Re: [Elecraft] Is the K3 capable of ESSB?

2007-08-12 Thread David Pratt
In a recent message, Ron D'Eau Claire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote ... One of the important activities we Hams participate in is experimenting with various signal formats (or modes if you prefer). Fortunately, our licenses in most countries give us a lot of latitude about what is legal. Certainly the

Re: [Elecraft] Is the K3 capable of ESSB?

2007-08-12 Thread David Woolley
Ron D'Eau Claire wrote: Note that there are *NO* FCC rules about the bandwidth of an SSB (or other) signal that say a certain bandwidth is illegal. I would certainly agree with others that 6kHz SSB would be a contravention of the UK licence, although it might only be a SHOULD violation,

Re: [Elecraft] Is the K3 capable of ESSB?

2007-08-12 Thread Toby Deinhardt
Note that there are *NO* FCC rules about the bandwidth of an SSB (or other) signal that say a certain bandwidth is illegal. Maybe not - I wouldn't know. However, here in DL ESSB and classical AM are illegal below 28MHz. The maximum allowed bandwidth between 1.81Mhz and 28MHz in the HAM bands

Re: [Elecraft] Is the K3 capable of ESSB?

2007-08-12 Thread nealk3nc
Interesting... What is the definition of ESSB, anything greater than 2.7kHz? My Orion2 can do up to 3000 I believe, so is this ESSB? On 8/12/07, Toby Deinhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note that there are *NO* FCC rules about the bandwidth of an SSB (or other) signal that say a certain

[Elecraft] Is the K3 capable of ESSB?

2007-08-12 Thread Fred (FL)
The SSB bandwidth 2007 realities, sound familiar. In 1978 - max bandwith over telephonic modems, and conditioned ATT lines was like 6250 baud. A limit everyone agreed. Then some clever soul or group, came up with quadrature modulation - and rather quietly, modems into the hot-copper telephone

Re: [Elecraft] Is the K3 capable of ESSB?

2007-08-12 Thread Brendan Minish
ESSB is just dreadful and like in Germany is probably not legal in EI where our rules seem to define SSB as 2.7 Khz or less . However is the k3 capable of ECW (enhanced CW)? I would like some nice wide clicks and a 'phat' rough tone to help me keep some space around me in a contest and stand out

Re: [Elecraft] Is the K3 capable of ESSB?

2007-08-12 Thread N2EY
In a message dated 8/12/07 8:39:25 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is the definition of ESSB, anything greater than 2.7kHz? My Orion2 can do up to 3000 I believe, so is this ESSB? No. THere's no hard-and-fast defintion of ESSB that I've seen. In practice, it

[Elecraft] FS: KAF2 Audio Filter and Real time clock

2007-08-12 Thread NZ8J
I had the DSP units in my K2's that I sold and have this left over. It is assembled and works fine. I will ship and insure it US Priority mail for $65 Thanks Tim NZ8J ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber

Re: [Elecraft] Is the K3 capable of ESSB?

2007-08-12 Thread David Woolley
Fred (FL) wrote: The SSB bandwidth 2007 realities, sound familiar. Yes, this sort of false reasoning is common in marketing. They rely on a perception that anything new to the market must be better, and that the general public doesn't understand the true reasons for limitations. In 1978

[Elecraft] OT: ESSB

2007-08-12 Thread Goody K3NG
I don't think ESSB is the spawn of Satan, but I'd encourage people who want to experiment with high fidelity to do digital voice instead and experiment with digital compression techniques. It seems to me that creating ESSB isn't much of a challenge. Open up your filtering on the IF chain and

Re: [Elecraft] Is the K3 capable of ESSB?

2007-08-12 Thread Tom Hammond
Hi Brandon: I'm pretty sure we've managed to work out all of the T3 through T7 'qualities' of the K3... right now, it's as clean as any rig I've ever heard. 73, Tom N0SS At 07:47 08/12/2007, Brendan Minish wrote: ESSB is just dreadful and like in Germany is probably not legal in EI where

Re: [Elecraft] Is the K3 capable of ESSB?

2007-08-12 Thread David Woolley
Fred (FL) wrote: In 1978 - max bandwith over telephonic modems, and conditioned ATT lines was like 6250 baud. A limit everyone agreed. Shannon's classic paper on communications theory was published in 1948, so, for 30 years before 1978, anyone who knew the signal to noise ratio and did the

[Elecraft] My last on ESSB

2007-08-12 Thread Ken Kopp
This will be my last post on the ESSB subject ... the thread -IS- pretty far off-topic. (:-)) My association with ESSB came during five years and a million miles of over-the-road-truck driving with an HF rig in the truck that I used to pass the time. I spent MANY hours observing the group on

Re: [Elecraft] Is the K3 capable of ESSB?

2007-08-12 Thread Thom LaCosta
On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why can't I run FM voice that's 15 or 20 kHz wide on 75 meters? I think it would sound really, really good. Much better than even AM, and immune to summer QRN. The transmitter would be very efficient, modulated at low level and amplified in highly

[Elecraft] My last posting on ESSB

2007-08-12 Thread Ken Kopp
This will be my last post on the ESSB subject ... the thread -IS- pretty far off-topic. (:-)) My association with ESSB came during five years and a million miles of over-the-road-truck driving with an HF rig in the truck that I used to pass the time. I spent MANY hours observing the group on

Re: [Elecraft] K2 KSB2: Signal Loss through SSB filters

2007-08-12 Thread Lamb, Dick Judy
Problem solved. I'd like to report the cause and suggest a signal tracing method that might be helpful to someone without much test equipment. First, though, I'd like to thank WA6VNN and LA1PHA for their suggestions, and of course thank Don, W3FPR, for his customary fast response and

RE: [Elecraft] Is the K3 capable of ESSB?

2007-08-12 Thread Thom LaCosta
On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, Dale Putnam wrote: Can you see it now? Since all the bandwidth is used up on 75, and the digital/cw crowd has learned to live in a smaller space, and they don't make much noise, or take up a lot of room, they can learn to live in less, this month, less next month, and

RE: [Elecraft] K2 KSB2: Signal Loss through SSB filters

2007-08-12 Thread Ron D'Eau Claire
Neat solution, Dick! A common approach used by O.T.s was a signal injection probe, either audio or wide-band RF noise. It was used to insert a signal at either audio or RF starting at the final audio output and working back toward the antenna input, stage by stage, until the signal disappeared or

Re: [Elecraft] Is the K3 capable of ESSB?

2007-08-12 Thread N2EY
In a message dated 8/12/07 12:32:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why can't I run FM voice that's 15 or 20 kHz wide on 75 meters? I think it would sound really, really good. Much better than even AM, and immune to summer

Re: [Elecraft] Is the K3 capable of ESSB?

2007-08-12 Thread N2EY
In a message dated 8/12/07 8:47:15 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The SSB bandwidth 2007 realities, sound familiar. In 1978 - max bandwith over telephonic modems, and conditioned ATT lines was like 6250 baud. A limit everyone agreed. But was it a theoretical limit, or

RE: [Elecraft] Is the K3 capable of ESSB?

2007-08-12 Thread Craig Rairdin
As a CW op with no dog in this race, I wonder what makes splashing a 2.1 KHz to 2.7 KHz wide voice signal across the band morally right but 6 KHz or more morally wrong. Are those who are opposed to 6 KHz-wide SSB doing everything they can to narrow their bandwidth down to as few hz as possible?

RE: [Elecraft] ESSB from a K3

2007-08-12 Thread Greg
Please see the K3 FAQ on ESSB. 73 Greg AB7R -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Fred (FL) Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2007 7:35 PM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: [Elecraft] ESSB from a K3 Evidently, the K3 does not support ESSB, or for

[Elecraft] ESSB from a K3

2007-08-12 Thread Ray Kiesel
Also, see the specs...4 kHz max. (Subject to change.) http://www.elecraft.com/K3/K3_specs.htm RayK3RIZ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub,

RE: [Elecraft] Is the K3 capable of ESSB?

2007-08-12 Thread Thom LaCosta
On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, Craig Rairdin wrote: (Sorry, I argue religion for a living) Although it's off topic, I wonder how many angels can operate QRP on the head of a pin? 73 k3hrn Thom,EIEIO Email, Internet, Electronic Information Officer www.baltimorehon.com/Home of

[Elecraft] ESSB? Naah. I'm much more interested in K3-native digital voice

2007-08-12 Thread Steve Jackson
I'd like to know more about the K3's DSP engine and if it's powerful enough to do a G4GUO type codec. I'm not smart enough to make an estimate about the needed processing power partly because I don't know what the rig is capable of, and partly because I haven't played with a vocoder that does

[Elecraft] K2 for Sale

2007-08-12 Thread Roger Stein
Good evening Elecrafters, I have for sale the following: K2 #755 w/finger dimple KPA-100 KSB2 K160RX KNB2 N-Gen XG1 K2 Nifty Mini Manual This K2 has been updated to the current K2 configuration regarding Firmware levels, K2 Keying Bandwidth Mod Kit, K2 Temperature Compensated PLL Reference

Re: [Elecraft] Is the K3 capable of ESSB?

2007-08-12 Thread Thom LaCosta
On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marvelous idea...logical too...and flies in the face of operating efficiently. How so? The transmitter would be more efficient. If it's OK to use 6 to 9 kHz for ESSB, why not 15 or 20 kHz for FM? Ah good point...and once 20 kHz is established, we

RE: [Elecraft] Is the K3 capable of ESSB?

2007-08-12 Thread Brett gazdzinski
I don't understand why anyone would get upset or even care about essb (or AM), if its done on a band that is not packed with signals. If there is loads of space, what is wrong with making the audio sound at least as good as a cheap cell phone? On the AM side, on the east coast of the US, the AM

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report for August 12th 13th, 2007

2007-08-12 Thread Kevin Rock
Good Evening, Another fun Sunday evening. Twenty meters had QSB, deep at times, while forty had its QRN and some fading. Both gave decent results though. My last check in (K6PJV) reminded me of something: I need to ask the ARES folks for NCS certification. I may have qualified by

Re: [Elecraft] KPA100 - Low Voltage output from High Voltage Bias Supply Circuit

2007-08-12 Thread Michael Haygood
Don, I replaced D16 and D17 which fixed the HI CUR, HI REFL messages and lack of power control. However, I am still reading a low output voltage from the high voltage bias supply. When receiving, the high bias supply voltage at D1 cathode and R12/R11 is about 67 volts. I've further