[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

Good Evening,    It was a mild, smokey week.  Wind moves the smoke around though you can still taste it.  The wind also causes a steady rain of fir needles.  Dry weather has caused more of them to die off. Black berries are not doing very well.  The jays have a lean and hungry look.    The

Re: [Elecraft] KPA500 Blank Display

Bruce - I've never experienced that with my KPA500, but it sounds like it might be either a bad ribbon connector, or a bad component on the front panel circuit board. Did you assemble it, or was it factory built? I suggest you talk to Elecraft service. 73 Lyn, WØLEN -Original Message-

Re: [Elecraft] K2 Faulty menu switch?

Jerry, That does sound like it might be a bad solder connection. Try resoldering Front Panel RP1 and U2.  Those components are critical to decoding the switch matrix. You might also try reseating Control Board U6 - but do so in a static controlled manner. With that 7xxx serial number, you

[Elecraft] KPA500 Blank Display

I'm curious if any others have seen this... Yesterday I turned on the amp and only the bottom half of the text was shown on the display. This slowly faded away leaving just the backlight on,The band switches were inoperable as well. All else worked correctly. After 20

Re: [Elecraft] K3 / N1MM Keying and rig control

I have an older K3 (ser. 0007!) which only has an RS232 port. It connects directly to an RS232 port on the computer (Win 10), though I have also used a USB-serial converter. This provides the radio control. The K3 is well-supported in N1MM. For keying I use a Winkey USB. This (obviously) has a