[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Errata sheet

I worked through the nets in my memory and I did not feel right. I was certain I had worked Roy in Iowa but didn't remember typing his name.  I was right, I had made a mistake.  Mea culpa.   On 14050.5 kHz at 2200z: W0CZ - Ken - ND NO8V - John - MI => K6XK - Roy - IA <= K0DTJ - Brian - CA

[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

Good Evening,   Conditions were not too bad.  I had expected a CME of more vigor.  This one rattled the ionosphere but did not leave much behind.  Neither I, nor my brother in Wisconsin, saw any aurora. Clear skies with no moon, if they had been there ...  However, every signal I copied had

[Elecraft] 80M Elecraft SSB Net 10/30/2021 ET/11/1/2021 UTC

The 80M Elecraft SSB Net met at 9pm ET Sunday, 0100 UTC Monday Checkins: N8SBE Dave MI K3S KPA500 net control WB8HRO TimMI FT-450D KPA500 K8NUCarl OH FT-DX101D GENESIS III WM6PSteve GA K3S KPA1500 N8TTR Mike IN K3 AE6JV Bill NH K3

Re: [Elecraft] Problem Tuning K3

No, that isn't true at all.  FT8 is indeed a WEAK SIGNAL mode, but in no way is it limited to low power ... other than the key down capability of the rig, of course.  I've used a KW on FT8 on 160m to work Japan and the rest of SE Asia in spite of the 2,000 foot high mountain that sits less

Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft K-Pod manual updated -- now covers use with the K4

Hmmm ... and here I thought I was way too old to learn new things. 1.  There's a K-Pod utility 2. There's an update for K-Pod firmware 3.  My K-Pod runs with just the flat cable inserted and no wall wart needed 4.  To get the K-Pod utility to work, you have to do some finger gymnastics on F1/F4

Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft K-Pod manual updated -- now covers use with the K4

Yes. 73, Jim N7US From: Bob Wilson, N6TV Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2021 17:52 To: Jim McDonald Cc: j...@kk9a.com; Elecraft Reflector Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft K-Pod manual updated -- now covers use with the K4 Did you try upgrading the K-POD firmware to 1.12 to use these new

Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft K-Pod manual updated -- now covers use with the K4

Did you try upgrading the K-POD firmware to 1.12 to use these new features? 1.12 10/20/2021 Holding down F4 on power up selects encoder 1:1 rate. Holding down F5 on power up selects 1:0.5 rate. 73, Bob, N6TV On Sat, Oct 30, 2021 at 8:26 PM Jim McDonald wrote: > I have tried all three settings

Re: [Elecraft] Problem Tuning K3

Hey Jim! I though FT8 was a superb weak signal mode at 5 to 10 watts at the most. Nevertheless, I’ve had an inconsistent issue similar to yours. One incident was resolved by backing down on the drive to 20w. Another time I tuned up way off the chosen frequency such that the tuner had to

Re: [Elecraft] center fed dipole

Your Guessing ! Did you Model it ??? Then you will know…….. Ray WA6VAB K3 Windows 0 From: Bob McGraw Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2021 6:17 PM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] center fed dipole I don't understand the use of the 4:1 balun.  On 80M the feed Z of that antenna

Re: [Elecraft] what soundcard for K3 and Mac

This list was updated in 2018. http://www.telepostinc.com/soundcards.html wunder K6WRU Walter Underwood CM87wj http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog) > On Oct 31, 2021, at 11:54 AM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote: > > >> What I haven’t quite figured

[Elecraft] Problem Tuning K3

I’m running a K3, KPA500 and a KAT500. My antenna is an 80m OCFD.  When I operate FT8, the rig tunes perfectly on all bands.  When I was operating SSB in the DX contest this weekend, the rig would not tune on any of the SSB frequencies or bands.  If I turned off the KPA500 and the KAT500, the

Re: [Elecraft] what soundcard for K3 and Mac

What I haven’t quite figured out is how important is this really is to weak signal digital decoding. Low noise in a sound card is important to weak signal decoding in two ways: 1) you want the inherent noise floor in the sound card to be 10 to 15 dB *LESS* than the minimum - receiver

Re: [Elecraft] feeding a half-wave dipole with ladder line

Ahh yes!  "The Illuminator."  As I remember, he even put three bulbs in a Vee, each decoupled to make a "Phased Illuminator."  I believe he worked all continents on the single bulb.  I'd guess that all of us of a certain age have had someone call us as we were tuning up on a light bulb.  My

Re: [Elecraft] Parts Swappers

It all boils down to trust... You either trust your seller, or buyer, or you don't. You take precautions, (take a reasonable number of them, not going overboard), and if you get burned you modify how you determine trust, or you take your chances again. TANSTAAFL There are no guarantees in

Re: [Elecraft] what soundcard for K3 and Mac

Dave, This interest caught my eye awhile back: http://members.chello.at/oe1mww/sound-card-check/ I’ve tested several of the inexpensive (<$10) nameless USB sound card dongles using his method and saw a wide variety of noise floors - however

Re: [Elecraft] Parts Swappers

* On 2021 31 Oct 01:06 -0500, Carl Jón Denbow wrote: > If this was a big problem that would be prudent, but it’s not. I’ve > never had a problem of this sort in years of online trading, selling > and buying ham gear. Others on here have said the same thing. This > is a solution in search of a

Re: [Elecraft] feeding a half-wave dipole with ladder line

On 10/30/2021 4:47 PM, John Harper wrote: Multiband DXCC is NOT a measure of antenna performance Au contraire, it's one measure. Many years ago, N6BT published a piece in QST describing how had worked DX on a light bulb. He had carefully decoupled it so that it was, indeed, the lightbulb