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I would be interested to know more about your balun rated to handle high
swr stress, please tell.
I run ladder-line to the feed-point, and use a 1:1 balun rated to handle
high swr stress.
When you are doing your experiments, what does the SG tell you? I mean, is
there a way of
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Guys,
I was wondering just how this works. Suppose one wants 9 MHz. Does one
set the band to 30M and just tune down to it? Does any of this confuse
the band selection via buttons? Alternatively if one sets the
frequency with the key pad, what band does it appear in.
I seem to recall some
K9BF wrote:
I am guessing the price tag on the new 5000 will be somewhere near $5000.
I might be able to get my wife to go along at that price. Has anyone have
a better idea of the cost?
Only 1.5 times the cost of a better performing K3/KRX3. The 5000's Sub RX
front end will be very
Well I dunno. From looking at the specs on the website, I can't see that the
FT-5000 is going to offer anything over and above what you can get with the
K3, really. At least nothing off the top of my head that would justify the
extra cost.
The only feature I see appearing on more rigs that I'd
In this case, I just key it in. The band will change to 30-meters and if you
cycle through the bands, the next time you hit 30-meters you will be set to 9
MHz.
BTW, I have my M1-M4 memories set to default frequencies for each band so
that M1=CW, M2=SSB, M3=Data A (PSK) and M4=AFSK-A (RTTY).
Oh and BTW,
I wouldn't make too much of the vaporware thing. Producing a rig of the
performance and quality level of the K3 isn't an easy or cheap undertaking
for anybody. If it were, everyone would be doing it and they'd all be being
delivered the next day after the announcement of their
Price is on Texastowers.com.
István
Bill W4ZV wrote:
K9BF wrote:
I am guessing the price tag on the new 5000 will be somewhere near $5000.
I might be able to get my wife to go along at that price. Has anyone have
a better idea of the cost?
Only 1.5 times the cost of a better
I would certainly send my K3 to Elecraft for the 200 watt upgrade. I'm
using a IC-775DSP from a friend while my K3 is back to the factory for the 2
meter mod and what a difference in signal reports. I have a 70 ft tower
next to a lake and if I had 200 watts, I wouldn't need a linear. I'm
Well my indulgence at the Orlando hamfest arrived yesterday - a new K3.
This means I need to find a new home for one of my K2s - or my wife
may decide to find a new home for me.
I have a K2/100 plus the external KAT100 for sale. The K2 serial
number is 6405. The KPA100 is older but all the
I forgot to say that all the cables and manuals are included as well
as the K2 QRP top.
Larry Ingram AG4NN
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These are two quite different animals with different design
objectives. The FT-5000 weighs 46 pounds and runs on household AC.
The K3 weighs 8 pounds and runs off 12 VDC. And here we bump into
reality when it comes to 200W. Getting 200 W out of 12 V finals
would be a real trick if you want
Probably not to your ham neighbors who have fewer IMD products to suffer.
If Elecraft, or anyone else, offers 200W without going to 28-50V FET finals,
I'm not interested.
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Using the K3 to
drive my AL80B, I only use
500 watts max
It looks like the price will be between $5500 and $6300.
http://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/hamhf/0355.html
In that it has a 9mHz first IF with a 300Hz roofing filter available, it
looks like it will be a very good radio.
That said, I don't see why we would compare it to the K3. It's a big
Hi Brian,
This came up and was discussed on Nov. 15, 2009 with a thread titled
K3 Firmware Req for SWL band and Using Memories Search for that
thread in the archives to read all the gory details.
The key information that's missing from the documentation is the band
edges. I determined
The FTDX-5000 will never be a better radio that our K3's but indeed is a very
promising receiver because of the adittion of new real roofing filters for 15,
6 and 3Khz as standard installation at the first IF instead of the poor
performance MCF (monolitic ceramic filter) that they have been
It is nice for Yaesu to finally do something that Ten-Tec and Elecraft have
been doing for years. Though they want twice the amount of money for that
big nice radio. I don't know nothing about how the RD investment works and
how they come up with the pricing, but in my opinion, at this stage
to: The K2 Community
de: Gary Hvizdak, KI4GGX
[K2] Rework Eliminator(TM) K2 Option Bypass Headers Kit Production Cancelled
There was very
Thanks to Gary Surrency, the Hi Sig displays at last disappeared and the
rig works normally.
Gary said the KPIO3 could be the cause of the trouble. So, I uninstalled it,
as well as the 100w module, downloaded the DSP firmware, and restarted the
K3 in the 10 w config'. All went well, so I
I've always been a no-frills type when it comes to rigs, so it's hard for me
to see the appeal of the fancier features of the rigs from the Big Three. So
it's hard for me to come up with things they offer that Elecraft doesn't
that would appeal to me to make me choose theirs rather than Elecraft.
John and Rick et. al,
Rick sez, When I finally had the epiphany that the run station was
listening on the last worked stations freq even if off a few hundred Hz
my rate went way up.
Probably the run stations that were most affected by this were K3
operators since if they had it cranked down
Elecraft XV50 6m transverter for sale
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Built last spring, in new condition and works very
well. 20 Watts output. Works seamlessly with an
Elecraft K2 and can be internally configured with jumpers to
accept 1 mW, 251 mW or 5 Watts input from other (28 MHz) IF
Just in case you want to do it, it starts at 06:00 UTC, and not at 00:00 UTC
as I wrote in a previous mail !
Thanks to Christian for reminding me
73 Jacques de F9OJ
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Hi Randy,
It took me a minute, but I see what your refering too.
I should have been a bit more careful in my wording.
I should have said I don't believe the unit uses latching relays, and
so ~100mA on the DC line is required in order to re-activate them.
The Processor internal EPROM, does retain
Hi David,
To my knowledge, the only way I could check the L/C on it would be to
tune with the unit cover off and then disconnect input/ouput and measure
both L C.
Otherwise it is just a go/no-go test.
I did build an L-network station that I use for manual testing.
For the inductor, I used a 6
Hi all,
Just remembered something from my K2 build that I'm still wondering about
and never asked on the reflector about. On P54, the 5th step of the build
manual: you're instructed to read the number written on the package
containing the 7 crystals for the crystal filter. I remember there being
LS,
That number is ignored in the base K2 manual, but if you add the KSB2
board, the number that is printed on the crystal set for that option is
important to initially set the SSB filter passband right.
If you just used the default values for your filter, they will be close,
but you will
But it strikes me as mostly creature-comforts that make the big rigs
appealing rather than just good basic performance.
The other night I was talking to a ham in Nevada who is an accomplished DXer
and contester, who was really trying to like the K3 but just couldn't get
over the plain looks
I've always been a no-frills type when it comes to rigs, so
it's hard for me to see the appeal of the fancier features of the rigs from
the Big Three. So it's hard for me to come up with things they offer that
Elecraft doesn't that would appeal to me to make me choose theirs rather
than
I realize this is already OT and making any critical comments about K3s is
dangerous in this forum, but how can you say this?
Are there some published data on the FT5000 somewhere that prove this? I don't
know anything about Yaesus, the last one I owned was labeled Henry Tempo One
(FT200) and
I've been a CW proponent for 52 years, now, and have done my share of
DXing, contesting, and rag chewing. I just sold two FT-1000s (one D; one
non-D) that I've been using for about 10 years in an SO2R station. I
replaced them with a pair of K3s. If I did a time-motion study of my
actions during a
Wes,
Yes, the K3 does have a few warts that have to be worked out. It will
never be finished as far as things like the audio amp/mono plug
problem and similar hardware related problems. As a parallel, when
there is a particular problem identified on the K2, K1, KX1, or any
other Elecraft
I realize this is already OT and making any critical comments about K3s is
dangerous in this forum, but how can you say this?
I don't agree at all with that. Critical comments are made all the time, and
the issues are usually fixed.
Some of the comments like the K3 is noisy are operator
Let's end this thread before we beat it to death. :-)
73, Eric WA6HHQ
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Eric,
Why not beat it to death? :)
Just kiddingMaybe...
This is just to you, but Yaesu management sucks.. :)
73, Bob W0GI
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Hi Don,
Thanks for the tips. It turned out to be a bad 1/8 in plug. The
insulation between tip and first ring is too small, so it doesn't fit
correctly. I probably tugged just a wee bit on the cord while testing
(apparently repeatedly... go figure). If I don't insert the plug in all
the way
Sean,
Good sleuthing. That is one reason I order only good name brand plugs
and jacks (Switchcraft is usually good).
I have bought junk from Radio shack that has given nothing but headaches
- other distributors that offer bargain prices have similar problems.
73,
Don W3FPR
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