definitely need more seasoning. Ten watts on 80M with a
screwdriver antenna is very marginal, so 100W seems the next step.
Does anyone have any advice?
Cheers - Bill, AE6JV
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or will need at some point in this great hobby.
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408-356-8506 | rate of systems being compromised would be going down,
www.pwpcons
ments.
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408-356-8506 | Fourth Amendment that it operates only by
www.pwpconsult.com | accident. - William Hugh Murray
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Home:
useable. I am concerned that the 200 hz
might be too narrow for RTTY. I work some CW but almost no ssb.
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Bill Frantz| If the site is supported by | Periwinkle
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:27 PM, lboeke...@sbcglobal.net (Larry Boekeloo) wrote:
How does one know if your K3 is capable of powering the P3?
Is there a specific serial number or a specific rev level or something?
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Bill Frantz| Re: Hardware Mana
e.ca (Alan Hawrylyshen) wrote:
More than anything - I'm interested in opinions around how much space is
needed to protect the radio, etc.
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Bill Frantz| I don't have high-speed | Periwinkle
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e box')
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Bill Frantz| The first thing you need when | Periwinkle
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www.pwpconsult.com | perimeter. | Los Gatos,
CA 95032
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E6JV
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Bill Frantz|Security, like correctness, is| Periwinkle
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www.pwpconsult.com |ibuted to Andrew Tanenbaum| Los Gatos,
CA 9
did anything useful in the way of noise reduction.
73, Jim K9YC
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Bill Frantz| I don't have high-speed | Periwinkle
(408)356-8506 | internet. I have DSL.| 16345
Englewood Ave
www.pwpconsult.com |
nd 3A. Mine are on a slow freight coming to California.
Cheers - Bill, AE6JV
On 12/11/13 at 9:52 AM, j...@jtmiller.com (Jim Miller) wrote:
I prefer to have an assortment of pins: 15a, 30a, 45a. They're cheap so why
take shortcuts?
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) plus the
configuration backup is the same as full backup, what else is missing?
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Bill Frantz| "The only thing we have to | Periwinkle
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tions when the power is increased.
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Bill Frantz|Security, like correctness, is| Periwinkle
(408)356-8506 |not an add-on feature. - Attr-| 16345
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www.pwpconsult.com |ibuted to Andrew Tanenbaum| Los
I'll be on 20M PSK exclusively from New Hampshire until the end
of the year. If you see me give a call. Just don't send 73 sk
until you're done. We can chat.
Cheers - Bill
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Bill Frantz| I like the farmers&#
owing week.
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Bill Frantz| Re: Computer reliability, performance, and security:
408-356-8506 | The guy who *is* wearing a parachute is
*not* the
www.pwpconsult.com | first to reach the ground. - Ter
since the amateur
'standard' has been UHF for so many years ...
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Bill Frantz| Re: Hardware Management Modes: | Periwinkle
(408)356-8506 | If there's a mode, there's a | 16345
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Santa, KI6SLX delivered a 100W upgrade for my K3. QRO here we come! :-)
Cheers - Bill, AE6JV
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Bill Frantz|"Web security is like medicine - trying to do good for
408-356-8506 |an evolved body of kl
up. If they're noise
cancelling, I cannot find that information about them.
They aren't noise canceling, but my wife complains that I can't
hear her when I'm wearing them HIHI.
Cheers - Bill, AE6JV
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Cheers - Bill, AE6JV
On 12/28/13 at 12:38 PM, e...@elecraft.com (Eric Swartz WA6HHQ
- Elecraft) wrote:
Note that both the mail-archive and Nabble archives are run by independent
outside parties and not by
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Bill Frantz
/31/13 at 4:42 AM, k...@icloud.com (Reginald J Mackey SR) wrote:
I 've use both MFJ and Alph-Delta switches and they work well. no problems even
at 1k.
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Bill Frantz| "I wish there was a knob on the TV t
ndard" temperature. The last time I
think I used the wall thermometer.) The MacIntosh K3 Utility did
the Wattmeter calibration. As far as I know, these were the only
changes to the radio's settings.
Cheers - Bill, AE6JV
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,
3.49A@10.3V vs. 3.53A@10.6V but the difference isn't very
significant and may be explained by the difference in voltage.
(However, I would expect higher current with less voltage.)
Cheers - Bill, AE6JV
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ccept such a moving spec.
machine.
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Bill Frantz| The first thing you need when | Periwinkle
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www.pwpconsult.com | peri
hru a bureaucratic hoop
would certainly act as a disincentive.
Cheers - Bill
On 1/7/14 at 6:32 PM, wun...@wunderwood.org (Walter Underwood) wrote:
Radios in the US need FCC approval, too. I don't think this is all that
different. --wunder
On Jan 7, 2014, at 6:28 PM, Bill Frantz wro
r Christmas.
Cheers - Bill, AE6JV
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Bill Frantz|The nice thing about standards| Periwinkle
(408)356-8506 |is there are so many to choose| 16345
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www.pwpconsult.com |from. - Andrew
(Wes (N7WS)) wrote:
Patience OM. Be happy you're not waiting on a paper QSL via the bureau.:-)
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Bill Frantz|"We used to quip that "password" is the most common
408-356-8506 | password.
BTW, I normally run the P3 covering a wide span when running
PSK, because I can see the detail on the computer waterfall and
sometimes find a PSK station way outside the normal range with
the P3.
Cheers - Bill
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Bill Frantz
of 500 Hz it
would quite useful.
Cheers - Bill, AE6JV
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Bill Frantz| I like the farmers' market | Periwinkle
(408)356-8506 | because I can get fruits and | 16345
Englewood Ave
www.pwpconsult.com | veget
ools each has unique
benefits & liabilities, sometimes a different choice lets me
make the Q.
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Bill Frantz|Security, like correctness, is| Periwinkle
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utton, but it may be a good
substitute.
On 2/2/2014 4:30 PM, Bill Frantz wrote:
A small item for the infinitely long desired feature list:
I have noticed that SSB stations usually transmit on multiples of 500
Hz -- For example the Elecraft SSB net 14.3035 MHz and and W1AW/5 on
28.4570 MHz. If pre
rs. I have one idea, but it's for a
following email.
Cheers - Bill, AE6JV
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Bill Frantz| Truth and love must prevail | Periwinkle
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www
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408-356-8506 | Fourth Amendment that it operates only by
www.pwpconsult.com | accident. - William Hugh Murray
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Home
don't know it and won't find out until "the bad thing happens"*.
Cheers - Bill
* Sgt. Kerry Harris, Los Gatos Police Department
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Bill Frantz| When it comes to the world | Periwinkle
(408)356-8
MOst frequently for me is I haven't pressed A->B twice to set
the second VFO to the same mode etc. as the primary one.
Cheers - Bill, AE6JV
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Bill Frantz| Re: Hardware Management Modes: | Periwinkle
(408)
received the upgrade when built by Elecraft.
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Bill Frantz| I like the farmers' market | Periwinkle
(408)356-8506 | because I can get fruits and | 16345 Englewood Ave
www.pwpconsult.com | vegetables without s
ptions for a
brand new K3/100?
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Bill Frantz|The nice thing about standards| Periwinkle
(408)356-8506 |is there are so many to choose| 16345
Englewood Ave
www.pwpconsult.com |from. - Andrew Tanen
hen if some other mode doesn't work,
probably just a change of USB/LSB will get it working. (But
watch out for speeds in RTTY.)
Cheers - Bill, AE6JV
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Bill Frantz| Truth and love must prevail | Periwinkle
(4
...
While I do use [PSK] occasionally, that factor and the preponderance of
"hello, brag sheet, goodbye" QSOs has soured me on the mode. It used to be
a lot of keyboard to keyboard ragchew QSOs, but that is rare these days.
No opportunity to get to know something about the ham y
d help people charge cell phone
batteries from autos.)
73 Bill AE6JV
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Bill Frantz| Re: Hardware Management Modes: | Periwinkle
(408)356-8506 | If there's a mode, there's a | 16345
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www
o help out, but we often had both CW and
SSB on the same band at the same time due to the conditions, and one
could not hear the co-band K3.
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Bill Frantz| When it comes to the world | Periwinkle
(408)356-8506
st as anxious to ship as
everyone else is to receive.
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Bill Frantz| I like the farmers' market | Periwinkle
(408)356-8506 | because I can get fruits and | 16345
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www.pwpconsult.com | v
of the reasons I've been able to get through the W1AW/n
pileups is the low distortion of the K3 and KX3, and the use of
your (K9YC's) non-flat response recommendations to get maximum
intelligibility for my 100 watts.
73 Bill AE6JV
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vised that there isn't a built in "bug" option for paddle
configuration and I want to stay "bug" op from home, mobile and portable
(KX3).
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Bill Frantz| Ham radio contesting is a| Periwinkle
(408
working on 30m. Eventually, it got to Wayne, he
called me, first question was, "Let's start easy, which antenna
is selected?"
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Bill Frantz| There are now so many exceptions to the
408-356-8506 | Fourth Amendm
ve to put up the WARC antennas until he has his
General ticket. Other than the feedlines, the cost is as low
as the wire used for the radiators and the baluns for each feedline.
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Bill Frantz| If the site is support
blems are 'iffy'.
73,
Don W3FPR
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Bill Frantz| Since the IBM Selectric, keyboards have gotten
408-356-8506 | steadily worse. Now we have touchscreen keyboards.
www.pwpconsult.com | Can we make somet
, "Hay dummy ..."
73 Bill AE6JV
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Bill Frantz| Re: Hardware Management Modes: | Periwinkle
(408)356-8506 | If there's a mode, there's a | 16345
Englewood Ave
www.pwpconsult.com | failure mo
AFSK-A mode for RTTY?
Is that what everyone is using, or is DATA-A just as good?
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Bill Frantz| Truth and love must prevail | Periwinkle
(408)356-8506 | over lies and hate. | 16345
Englewood Ave
www.pwpconsult
nd can't
> see anything.
>
> Could it be a duff filter or is there anything else I can check?
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Bill Frantz|"After all, if the conventional wisdom was working, the
408-356-8506 | rate of syste
pushing the SPLIT button works just
fine.
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Bill Frantz| QRP: So you can talk about | Periwinkle
(408)356-8506 | the ones that got away. | 16345
Englewood Ave
www.pwpconsult.com |
and dynamic mics.
The Elecraft K3 is a very flexible machine, and most things are
very well thought of. This is one of them.
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Bill Frantz| When it comes to the world | Periwinkle
(408)356-8506 | around us, is
K3 owners have pulled that
wrong antenna per band stunt on themselves and spent at least an hour
looking elsewhere for the problem.
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Bill Frantz| QRP: So you can talk about | Periwinkle
(408)356-8506 | the one
have the display change with it
like logging programs.
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Bill Frantz| Ham radio contesting is a| Periwinkle
(408)356-8506 | contact sport. | 16345
Englewood Ave
www.pwpconsult.com | - Ken Widelitz
ttps://proaudioeng.com/products/pae-kx33-ac-power-supply/ for
more details.
Cheers & 73,
Howie - WA4PSC
www.proaudioeng.com
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Bill Frantz| Since the IBM Selectric, keyboards have gotten
408-356-8506 | steadily worse. Now
ce" information about signals
a few seconds after switching.
73 Bill AE6JV
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Bill Frantz| Concurrency is hard. 12 out | Periwinkle
(408)356-8506 | 10 programmers get it wrong. | 16345
Englewood Av
@pwpconsult.com
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Bill Frantz|"After all, if the conventional wisdom was
working, the
408-356-8506 | rate of systems being compromised would be
going down,
www.pwpconsult.com | wouldn't it?" -- Marcus Ranum
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even find a K3 attached. But it was because of the state of
the serial port driver (or hardware maybe), not some failure at the K3
or within the K3 Utility program.
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Bill Frantz| When it comes to the world
power
company only has a few techs to handle an area of about half
the state, but they do respond. I would expect they would come
out to fix your problem also. Just make sure they know you are
a ham operator.
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Bill
into transmit mode. What can I do to get my K3
out of the locked transmit mode? Thank you.
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Bill Frantz| Airline peanut bag: "Produced | Periwinkle
(408)356-8506 | in a facility that processes | 16345
Eng
the
real-time clock.
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Bill Frantz| Since the IBM Selectric, keyboards have gotten
408-356-8506 | steadily worse. Now we have touchscreen keyboards.
www.pwpconsult.com | Can we make something even worse
en to have a $200 TS-520S
(with internal power supply) in my shack that I fire up every once in
awhile. I really doubt that most listeners can distinguish its 130 watt
signal from that of my 100 watt KX3/KPA100.
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Bill Fr
hat does that for me.
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Bill Frantz|"After all, if the conventional wisdom was
working, the
408-356-8506 | rate of systems being compromised would be
going down,
www.pwpconsult.com | woul
eplay!
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Bill Frantz| Re: Computer reliability, performance, and security:
408-356-8506 | The guy who *is* wearing a parachute is
*not* the
www.pwpconsult.com | first to reach the ground. - Terence Kelly
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unch of utilities to check. An announcement on this list of new
versions of the utilities would also be nice.
73 Bill AE6JV
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Bill Frantz| gets() remains as a monument | Periwinkle
(408)356-8506 | to C's cont
r a speedy recovery, so I can place my
order. :-)
73 Bill AE6JV
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Bill Frantz| Privacy is dead, get over| Periwinkle
(408)356-8506 | it. | 16345
Englewood Ave
www.pwpconsult.com |
because you can use the KX3
VOX.
73 Bill AE6JV
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Bill Frantz| The first thing you need when | Periwinkle
(408)356-8506 | using a perimeter defense is a | 16345
Englewood Ave
www.pwpcon
, n0ce
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Bill Frantz| "I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn
up the
408-356-8506 | intelligence. There's a knob called
"brightness", but
www.pwpconsult.com | it doesn't work. -- Gallagher
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@mailman.qth.net (Mark, KE6BB
via Elecraft) wrote:
It sounds like the radio is not getting any power. I would
suspect the power supply and cables before suspecting a problem
with the radio.
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Bill Frantz|"We used to
freeze occurs on the
P3 screen as well.
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Bill Frantz| Since the IBM Selectric, keyboards have gotten
408-356-8506 | steadily worse. Now we have touchscreen keyboards.
www.pwpconsult.com
ac OS software do
you recommend for the KX3 for RTTY and other data?
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Bill Frantz| I don't have high-speed | Periwinkle
(408)356-8506 | internet. I have DSL.| 16345
Englewood Ave
www.pwpc
but the cost is right.
73 Bill AE6JV
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Bill Frantz|"After all, if the conventional wisdom was
working, the
408-356-8506 | rate of systems being compromised would be
going down,
www.pwpconsult.com
more than makes
up for those other days when you don't seem to be able to
contact anyone.
73 Bill AE6JV
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Bill Frantz| QRP: So you can talk about | Periwinkle
(408)356-8506 | the ones that got
re any programs for Linux or Windows that
will do dual decode.
73 Bill AE6JV
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Bill Frantz|"After all, if the conventional wisdom was
working, the
408-356-8506 | rate of systems being compromised
on K3?
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Bill Frantz|Security, like correctness, is| Periwinkle
(408)356-8506 |not an add-on feature. - Attr-| 16345 Englewood Ave
www.pwpconsult.com |ibuted to Andrew Tanenbaum| Los Gatos, CA 95032
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o its popularity, it seems as though the FT8
bandwidth has been gradually widening.
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Bill Frantz|The nice thing about standards| Periwinkle
(408)356-8506 |is there are so many to choose| 16345
Englewood Ave
www.
ey
are related. (Saved for another email.)
Any ideas of what I should look at? (I'm in NH and don't have a
full set of tools. Just a multimeter and some small screwdrivers etc.)
73 Bill AE6JV
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Bill Frantz| Co
ider. This
widening makes a CW signal about 3 times wider. This issue comes
and goes with no obvious cause/relation to other things.
Any thoughts? Any fixes?
73 Bill AE6JV
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Bill Frantz| gets() remains as a monume
Also, the PX3 utility can't talk to the PX3 using "Test
Communications". The path through the PX3 to the KX3 works.
73 Bill AE6JV
On 5/5/19 at 7:33 PM, fra...@pwpconsult.com (Bill Frantz) wrote:
I think these problems are chronic, and have been occurring off
and on for at leas
the config.
I’ve had weird button behavior issues fixed by each of those.
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Bill Frantz| Government is not reason, it is not
eloquence, it is force; like
408-356-8506 | a fire, a troublesome
5/5/19 at 7:53 PM, fra...@pwpconsult.com (Bill Frantz) wrote:
Also, the PX3 utility can't talk to the PX3 using "Test
Communications". The path through the PX3 to the KX3 works.
73 Bill AE6JV
On 5/5/19 at 7:33 PM, fra...@pwpconsult.com (Bill Frantz) wrote:
I think these problems are chro
Bill AE6JV
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Bill Frantz| Concurrency is hard. 12 out | Periwinkle
(408)356-8506 | 10 programmers get it wrong. | 16345
Englewood Ave
www.pwpconsult.com |- Jeff Frantz | Los Gatos,
Thompson, AG7TX
Jack of All Trades
Master of None
dbthomp...@me.com
On May 6, 2019, at 05:33, Bill Frantz wrote:
Thanks. I unplugged and replugged the ribbon cable and the buttons started
working again.
73 Bill AE6JV
On 5/5/19 at 7:37 PM, wun...@wunderwood.org (Walter Underwood) wrote:
I
Jim ab3cv
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Bill Frantz| Re IOT: "How many access control systems
does it take
www.pwpconsult.com | to change a light bulb?" - Dean Tribble
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Elecra
known if it was supported by N1MM+ but, last time I checked, it isn't.
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Bill Frantz| I like the farmers' market | Periwinkle
(408)356-8506 | because I can get fruits and | 16345
Englewood Ave
www.pwpc
ong way from converting paddle swipes to ASCII.
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Bill Frantz| I like the farmers' market | Periwinkle
(408)356-8506 | because I can get fruits and | 16345
Englewood Ave
www.pwpconsult.com | vegetables
ust in case, however.
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Bill Frantz|"We used to quip that "password" is the most common
408-356-8506 | password. Now it's 'password1.' Who said
users haven't
www.pwpconsult.co
<https://ftp.elecraft.com/K3/firmware/hfwnotes.rtf>
[The scariest thing a marketing type can say to someone my age
is, "New and Improved".]
73 Bill AE6JV
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Bill Frantz| When it comes to the world |
K4
is ease of upgrade to new ADCs.
73 Bill AE6JV
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Bill Frantz|"Web security is like medicine - trying to
do good for
408-356-8506 |an evolved body of kludge
. Some of the
thredlets here have now caused me to reconsider that belief.
Have I got it wrong?
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Bill Frantz| Privacy is dead, get over| Periwinkle
(408)356-8506 | it. | 1634
ht at the outputs of the crystal filters (oversimplifying a
bit). The original two ADCs are still being used for the panadapter.
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Bill Frantz|Security, like correctness, is| Periwinkle
(408)356-8506 |not an add-on fe
it is
running ubuntu.
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Bill Frantz| "I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn
up the
408-356-8506 | intelligence. There's a knob called
"brightness", but
www.pwpcon
AE6JV
On 5/31/19 at 7:37 AM, n...@elecraft.com (Wayne Burdick) wrote:
It is possible to invert the transceiver to favor left hand
operation. A system of mirrors can then be used to restore
panel text orientation.
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Bill Frantz
l thing?
How long does it take to boot when you turn it on? Is it
like the old days
when we had to wait for filaments to heat?
Al W6LX
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Bill Frantz| Ham radio contesting is a| Periwinkle
(408)35
purity. A dummy
> load, RF sampler, and spectrum analyser would make this easy but I don't
> know
> what equipment you have available.
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Bill Frantz|"After all, if the conventional wisdom was
ure of knowing where every screw and piece-part goes and
won’t be afraid to remove the top cover.
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Bill Frantz| When it comes to the world | Periwinkle
(408)356-8506 | around us, is there any choice |
lso help.
73 Bill AE6JV
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Bill Frantz| When it comes to the world | Periwinkle
(408)356-8506 | around us, is there any choice | 16345
Englewood Ave
www.pwpconsult.com | but to explore? - Lisa Randa
on my back porch.
FWIW, that puts you in 1E, not 1B.
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Bill Frantz| Government is not reason, it is not
eloquence, it is force; like
408-356-8506 | a fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful
!!
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Bill Frantz| Can't fix stupid, but duct | Periwinkle
(408)356-8506 | tape can muffle the sound... | 16345
Englewood Ave
www.pwpconsult.com | - Bill Liebman | Los Gatos,
CA
TE buttons but I was thinking (danger Will
> Robinson) that it would be nice to quickly shift to the next RTTY signal
> and then automatically switch to the FINE selection based on how fast you
> turn the VFO.
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Bi
t the guilty.
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Bill Frantz| Privacy is dead, get over| Periwinkle
(408)356-8506 | it. | 16345
Englewood Ave
www.pwpconsult.com | - Scott McNealy | Los Gatos,
CA
g
your IP address and which piece of email issued the fetch,
adding to the cache of information about you.
73 Bill AE6JV
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Bill Frantz| When an old person dies, a | Periwinkle
(408)356-8506 | library burns. - J
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