Thanks to everybody for your help. I changed the value of R98 from 230 to
560 and now the power output is stable and tracks the called for power
much more consistently too.
5319 is now working perfectly. What a radio!
Dean
KG7MZ
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Many thanks to all that replied to my odd request for info.
Thanks go to: 4dgh,4nn,1rgb,0ve,0ukk,7pm,1euy and 3zvt. And of
course to any I may have missed.
Thanks again GilK8EAG
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Charlie,
The mod is not difficult - remove the front panel and separate the board
from the dress panel. Then wrap a bare wire around the threads of the mic
connector, twist it tight, and run one end over to the ground loop on the
left end of the board - solder the wire to the mic connector body
Hi:
It was an accident.
I killed Q3, the MJE182 NPN transistor.
Q4 survived, but are Q3 and Q4 a matched pair, in the same way that Q1
and Q2 are?
In other words, should I be extra careful ordering spares and replace
them both, or will just replacing the broken part be fine?
jh
Hello all,
I guess I'll give my two cents worth concerning DX and pileups.
I've operated as WA3WSJ/KP4, WA3WSJ/C6A, V26ED and VP5ED. I used the
WA3WSJ/C6A call around twelve times. Almost all of these Dxpeditions
were for CW contests such as CQWWCW. When I operated as VP5ED, I had
over 1200 QS in
Unless you listen pretty far down, someone's broadbanded signal
is going to cover up your transmit frequency.
de Joe, aa4nn
2. I moved my RIT control around some. I liked to listen below my
sending frequency as most listen
Ed,
Good thoughts and well stated.
One critically important thought I believe you might have overlooked.
That is simply this: The DX Station Is In Control of the pileup (or should
be).
If he or she says QRZ W7Y?? and comes back to KP4XYZ, he has just
created a problem. The new breed of
I was listening to an SSB DX pileup. The DX station said The W
station. He paused and then said Oh, wait that was stupid. QRZ.
Hey, nobody is 100% pro, 100% of the time!
I worked a DX station last night on 30 meters using my Omni V. Small
pileup. He answered on my 3rd try. That was too
Back in the 70's there was listening to a pileeup run by a famous VK (or it
MIGHT have been a famous ZL) who was standing by for East coast US stations
on 20M SSB from a little island in the Pacific.
A W6 kept calling and calling. The VK asked Are you on the East coast to
which the response was
Paul,
With 2.4 to 4W out on your KX1 it sounds like you are running the KX1 on
13.8v. Rather than adjusting the power out pot, which has a limited
lifetime according to the manual, try running the KX1 on internal
Lithium batteries (the Energizer ones that Elecraft recommends) and the
drive
I try to be as polite as possible to offenders in
the pile ups. I just don't log them.
If the pile up gets too out of hand, I QRX and get
a beer!
Mike, W1USN K2 #1964, K1 #1964 First Licensed in
1964
Boxford, MA USA
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WN1DAE, WN1TPE, WA1TPE, NW1J, VE1/WA1TPE,
DL/WA1TPE, G0/NW1J,
Hi folks,
can anybody help me with a circuit diagram for a simple pulse-generator
which I can use as test-generator in order to test the function of the
KNB2? I figure 2 transistors will do, but can´t recall the rest.
73
Karsten
DK4AS
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Hi
I usually just scratch on the metal case of Q22 (the collector) with a
screwdriver while holding it touching the metal shaft. This causes a random
popping that the noise blanker handles nicely. You can switch the blanker on
an off and here a big difference. If you want to build a pulse
A word of caution regarding the amplifiers being discussed. A Canadian
dealer tried marketing these units some time ago and they subsequently
discontinued them because of technical problems. Apparently the
auto-bandswitching cct generated a lot of noise into the receiver and the
(Italian)
I agree with several who voiced their opinion about what power level the new
amplifier should be. IMHO 400 watts is plenty. I made my own 400 watt PA
driven by my dependable K2 S/N 40xx. It works fine. With a 2 element switched
beam (non rotating) up at 30 ft. I can work everything I can
Elecrafters:
Thanks for the overwhelming response. I have received several very
attractive offers and am pondering which one to take.
Thanks and 73,
Steve Kercel
AA4AK
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You must be a
Sorry to be a bother, but now I have 4 good SLA batteries to preserve until
needed. I ordered a case (6) for my 3 (2 batteries each) bad UPSs. I let the
smoke out of one, putting the cover back on (I thought it was unplugged), I
fixed one, and one was good anyhow; it had simply been overloaded.
Elecrafters:
After weighing all the suggestions from many list members, I've
decided to have Alan, w1hyv, build a new rig for me.
I feel really bad about not building my own.
73,
Steve
AA4AK
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Hi all -
I have a K2 connected to a separate KPA/100 - KAT/100 box. Any frequency
on my rig will tune with an SWR of 1.5 or less EXCEPT in the 7.200 MHz
area where it only hits about 3.7 - 1.0. It seems odd to me that only
such an isolated freq range would do thisso it makes me wonder if
Change the length of the feedline by a few feet. See if the problem can be
encouraged to move outside the ham bands.
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
snip
is something within the rig I need to check.vrs blaming it on my wire
loop which has served me so well.
/snip
You'll be operating the best ham transceiver you probably ever owned. Why
would you feel bad about that?
Besides ham radio, I love motorcycles. I've owned at least two dozen of
them. I've been able to fix them, modify them and enjoy riding them, and
believe it or not, I didn't build a single one
Tim,
It is likely that your feedline is presenting a very high impedance at that
frequency. The Elecraft tuners do not like to tune high impedances very
well - OTOH, they do not usually have a problem with low impedances.
Try adding about 25 feet of feedline - if the KAT100 then is able to tune
Yep that appears to have done it - thanks Dan - and thanks Don!
73/Tim
Dan Barker wrote:
Change the length of the feedline by a few feet. See if the problem can be
encouraged to move outside the ham bands.
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
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is something within the rig I need to check.vrs blaming
Subject: K-2 #5266 A-OK
Part II Alignment and Test for K-2 #5266 went A-OK...all within specs...that
sure is a good feeling! Taking it slow and easy but continue to be impressed
with the top quality of this product!
H Cary, K4TM
Lynchburg, Va
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On Jan 13, 2006, at 9:44 PM, Sandy W5TVW wrote:
Biggest violation of all is when someone calls CQ, another station
just
answers W1ABC W1ABC K. Who is he calling? I usually respond by
sending: QRZ? QRZ? DE W5TVW K.
Often the other station will simply send
W1ABC W1ABC K If the band is
On Jan 14, 2006, at 10:21 PM, Sandy W5TVW wrote:
The Amateurs and airplane pilots seem the only ones who still use it.
(Yes, airplane pilots STILL have to use Morse to decode the aural
identification of DME/VOR/NDB transmitters/beacons.)
Yeah, but for us pilots, we only have to decode a
Hello all:
I received a microKeyer for Christmas and am just now getting around to
working with it. I reviewed the questions that were submitted to this
reflector back in October, and I have a few questions.
The microKeyer instructions for the K2 cable set involves what appears to be
a cable to
Hello all:
I received a microKeyer for Christmas and am just now getting around to
working with it. I reviewed the questions that were submitted to this
reflector back in October, and I have a few questions.
The microKeyer instructions for the K2 cable set involves what appears to be
a cable to
I've had it happen. It's not all that uncommon to hear only one side of a
QSO on a frequency, and I've answered a guy who simply gave his call after
my CQ, then found him in the middle of a transmission to someone else who I
couldn't hear when I stood by for his first transmission.
So I
Did you get the K2 cable set with the microKEYER? That makes it a little
easier.
I hooked up the audio cable internal to the K2 as instructed and connected
it to the microKEYER connector labelled J5.
I'm using whatever the mic is that Elecraft sells so I can't comment on your
mic.
The Y serial
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