I just bought a used K3/0 mini which hasn't arrived yet. Unfortunately,
the owner no longer has the 12v cable for it.
Could someone please let me know the type of plug (mm) on the 12v cable?
I can't find this is the remote manual, but I know it is thicker than
the one for the RRC. I will go
Mitch,
I believe it is the following Tip Size:
5.5mm O.D./2.1 mm I.D.
If you have any of the Radio Shack plugs in your junque box, it was their
size "M".
'73 de JIM N2ZZ
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As there are only one or two days left before the KH1 crew packs up and leaves
Baker Island, I thought I’d post this in hopes that other antenna-restricted
hams don’t think they have no shot. I live in a CC / HOA “no ham antenna”
neighborhood. However, I DO have several stealthy wire antennas
On 7/4/2018 6:59 PM, W2xj wrote:
> A little more than a shed but you might consider a pre-fabricated
> communications shelter if you can afford it. You can get them complete with
> power and climate control. Here is an example:
>
> http://thermobond.com/
Ah yes! We just specified one for a
Right on, Jim. You said it all. I don’t understand complaining about a mode
you obviously have never used. As someone else said, FT8 has its positives and
negatives. What I don’t like are the ops running a gallon or more. I consider
QRO for the JT modes and PSK to be 100 Watts. I’ve only
My shop is about 300 ft from our house. In a corner of my 25' x 50'
building {not a garage}, I have enclosed a 12' x 15' area, where I
insulated the walls and ceiling. This is my radio room which has my
test bench and equipment from a former service repair business.
investment.
I have an original LP-Pan for the K3 radio. I will even include a
Creative Labs E-MU 0202 USB sound card. $200 shipped to you.
Will WC2L
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William Liporace WC2L
http://www.wc2l.com or http://dxc.wc2l.com
AR-Cluster Node telnet dxc.wc2l.com or 144.93 MHz
w...@wc2l.com
I have no problem feeding the band data directly into Arduino
input ports. (I homebrewed the antenna switch controller.) I
wonder about the load from your antenna switch controller. You
may need additional pullup resistors. The K3S manual says,
"External pull-up resistors can be connected a
Jim Brown-10 wrote
> I do a lot of RTTY contesting, but I have yet to meet anyone who can copy
> RTTY with their
> two ears.
I guess we never met, Jim. I can copy CQ, 599, and my callsign in Baudot
RTTY.
Many years ago, there was a Dxpedition I was calling. There was a selective
fade when
I’ve been licensed since 1951 also and I think you old narrow-minded
rag-chewers should stay away from FT8 frequencies. You are obviously too old to
learn how FT8 really works! Meanwhile I’ll keep racking up new dx contacts
there.
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> On Jul 4, 2018, at 2:05 PM,
Sorry guys! Didn’t mean to send out a copy of the entire digest to. everyone!!
Sid; NZ7M
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Not my cup of tea either.
73, John N1JM (antenna limited)
Barry wrote
> First, I haven't read through this entire thread.
>
> I've been a RTTY guy for a long time and am in the #1 spot on the RTTY
> DXCC
> Honor Roll. That said, I don't get FT8 at all. Turn on your radio and
> computer, come
Gary,
I am also considering moving the K-Line (K3S KPA500) to a “shed” (yet
to be bought) at the base of my antenna.
But my location is in the Philippines where it is hot, humid and it
rains an awful lot (Think Florida without the Oranges)
Are there off-the-shelf
[This happened once before and I forgot what the easy fix is.] K3 Sub
receiver doesn't receive. What have I forgotten to check?
Madison
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This anti-FT8 stuff reminds me of the old AM vs SSB doings back in the old
days. Never stops does it?
> On Jul 4, 2018, at 8:03 PM, Sidney Frissell wrote:
>
> I’ve been licensed since 1951 also and I think you old narrow-minded
> rag-chewers should stay away from FT8 frequencies. You are
On 7/4/2018 3:52 PM, a45wg wrote:
> Are there off-the-shelf containers for such things, or do people run A/C or
> De-Humidifiers etc ??
There certainly are such containers - with built-in HVAC - used for
commercial communication sites in such places but they make the cost of
a K-line look like
OK, the answer was to put a lower resistor in the input.
All I needed was 100 ohm jumper.
Will WC2L
On 7/4/2018 3:55 PM, William Liporace wrote:
I really should have said antenna switch controller. I have two
controllers.
A) Is the DX Solutions SAS-6 (Smart Antenna Switch-6)
B) The KK1L
A little more than a shed but you might consider a pre-fabricated
communications shelter if you can afford it. You can get them complete with
power and climate control. Here is an example:
http://thermobond.com/
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> On Jul 4, 2018, at 18:52, a45wg wrote:
>
> Gary,
>I
Just to add- If you bought an IC7600, to upgrade you would have to buy an
IC7610 and take a bath on the old radio. Mfgrs. have played the game for years.
Sometimes if the upgrade is significant it is worth it, like a Drake R4c to
TR7. To state the obvious, the upgrade from K3 to K3s was
On 7/4/2018 5:40 PM, Carl Yaffey wrote:
This anti-FT8 stuff reminds me of the old AM vs SSB doings back in the old
days. Never stops does it?
Exactly right. In the jazz world, some listeners refused to listen to
Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk when they first came on
the
The Bard cooling units on these things alone will set you back maybe $3500
each. One of these would be a great solution. Larger ones would actually make
a really nice shack. But I know, because I used to bid these out and manage
contractors putting them in, they are definitely not
Is it turned on in the config menu?
73, John N1JM
Madison Jones-2 wrote
> [This happened once before and I forgot what the easy fix is.] K3 Sub
> receiver doesn't receive. What have I forgotten to check?
>
> Madison
> W5MJ
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>
According to the KH1 people fully half of the FT8 callers are using the
wrong software or mode. I don't know if the guy I heard yesterday in the
CW portion of 40 meters was one of them but he was warbling away there
for a good long time; nice signal too-- s9+20db.
73,
Drew
AF2Z
On 07/03/18
I restrict myself to work FT8 with 5W output for 20m to 10m bands where I can
use 2 elements quad up about 20 meter.
Although QSO sometimes depends on other station’s receiving capability, 5W is
good enough to work many DX stations around the world including long path west
Africa and EU.
To
Some years ago, there was a discussion of using the KX3 to control a
screwdriver antenna. Send a tune signal, measure the SWR, move the antenna,
step and repeat. Has anything come of that? Signal buffering would be
needed. I have had good luck with an h bridge motor driver based on the
irf3205
No, it's not a failure of the mode, but a question of personal ethics. Other
ops have theirs, I have mine.
On 7/4/2018 7:13 AM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:
> JTAlert was informing me that my QSO partner was/had been sending
> me a text message informing me that he had my report and I should be
>
You can make one yourself with a bridge motor controller and some sort of
Arduino. You can then program it using the KX3 Programmers Reference.
Or, you can check out the TuneMatic products from JT Communications. He's
already done the work and it works with the KX3 standing along or with the
I’m at the point now in my household move where I should like to put my K-Line
(K3/KPA1500) out in a shed about 200’ from the house and operate it remotely
via an local ethernet connection. This week I’ve been sweltering in the humid
heat here in the NE and that prompts the question: What
does anybody want to share their first hand knowledge of using power sdr
software with their k3 or k3s?
thanks
buddy, w3bs
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Poor little radio - out there all alone, hot in the summer and freezing
in the winter. Alone and forgotten - waiting in the lonely darkness.
But, you expect it to do your bidding at the drop of a hat. How would
you feel if you did all your yard work in the blazing sun - then went
back to your
Is this some sort of a spoof? You can't be serious. Putting beautiful
equipment like this into the weather(not quite, but almost) is poor
engineering practice at least and at most, a felony. If you insist on
doing this, sell your Elecraft stuff and buy one of the other three
imported brands,
Hi Folks,
I thought it was me, but I guess not... When I hook up a cable to the
ACC plug for band data output, I get about 4.8v (slightly less than 5v).
When I hook up the radio to any antenna switch that has band data input,
the voltage goes down to 3v. This is not enough to drive the antenna
Actually, I was in the process of learning about JT65 by doing some listening
tests when FT8 was added to the suite. So I took it up almost immediately after
it was introduced. I think I was up to about 80 "contacts" when someone on the
WSJT-X Yahoo group suggested that JTAlert was a great
> JTAlert was informing me that my QSO partner was/had been sending
> me a text message informing me that he had my report and I should be
> sending RRR. At that point I stopped transmitting and unloaded the
> software.
Which is why I do not enable the text message capability in JT-Alert
or
I thought Eric CLOSED this thread YESTERDAY! Getting tired of deleting
references to FT-8.
-- Original Message --
From: "Wes Stewart"
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent: 7/4/2018 8:46:48 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] FT8: "Magic radio"?
Actually, I was in the process of learning about
Just buy a few old tube radios off eBay to restore that were stored in
sheds or garages and look at the all the corrosion from condensation inside
them and you will have your answer. Not a good idea unless you climate
control the shed.
73, Tom, k2bew
On Wed, Jul 4, 2018, 11:43 AM
My experience with technical support from Icom, .. most emails go
unanswered. Phone calls get resolved. Very little feedback for firmware
updates or issues.
My experience with Yaesu, some of the most rude and condescending support
staff anywhere. Horrible to deal with. Everything is "send in
From my take and experience comparing the K3S and the IC-7300:
(A) Both are ham radios.
(B)
(C)
End of comparison.
73
Bob, K4TAX
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I tried a friend's IC-7300 out OK for the money, but I would not
trade my Elecraft for ALL the money I paid for it PLUS a FREE IC-7300.
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On 04-Jul-18 12:11, Doug Person wrote:
I didn't see any comparison chart for the K3S and the
A Taylor series is quite appropriate since FT8 was invented by Joe Taylor ;-)
Russ, N3CO
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On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 10:28 PM, Wayne Burdick wrote:
Yeah, sorry. Math joke
Wayne
> On Jul 3, 2018, at 7:21 PM, Robert Duncan wrote:
>
> Just in case there
First, I haven't read through this entire thread.
I've been a RTTY guy for a long time and am in the #1 spot on the RTTY DXCC
Honor Roll. That said, I don't get FT8 at all. Turn on your radio and
computer, come back an hour later and see what you worked - really?
I've been in an antenna
I quoted the context.
On 7/3/2018 6:35 PM, Neil Zampella wrote:
Wes,
you're taking that out of context. The structured messages allow for
redundancy if some of the original message is missing. The decoder can take
the sync symbols so that the system can understand what type of message it
Well-said Barry.
IMO, it's a stretch to call FT8 legitimate.
But then I'm an old poop ... licensed since 1951 ... and CW all the time.
73!
Ken Kopp - K0PP
73!
On Wed, Jul 4, 2018, 13:00 Barry wrote:
> First, I haven't read through this entire thread.
>
> I've been a RTTY guy for a long
I asked a similar question awhile back. The fact that I still do not
have a 7300 may indicate the results of my fact finding.
My reasoning is simple: The K3 is a great radio, certainly part of the
equation. The Elecraft product support is the other part of the equation.
I have been there and
First, I haven't read through this entire thread.
I've been a RTTY guy for a long time and am in the #1 spot on the RTTY DXCC
Honor Roll. That said, I don't get FT8 at all. Turn on your radio and
computer, come back an hour later and see what you worked - really?
NOT really. An exaggeration
A strange ... and "nutty"... concept. More appropriate for April 1st IMO.
K0PP
On Wed, Jul 4, 2018, 10:10 Dave Sublette wrote:
> Is this some sort of a spoof? You can't be serious. Putting beautiful
> equipment like this into the weather(not quite, but almost) is poor
> engineering practice
Operating a K3 remotely is one thing. Subjecting it to varying
temperatures and humidity is something else. Obviously, high temps and
humidity will be a problem for any radio. You need reasonable climate
control no matter what.
The reason I'm responding to this is because eventually the only
I'd bet that doing this will shorten the lives of both the K3 and the
KPA1500, maybe significantly.
73,
Scott N9AA
On 7/4/18 11:42 AM, alapa...@w2cs.net wrote:
I’m at the point now in my household move where I should like to put my K-Line
(K3/KPA1500) out in a shed about 200’ from the house
I didn't see any comparison chart for the K3S and the IC-7610. I did
see the comparison of the K3S with the IC-7300. This made me laugh. By
the time you add up the required options for the K3S to achieve feature
parity with the IC-7300 it costs 3 times as much. This actually makes
the IC-7300
What about creating a Faraday Cage (as done in some offices) by covering
walls, ceilings, floors of apartment with electrically bonded, metal (not
plastic) window screen. Also, follow bonding/grounding techniques in H.
Ward Silver's book published by ARRL?
Lee
N0RRL
On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 11:06
Surprised to see the term "Climate Control". Sorry to be fussy and pendantic
but this is not a climate control question. Climate is the long term, local &
world-wide, changing of weather parameters/variables. More correctly this
would be environmental control of the operation of your rig
Friends,
There are some other points not mentioned. Yes, I agree the K3 is
pricy but the performance is there. However for most things the IC-7300
does a grand job as does the TD590s.For now and for some considerable
time in the past though the K3 has had a superior receiver good in
The open collector outputs is
F the K3 or K3s are lightly pulled up then fed thru a series resistor. Your
decode must have adequate buffering in place to avoid drawing excessive
current. A cmos buffer chip will do the trick.
73
Jim ab3cv (got the t shirt)
On Jul 4, 2018, at 11:55 AM, William
I really should have said antenna switch controller. I have two
controllers.
A) Is the DX Solutions SAS-6 (Smart Antenna Switch-6)
B) The KK1L 2x6 Controller.
Both devices worked flawlessly from the FTdx5000.
Will WC2L
On 7/4/2018 11:55 AM, William Liporace wrote:
Hi Folks,
I thought it was
On 7/4/2018 10:40 AM, Doug Turnbull wrote:
Friends,
There are some other points not mentioned. Yes, I agree the K3 is
pricy but the performance is there. However for most things the IC-7300
does a grand job as does the TD590s.For now and for some considerable
time in the past
The sun hasn't begun to set and the fireworks are already going off...
Dick - KA5KKT
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It won’t directly drive either. The K3/K3S outputs BCD band data. You need a
decoder box to convert that into direct drive signals (high side drive) for
both of the antenna switches.
The Elecraft KRC2 will do the job quite well, as will quite a few other boxes.
Be sure they have TTL-level
Well your experience is much different than mine. I enjoy all the brands
just as I enjoy many brands of guitars, telescopes, and cars.
None have been as responsive as Elecraft. But, I certainly haven't been
subjected to rudeness or condescension (the latter would be a serious
mistake on
I think the point was that a comparison between the two isn't
meaningful. I think (based on experience as an early adopter of both)
that the IC-7300 is outstanding bit of kit for the money.
The K3x performance is a bargain when compared to other company's
top-end radios.
Doug -- KJ0F
On
Licensed in 1958, through the years and even today, I operate AFSK, PSK, JT-65,
FT-8, CW, SSB, and AM. Each mode has its enjoyable culture and its upside and
downside. That's ham radio. If one doesn't like it.don't operate it, but
don't chastise those that do.
"If one doesn't have
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