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To: Elecraft Reflector elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 10:40 AM
Subject: [Elecraft] OT: Pets in the Shack
I have two furry family members who often visit me when I'm
operating...and often come into the shack when I'm not there.
Naturally, being cats, they climb
Sometimes, it seems like my dummy load is my best antenna.
73,
Fred K6DGW
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On 8/9/2012 4:31 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote:
Actually, the best prevention is to arrange your station antenna
switching to connect
Fred,
I was very glad that all my ham equipment had dummy loads connected 2
nights ago - we had a thunderstorm, and a very close lightning event.
Many circuit breakers tripped, 4 computers died, and I had to replace
the network router and all switches as well as the NAS storage device I
use
I have two furry family members who often visit me when I'm
operating...and often come into the shack when I'm not there.
Naturally, being cats, they climb all over the place including my
operating position.
Heres a tip: if you leave your radio on when you aren't present, engage
Tx TEST to
Excellent suggestion, Dick.
Such events, along with a person setting something of the operating desk
that bumps the paddles, is one of the major causes of ditters. Not only
are they annoying, a Ham in the USA is committing a serious Federal offense
by allowing transmissions not under his/her
TX TEST works great for the K3, but there is no equal on the K2. I
would suggest for the K2, tap the mode button to put it into SSB of RTTY
mode - especially if you use PTT and not VOX. If the dot paddle is
closed, yes, it will go into transmit, but there will be no audio to
produce a signal
On 8/9/2012 4:31 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote:
Actually, the best prevention is to arrange your station antenna
switching to connect a dummy load - then when you leave the operating
position, just switch the antenna to the dummy load position and be
done with it - no worries.
My operation is
16:11:17
To: ka...@arrl.net; 'Elecraft Reflector'elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: Pets in the Shack
Excellent suggestion, Dick.
Such events, along with a person setting something of the operating desk
that bumps the paddles, is one of the major causes of ditters. Not only
On 12-08-09 07:31 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote:
TX TEST works great for the K3, but there is no equal on the K2.
On a K2 you can put the unit in CW test mode or switch from VOX to PTT when
in SSB mode.
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Cheers!
Kevin.
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