[Elecraft] Good Natured Contesting Advice

>"When answering a CQ, send ONLY your call, and never repeat anything that the other station copied correctly. For example, if he sent your call correctly when he responded to you, don't repeat your call when sending your exchange." As I read the rules of the contest, sending your call is

[Elecraft] K3 doesn't receive at power up

Greetings from Missouri Guys...I have a K3 which has been very reliable for years, but now it has a problem. At "power-up" from a cold start, it doesn't receive. I do get audio. It acts like no antenna is connected. If I power-down, then power-up again everything appears to be normal, at

[Elecraft] No receive upon power-up

Just before a contest this weekend I turn on my K3 and heard no signals on any band! Power was okay, antenna connected, etc. Longer story, shortened I switched off the K3 then powered up againthen all was well... everything working normally. This has never happened before here. Has

Re: [Elecraft] OT: High school drafting class

OK, so I gotta chime in and tell this brief story Circa 1958, HS mechanical drawing class. Some kid was screwing off. Distruptive! Mr Gersic, went back to the kid, picked him up off his stool by the seat of his pants/belt with one hand, the other on his shoulder, and carried him out door.

[Elecraft] Resistor and capacitor installation

Back in the early 80's, a friend of mine had a job-related subscription to "NASA Tech Briefs" (or something like that title). I never read the article myself, but my friend was very good at relaying details. One of the subjects covered was soldering and the "shock wave" problem. IIRC, the leads

[Elecraft] Vacuum Relays and 30 WPM QSK

On Sun,2/26/2017 3:04 PM, Guy Olinger K2AV wrote: > But even though the K3 is cycling TX/RX very fast the 8410 is not banging > the vacuum relay to death trying to follow 30 wpm dits. 30 wpm QSK*does* > significantly shorten relay time to failure. Contesting, I've worn some out > in less than a

[Elecraft] Too many tuning knobs

Guys, To keep things simple and less prone to transmitting on the wrong VFO, I listen to the DX station using the MAIN VFO A, then turn on the XIT function and turn the little freq control knob to where your want to TRANSMIT, up 2 or whatever. As a bonus, I can check my *proposed* TRANSMIT

[Elecraft] RXAMDKT Assy

Gents, I have a RXAMDKT Assy PC board. I can't find any info about the board. Does anyone have the info? Thanks, Charlie, N0TT __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: