[Elecraft] off topic - VR2's experience in COVID-19

2020-03-11 Thread Johnny Siu via Elecraft
Dear OM, It is off-topic, you can press 'delete' now. VR2 is densely populated with over 7 million people.  We are also close to Mainland China.  Our government is so stupid that she did not greatly reduce the number of Mainland Chinese from entering Hong Kong at the beginning. Having said that,

Re: [Elecraft] Here is the real nitty-gritty on how the KAT500 works

2020-03-11 Thread Christopher Hoover
Thanks for this! I wrote some code to tell my radio and the KAT500 to walk over the bins and my antennas and essentially "push" autotune. It worked OK but not great and I think I see why now. This is a simple scheme and simple is good.. I'm not sure how much flash or EEPROM is available [1].

Re: [Elecraft] K3: K3S shuts down

2020-03-11 Thread Rick Robinson
Clean the fuses and holders. On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 8:02 PM Bob McGraw K4TAX wrote: > Power supply over or under voltage? > > Bob, K4TAX > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Mar 11, 2020, at 6:54 PM, Nr4c wrote: > > > > A friend has a K3S (sn 1006x) and it has started to just shut down on >

Re: [Elecraft] Where is Elecraft Support ?

2020-03-11 Thread Jeff Stai
Continuing the OT parade, I have one. When I first joined the ASIC team at Western Digital I was assigned to complete a SCSI interface chip and get it into manufacturing. It was a design that they had decided not to produce... except for the fact that one frisky salesman sold it to an passenger

Re: [Elecraft] K3: K3S shuts down

2020-03-11 Thread Bob McGraw K4TAX
Power supply over or under voltage? Bob, K4TAX Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 11, 2020, at 6:54 PM, Nr4c wrote: > > A friend has a K3S (sn 1006x) and it has started to just shut down on its > own. > > Any ideas? > > Sent from my iPhone > ...nr4c. bill > >

Re: [Elecraft] K3: K3S shuts down

2020-03-11 Thread A. Vidovic
Overheating ? Try to check the gap between the main unit and the heatsink. On 12/3/20 08:40, Nr4c wrote: A friend has a K3S (sn 1006x) and it has started to just shut down on its own. Any ideas? __ Elecraft mailing list Home:

[Elecraft] K3: K3S shuts down

2020-03-11 Thread Nr4c
A friend has a K3S (sn 1006x) and it has started to just shut down on its own. Any ideas? Sent from my iPhone ...nr4c. bill __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help:

Re: [Elecraft] Possible K3 Line Input Damage

2020-03-11 Thread Don Wilhelm
Mike, This sound to me like you have to make a trip to the remote site to see what is going on. A soundcard failure may have applied DC voltage to the K3 and damaged it (but I have never heard of that happening). You may have a soundcard failure of some sort and no audio is getting to the K3

Re: [Elecraft] 20 KHz wide signal in K3 on CW

2020-03-11 Thread Don Wilhelm
Ignacy, It sounds to me like you (and the gentleman with the 20kHz wide signal) have a problem with your K3 - that is not normal. I suggest you contact supp...@elecraft.com. 73, Don W3FPR On 3/11/2020 11:09 AM, Ignacy wrote: A while ago, one station in a contest had a 20 KHz wide signal.

Re: [Elecraft] Where is Elecraft Support ?

2020-03-11 Thread Alan
My experience with lifetime buys was at HP/Agilent.  They would only do such a buy when the manufacturer announced a part discontinuance.  You then figure out how many parts you need for the expected product lifetime plus spares for future repairs and buy that many to put in stores. It's  a

Re: [Elecraft] Where is Elecraft Support ?

2020-03-11 Thread Fred Jensen
It is dependent on scale, David.  The USAF flies large fleets of a number of different A/C and has in-place materiel warehousing and distribution facilities.  They also have extensive records on "requirements," the failure rate of components.  So, for them, and some civilian A/C maintenance

Re: [Elecraft] Where is Elecraft Support ?

2020-03-11 Thread Phil Kane
On 3/7/2020 12:34 PM, Jim Brown wrote: >> I check my e-mail several times a day.  And I check my SPAM filter >> once every day.  In the world we live in, nothing is perfect. > > Same here. Having had a career that ran on messaging and memos starting from the telegram, Telex and TWX eras, I do

[Elecraft] 20 KHz wide signal in K3 on CW

2020-03-11 Thread Ignacy
A while ago, one station in a contest had a 20 KHz wide signal. I send him email and he replied that he had K3. Yesterday I was calling D2EB on 3521 and got lots of angry reports about my signal jamming everything around. One station sent a panadapter screen. There are spurs about every 700 Hz.

Re: [Elecraft] Penny wise, pound foolish

2020-03-11 Thread Michael Walker
Can I recommend we stay on an Elecraft topic? many thanks, mike va3mw On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 7:45 AM Lyn Norstad wrote: > One tip-off for very slow delivery is when the shipping method is called > out as "China Post." > > 73 > Lyn, W0LEN > > -Original Message- > From:

Re: [Elecraft] Penny wise, pound foolish

2020-03-11 Thread Lyn Norstad
One tip-off for very slow delivery is when the shipping method is called out as "China Post." 73 Lyn, W0LEN -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of F5vjc Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 5:18 AM To: Vic Rosenthal

Re: [Elecraft] Penny wise, pound foolish

2020-03-11 Thread F5vjc
Exactly, more and more 'stuff ' which eventually, (even prior to Corona Virus) arrives from China is absolute junk! Amazon is now rife with this Chinese long delivery rubbish. How to avoid it? It is not apparent at the time of ordering! 73, F5VJC On Wed, 11 Mar 2020 at 07:11, Vic Rosenthal

[Elecraft] Penny wise, pound foolish

2020-03-11 Thread Vic Rosenthal
I recently ordered some Kester flux pens from a large Chinese company. They take a lng time, but shipping is free and prices are low. But: One of the pens had a date of January 2019, which means that half of its shelf life has expired. The second one had a more recent date, but was leaking