[Elecraft] Connectors

I buy Amphenol connectors. I have for 60 years. They don't fail me. I buy better coax and hard line. Great radios. You get what you pay for. If you can't afford it don't buy cheap. Wait until your budget allows. An old boy used to laugh at me always buying 20 dollar SWR meters. He told me to

[Elecraft] HOA Crap

Gents, Let me remind all of you in an HOA that you don't need to put up antennas. You can join remote ham radio dot com and use giant antennas all from your website. Much better stuff than most of us ever dreamed up HOA or not. I live in NYC. I don't even have a Walkie. But I am full on remote

[Elecraft] Buyer beware

This is across the board. I just sold a KWM380 and the pictures and blah blah keep coming back by other fraudsters. Stay safe fellows, Bill N2WL __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help:

[Elecraft] Not worrying about K4 delivery

Gents I have been Pandemic waiting, this list is from March. 4 inch Wooden posts 12 long 36" fridge 44" fridge 4 burner stove 30" fridge New Car all while staying healthy and masking up always when out. One thing I have learned. Everyone knows me masked. So the lesson here is don't rob the local

[Elecraft] K4 in production

What I want to see on this list is when the K4 goes into production. Everything else is immaterial. That is what I am looking for. The Eureka announcement. I can not tell you how many things, parts, drugs, cars, boats,planes, lumber,steel, food, travel are impacted by the pandemic that this is

[Elecraft] P3 HDMI output

Amazon will be happy to supply you a doodle cable that converts the VGA to HDMI. If you have noticed that the newer idiot surround sound boxes won't play your LP's or CD's you can get doodle cables for that problem too. Always a problem when new standards change everything. Some one always has a

Re: [Elecraft] OT- Final edition before release

Perhaps you haven't noticed. The software is never finished because we now have to upgrade: Our cameras Our radios Our TV's Our Computers Our GPS boxes It never stops. How I miss my KWM2A! Oh and now that the photo cells have gotten better than film ever was.. we have to upgrade our

Re: [Elecraft] Operating from a retirement home

A laptop, an iPad or iPhone will allow you to ham all you want. Let other folks worry about the antennas and maintenance. www.remotehamradio.com I live in an apartment in NYC and I have huge towers with stacked antennas, 160mm 4 squares, 80 meter 4 squares located on the East Coast and the West

[Elecraft] Rhombic Antenna Gain

I lived in Africa a long time ago in a game park so I had the opportunity to run a 700 foot long wire and later two long wires in a V beam. The gain was better than a yagi, the wires had lobes off them. I noticed that I didn't suffer from much fading. If you have space for a long wire or a v

[Elecraft] Speaking of back up radios

I seem to have more amplifiers then radios at the moment. The KPA1500 is causing me to sell my Alphas 87a and 9500. Technology keeps rocking along. Prices of the old stuff keep dropping. Thank goodness this is a hobby and not a business. N2WL Any interest in my Alphas write me

[Elecraft] Two Receivers

First I want to applaud all those guys that are better operators than us using just one receiver. However when I started there were seperate TX and RX and then there was a Transceiver and I kept my Receiver. Interesting thing that 2nd RX. You put the DX on the RX and you find the guy talking to

[Elecraft] What is really happening in radio?

So you want a new radio? So do a survey. Remotehamradio.com is running a network of radio stations for their users. Flex is growing their remote system but they still haven't got a turn the antenna rotator macro built in. You can band switch between your yagis you just can't turn them. Pointing on

[Elecraft] Radio Rules, DXCC, WAS, Operating, Then and Now

Dear all, The world has changed. When I was a kid with a simple RX and TX all I wanted was what the grownups had which was a tower with a TH6 and a Collins Amp. There was not 5 band dxcc. 5 Band just contributed to more qrm on more bands. There are not 335 countries. If you want to know how many

[Elecraft] Working Split with a Sub RX

I have always thought the K3 did it backwards. Before the K3 I had a transceiver and a seperate RX above it. The Receiver listened to the DX station and the Transceiver would tune to find who was working him at the moment. Then the pounce! So with the K3 I don't use the SPLIT button. I use the Sub

[Elecraft] KPA Fan Noise

I have been cooling amplifiers 1980. I built an 8877 amd it had a blower. I don't understand the fan noise problem. Tubes and Transistors need cooling. The more the better. Earphones are the answer if you can't hear the weak ones. Frankly I don't care about the weak ones. Probabliy can't hear the

[Elecraft] Subject: Astron VS-35M Powwer Supply V-

I agree with Joe. I do not like the connections with modern radios concerning power and also microphone. I loved the old Cinch Jones on Drakes and Swans or 9 Pin Collins Power Connections. This power pole stuff is really rotten weak and cheap and the same goes for the Mike connections. Concerning

Re: [Elecraft] DMM recommendations

be accurate to > +/- > > 20 percent of full scale. HORRIBLE in > > today's world! > > > > FWIW ... > > > > 73! > > > > K0PP > > > >> On Mon, Mar 19, 2018, 12:09 William Levy <wgl...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >>

Re: [Elecraft] DMM recommendations

A long time ago I was sitting with an old ham in his shack discussing purchasing a new SWR meter. I was going to buy some twenty buck job and he told me the following. "If you buy the 20 buck model, soon you will get the 30 buck and then the 40 buck and on and on until you finally buy the Bird.

[Elecraft] FT 8

As an old dog I am sorry to see that FT8 has become all the rage. I grew up with a few vacuum tubes and a dipole. AM carrier controlled, 5 tube receivers. Loved CW when I had very little. Love SSB with big antennas and towers. FT8 changes the game. No more rag chews. So this is what DX has

[Elecraft] Long wire antennas MORE

Let me tell you what I observed with 700 feet of long wire. QSB disappeared. What faded on one end was rocketing in on the other end. I pointed the antenna at the USA from Kenya. There was nobody in the USA that could not hear me. I ran 100 watts. I had lobes going in every direction. I had

[Elecraft] Long wire antennas

The most important thing for a radio is a counter poise long enough for 1/4 of the frequency in use. For many of you before you were born I was in Africa and had a 700 foot longwire between to poles, huge sag between, L network and a 100 foot counterpoise. Never required much tuning on the

[Elecraft] K3 display is dated.

Gents, I don't care about the display. I care about how the radio works. How it hears and how it talks. How it works in contest or expedition environments. If display is that important you buy a FLEX and it's as big as can be. Bill N2WL

[Elecraft] Upgrade of K3 control of KPA500

It seems to me that it would be simple to rework some circuitry, add a board, but do something so that turning on the K3 would also turn on the KPA automatically. There are band cable work around macro solutions that exist but if I can turn on the K3 and the Expert Amp turns on with it there is

[Elecraft] My K3, P3 and Expert Linear

Gentlemen, My K3 powers on the P3 and the Expert 1.3. Out the back of my K3 the 15 pin and 9 pin go to the Expert, the 9 pin Serial is split and goes to the P3. When the P3 is OFF the K3 and Expert talk beautifully together. When the P3 is on the band data gets lost on the way to the Expert and

[Elecraft] more

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[Elecraft] Roofing filters

As mentioned here a few days/weeks ago Collins is no longer making their crystal filters. So it seems to me there will be a time that the roofing filter idea will be another digital filter on top of the lower digital filter. I have played with a K3 with no roofing filters, I live in a bullet

[Elecraft] K3 mini

The K3 Mini only works witha K3. It does everything the K3 does when connected. So your buddy should read the K3 manual. He should also check out remotehamradio.com Bill N2WL __ Elecraft mailing list Home:

[Elecraft] TX MON for the P3

I installed two TX MON boards in my two P3's. I upgraded both K3s and both P3s. In neither P3 to I get a TX MON in the menu. I installed both P3's TX MON boards on a grounded mat and I was also grounded. So I am at a loss why there is no TX MON appearing in my P3 Menu. Any help will be

[Elecraft] The New K3S to the Old K3

The amount of difference between both will only be noticed by those who have the gear to measure it or an engineering degree. The Collins KWM2A was modified continuously over it's 25 year or more build life. In those days there was always a final resistor that went in to the box after all the

Re: [Elecraft] Verticals

I think some folks misconstrued my Vertical comments. They work. They load. They radiate. They worked for me in the circuit I wanted to complete. Doesn't matter what the other station has. The first time I was 5Z4PI it was 1973 and I had a Hallicrafters Safari rig. Beauty of that rig was built

[Elecraft] Verticals

I had no trouble at all keeping in touch with my family using an early R5 vertical in 5H3 land when I was working there. My XYL had my Log Periodic on a 75 tower and I had the R5 vertical with a Metrum 500 watt amp, 12 volt battery and an Icom 735 in those days. I would not ever consider the

[Elecraft] The small little double nuts between RS232 connectors or 15 pin connectors

Gents, I have a lot of Elecraft Y cables and lots of things going on and I would like to make firm those connections between my 15 connectors and the double Y connectors. I am thinking there must be a name for those double nuts that could screw between connectors and also a source for a little

[Elecraft] My K3 uttility not keying my K3

I must be missing something. Is there a proper setting in CONFIG regarding PTT-Key that I should set? Is so which one. Thanks, Bill N2WL __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help:

[Elecraft] Deleting Macros from the K3

I would like to delete Macros from the K3. Deleting them from the K3 Utility doesn't seem to do it. Suggestions? Bill N2WL wgl...@gmail.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help:

[Elecraft] Radio

Gents, Find some friends. Talk to them. The radio is secondary. Throw up some antennas. Test them. See what they can do. Talk to your friends. Buy the best radio you think you can afford and enjoy it. Take care of your wife and kids. Stop going so beserk about the radios. They are nothing more

[Elecraft] Connectors

Gent's back in the day there were folks that screamed and decried the fact that the S Line used RCA jacks for RF output ignoring the virtues of the frontpanel, 1 kc dials, filters, beautiful hand wiring and wouldn't touch the stuff. Collins sold 40,000 transceivers and many went to parts of the

[Elecraft] Off the Grid

The K3 runs on a car battery and an ordinary 60 amp car battery will run it for easily 24 hours without anything going amiss. I lived in Africa in the 70's and I never ran down the car's battery or the one in camp by operating my radios which in those days were Atlas and TenTec 2's. In the 80's I

[Elecraft] Crimping Wires

I tend to run away from small wires because no matter what you do they are fragile. My whole idea of being in the hobby communication biz is not to have to keep chasing tiny wires. In fact the only place I see them now is in some foreign microphone cables. I do wish however that some

[Elecraft] Tuner issues

One thing that stumped me and cause me all kinds of grief was what button I was pushing. Reminder to those who may not know. The Internal K3 tuner runs when you press ATU TUNE The external KAT500 tunes when you push and hold the XMT button. If you tune internally the external KAT will show all

[Elecraft] Help with a Macro from the K3 to turn on the KAP500

Somewhere I thought there was written a short macro to designate a button on the K3 to turn on the Amp from the K3. Any help with that would be greatly appreciated. This old ham has his fist in to too many old radios at the moment to sit down and figure out code. Too busy reading resistor codes.

Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft Digest, Vol 104, Issue 45

I have had every microprocessor driven tuner since the first Icom and SGC. The greatest freedom comes from simply pushing the tune button. If you push it and the tuner tunes that frequency with your antenna then that's all you need to know. If you are in a hurry the band info is good enough.

Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft Digest, Vol 104, Issue 32

Gentlemen, I have more amplifiers than radios. I will probably get more K3's. I am a big amp big antenna guy. I did QRP when I was a young kid. Then I got a 100 watt rig. Then I built an Amp, then came big antennas. Long Wires 700 feet long. Rhombics. Monoband Yagis. I don't collect paper for

[Elecraft] External speakers for the KX3

I think the KX3 is a great little radio. I tend to loose it like my Mac Air. It disappears under bags and cables etc. My question to the list. I am looking for a good active or powered speaker to use with it. Something that I could use in the shack or portable to give me more hi fi and wattage

[Elecraft] RTTY no transmit

Obviously something simple. K3 Utility talks to the K3. k3 Terminal app receives RTTY perfectly. Can't transmit though as the transmit button doesn't turn on the K3 to transmit nor do tones go when I transmit manually from the K3. So interested to know what I am doing wrong. Bill N2WL

[Elecraft] K3 - Filter suggestions for new builder

Your choices of filter are very good. I like the idea of a 1.8 filter for tight sub You don't need the 2.8 sub, stay with the stock. Your CW choice is excellent because the K3 can go tighter digitally. You don't need a wide FM filter unless you are going on VHF UHF FM with transverters. You

[Elecraft] Power supply?

Don't think we need Elecraft to build us a power supply. It's a pretty low tech endeavor and the supply market is infinite. It makes the same sense as me going into the car biz! Bill N2WL __ Elecraft mailing list Home:

[Elecraft] KPA 500

I am not a design engineer or a technician. Simply a ham for 51 years or so. I have always loved 500 watt amps. My first was a Collins 30L-1. Still have it. Bought the first 12 volt solid state amp from Trans World Communications. Still have it. Bought the Icom AT 500. Still have it. Bought the

[Elecraft] speaker earphones problem

Seems to me a simple switch on your headphone plug to bypass the disconnect of the headphone plug sitting in the female jack would allow you to turn on or off the speakers without going to MENU CONFIG etc. It is the way I like to do it as I dislike having to change config settings over little

[Elecraft] AGC

I can't speak to AGC version 4.51 but as an op of 50 plus years I find in difficult situations that I like better turning the AGC off and YES there is an OFF button and then riding the RF gain. This I learned before we had radios we could tweak and it still works today with software derived

[Elecraft] KX3

I ordered my KX3 on day 1. However I was late as the email went out at night and I woke up, saw it and ordered it. Mine came last week. So the learning curve new product difficulties getting out the zillion day 1 orders was time consuming. I bet they loved everyone of those first day orders!

[Elecraft] Dxing and contests, the P3

Gents, I am 63. licensed the for 50 years. Got a pin unrequested from the ARRL for being a 50 year member. What I learned in the days of young adult hood, while younguns napped, was that my Collins 51S1 on top of a KWM2A worked wonders at splitting the chores of DXing and searching with the

[Elecraft] Antennas

The more portable the antenna the less effective it is. The losses in ATUs are too small to worry about. A couple of decibals will not be measurable at the other guys shack! Advice! Buy the best you can afford. Don't waste money on the lesser stuff knowing you will end up older and wiser with

[Elecraft] Key Down Amps

All Alpha amps ever made are key down amps. I can attest to that truth since 1978. I have a Henry 3KX that is and has been since 1986. I can't speak for the others. There really is no need for Elecraft to build a key down amp. They would only be redeveloping the wheel. That is foolish if you are

[Elecraft] Success

Is not about the power out, the antenna height or number of elements. It's always the operator. So say I after 50 years of hamming and watching it all. 73, N2WL, Bill __ Elecraft mailing list Home:

[Elecraft] Mike Problems

I purchased the handheld mike from Elecraft. Works fine. Purchased the Heil headset from Elecraft and when I plug that in the radio goes to TRANSMIT and there is NO AUDIO. Plugged an old 8 pin ICOM mike into the front. Same. Radio goes to Transmit, no Audio. Elecraft hand mike works fine. Any

[Elecraft] The K3

The best approach to a digital radio or a complex GPS Navigation System in a small aircraft is to 1) leave it alone if you don't know what it does 2)or Get an Instructor. Frankly it's easier to learn to fly than to be proficient on these brilliant radio sets that do way more than necessary.

[Elecraft] Lightning

Gents, I have been hamming for 50 years this year. I have grounded towers, ham shacks, computer rooms. I was taught by a roustabout years ago that nothing works. Drill rigs are grounded every which way and when lightning strikes close or far things fry. The only way to protect any gear is to

[Elecraft] High Power ATU's suitable for the new AMP~

Gents, I have used this SGC-235 500 watt capacity automatic ATU for more than 5 years. It is fed by a small Icom and the SGC cube amp in the back of my Landcruiser. I run an ex military whip of about 12 feet, also the normal 102 inch whip. I have used this ATU to feed dipoles on poles, to feed 40

[Elecraft] Amps

An 8877 is more tempting! __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help