Luckily, they think the brains in a Hang-glider are in the beak, not
dangling 5 feet below!
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
snip
Good 'law', fine birds. Anyway a Buzzard could demolish a flying tennis ball
:-)
73,
Geoff
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Great article, Ron. Nice to see were we fit in the recent cycle.
It was interesting that the graph of sunspot numbers doesn't show even a
hint of the biggest solar storm of the past millennia (Aug 26-Sep 4, 1859).
There weren't a LOT of sunspots, but there were some really BIG ones. Naked
Eye
I'd keep the K2/10 with the KAT2. That's a nice tuner and can't be used with
the PA. The only other option in the qrp rig you don't have for the qro is
the K60RX. Might be better to move that than to waste the KAT2.
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
snip
Here are the two radios:
K2/10 S/N 02689 with KSB2,
You'd think they'd have some way to communicate a small zip file to an
Island. It's possible a future Dxpedition might desperately need an
firmware. They must have had a laptop alongg. Planning for this may help
some day (or not).
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
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Just change the frequency first, and then set the desired mode. The radio
(whatever it's make or logic) will do what the programmer (operator) wants.
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
snip
Kenwood protocol predates the per-band memories that modern radios have, I.e
the radio saves the mode and frequency you
My straight key has a stereo plug with the diodes, and my paddles has a
stereo plug without diodes. They both plug into a small (Walkman sharer)
stereo y-adapter in the back of my K2.
I don't think I'll need a K3, but I'd just lose the adapter and not have to
rewire my keys.
Dan / WG4S / K2
Interesting thot. I wonder if the lack of side tone is partially responsible
for many cell phone users to raise their voices. I don't recall hearing most
folks talk so loudly into desk phones.
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
-Original Message-
David Cutter, December 29, 2007 7:07 AM
snip
Shouting
The book says:
Store this setting in any memory (using the S T O R E switch), but
instead of tapping the switch for the desired memory, hold the
numbered switch (0 -9 ) until you see S C A N on the display.
It should say:
Store this setting in any memory (using the S T O R E switch a HOLD).
md5sum anyone?
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
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Subject: RE: [Elecraft] K3 problem with logging program after
Are you talking about a dial reading of 1.12 (120 Hz) or 10012.00
(12,000 Hz)? Most of us get the readings within plus or minus 30 Hz. 10 KHz
is way out of whack.
Confused in Atlanta
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456 (Reads 1.01 on WWV)
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All bands are off by at least
On mine, (K2 #2456, Audio Pot Mod done), the radio is silent with AF Max and
RF Min. Hiss occurs (very steady, not like bacon) beginning about 2:00
O'clock on the RF and is very low level even fully CW.
It's very hard to know what amplitude you are experiencing. My o'scope says
30 mv P-P across
Plated through holes.
Dan / WG4S
snip
I wonder if they used a bummer board, just to get a photo in?
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Don't forget the magnetic field susceptibility.
Move the rig away from the big ole power supply transformer.
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
snip
sounds rather bubbly or bumpy as if I were operating mobile on a washboard
road.
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Lyle, are the images Floppy-sized, USB-Stick-sized, CD-Sized, DVD-sized or
Super-sized ($1.29 extrag)?
Dan / WG4S
snip
The computer I use to update my K3 uses local file copies rather than the
'net, so this is not a problem.
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Turn off ADET (automatic detection). That will probably cure the issue. If
not, it's a good test to run anyhow. (Or, I've misunderstood the problem. By
bencher keyer do you mean Bencher Paddles with K2 Keyer or something
else? g)
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
snip
he get some bad dot or dash at moderate
I don't remember the format of the written, but MC doesn't sound wrong. I
know the code test was fill-in-the-blank, which I found quite odd. I do
remember one question, tho.
His occupation was _.
My copy had ??mber?.
I was torn between plumber and lumber salesman.
It CAN be done on the K2. The KAT2 never retunes unless you press the retune
buttong you'd have to tune your remote AT using key down, but that may not
be a hardship. I have a straight key wired up all the time anyhow. I use the
diodes trick and a stereo Y adapter to have the paddles and key
You don't need a computer. Just hold the Freq button (that's both of the two
upper-left buttons held as one) and type the freq using the numbers on the
right. Cli-cl-cl-click you're there, and your antenna is tuned.
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
snip
My K2 has no KIO, so I am stuck thinking like a
The ground hardware is part of the KAT2, but the silk-screening is on the
base top cover.
Your ground needs depend on your antenna installation. I need to go to the
hardware store anyhow. See you there!
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
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I hope you are not trying to CENTER OP1 on 600 Hz. That's not right. You
want the skirt to fall to zero around 200 Hz (left) and around 3K (right).
There may be nothing wrong at all. If you did center it, you'd have
reception on both sides of zero-beat.
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
snip
The crystal
Leaving out the finals might do the trick!
The upgrade to full transceiver would be about pretty cheap (two
transistors, some hardware and those pesky thermal pads).
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
snip
I would presume that there would be some market for a K2 with build
instructions modified to complete
Move it away from your power supply.
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
snip
I have just finished building K2 #6106 and was checking my transmitted tone
and found that it is very warbly--sounds like it is underwater--rather
than a nice pure tone.
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This may not help, if the signal isn't strong enough, but you can set most
phones not to roam. That will restrict it to associating with the correct
tower, if that's what you want.
I learned this trick in the hospital. I had my cell phone being a CDMA modem
for my laptop to get my business back
There is a RF cable from the ATU to the mainboard. The auxbux is detecting
the ATU so that's connected, but the RF most likely is not. The RF cable
plugs into the main board at RF-P6. Do not connect it to RF-P3, the battery
connector!
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
snipneither Ant jacks 1 or 2 seem to
Hey guys, this really isn't the place for this thread, but if you must post,
PLEASE say Wayne Green (or whatever his name is). Someone searching for
Wayne on the archives will get a lot of hits. They need to know the
difference between Wayne Burdick (N6KR) and this other fellow.
Dan / WG4S
Naw, just modify the Kenwood and both mics to the World Wide Standard (er,
ah, the Elecraft standard).
g
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
snip
I want the
mics be interchangeable; i.e., be able to use either
mic on either rig, not just on a specific rig. Sounds
like that may not be possble, based on
And more importantly, 5w to 100w is 13db. 13db is pretty close to 16dbg
(Close, as in horseshoes and Atom Bombs).
Dan
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Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 1:08 PM
To: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Subject: RE:
My very first Field Day was using the call AA4U for the CW tent. (Omni C,
upside down Bencher for the southpaw, etc.). Interesting. I wonder what else
in a call makes it MARS vs Southeast Amateur Extra?
Dan / WG4S
snip
You can
identify NAVMARCORMARS Stations by their NNNØ prefix.
Army MARS
, May 07, 2007 4:43 PM
To: Dan Barker
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] re: Improvements for the KX1
On Sunday 06 May 2007 08:44:33 you wrote:
Adobe is your friend.
I did a search for c181, and found the I.F.OUT you mention.
Searching for I.F.OUT, I find it goes through J6/P6 to the Control board
Adobe is your friend.
I did a search for c181, and found the I.F.OUT you mention.
Searching for I.F.OUT, I find it goes through J6/P6 to the Control board,
and then to the AGC mixer(NE602).
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
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You can tune the AT into a dummy load (on ANT2, let's say), and then not
tune it to the antenna ever. Then, if you are on ANT1, the tuner will use
it's remembered settings for that band and antenna. If you switch to ANT2,
the tuner will use it's remembered settings for the band and dummy load
Neat looking device, but you'd have to find a place to put it. They depend
on removing the DB-9 and using that space. You'd need to keep the DB-9 for
it's AUX IO purposes. Might be simpler to use one of those $10 Serial to USB
cables.
At $80, it would sure hurt!
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
.
For those with the skills, but not the schematic, check out
http://www.visioncomm.net/images/bl2.jpg
Dan Barker
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Pst! I know Victoria's secret.
Dan
snip... finely woven fabrics that could be sewn into an appropiately sized
baggie that would allow visual insprection to know then it's time to pop
it into the oven. Think Victoria's Secret ... (:-))
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And, use a right-angle plug at the rig end. Abuse to the wire doesn't stree
the rig nearly as much as the straight-in variety.
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456 on original jack too!
snip
If some form of 'adaptation' is required to go from a larger to a
smaller diameter connector (or the reverse), I will
Does it do the same thing (require weird procedures) when you use the ALT
mode instead of Auto? It's supposed to be more aggressive.
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456 (KAT2; hopefully the KAT100 has a similar menu
function)
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See http://ecn.visionseer.com
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
snip
Is there a K2 net freq / time ?
/snip
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Jim, this C/R spam is not acceptable. Don't use challenge response. Here is
a good write-up/rant
about the evils of it.
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Mail/challenge-response.html.
btw, I was sending some editorial comments about your draft. Very good read
so far!
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
Ron, you are right it's not difficult to record the pertinent menu settings.
However, it is quite tedious to reenter them all. A computer dump/restore of
all settings would be quite helpful. Many users unwilling to do a 4-5-6
reset might be encouraged to use that as a debugging step if the
Will someone out there PLEASE take a good photograph of the film,
half-removed.
I'll be happy to host the photo, as would Wayne/Eric, I'm sure. I have no
idea what it may or may not look like. I'm guessing it's like that
protective covering on most new electronics faceplates. Not too harmful to
You don't mention what you mean by master frequency nor how you measured
the drift, but I believe you've misunderstood the purpose of the 4MHz
oscillator. It is used to program the lookup tables for frequency
generation, but during normal operation it's exact frequency does not
matter.
So, you
The band-switch will remember the current settings Right Now. Any change
of band causes the current band's settings to be memorized. If you need to
speed up the 30-second memory for some reason, a bandup/banddown will do
so.
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
snip
There is the '30 second rule' that you have
Yes, you can just pull the SSB board, and put in two jumpers (the ends of
the end jacks) and one capacitor (pins 5 and 7 of the big jack, C169 IIRC -
Check the schematic.
I have no ideas on the cold/High-current issue.
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
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I had some good laughs reading the review of the tuner. The comparisons
are quite favorable. Of course, they were comparing their product to a
halfway dipole. I guess that meant a dipole halfway assembled, or maybe
halfway burried. They didn't sayg. But anyhow, their pos is 80%-90% as
efficient.
Luckily, it wasn't consonance alliteration. That assonance washes off a lot
easier.
-Original Message-
Kevin Rock
snip
Since that is what I do for pay I read the ads as assiduously as the
articles. Good grief, I just alliterated; better go wash up ;)
Kevin. KD5ONS
/snip
Wow! A meter that receives Voice Of America? Who'd a thought that?
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
snip
The meter does cap and freq measurements as well as V-O-A.
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Hyperterminal and Notepad can do thatg.
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
(After spending 3 solid days with my head deep in iptables and policy
routing for a new T1 here, it's nice to have something pop up in Windoze).
snip
capability for a (much) larger number of memory channels?
/snip
ADeT works great for most of us who use it. A few folks have had issues with
it, maybe diode tolerances or keying style. Anyhow, you can turn it off.
Only users with problems typically post on the reflector. I, and all the
others successfully using ADeT often remain silent.
To sacrifice ADeT for
I think you should keep the KSB2 until the new one is finished also, BUT...
The statement without it, my beloved K2 is dead is not true. Just stick a
couple jumpers in the short jacks (1 to 3), and a [I Forgot] pF cap in the
big one, between 5 and 7 if memory serves.
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2 456
My K2 (#2456) had a similar symptom, but I was in the shack and no damage
was done. My battery had failed and was supplying 12 v idle, and about 7 v
under load (if you can call 200 milliamps a loadg).
The noise from the speaker was VERY LOUD. Being there, I switched it off
immediately. I tried
Very odd indeed. Curious.
You gotta sniffer it to know what's busted. 'puter, interface, software
(Writelog) or firmware (K2).
May not be worth the effort.
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
snip
Essentially K2 - Writelog - PCI Serial Port are a no-go combination. Very
odd.
/snip
How about VoIP and 802.11b?
2.4 GHz, 200 mW consumer grade radios and 24 dbi flat panel antennae will do
nicely. With the 6 degree beamwidth, your aiming isn't even critical.
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
snip
I believe I need a lens with a long focal length to better collumate the
beam. The
You are not adjusting for the peak, you are adjusting for the maximum
signal/noise. It does not occur at the peak signal. Unless you are using
Spectrogram or some such, it is a trick to do by ear.
That said, if your best S/N is at the top, I haven't a clue if you have a
problemg.
Dan / WG4S / K2
Yes, you can reset your K2, and
NO, don't reset your K2.
Reset clears far more than you want/need to clear.
The K2 will know the option is missing when it doesn't answer on the AUX BUS
at power-up. Likewise, it will know when it's reinstalled later.
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
SNIP
Is there someway
I have never even gotten CLOSE to needing the 200 MHz bandwidth of my Tek
465, and it was around $100 on eBay a while back. Be patient, and you'll get
something decent.
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
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Any magnetic fields nearby? A standby charger on the GelCell perhaps?
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
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Build yourself an attenuator (3 or 4db should be fine), and the K2 will be
happy and the amp will be happy and the KAT2 will match all (well half - the
attenuator to amp side needs to be close to 50 ohms. The K2 side should be
too).
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
snip
If I set the power on the K2 much
Wow! That didn't even sound like morse to me (20 wpm op). However, dragging
it into Windoze sound recorder, and hitting the Decrease Speed button 2
times, I get a reasonable contest exchange. It's actually pretty good code!
My guess is about 25 wpm. it says:
ra9hotu
Well, I must be lazy then. If I have to go 100 miles, I'm taking my bicycle;
I'm not going to run. And I'm not going to rush it either. I'll take at
least 5 hours to do it, usually a bit more.
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
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I'm not sure there is a problem. I've always found W1AW at 7047.5, 250 less
than you are looking. Also, you must CAL FIL on the other modes if you are
going to be testing with the other modes.
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
snipW1AW on
7047.75 CW normal
...
DAC is either adding or subtracting 250 Hz to
It's still going to matter, if you are running AGC or there are strong
nearby signals. Run your CW filter at 400Hz for any narrower DSP setting.
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
snip
Then, when I want the wider bandwidth, I'd use one of the XTAL filters with
the DSP filter set to LOPASS, and when I want
Visit a friend that has a Hexkey. Where are you located?
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456 / Atlanta, Ga.
snip
And now what to do, what to do... :-)
/snip
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Yes, but the printed instructions begin: Do not adjust your television set.
We control the horizontal. We control the vertical. The T1 (110mmx65) is
the same size as the KX1 (130x75).
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
snip
If so, is there a printed step by step to making [the T-1 tuner] fit inside
the kx1?
Well, Babel Fish thinks he said:
I am at this moment busy with the afregelen of KPA100. It goes somewhere
wrong with the low doorlaatfilter in QRP vogue. According to me the correct
quills and C'tjes at the correct place sit.
He who (kindest from the surroundings of Amsterdam) me can help.
Watch out for the 440 Hz tones near the top of the hour. You also need a
clockg. The schedule is published.
(http://tf.nist.gov/stations/iform.html). Some minutes have NO tones.
Patience is required.
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
snip
I connect the computer running Spectrogram and listen to the
Come to think of it, I've never had much trouble remembering, pronouncing,
saying or typing K2. Try it now. Ka. Twooo. It's just that easy!
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
snip
Brain fade. What I really meant was an FT-1000 MP Mk.V not all that other
mumbo jumbo.
/snip
ps: You also misspelled
You'd have learned that long ago if you had cats.
Dan / WG4S
snip
unplug the stinkin' key box when closing down for the night.
/snip
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Reminds me of a customer of mine, who DOES understand the social position of
being a customer.
I was driving along I-10 (I think, somewhere in the Florida Panhandle) and
saw a Blackbird parked alongside of the expressway. I immediately exited and
found the SR-71 on display at some museum.
While
clock to display UTC? Half the year, I have to turn
off DST every single day before reading the clock. Kinda stupid for an
Amateur Radio product. Model MFJ-123.
Dan Barker / WG4S
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I was wondering if anybody else noticed. The original comment was to use
balloons to loft string over the trees by which to haul up wire antennas
(tree supported).
Then came a flood of reasons why balloons can't be reasonable antennas.
a) They Can, and
b) nobody was talking about that.
c) I
Yes, INFINITE is greater than 100K, 85 is greater than 70. You are good to
go! Fire up that soldering iron!
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
snip
U6 pin 13 supposed to be 100k got INFINITE
U6 pin 14 supposed to be 100k got INFINITE
U6 pin 29 30 to be 70kgot 85k
U8 pin 2
I discovered that if you let out enough of the magic smoke fast enough,
there are some follow-up orange flames inside those components too! Usually,
I'm only klutzy enough to allow some (or all) of the magic smoke out, but
recently I went even farther!
I had replaced the SLA batteries (2 @ 12v,
How far from the K2 is the power supply? K2 is sensitive to magnetic fields.
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
snip
it looks like a interference with a 50 Hz sound.
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Anybody have any idea how an 80m loop would work at 3m height?
We just moved into a new place with NO ANTENNA RESTRICTIONS, but I fell down
hard last summer (3 weeks unconscious in ICU) and am not tempted to get very
high again.
All this talk about on-ground and under-ground antennas made me
Ron, thanks for the thoughtful reply. I bet that describing the bowl in
NECeese will be harder than talking someone up two trees 50' or so. I'd love
a Loop Skywire again, but it might be harder to talk Carl up FOUR trees.
If the models don't make bowl specification easy, or even possible, then a
Reread your CCRs. Maybe they do allow TV antennas. You probably have
neighboors who use Satellite for TV. Just say you have HDTV and run a UHF
Yagi up a pole. Tell them it's for HD, but insulate the bottom. Instant
top-hat vertical!
YMMV, but how can they say no TV? That's un-Americang.
Dan /
I kept hoping someone who knew would jump in here, but nobody has. So, I'll
do it. The K2 doesn't use the same pin for dit and dah. That's how A-DET
works, on separate pins.
The K1 does use the dual-voltage scheme, and I have no idea about the Kixie.
However, the K2 will not care one whit.
Dan
PTT has a way of doing thatg. You are going into transmit mode. DOT and
PTT are one and the same for you right handed folks (it's the DAH paddle for
me).
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
snip
I was on 80m SSB and just happened to touch the dit paddle on my key and it
muted the RX the dah paddle does not
What commands do these programs send to the K2 when you click on a spot?
That is the first question. If the documentation doesn't say, and the vendor
won't tell, then you'll have to put a sniffer on it.
Only after you find a command string that has an unexpected result can you
say there is a
in the spot?
I agree it shouldn't change the SPLIT/NOR mode. (it, in this case -
Sorry Mr. Clinton - means the software/K2 Combination).
Dan Barker
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So sniff it!
If you don't have a network sniffer (most don't), you can use another PC (or
laptop). Configure Hyperterm to look like a K2, hook up the cable, and tell
the logger to do the spot. The commands will appear on the screen!
If the software won't do the spot without first communicating
RTFM.
The TUNE button puts out 20W.
The Key (or PTT) puts out the requested power.
Moving requested power with key down just confuses the issue.
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
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You must be a
Hell, it won't even turn on out of the box. IT'S A KIT! I bet even the FCC
can figure that one outg.
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
snip... and no 12-10M out of the box. /snip
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That was 200,000 with (memory check?) 1A on the contacts. You need to use
the mechanical numbers, since the current is 1A.
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
snip
Electrical: 200,000 operations min. (at 1,800 operations/hr)
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They are not just irritating, they ARE spam. If everybody had one, what
would happen?
No email would EVER be delivered, that's what.
I don't even ask to be added to the recipient's White List, I simply use the
phone (if it's important) or do not communicate with them (if it's not) by
email.
And now for a partial score in the Philadelphia-Atlanta game. Atlanta, 12!
Come on guys. If you have a message with some geographical context, tell us
where you are. 579 is not very impressive in Coopersburg, but is very
respectable in New Zealand. I wonder which Eastern state containing some of
Sorry to be a bother, but now I have 4 good SLA batteries to preserve until
needed. I ordered a case (6) for my 3 (2 batteries each) bad UPSs. I let the
smoke out of one, putting the cover back on (I thought it was unplugged), I
fixed one, and one was good anyhow; it had simply been overloaded.
Change the length of the feedline by a few feet. See if the problem can be
encouraged to move outside the ham bands.
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
snip
is something within the rig I need to check.vrs blaming it on my wire
loop which has served me so well.
/snip
If you slap it, it should [work like a bug]. If you squeeze, all bets are
off. Element insertion, and all that.
VERY interesting idea, tho. Someone should try this and report back. (I
can't - I have no idea how a bug should act). I've squeezed since before my
first license (N4GMN, a Technician if
Better yet, turn off AGC. You must turn off AGC to get much meaningful out
of s'gram anyhow.
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
PS: Off is PRE/ATT AGC together.
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I would expect a noticeable increase in noise. Try this: see if you can tune
in some signal with the NGEN connected (perhaps connect a clip
Either statement would be wrong to some fists. Use the one you learned. If
you are learning, I suggest B. Others might suggest A. Good luck!
Dan / WG4S / Southpaw B'er / K2 #2456
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Is the manual incorrect on the menu mode for Iambic? It lists Iambic A as
being the easier to operate. I believe
Southpaw means Left Handed (That's the hand to use, well, never mind).
B'er means I send iambic mode B. I can't make A work at all. It leaves out
elements I intend. I don't know what all the fuss about extra dits from
the dah paddle is all about. The timing is simply different for completing
what
Well, that isn't iambic, so maybe it won't matter. You should try squeeze
keying some time. Dial it back to 9 wpm and really pay attention to what
it's doing while you try to minimize what you are doing with your fingers.
You'll send faster, and with less fatigue. Also, the key will stay in one
That's not how a K is sent. A K is a dah with a dit-insert. I think the
fru-fru _MAY_ be that it's difficult to slap the key to B, but you can to A.
However, if you are squeeze keying, either will work - AFTER you learn the
timing.
Mode A K:
dah: DAAH
dit: DIT
keys:
I don't have a K1 to measure, but are the chassis parts the same thickness?
My K2 appears to use too thin a material for a countersunk screw. The pan
head is more secure anyhow. Maybe the designers will pipe in (hint, hint).
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
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Considering the superb mechanical
... or a short under the can. It's easy to get enough solder up the leads to
contact the can where you can't see it. If there's too much solder, you
could get that symptom. I'd pull the crystal, clean the holes carefully with
solder-wick, and reinstall with attention not to over-use the solder.
Based on what you say, I'd suggest you get the K2. You don't have any of the
needs for which the K1 is the better rig, and the $'s ain't that much
different (you just have to abuse the math just right).
K1 = 359 = $90/band.
K2 = 599 = $75/band.
K2+K160RX = 638 = $71/bandg.
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
There's a bit of life ham left on the Glowbugs list too, if you aren't
completely over glow-bottles.
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
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I agree K is more succinct, but dahdidididaddidah sounds great! Maybe I'll
switch to just K, and maybe I won't.
So there.
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
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Once again...a simple K serves even better. There is no usage rule that
states that K must only be used following a call sign.
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How come this question is on the Elecraft list? Shouldn't it be on the QRP-L
list?
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
ps: Admittedly, I'm curious about the answer toog.
snipHow come the moderator on QRP-L says that NO mention of eBay is
permitted, because the owner of QSL.NET/QTH.NET forbids it
/snip
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