I have an intermittent problem. It rarely occurs, but since I mainly use
the K2 for Contesting, it is a real annoyance. Suddenly all audio will go
dead. The only remedy is to recylce power to the unit. It is very possible
that this happens just after I make some control changes (like
I am interested in peoples expieriences with internal batteries in the K2.
I have just removed the lead acid gel cell battery from my K2, it is 8 years
old and still working - but it is very heavy to carry.
I have replaced it with a case of 10xAA 2000mAH cells which fit nicely in about
half
As I'm sure you noticed the Elecraft web site was not available most of
yesterday 4/9/09. This was due to several ATT fiber cables that were cut by
vandals in a man-hole located in the San Francisco bay area. Telephone service,
broadband service, Sprint, and Verizon wireless were all
Our own K3 (s/n 2406) has been flying FB since it was ordered/built/ and sent
out in Dec. 2008!
Maybe
everybody are asking TOO MUCH of the Elecraft Guys? Our latest rev. dwnload
was #3.06, but with
Beta there are always problems, so most of us SHOULD WAIT until the gliches
are worked through!
On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:53:13 -0700, JIM DAVIS wrote:
Beta there are always problems, so most of us SHOULD WAIT until the gliches
are worked through!
Why? It only takes a couple of minutes to load the F/W. It's not like
installing a new operating system or something. I will load any new K3
beta
This is a little OT, but I can't keep my hands off the keyboard.
I totally agree An easy, but sad example happened some days ago, when
an earthquake stroke the center part of Italy, with more than 250 deaths.
The Volunteers of many ham radio clubs gave their immediate support, helping
Following the ATT Fiber sabotage outage in San Jose yesterday, it looks
like we are fully back on-line here in Aptos. We lost internet, credit
card processing, phone etc. Looks like the outage impacted Santa Cruz,
Monterey, San Benito and parts of Santa Clara county. No fun.
If you tried to
Message: 21
From: Jeff Kinzli N6GQ j...@n6gq.com
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft's website down? I keep getting
I'm in Santa Cruz, and things like telephones (landlines), cell
phones, and DSL is down for a lot of people. Even 911 service (!).
Sigh. So much for redundancy on the part of
We've been following that earthquake Giulio, even here on the edge of the
Pacific. It's an awful tragedy that underscores the importance of
communications independent of the normal infrastructure.
I live in a coastal area vulnerable to earthquakes and tsunamis. We're
easily cut off from the
Howard K2HK wrote:
Message: 21
From: Jeff Kinzli N6GQ j...@n6gq.com
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft's website down? I keep getting
I'm in Santa Cruz, and things like telephones (landlines), cell
phones, and DSL is down for a lot of people. Even 911 service (!).
Sigh. So much
Thanks Ian. I am one of those taken in. Just sent to me today by a trusted
friend. Pheww
Howard..K2HK
HK
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:54:40 -0700
From: a...@dseven.org
To: k...@arrl.net
CC: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft's website down
Howard K2HK
I've not found this to be the case here--also use 3.06 and operate CW.
I know that the AGC THR setting will affect the signal volume when NR is
engaged.
I typically have the THR setting between 4 and 6 and the NR at 2-1.
I use the rear headphone jack.
73, Gary W7TEA
FW ver 3.06 -
On 4/9/2009 7:05 PM, Jack Brindle wrote:
The problem with the six fiber cables (four in south San Jose,
two in San Mateo) appear to be deliberate acts of sabotage, meant
to cause harm. They were perpetrated by someone who knew what
they were doing. It would be next to impossible to secure
As others have pointed out, the SLO thing was a hoax. But both the FCC
and the folks in San Luis Obispo county are taking it quite seriously.
They have issued a press release that makes it clear how important and
welcome hams are to their county.
What is it called when my shoe is un-tied? Or should I post more about how
Elecraft's telephone line that wasn't working yesterday? I'm not sure what
other nonesense I can come up with to spend an ENTIRE day and over 50 Posts
with today... Hmmm When did this site become a Chat room?
I just bought a K2 with the KPA100 build into the KAT100 tuner box. Can someone
tell me how to connect
the two together. I talked to the guy I bought it from and he use the K2 for
QRP and forgot how to hook them together. Jerry
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Hello friends:
Today we have been testing the K3 (with sub installed) for our S04R
expedition.
We want listen Subreceiver (and only sub) in both ears, not only the right.
Is this possible?
TNX a lot.
--
Rubén Navarro Huedo - EA5BZ
http://www.palotes.com
I would like to thank everybody who replied and offered me some help to put
together my KX1. Dale is the first gentleman who replied to mySOS in
building my KX1. I will send my KX1 to Dale. It is HAMs helping HAMs.
73
--
George Rebong
KE6TE
Not at this time and not sure if this is one of the audio routing scenarios
being considered. Lyle??
That saidYou can make an adapter if you wish. On the front panel and back
panel phone jacks the tip is the
main rx and the ring is the sub RX audio. If you make an adapter that has both
Sorry, I don't see what's wanted here. How is listening to only the
subreceiver any different from operating split?
On Fri Apr 10 11:31 , Ruben Navarro Huedo sent:
Hello friends:
Today we have been testing the K3 (with sub installed) for our S04R
expedition.
We want listen Subreceiver (and
From: WILLIS COOKE wrco...@flash.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Subreceiver
To: Peter Wollan peter.wol...@gmail.com
Date: Friday, April 10, 2009, 1:19 PM
You can set the K3 to one speaker. Then you listen to the
selected receiver with both ears. Of course, you can't
listen to the main
He wants to hear the subreceiver, and ONLY the subreceiver, in both ears
when he operates split. Many operators, myself included, hear better
when the signal spatially sounds like it is between their ears. And
since this is a DXpedition that plans to operate split almost 100% of
the time,
All,
I have completed Phase II of construction and have a couple of questions. But
first, I have the RF Gain set to full clockwise, Filter full CCW and AF Gain
at about the 12 O'clock position. I have a 28' piece wireman 541 wire
connected to the red side and a 16' piece of the same wire
Well if you one to run a pile up in split, why not transmit on VFO b, and
dail the main VFO to listen, You have the volume on both ears, easy as that.
If you want to hear your own freq. just push sub, and you can hear your own
QRG on the Sub. and switch it of again.
Nothing required.
73 de
Jerry,
1st question - did the seller provide the Control Cable? - a cable with
3 DB-9 connectors on it? If not you will need to build one (if you
eliminate computer control of the K2, you can do it with only 2 DB-9
connectors)
CAUTION - do not use a computer serial cable.
If you do not have
I don't see and advantage to doing that rather than operating split with the
main receiver unless he wants to use a beverage or other receive only antenna,
but you can do that by operating regular split with the main receiver and
selecting Antenna #2. The other way is to use a mono headset
If he is going to be operating *split* then he can only transmit on the
SubRx Frequency(VFO B) and listen on the Main. You cannot transmit on
the main and listen on the Sub in Split mode. At least I haven't found a
way. :-)
73, Ken K3IU
David Gilbert wrote:
He wants to hear the subreceiver,
Lyle has written-up how he did it at www.kk7p.com
73 ZL3IN Paul
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I suspect he wants two ops at the radio...one as a spotter listening ONLY to
the sub and the actual operator using
the main or main and sub.
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73,
Greg - AB7R
Whidbey Island WA
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On Fri Apr 10 13:36 , Dick Grolleman sent:
Well if you one to run a pile up in
Ed,
The trimmers are normal one turn trimmer capacitors. I any one full
rotation, you should find 2 places where the signal peaks.
The order of things is important - peak 20 meters first - if you cannot
find a peak on 20 meters, you have something wrong and will have to look
for the problem
It would be nice to have some type of fader control from main to sub. It is
sometimes nice to hear both at the same time in both ears and level up one
or the other.
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A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may
Copying this to the reflector in case someone else has seen the same
issue. This is K2 S/N 6698.
OK here is the run down on all bands:
Band Displayed error
160m .98 20hz low
75m.99 10hz low
60m.99 10hz low
40m.99 10hz low
I agree, and Peter pointed out the same thing to me privately. I'm not
sure why Ruben wanted to listen with both ears only to the subreceiver,
but I'm pretty sure that's not possible without outside hardware.
Hopefully he would describe what he is really trying to do and I'm sure
somebody
I have a new LP-Pan (Serial 549) and an M-Audio Audiophile 2496
card for sale. Both as new. Decided this is not for me.
$245.00 shipped in the US. Please contact me off list if
interested.
Thanks
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Jim,
I would hesitate to say there have been a *lot* of problems, but each
has his own threshold of tolerance. Many items reported on the
reflector are neither firmware or hardware related but are 'cured' by
informing the operator of the proper sequence of button-pushes or menu
settings.
TNX a lot to all for your answer.
Main use of it is 160m with 2 beverage and one K3 with second receiver
and without RX Input.
With this... we want listen the beverage conected to aux input and tx on
the 160m vertical.
Problem this evening was that we only could listen the second receiver
in
Hi Don,
I think I may have found the problem. When I installed X1 I attached
a ground to the top of the crystal. I used the same technique when I
installed X2 through 5. After rereading the installation portion of
the manual I read that the ground should be attached no more than
3/16
The wealth of input from users on the K3's performance is a great sign of
vitality in the user community and receptiveness of the developers to user
input. If nobody reported anything I would be concerned.
The evolution of the K3 was one important factor in my choosing it. I want
to be a
Ed,
The crystal grounding on X2 thru X5 is designed to allow space for the
batteries. So that is not the source of your prroblem.
73,
Don W3FPR
EMD wrote:
Hi Don,
I think I may have found the problem. When I installed X1 I attached
a ground to the top of the crystal. I used the same
K2/100 #3324 with SSB AND SAMLEX SEC1223 23 amp P.S. AND Kenwood handheld Mic
AND post paid. $1100.00.
Syd - WB4W
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Talk about a troll of a subject. It states in the question that K3 has too
many problems. Really nowbut everyone is entitled to their own opinion.
Beta code is beta code. If one doesn't want to run into beta bugs, don't
load beta firmware. Gripe about problems in PRODUCTION firmware.
Ruben,
If I were building such an adapter, I would add a 3 position switch (2
poles would be required) - one position would put both ears on the main
(left channel), the center position would be normal, and the third
position would have both ears on the sub (right channel). If you only
want
No 'experience' to report here, only an opinion.
I would not put LiPo batteries inside the K2, but would consider them as
a lightweight external power supply.
Even though they are heavy, sealed lead acid batteries do offer some
advantages. They do not self-discharge as the NiMH batteries have a
Eric - a quirky way to remind you of what life was like before you introduced
K2???
;-)
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Fri Apr 10 13:07:32 EDT 2009
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Tom,
Intermittents are tough to analyze and to find the problem source.
The most likely answer is that there is a poor solder connection somewhere.
I trust the tuner is a KAT100 rather than a KAT2. The KAT2 does not
have LEDs.
If you can keep it in the failure state, it may be easy to find
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