Kurt, I have yet to find any reasonable antenna that my K3 tuner will not match
except extremely short. There are no absolutes in antennas. The remote
antenna matching device will be a little more efficient and will depend on what
kind of coax you use and how long the coax. Bear in mind that
I just finished reading the SPE instruction manual. They say that the input
match of the SPE Expert is good enough that they recommend turning the internal
tuner of the driving transceiver OFF. The recommend that you do not cascade a
tuner such as the Palstar on the output of the SPE. They
I for one would be interested in more details. Which products do you use?
What is needed to prevent overcharge. What does less than full sun do to the
capacity. What sort of storage do you use and what sort of load do you service?
Willis 'Cookie' Cooke
K5EWJ Trustee N5BPS, USS Cavalla,
...@yahoo.com
To: WILLIS COOKE wrco...@yahoo.com
Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2013 5:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] ... and solar power
The 70 watt panels will produce 2-3 and up to 6 amps when fully illuminated
-- That means having an aiming system of some sort so that they swivel... Not
something
/2013 3:33 PM, WILLIS COOKE wrote:
All this talk about solar panels makes Green such an ugly color and the smell
of gasoline and the roar of an engine seem so much more practical.
Willis 'Cookie' Cooke
K5EWJ Trustee N5BPS, USS Cavalla, USS Stewart
The ERP calculation was, I think in error, but it was for 600 meters, not 60
meters and the ERP from a reasonable antenna is much less for 600 meters than
for 60 meters.
Willis 'Cookie' Cooke
K5EWJ Trustee N5BPS, USS Cavalla, USS Stewart
From: Roy Koeppe
I like to think of an Inverted L as a vertical antenna and a horizontal wire
matching device. This is not entirely accurate, but is close enough for
contact distances over 2000 miles. An examination of patterns with EZNEC will
help you put this into perspective. The vertical portion is the
It still is required and I think the thread started with a person who lacks
sight, knows the limits and wants badly to comply in spite of his limitation
needs to know his transmit frequency even though he lacks the convenience of
looking at the LED readout that most of us enjoy.
Willis
You can have different filters in the two receivers if you prefer, but it will
harm your ability to use the two receivers for split operation or antenna
diversity receive which I think are the most important usages. But if weak
signal reception or DX is not your goal, you may use different
Stewart, do you have an amplifier attached? I have found that having my
Clipperton L in the circuit causes high SWR on 6 meters, but if I connect
direct to the antenna switch the SWR on my SteppIR is low as it should be.
Willis 'Cookie' Cooke
K5EWJ Trustee N5BPS, USS Cavalla, USS Stewart
Paul, I doubt that anyone can predict the effect exactly without some very
sophisticated modeling software and exact dimensions. I will give a stab at
it, but because you are talking about a very wide frequency band and some
unknowns about bonding and the conductivity of the roof you will have
The secret to that is to get a big-honking-old-fashioned soldering iron to
solder with. I have one that ATT issued my FIL is about 1938 that works
great. I had to change the cord to a modern one to keep from electrocuting
myself or someone else.
Willis 'Cookie' Cooke
K5EWJ Trustee N5BPS,
The original poster did not mention doing anything to his antenna or feed line.
He just wondered if putting a new metal roof on his house would screw up his
antenna. The answer, I think is probably not enough to notice, so go for it.
A leaky roof is not a joy at all!
Willis 'Cookie' Cooke
From: Bill b...@w2blc.net
To: WILLIS COOKE wrco...@yahoo.com
Sent: Tuesday, June 4, 2013 12:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] RES: TS-990
But, I am getting old and my amplifier gains a few pounds each year. I can
hardly move it these days - figure what it would be with the 990.
Bill W2BLC
Are you sure your SWR on your dummy load is low at 50 MHz?
Willis 'Cookie' Cooke
K5EWJ Trustee N5BPS, USS Cavalla, USS Stewart
From: Pete Lascell plasc...@verizon.net
To: K3 List elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 12:11 PM
Subject:
Allen, is this hesitation present when you are keying the WinKey USB (is it a
WinKey?) directly with a paddle, with the pre programmed keys? with a typed in
message? For it to be a K3 problem it would have to be present when the K3 is
keyed with a bug or straight key or a different keyer. I
My K3 manual and faceplate just label it as NR. DNR must be a label used by
the Yaesu Lawnmower Company. Almost everything on my K3 is digital and the
hospitals wart me continuously about signing a DNR so they can let me die and
save money.
Willis 'Cookie' Cooke
K5EWJ Trustee N5BPS, USS
I suspect that the FCC office could always give the novice test, but didn't
have many takers when you could get the test from a volunteer in the comfort of
his or your home. Everyone knows that the examiners would kill you and eat you
if you failed their test. That is why there was so much
Peter, I have operated 6 meter CW and I have not had a report of chirp. I have
heard some signals that sound a bit strange because of propagation anomalies.
I have no way of knowing if this is your problem, but recently licensed hams
have not heard the chirps that were common in the 50s and
I am one who had returned a K3 to the factory. I am convinced that it was a
builder error which has not been identified by either me or the factory, but
everything has worked fine to the last five years. As good as Elecraft is,
they are still subject to the usual component failure and OEM
The Bio-Lite was not advertised to power a QRP rig. It is sold as an efficient
camp stove and house stove for 3rd world countries and it will charge a cell
phone or iPhone as an added advantage. Of course there are cheaper ways to
charge a cell phone or power a QRP rig, but powering a QRP rig
Actually, the entire junction is immersed in the temperature to be measured
with the thermocouple. The other ends are joined in a controlled temperature
area and the current is measured to find the unknown temperature. If two
thermocouples are connected in series the voltage available is
A problem with the dimmer switch idea is that you need to press the switch to
turn the transmitter on and press it again to turn it off. I think most of us
that are used to a switch that you hold down while transmitting and then
release to receive. I find that with a K3 the VOX works so well
Any time your amplifier cuts back your driver power it introduces a certain
amount of distortion which is undesirable, but not as undesirable as
over-driving your amplifier. The best practice is to turn your driver power
down until the AGC is used only to eliminate spikes in power when
The two levers are independent on an iambic paddle so that you can close either
contact or both at one time by squeezing. A Bug, such as the Original has a
single lever that allows you to close either contact, but not both at the same
time. With an iambic keyer if you close both contacts it
I think how the key is made is more important than springs or magnets. My key
at home is a Hex Key (like the Elecraft Key but with a Bencher label) and I
used a Kent magnet key at field day. They have a similar feel. I had a
Bencher with a spring that I dropped when moving and it broke into
A note on folded back antennae. I have a 3 element SteppIR with the 30/40 kit.
The antenna is mounted at about 67 feet above the ground. I have compared the
folded antenna at 67 feet to a full sized inverted V at 40 feet and find
it noticeably stronger. Even though it is only a dipole which
Linear loading versus loading coils, top hats, etc. is a very complex subject
that cannot be summed well in an email. Affordable programs that run on home
computers, such as EZNEC are great tools and I use them. Professional programs
that run on bigger computers are no doubt better, but I do
Its on the basic menu with the clock and some other functions. When you get
the menu up the data will appear in the VFO B space and you select with the VFO
B tune knob.
Willis 'Cookie' Cooke
K5EWJ Trustee N5BPS, USS Cavalla, USS Stewart
- Original Message -
From: Bill
I think a more practical solution is to ditch the polarized glasses. Since the
LCDs work by polarizing light, the designers are stuck. I found that I either
had to ditch the polarized lenses when flying or do without my GPS and other
LCD readouts.
Willis 'Cookie' Cooke
K5EWJ Trustee
Well said Erik. My credentials do not match yours, but I do have a BS in
Physics and made a living for 40 years as an Engineer. The theory may be bunk,
but that is what most said about Einstein when he presented the Theory of
Relativity. It sounds to me like a theory that is worth per-suing
Lost or confused perhaps Jussi, but not bored! Keep it up, maybe we will learn
something, maybe not!
Willis 'Cookie' Cooke
K5EWJ Trustee N5BPS, USS Cavalla, USS Stewart
From: Jussi Eloranta jmelora...@gmail.com
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Saturday,
The radios are very different and both are good. Wrack your brain and decide
which one you want! The wait time for a KX3 will pass and you will forget
about it, but whatever radio you buy will stay the same. Get the one that fits
YOUR needs and wants. I waited 17 years for a radio that I
A factor here is that every message gets a dual posting on Mailman.QTH.net and
the Yahoo Group. The message must go first to mailman and be processed then
back to Yahoo and be processed. I don't know how long each of these steps take
but being processed by two services and passing through the
would not have objected if someone
had intercepted his plea for funds.
Willis 'Cookie' Cooke
K5EWJ Trustee N5BPS, USS Cavalla, USS Stewart
From: Eric Swartz WA6HHQ - Elecraft e...@elecraft.com
To: WILLIS COOKE wrrco...@yahoo.com
Cc: elecraft
What did you buy from High Sierra that disappointed you Susan? Or was it their
service that was not to your liking? I see connector crimpers, heat guns,
drill bits and such advertised. I have not dealt with them, but I have had a
good impression from what I have heard and read.
Willis
I picked up a pair of HP computer speakers that are black and look pretty nice
with the K3. They were $20 at Walmart for the pair. That is about the price
of shipping from Elecraft. It is pretty hard for Elecraft to compete with the
computer mass market.
Willis 'Cookie' Cooke
K5EWJ
to the work, but be careful
of the soldering iron so that you don't burn your nose!
Willis 'Cookie' Cooke
K5EWJ Trustee N5BPS, USS Cavalla, USS Stewart
From: Dick Lindzen rlind...@mit.edu
To: WILLIS COOKE wrrco...@yahoo.com
Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net elecraft
Bob, I use an Optovisor with a 5 power lens. I sent my Dad one about 35 years
ago. About 20 years ago I got one for myself. 16 years ago, I inherited my
Dad's, so now I have two which I use a lot. They work well and flip up when
not needed. I recommend them.
Willis 'Cookie' Cooke
K5EWJ
Jim, I think you will find that it is true for the K3 because the roofing
filter is selected by the DSP filter setting if you have the correct filters
entered. You could, I suppose fool the software by entering the wrong filters
in the setup, but the K3 will switch when the DSP setting crosses
My advice is to try it with the K3 only and put the Amp aside for the moment.
I reviewed the SGC web site to find out about the amp which I have never heard
of. It sure looks like it may have been manufactured for the CB market, but of
course, I am not sure by only looking at the SGC
I have had some arcing at 500 watts with my Radio Works 160 meter Carolina
Windom which did not happen at lower power and other frequencies. I suspect it
is power and SWR related.
Willis 'Cookie' Cooke
K5EWJ Trustee N5BPS, USS Cavalla, USS Stewart
From:
I still maintain that someone who is trying to learn CW and still needs a
computer to send and possibly to receive should stay with a basic transceiver
for a while until he learns to operate CW without a computer. He should not
purchase a pin diode assembly that is 6 X 4 x 9 1/2 to work with
As I stated, my opinion is based strictly on the SGC web site, the information
they choose to display and the terminology they choose to use. I have not used
or known anyone who used their products. but I would not touch one with a 3
meter pole.
Willis 'Cookie' Cooke
K5EWJ Trustee N5BPS,
David, I don't have a KX3, but I do have a K3, a TS-480, a TS-850SAT and a
TS-440. I depends on what you want to do. If you want to set up a base
station for general purpose operation and DX I would buy the K3/100 and if
possible include the second receiver and the KAT-3. If your primary
How do you know that the Bird measurement is actually 11.5 watts? The accuracy
claimed by Bird for a new element is +/- 5% of full scale. If you have a 50
watt element your reading is between 9 and 14 watts. If you have a 100 watt
element it is between 6.5 and 16.5 watts.
Willis 'Cookie'
, W7KF
http://www.w7kf.com
On 03/13/2012 12:24 PM, WILLIS COOKE wrote:
How do you know that the Bird measurement is actually 11.5 watts? The
accuracy claimed by Bird for a new element is +/- 5% of full scale. If you
have a 50 watt element your reading is between 9 and 14 watts. If you have
When I got on the air at this QTH in 2006 I installed a Carolina Windom from
Radio Works. It is about 40 feet high and fed with a short piece of RG8X. I
thought it a great antenna and worked some contests and a lot of DX. Later, I
installed a 30 foot vertical with one radial and found it
I wonder how those that claim a certain efficiency for a MFJ-998 or any other
antenna matching device are measuring the output power. No watt meter that I
know including the famous and antique Bird can measure power with any degree of
accuracy unless the load is very near the nominal value
OK Guys, I have a Physics Degree too, but realistically, if the tuner uses real
coils and air capacitors like the Matchbox it is really efficient. If it uses
link coupling like we did in olden days it is probably a scotch (technical term
meaning a little bit) better than the more common T
My answers will be different from some you have seen.
1. I would not use any fuses. The RM35M has a current limiter circuit and a
line fuse to protect it. The K3 has a circuit breaker to protect it. If you
are installing a transceiver in a car, you need a fuse in the positive to
protect
Tony, you can't do that unless you have the sub-receiver. It is not VFO A and
VFO B in the two headphones, but main receiver and sub receiver and you can use
the VFOs as you choose. You can also have different antennas on the two
receivers for diversity receive. The second receiver is a
I think the original statement was incorrect. The MFJ-259B does show
reactance, both positive and negative, but it does not show polarity, so you
have to experiment a little or add some knowledge to find out the polarity of
the reactance. That is one of the reasons that the MFJ-259B is not
Congratulations Jim! I have been watching this thread with interest to see how
it worked out. I would like to know a bit more. Is your feed point at the
same elevation as your counterpoise, or at ground level? If at ground level,
describe your transition to five feet for the counterpoise.
I wouldn't have mentioned it Jim, except Tony's funny comment muddied the water
some. I like humor, but I also don't want anyone to be confused by humorous
dialog. I am sure Tony knows how the analyzer works. In your case, there were
enough confusing factors to leave some doubt about the
Apple's core competency is its Operating System, not its hardware. The I-Phone
did not stray. In Elecraft we are fortunate to deal with a company with
principles that understand their niche very well. It is a rare mind set that
allows them to accept suggestions that improve their product
At the risk of severe flames, I would recommend that you just try the digital
filter that is already there and not buy a CW filter right away. The main
function of the narrow filter is to manage a very strong signal that is near
your frequency that penetrates the slope of the digital filter,
Would you go for it if Elecraft just bought some Alphas with no paint and
painted on the Big E and added 2 grand for the effort?
Willis 'Cookie' Cooke
K5EWJ Trustee N5BPS, USS Cavalla, USS Stewart
From: Greg n...@cableone.net
To: 'Elecraft'
I ordered the K3 with the KAT-3 and if I had it to do over, I would order the
KAT-3 again. My antenna is a 3 element SteppIR at 67 feet with the 30/40 kit.
I have found the tuner very useful during the period when Hurricane Ike put my
StepIR out of service for a few months and I needed to use
Ron, RS-232 serial interface has been defined for at least 25 years and its
functions are well known and stable so the radio software and hardware
producers can design to these specifications. The converters are designed to
emulate the portion of these functions that the designers feel are
I have indeed been attacked. I am not in London and I am not in need of cash
any more than usual. Sorry about the intrusion.
Willis 'Cookie' Cooke
K5EWJ Trustee N5BPS, USS Cavalla, USS Stewart
From: Julius Fazekas n2wn phriend...@yahoo.com
To:
Just try it. I think the PTT is always on and the toggle just turns VOX on and
off so you either have PTT and VOX or just PTT.
Willis 'Cookie' Cooke
K5EWJ Trustee N5BPS, USS Cavalla, USS Stewart
From: n...@comcast.net n...@comcast.net
To: .
Terry, my understanding is that this feature is used almost exclusively by
DXers on the VHF bands. I have never seen it used on the HF bands even though
it would be legal. It allows you to keep the receiver on SSB while using the
transmitter on CW. I have used it on HF to touch up my
It sounds as if you were using the antenna coupler. Perhaps it was one of the
relays there that was clicking. It may be that the edge of a band in the auto
tuner was bridged by the transmit and receive frequencies in split mode and the
antenna coupler was changing settings with the keying.
Robert, you don't say what you are replacing which would be helpful to compare.
I came from a TS-850SAT and elected the standard filter, a 500 Hz 5 pole and a
200 Hz. I am not sure that I have ever needed the 200 Hz filter, but once it
is installed you can't use a very narrow DSP filter
to also engage the
PTT. So, it is a no cost option if you have a K3.
Willis 'Cookie' Cooke
K5EWJ Trustee N5BPS, USS Cavalla, USS Stewart
From: Thomas Horsten tho...@horsten.com
To: Cady, Fred fc...@ece.montana.edu
Cc: WILLIS COOKE wrco...@yahoo.com; Terry
how to turn it on or
off. I turned mine on a few years ago and have never turned it off!
Willis 'Cookie' Cooke
K5EWJ Trustee N5BPS, USS Cavalla, USS Stewart
From: Cady, Fred fc...@ece.montana.edu
To: WILLIS COOKE wrco...@yahoo.com; Terry Schieler
, Feb 3, 2012 at 2:20 PM, WILLIS COOKE wrco...@yahoo.com wrote:
The CW in SSB mode shifts the frequency for CW so that you can copy CW and
SSB without engaging the RIT. It is a software thing, so the choice is
whether to engage the mode or not and when you want to send CW in the SSB
mode you
Don, when it comes to ladder lines and baluns the only real expert was Jerry
Sevick and he has gone to a better place where they only use resonant beam
antennas. Take anything anyone is living says about open wire feeders and
baluns with a grain of salt. Put your antenna back like it was when
Trustee N5BPS, USS Cavalla, USS Stewart
From: gold...@charter.net gold...@charter.net
To: WILLIS COOKE wrco...@yahoo.com
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 4:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] ladderline and balun question
HI Will,
That is reasonable advice
The chemical relief for the Up Up problem was invented several centuries before
Herz and Marconi invented radio. They called it Gun Powder.
Willis 'Cookie' Cooke
K5EWJ Trustee N5BPS, USS Cavalla, USS Stewart
From: Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy lx...@pt.lu
To:
Phil, I would put the balun at the center of the antenna and use one that
doubles as a center insulator and attach point for the raising rope. The loss
for RG-8X will be about 1 db, so you will not notice. I have had very good
luck with attaching an 80 meter dipole to the same coax and balun.
Jim, it is easy to turn down the power. Just use the power control and you can
set any power you want down to 100 mw. The amp will kick out of the circuit
when you set a power below 12 watts. I have not tested the power reading very
well, as I have no watt meters that I think are more
My K3 with two receivers draws about 2 amps on receive. It drew a bit over 1
amp before I installed the second receiver. For transmit at 10 watts I would ad
about 3 amps to that. Two layers of bubble wrap would not be enough for MY K3.
I use a hard side fiber-glass brief case with enough
The down side of the 300 ohm twin lead folded dipole is that 300 ohm twin lead
usually is made from small wire and not mechanically very strong, so it is not
durable for fixed stations with varying weather conditions and the wire is too
small for anything but low power. With either the 300 ohm
Very interesting report Paul! I would have expected better from the TS-590. I
would be interested in a comparison between the TS-590 and the TS-480. I own a
K3, TS-480 and TS-850. The K3 is my favorite by far, but it is not so superior
to the TS-480 that I don't like the 480 for mobile
You would need to use a 63.5 to 66.8 mm tennis ball in Europe.
Willis 'Cookie' Cooke
K5EWJ Trustee N5BPS, USS Cavalla, USS Stewart
From: Fred Townsend ftowns...@sbcglobal.net
To: 'David Ferrington, M0XDF' m0...@alphadene.co.uk;
elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent:
I looked and thought about it but was unable to come up with any good ideas. I
found a TS-440 and bought a mobile mount from Ebay for it. I tried it on the
K3 but the K3 is a little bigger than the 440 and would not fit. I fount the
TS-440 too big for my F-150 Pickup and purchased a
Mike, chirp is a sign of VFO instability. It is normal to have a slight amount
of chirp on tube type transceivers and transmitters. The rock solid CW that
is typical of today's phase lock loop products may elude you. So, it depends
on how much chirp you have whether you can cure it. Look at
It seems that 73's predates any of us by quite a bit, but complaining about it
just dates back to the start of Internet reflectors.
Willis 'Cookie' Cooke
K5EWJ Trustee N5BPS, USS Cavalla, USS Stewart
--- On Mon, 7/18/11, Wayne Conrad wcon...@yagni.com wrote:
From: Wayne Conrad
Bob, do you have an amplifier in line on 6 meters? I have noticed that my
Clipperton L absorbs about 15 watts on 6 meters even when it it turned off. It
does not do this on the lower bands. You can easily find out by taking the
connectors loose on the amp and replacing with a short barrel
'Cookie' Cooke
K5EWJ Trustee N5BPS, USS Cavalla, USS Stewart
From: K4ia k...@aol.com
To: WILLIS COOKE wrco...@yahoo.com
Cc: Elecraft Reflector elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Sun, July 17, 2011 10:35:19 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] low power on 6 meters
I notice
The relays in most amps are open frame and definitely not designed for six
meters. Mine is an aftermarket kit designed for an AL600 and modified by me to
work on a boat anchor Dentron Clipperton L amplifier. I am just offering a
suggestion about what might be causing the problem, not looking
Brian, would you list for us the multi-band antennas you know that can cover
all
of several bands with a SWR that will allow full power from the K3 without
using
some sort of variable matching mechanism? Of course the SteppIR will do it,
but
it has its own variable matching mechanism built
The request was in response to a statement that the KAT-500 was not required if
an all band antenna was used. The challenge was to name an antenna that
will give full coverage WITHOUT TUNER making the KAT-500 superfluous. Of
course, full coverage of 20 is 14.0 to 14.35 and 80 and 160 are
You know that Ameritron, Array Solutions and some others have remote antenna
switches available at reasonable prices. Since these things take space, it is
nice that they can be remote mounted, even outside in some cases. It seems a
better solution to me than to add a kilobuck to the KPA500
It might be a good project for one of our home builders to design a project, or
perhaps a repackaging of a commercial product to fit in the P3 case. Since I
don't yet own a P3, I am not sure how big that task might be. While I am
coming
to believe that Wayne and Eric can do anything, they
In the Petro Chem bidness we would say Any time you think you have made it
fool
proof, some damn fool will proove you wrong!
Willis 'Cookie' Cooke
K5EWJ Trustee N5BPS, USS Cavalla, USS Stewart
From: k4...@juno.com k4...@juno.com
To:
I find this thread a bit strange. There is little doubt in my mind that the
best way to send a long message with minimum errors is to send a prepared file
by computer with one on the digital modes. Better yet, send it by email over
the Internet and skip ham radio all-together. For
Wayne, congratulations! It did not take you long to find the secret. I still
listen to W1AW code practice from time to time and I have only been licensed
since 1956. It always pays to listen to well sent code from time to time along
with the hodge podge of good and not so good code you hear
Stewart
From: Rose elecraftcov...@gmail.com
To: WILLIS COOKE wrco...@yahoo.com
Sent: Wed, June 29, 2011 10:17:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Iambic Keying (WAS: Straight key first?)
And the TBL was powered by a M/G set somewhere below (:-)
73! Ken
For the commercial and military ops, it was all traffic handling and if you did
not have a written copy, you didn't copy it. It is pretty hard to head copy a
very long message if it is five letter code groups or in a language that you
are
not fluent. For that matter, it would be pretty hard
In honor of the political nonsense going on in Washington, I think it would be
a
good idea for Amateur Radio Magazines to declare a moratoreum of April Fool
Articles for the duration (forever?) because it is too difficult to tell an
April Fool Article from the real thing coming from
Consider that Hisseluft translates roughly to Hot Air Blower
Willis 'Cookie' Cooke
K5EWJ Trustee N5BPS, USS Cavalla, USS Stewart
From: KENT TRIMBLE k9...@socket.net
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Mon, June 13, 2011 12:26:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft]
I downloaded the PDF version for $12.00 with the summerbook11 code. I have in
mind to print it for looseleaf in a binder. I have not had time to read it,
but
it seems worth the time for reading and certainly the price. The printed price
is also reasonable, but I prefer loose leaf so that I
Are these batteries available with solder tabs? Who are some good
distributors? I find that assembling packs by soldering wires is difficult and
makes for bulky packs. A source for packs that are preassembled by spot
welding
into 4 or 6 cell packs would be nice, but I have not seen a source
I will start by stating that the Texas DX Society has found the Kenwood TS-480
to have a receiver that is adequate for DXpedition and Field Day work. As
contest director of TDXS I am in complete agreement with this finding. I know
only what has been published on this forum about the KX3 which
I believe that CONUS is actually Contiguous United States which does not
include
Hawaii or Alaska even if Alaska is on North America. It also does not include
Puerto Rico, U. S. Virgin Islands, Guam and other possessions. But, as far as
I
know the postal and other rules are the same for the
inception of the acronym and
my Viet Nam era service.
Willis 'Cookie' Cooke
K5EWJ Trustee N5BPS, USS Cavalla, USS Stewart
From: Ron D'Eau Claire r...@cobi.biz
To: WILLIS COOKE wrco...@yahoo.com; N jwi...@alaska.net; David Herring
d...@ah6td.com
Cc: elecraft
I'm not sure if it works, but I have it in my box and have not been hit yet!
Willis 'Cookie' Cooke
K5EWJ Trustee N5BPS, USS Cavalla, USS Stewart
From: Mike Rodgers mikerodgerske5...@yahoo.com
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net elecraft@mailman.qth.net
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