that still has and
can
| find hobbyist parts, look for their grain of wheat miniature
incandescent
| bulbs. They have some that are rated at 6v/25ma etc,
G'day,
|A lot of people nowadays don't understand HF propagation. One MUST
| remember that the propagation programs are not necessarily correct!
Maybe so but I find W6ELProp a very useful indicator of what could be
happening also Ham CAP/IonoProbe.
| Many times bands are really open, but
G'day folks,
| nylon fabric and is simi-flexiable. I measured the output at 20 volts
open
| circuit and 380mA in noon sun. This is over 5 watts and the sun is not
as
| bright this time of year so it should do even better in the summer when
the
| sun is higher overhead.
Calculating the wattage
G'day,
VCO shield mod completed on #1400 without problems. All VCO voltages
within range without any tweaking of the T5 turns.
XYL wondering what could possibly be next?
Regards,
Mike VP8NO
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From: Mike Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: wayne burdick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Gary Surrency [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 8:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K60XV ALC
| G'day folks,
|
|| If Gary can reproduce this behavior, I'll have to take a look
G'day,
Just completed a K60XV, also changed R6 in the KAT2 to 470 ohms. All is
working well apart from the old ALC problem first reported in April this
year.
My setup is K2 with the QRP top which includes the KAT2 and KIO2, followed
by an outboard KPA100/KAT100 in an EC2.
With the external
G'day,
I bought a K2 because it is a great rig...
I joined the reflector
snip
I did not expect 30 emails in one day about contesting
snip
I guess I was mistaken thinking this was a K2 technical reflector.
Welcome to the club. This reflector can often go off the rails as do
others.
G'day,
| sink fins. Suck the hot air away from the heat sink, that way it works
in
| tandem with the internal fan rather than fighting the internal fan
| airstream.
The air stream from the internal fan flows into the K2 under the KPA100
heatsink and emerges from the front. That way it keeps
G'day,
Anyone know what KPA100 firmware v1.10 offers over v1.09?
I have v1.09 which is the minimum requirement for the K60XV module but I
noticed v1.10 was also available.
Regards,
Mike VP8NO
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G'day,
After some more debugging it appears that the ksb2 is causing the
problem.
Removing it returns tx power to normal levels. Some might say, good
you
don't need ssb anyway.
Sounds somehow familiar. Check the resistor packs.
Regards,
Mike VP8NO
G'day,
in it. By the way, I'm presently installing the KIO2 interface in my
K2
and will use my Palm 105 (PDA) to control the K2. I will be able to
change bands, frequencies and send cw from preloaded messages in the
Palm - neat! The Palm 105 will even log and dupe for me! I then
Hot-Sync
the
G'day all,
All this talk about 800W amps is interesting, however, due to oil prices
the power company here has had to shove up the price per kWh to about 27c
US. I'll stick with more and better high level aluminium which sucks as
well as blows. Less potential TVI too.
Regards,
Mike VP8NO
G'day,
All I do is common the individual power leads to the K2 and external
KPA/KAT at the power supply. Seems the simplest thing to do and ensures
the correct power up sequence. No diodes required, no voltage drop on the
KPA lead passed through to K2. Things can be made too complicated,
G'day,
PC mother boards are stuffed with them, I got mine from a junked PC.
Didn't need the option the solder to them.
Regards,
Mike VP8NO
snipo
The '2 pin computer jumper blocks' used to program the microphone on
the SSB board are probably familiar to us all, however, how does one find
G'day,
There's at least two ways of looking at that. Good luck never the less.
Regards,
Mike VP8NO
snipo
Hi friends!
I feel like a woman who knows that she will soon be pregnant!
I just ordered a K2!
Yves Dussault-VE2ATD
Laval, Québec.
450 661-0768
snipo
G'day,
| You're probably hearing Russian military HF channel marker or
| propigation beacons.
|
| More information at:
|
|
http://www.smeter.net/propagation/beacons/7039.3-k-Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy.php
Interesting this. Information I have gives the location of K to be
Khabarovsk, Asiatic
G'day,
#1400 (100W) accidentally found itself in a run situation in the ARRL DX
SSB contest on 10 metres. Anyway, buzzing along at about 120/hour
according to the logging program and a couple of complimentary comments
about the audio quality (late model KSB2 and Kenwood MC-42S mic). I was
G'day,
snip
Personally I'd rather be told that I sounded like Roger Daltry than Mic
Jagger
(similar vintage - different ageing process).
snip
snip
Perhaps you are more familiar
with the other leading personality from that group, Pete Townsend
snip
Correct. I have a bit of a hole in 70's
G'day,
And it lives about 60 metres east of #1400.
Now about this strong signal handling business.!
Regards,
Mike VP8NO
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From: Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 11:47 AM
Subject: [Elecraft] K2 4768 arrives in
G'day,
#1400 @ 100W did a little SP on 14/21/28 MHz.
I was only looking to see how many states I could snag in between doing
other stuff during a wonderfully sunny weekend. I ended up with 30 states
plus two provinces out of 104 exchanges plus a few others heard in
pile-ups but not worked 'cos
G'day,
Did you have a light shining on the PA transistors? J3+ on my KPA100
had -0.18V. Apparently something to do with illumination of the PA's.
Well noted by others.
Regards,
Mike VP8NO
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