These tutorial meetings could be organized locally by clubs or groups of
users on an ad hoc basis. Good documentation is still needed though as
many live in distant parts and the class just held will do the fellow who
purchases two months later no good at all. Documentation is always there
to
After the perfect manual has been written in English, a useful next step
IMHO would be to have the manual translated properly into some other
language(s). Expensive yes, but there must be a large number of Elecraft's
customers, and potential customers, who have difficulty with English. A
Hi, all concerned admin:
On 12/7, admin deleted at least one earlier post of mine.
In retrospect, the deletion is a good thing; thanks, admin.
Brgds,
Dave Windisch, N3HE
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Eric and Wayne,
I see another profit center here. You could provide all this
requested information and still keep the price of the K3 where it is
for those of us who like to do it on our own. A correspondence
course might be the way to go.
73s Jim, W4ATK
JIM ROGERS
Hello Geoff,
I will look forward to Chinese manual.
To my knowledge, many Mainland Chinese hams are interested in K3 and K2.
However, they are frightened by the English manual
cheers,
Johnny VR2XMC
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Dear Group
This is a very good discussion and it is spot on for a new K3 owner.
I have owned my K3 for about one month and I have struggled to learn how to use
this radio. nbsp;So a fairly new ham and a high feature radio are not
necessarly a great fit. nbsp; So yes for guys like me some
Speaker+ph was the problem it was not set to yes.
But I did have the 2 correct.
Thx
Don
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On Dec 7, 2010 8:51 AM, N1JM lt;johnn...@gmail.comgt; wrote:
This normal if SPKRS is set to 1. Set it to 2 and you should have both when
SPKR+PH is yes.
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I was one of the early users of the CQ-Contest reflector, back in the
90s, and it was a long time before I became aware that hams were the
only ones who referred to these things as reflectors rather than
m,ailing lists or listservs. It also used to be that anyone posting
on one of these
Pete, I'll see your curmudgeon-ness and raise you a couple of gadflies.
That appears to be a fad; folks who have no desire to be identified or help,
just to stir pots, make waves, and think it's funny. The list manager here is
working the issue, I know from his posts.
73, Monty K2DLJ
Or
How about this novel idea
perhaps folks just can't resist clutering up the reflector with
topics completely devoid of anything Elecraft related
start using OT at the start of their message
to help folks who wish to set email filters for these
totally OFF TOPIC posts
so they can go straight to the
Pete - Even though you're older than me, I can one-up you by saying I used
the Internet (Usenet) in the mid-70s while in college and well as from home
in the 80s with a UUCP emulator on my Commodore 64 :.)
Yes, I do prefer postings with name/callsign. I believe it should be a list
requirement,
Barry wrote:
N1JM wrote:
This normal if SPKRS is set to 1. Set it to 2 and you should have both
when SPKR+PH is yes.
The manual says set SPKRS on 2 if using 2 external speakers. I'm using
the internal speaker.
SPKRS=2 is either or both. See page 20 of the manual.
73,
John
Is there any downside to setting SPKR to 2 if using the internal speaker? I
do have the subrcvr installed.
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Pete,
I think the answer is simple - just do not respond to posts where the
sender does not want to identify himself. I *might* try one response if
it looks like a sincere request for help from someone, but I will ask
that they identity (firstname and callsign) on any subsequent posts.
I
I assume because the numbers are the same, this production release is
identical to the beta.
John N1JM
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most people do use OT - I have rules that trash anything that has K1, K2, KX1,
KX-1 in the subject, if it comes from the reflector
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On 8 Dec 2010, at 13:39, Sam Morgan
PDF is not intended to be an editable format. It is intended to be a
distribution format. While extremely minor tweaks can be made in a PDF as a
last-minute fix, there is no secret unlock key that turns Acrobat into a
word processor. It just isn't that kind of animal, was never intended to be,
Not at all, It is just plain courtesy to end your post with name and
call sign on our amateur reflectors. It is beyond me as to why one
would do otherwise.
73s Jim, W4ATK
http://web.me.com/jimrogers_w4atk
On Dec 8, 2010, at 7:16 AM, Pete Smith wrote:
I was one of the early users of the
If your name and call sign are part of your email address, why?
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I agree with you on the use of pdf for distributing files. The format
allows one to lock the document so it can look the same across platforms
and operating systems. I also intensely dislike MS Word for technical
writing. You have to fight it every step of the way. I use FrameMaker
Barry wrote:
Is there any downside to setting SPKR to 2 if using the internal speaker?
I do have the subrcvr installed.
I don't think do. After owning my K3 almost 2 years, I haven't noticed
anything. I've never hooked up external speakers. The internal one has been
sufficient for me. I
I like the idea of webinars. They are used a lot in my industry. They tend
to be on a specific topic and last 1 hour. Elecraft could charge a small
fee to cover costs. If you cannot make a specific webinar, then they are
usually available after the fact via DVD for a small fee as well.
I
The internal speaker is connected to the left channel, so anything you
have routed to the right channel will not be audible when listening to
the internal speaker.
73,
Lyle KK7P
Is there any downside to setting SPKR to 2 if using the internal speaker? I
do have the subrcvr installed.
I am also a new General class licensee and my new K3 is my FIRST venture in HF.
It’s a world of difference from 2 meter. The current owner’s manual assumes
previous experience with HF radio operation. A tutorial/new owner’s
manual/video(s)/etc. would be most welcome as opposed to hours wasted
Ten Tec has made some instruction videos for some of their transceivers.
They are on youtube and you can find links to those videos on their website.
I found them to be very useful and I don't even own one of their products.
I would be great if Elecraft (or perhaps a experienced user) would do
Dear Joe
With respect, it seems to me that the secret sauce in the K3 is largely
in the FIRMWARE, which is why I carefully avoided
even mentioning it, let alone asking for descriptive material on it.
[ I agree that Elecraft would be nuts to publish
the firmware in human-readable form, and I
I suspect producing these things inhouse based on helpdesk calls would
pay for itself quickly. I bet there are many issues that they get calls
for that could be eleminated with these items.
For example just the zero beating to calibrate the unit at startup. The
amount of time spent on the
I have been running the beta 4.22 version, first time I ever loaded a beta
version on my K3. So now that the regular release is available, do I need
to load it instead, or is it the same thing as the beta version?
Thanks for any information.
73,
Tim - N3XX
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From:
Tim,
It is the same - if it were different, the numbers would have changed.
73,
Don W3FPR
On 12/8/2010 10:58 AM, N3XX wrote:
I have been running the beta 4.22 version, first time I ever loaded a beta
version on my K3. So now that the regular release is available, do I need
to load it
I see many do what I do -- view the K3 manual as a pdf file, often
using the Find function of Adobe.
Two suggestions:
- Put any changes or additions in the manual in either a different font
or italics(?). Then it would be easy as one browses the manual to spot
what has changed.
- These
Pete,
I don't think this is curmudgeonly at all. I try to sign off with 73 on
internet forum
postings (such as on eHam), as well on e-mail lists like this one.
I figure if I can't say 73, meaning, of course best regards, then
perhaps I
shouldn't send it.Keeps me in check!
73,
Chuck
Guys -Thanks for all the input on this. We have a lot of good
suggestions to sort through.
Let's end this thread (and any others that are related to it) for now in
the interest of reducing list traffic. Ithas certainly hit the limit for
postings in a short time period. :-)
73, Eric WA6HHQ
My K2/10 (#6255) has suddenly lost any receive capability on 40 meters. It
transmits on all bands including 40 meters but hears nothing on 40. I have
done the simple checks in changing coax and antenna inputs with no change. I
have a second K2 for comparison, but lacking any lab equipment here
Guys -Thanks for all the input on this. We have a lot of good
suggestions to sort through.
Let's end this thread (and any others that are related to it) for now in
the interest of reducing list traffic. Ithas certainly hit the limit for
postings in a short time period. :-)
73, Eric WA6HHQ
I agree that the K3 user documentation is pretty amateurish, but it's vastly
better than, say, the SteppIR documentation. On the other hand, the K3
assembly instructions are outstanding. Writing good technical manuals is
MUCH harder than most people realize and often gets short shrift by
END of this thread.
In general, discussion of what should and should not be posted to the
list is addressed by our list guidelines. Please do not post to the list
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Absolutely :-)
73, Eric WA6HHQ
I assume because the numbers are the same, this production release is
identical to the beta.
John N1JM
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Each new version of the firmware (including beta versions) comes with a
description of the changes made. In fact the document included describes each
change that the update includes dating back to MCU 1.65 and DSP 1.52, 1-28-08.
You don't have to ask for it. The file name is hfwnotes.rtf and
This seems similar to my situation last year. I had an FT-450, SGC
tuners, and just couldn't get things to work; I didn't understand how
the stuff in my shack functioned, what it was really for, and had no
chance. The simplest contact was extremely frustrating.
My solution (which was right for
Hello Elecrafters,
A friend told me that if I install the K6XX CW Indicator in my K2, the display
will also blink in SSB mode. My question: Is there a way or a modification
which would de-activate the indicator when working in SSB mode?
73 de Pierre VE2PID
K2 # 5170
KX1 # 441
Byron,
That's exactly, as you Americans would say, the 'way to go'. I am always a
little saddened to read of someone who has a top end transceiver yet who is
new to the hobby and probably too does not have a background of short wave
listening. I can only imagine how much there is to learn,
1). It's a rule on this reflector. Those who don't know that, haven't read the
periodic posting of the rules.
2) Your email address doesn't show up in the body of the message. Well maybe if
you
have a sig line.
3) It's a courtesy us old fogeys really really like.
73, Mike NF4L
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OOOPS, sorry, didn't mean to include this list in the distribution. Mea
culpa...
Bill W5WVO
Regardless,
Thank you for this
As per the list guidelines, its perfectly OK to have your name and call
(if you have a call) show up just in the email from: address. This
shows on all emails resent by the list server.
Let's end discussion on this topic as per my last posting ending the thread.
73, Eric WA6HHQ
Elecraft
Gentlemen,
A newbie to the K3; have had it for about one month. Just installed 4.22 to
the machine and it installed as slick as could be.
Thank you and keep up the marvelous work that all of you do for the radio
community.
73,
Paul, KD1TH
I'm new to the K3 and so my settings may be faulty, buy here goes. I
downloaded and installed the latest firmware today without problem. My
problem is that when I narrow my width to 0.5 I immediately lose all audio.
I have a 400 Hz filter installed. I only regain audio with widening the
width
Just a wild guess, but are your filters enabled for the mode you're using?
Using the K3 Utility's Configuration tab, Configure Crystal Filters, check
the rows titled CW Enable, LSB enable, etc. These allow the filters to
be used for receive for the various modes. Your 400 Hz filter needs to be
Sounds like either your filter configuration is wrong, or your narrow
filter is faulty. Watch the XFIL section of the front panel display
as you narrow the bandwidth and make sure that it switches to the
appropriate filter slots based on what's physically installed. If not,
use the K3 Utility to
Someone else argued that to become an expert with the K3, it
predominately comesfrom using the equipment. That is true. In
some respects, what is forgotten there is that some of you,
probably many of you have benefitted from the tribal knowledge
of being there early when it was first
Perhaps the small group seeking insights into the design of the K3 could
show us all where this information has been supplied by Y,K Y etc?
I am sure it is not high on Elecraft's list of 'things to do' and so it may
be quite a while before the information you seek is released.
Already the
I agree fully Joe. Also no matter how well written, illustrated, etc the
manual may be, it is worthless if the user doesn't study it in detail to
learn all the features of the equipment. Many never look at the manual,
just ask a question on a reflector.
Jim K4JAF
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Ron,
Check the menu while you have 40 meters selected.
Is the RX ant set on? This is a per band setting.
If it receives on other bands, and can transmit on all bands, then this
is about the only thing that can be wrong.
73,
Don W3FPR
On 12/8/2010 12:04 PM, KM4VX wrote:
My K2/10 (#6255)
I thought an update was to be released this week that would, at a minimum,
fix the issue with RX drop out that occurs during T/R when Notch is engaged.
Did I miss something?
Bruce - N1LN
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* On 2010 08 Dec 17:24 -0600, Bruce Meier wrote:
I thought an update was to be released this week that would, at a minimum,
fix the issue with RX drop out that occurs during T/R when Notch is engaged.
Did I miss something?
I don't think so, Bruce. I was puzzled yesterday that 4.22 is now
Bruce,
MCU 4.22/DSP 2.71 should have fixed that, and is now at release level -
at least the firmware release notes indicate that it was fixed.
If it does not cure your particular situation, please report the
specifics (relevant settings etc.) so it can be analyzed.
73,
Don W3FPR
On
Sorry Bruce, I just learned that the DSP at release level is 2.70. If
you want the fix, you will have to download the beta files.
73,
Don W3FPR
Bruce,
MCU 4.22/DSP 2.71 should have fixed that, and is now at release level -
at least the firmware release notes indicate that it was fixed.
Wayne an dLyle has some other items to add in DSP 2.71. It and new mcu
code will be up as beta on the site shortly for testing.
73, Eric
www.elecraft.com
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I thought an update was to be released this week that would, at a minimum,
fix the
Quoting W5WVO, whose email is blocked from external access...
PDF is not intended to be an editable format. It is intended to be a
distribution format. While extremely minor tweaks can be made in a PDF
as a last-minute fix, there is no secret unlock key that turns Acrobat
into a word
Stephen, I used to feel the same way, having come into Ham radio building
and operating my own gear from the ground up and getting my Commercial
Radiotelegraph and Radiotelephone licenses passing tests demonstrating that
I could draw schematics and block diagrams of equipment from FM transmitters
:-) (or should I say, Hi-Hi?).
I use 73 in e-mails too, but I use it like I use it on the air - as part of
a final salutation. When I expect to see more on the subject directed to me,
I don't us it just as I don't use it to end every transmission on the air.
As the saying goes, Civility Is The
With Adobe Acrobat Professional you can create PDF forms that are
explicitly meant to be editable so the customer can fill in
appropriate fields. I will occasionally load a PDF in to this program
and convert fields to form fields so I do not have to print, write,
and scan a form.
73, Byron N6NUL
After Team Vertical got back from our latest adventure in C6land, I was
curious about how the AGC was working (or not). Kenny, C6ATA came away
from the event really preferring his venerable TS850. Both Walt, C6ATR
and I, C6AKX found turning AGC off was a way to increase the depth of
the pileup and
Stephen,
Well, it was the way to go for me, but I can completely understand
buying a K3 as a first radio.
I have a number of hobbies, and my normal technique is to buy the kit
all the others are comparing themselves against; the K3 certainly fits
that bill in ham radio. I like to buy good gear
Shortly after I got my K3 I started on a project to write the K3
Rosetta Stone, a textbook-like document. I have posted an outline and a
sample chapter on operating the K3 at www.ke7x.com. I'd be interested to
hear if folks think this would be a project worth continuing.
73,
Fred, KE7X
I want to thank those of you who responded to my problem, and in particular
Don (W3FPR) who once again demonstrated his knowledge of the K2 and his
willingness to generously share his time and talent. The problem was in the
secondary menu. The D19 parameter was y and since no K60XV is installed
This thread and related ones were closed earlier today to prevent list
overload ;-)
73, Eric WA6HHQ
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appropriate fields. I will
...Our POS software vendor has a whole series of videos
posted on its website that focus on how to use major features within the
software...
Which one? I've seen dozens, maybe hundreds, of programs that qualify
for the POS moniker.
Sorry, I just couldn't help it.
73...
Randy, W8FN
Hello all, I am a new K3 user, and just did the 4.22 update.
I am not sure how to use the APF after reading the update info.
Does the con fig menu have to be active to use the APF?
I would appreciate a step by step procedure!
thanks rob N8RT
Sincerely, Rob N8RT.com , Peggy ,
Is the radio in the CW mode?
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