[Elecraft] Re: [fpqrp] July RFTB Summary

2006-07-24 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
Fred Fred Fred Fred Fred Fred Fred Fred Fred Fred Fred Fred Fred Fred Fred Fred Fred Fred Larry Makoski W2LJ wrote: Here are the official results: K3DCB Fred 3360 WA8THK Perry 1920 NØJRN Jerry 1800 K4BAI John 1722 K4TWJ Dave 1392 NØARScott 1173 K7TQRandy 1008

Re: [Elecraft] Where are you at Dayton 2006?

2006-05-13 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
RJD wrote: Well so far I picked out several booths/products: QRPKITS-PCVISE 246 247 MICROHAM 516 ELECRAFT 196 197 198 ARRL 232 233 234 PLUS? DIAMOND365 PEET BROS 151 KANGA US 041 042 Thanks to those who see this as a benefit to Dayton Hamvention. I

Re: [Elecraft] Microphone for K2

2006-05-07 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
Sara The Kenwood MC-43S is a good microphone, however you said for Contests / Dxpeditions. It is very difficult to either keep a log sheet with pen or pencil, or to type on the keyboard and picking up the microphone on every QSO. I would recommend one of the Heil Prosets, and the Heil

Re: [Elecraft] MicroHAM CW Keyer

2006-04-21 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
Mike Harris wrote: G'day, Been looking at Winkey but being short of serial ports I am leaning towards the USB MicroHAM CW Keyer. Any comments out there in K2 land about this unit? I use a K1EL Winkey on a USB to Serial cable - works fine with Logger32 and WrongLog. Great for laptops that

Re: [Elecraft] Computer control issues - unreliable firmware?

2006-03-30 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, in re-reading your message, it looks like the transfer rate is an issue. I've got my USB/Serial adapters out on USB hubs, so they don't get full bandwidth. Maybe that's the issue. Odd that a 4800 baud device needs 200+mb connection to work... Thanks again Rich

[Elecraft] FDIM and Hamvention

2006-03-14 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
Two months, three days, seven+ hours to go Nine weekends to go 64 days to go 1,543 hours to go 92,630 minutes to go Over 5 1/2 million seconds to FDIM! There are still rooms available. You can get a look at the impressive list of who is going to be there at

Re: [Elecraft] K2 SPLIT AND DX CLUSTER SPOTS WITH LOGGER 32 N1MM

2006-03-13 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
Chris Page wrote: For general day to day operating, I normally use the K2 in SPLIT mode (with the flashing V over A on the front panel) and have the Secondary Menu option set to PER. I use Logger 32 connected to the DX Cluster through the Internet and have noticed that when I click onto a

[Elecraft] FDIM Hamvention Rooms

2006-03-02 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
The QRP-ARCI rooms are filling up. There are still rooms available. You can get a look at the impressive list of who is going to be there at www.usol.com/~k8dd/rooms/rooms.htm FDIM information is available at fdim.qrparci.org Hamvention information is available at www.hamvention.org 72 73

Re: [Elecraft] Coax Switch between two rigs

2006-03-01 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
Lee Buller wrote: OKI know that this might be a dumb questions, but before I do a dumb thing I want to ask the question. I have two rigs...one of which is the K2/100. I have a two position coaxial switch (I think it is a Diawa CX201A) that I picked up at a hamfest. Is there enough

[Elecraft] Re: Coax Switch between two rigs --- OOPS

2006-03-01 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
Hank Kohl K8DD wrote: Lee Buller wrote: OKI know that this might be a dumb questions, but before I do a dumb thing I want to ask the question. I have two rigs...one of which is the K2/100. I have a two position coaxial switch (I think it is a Diawa CX201A) that I picked up

Re: [Elecraft] Which PS for K2/100, linear or switcher?

2006-02-27 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
Darwin, Keith wrote: My plans to get a K2/100 continue full speed ahead. Omni V.9 is up on e-bay and I'm in the process of getting my ducks in a row before I pull the trigger and commit to a particular rig (new or used is TBD). But what about the PS? Which one should I get? Should I go with

Re: [Elecraft] K2\100 going to Guyana

2006-02-25 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
Ken K7ZUM wrote: btw, I don't know if anybody else on the reflector does this, but everytime I turn my K2 on, and use if on a DX-ped hour after hour, I sit and look at this itty bitty radio, and am just amazed at how something so small, can be so good ! anybody else do this ? Yessir

[Elecraft] It's time to think Hamvention!

2006-01-22 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
This is the announcement for the 2006 QRP-ARCI / FISTS Dayton Hamvention rooms. We have lots of rooms at the Holiday Inn and Homewood Suite in Fairborn Ohio, about 17.18 miles from the lovely HARA arena! The details, information and room request form are located:

Re: [Elecraft] ARRL November Sweepstakes CW

2005-11-07 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
Tom Hammond wrote: 2. Stations 'tail ending' your exchange with the station you just worked before you can call CQ SS again. You gotta learn to be quick! There is nothing like a good clean tail end. I've worked a lot of stations who pause between the TU (to signify that they copied the

Re: [Elecraft] ARRL November Sweepstakes CW

2005-11-07 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a newcomer to all of this, and I am wondering if there is any place left in contesting for those of us who choose not to have a computer send code or receive code--ie just used for logging. I am working on getting my speed up, but I couldn't participate due

Re: [Elecraft] Re: micro Ham CW Keyer

2005-10-28 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
Robert C. Abell wrote: Hi Andy, Where does one buy the micro Ham CW Keyer? Is it a kit? I'm interested. 73, Bob VE3XM Microham USB CW Keyer - It's a keyer. http://www.microham.com/ck.html Microham USB micro Keyer - all in one multi-mode USB interface - does it all!

Re: [Elecraft] Re: micro Ham CW Keyer

2005-10-28 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
Robert C. Abell wrote: Hi Andy, Where does one buy the micro Ham CW Keyer? Is it a kit? I'm interested. 73, Bob VE3XM Microham USB CW Keyer - It's a keyer. http://www.microham.com/ck.html Microham USB micro Keyer - all in one multi-mode USB interface - does it all!

Re: [Elecraft] k2 offset frequency, and FISTS

2005-10-11 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
ron wrote: heh heh Ron SOC # 344 or is it 433 or is it . And my SOC number is the same when I'm standing on my feet and when I'm standing on my head . Hank SOC #69 ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be

Re: [Elecraft] Which logging software

2005-10-02 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
What a question to get some emotional answers! :-) Logging programs are like wives . find a good one and stick with it! My choices would be: For general logging - Logger32 - very full featured for awards and all the features of the $100 class programs . For Free and a real

Re: [Elecraft] CW in Emergencies?] and some K2 comments

2005-09-06 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
Geez, thin line between sarcasm and reality, as I read it, although I've wondered about that sometimes listening to 75M SSB on my K2 (see - it's on a topic about K2's!). This discussion is going on at the QMN/NREN reflector much more objectively! I think we all need to lighten up and go along

Re: [Elecraft] SSB Microphone Question

2005-08-15 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
I use a Heil ProSet ic - it is for the Icom radios and uses an electrotet element and it works fine for little SSB that I operate - people tell me that I sound like me (unfortunately!). With the ProSets with HC4 HC5 elements it sounds OK - could use a bit more audio, I guess, but people

Re: [Elecraft] Semi-Hypothetical Question

2005-08-12 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
James Kern wrote: Lets say during Field Day of this year I was using my K2 to help some older tube type equipment to find eachother on frequency. Lets say then I made it a practice to turn the RF Gain down on the K2 when checking the transmitter frequency. Then lets say by accident one time I

Re: [Elecraft] Linear operation with K2?

2005-08-02 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
Don and Diana Cunningham wrote: Hank, I fail to see why he would have to worry about the Ameritron amps, since they (Al-1200, AL-1500, AL-80B at least) only have 12 VDC on the relay jack, and require sinking 100ma max. The specs listed for the K2 say 1A and 200V. Am I missing something??

Re: [Elecraft] Linear operation with K2?

2005-08-01 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
Jess Gypin wrote: I am in the process of building a K2 with the 100 watt amp for another ham. He also needs to drive a linear. I also apologize as I have not looked on the website. Can someone point me to some information about this so it will be linear ready when I get it done? Jess

Re: [Elecraft] Another Battery Question

2005-07-16 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
Charles Greene wrote: George, II don't know about the Astron power supplies. You need to remove the cover and see if there is a screw driver adjustment for voltage. Maybe someone on the reflector knows; Last time I opened up a RS-35 there was a small pot on the bottom of the PC board

Re: [Elecraft] The K2 and Random Antennas

2005-06-12 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
Tom I would agree with Don! The K2 KAT2 should match it great . with or without the radials. When I was a young General in about 1959 or 60 I had great luck on 80 20 AM with a 60 - 65' longwire from the second floor window out to a tree. The shack was on the first floor with

Re: [Elecraft] 72?

2005-06-12 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
I believe that RV3GM coined the term years ago as wishing you good QRP 72 73HankK8DD Ian Stirling G4ICV, AB2GR wrote: I have seen this only on this Elecraft list. It's not something that I know and probably Modesty and Willie didn't. What does '72' mean? Ian --

Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft Amp pics?

2005-05-23 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
George Cortez wrote: paul hendershott wrote: Just curious about the look of the new Elecraft Amp - if it was on display at Dayton, were there any pictures available from Wayne and Eric or passers-by? I believe the word was if anyone pulled out their camera phone at the Holiday Inn

Re: [Elecraft] cw/cw revese

2005-05-10 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
William E. Twaddell wrote: What is the benefit of the reverse position?? N2DH I use the CW / CW-r to check if I'm really zero beat with the other station.. On both of my K2's - if the tone of the received station is the same, then I'm zero beat This has been checked with a

[Fwd: Re: [Elecraft] start with straight key or paddles?]

2005-05-08 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
John Young wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Comrades, I'm working on my code to get my licenses soon. {snip} John I am sure everyone will have an opinion and they will all be different. So here goes mine along with some background. In the early 70's I had and instrutograph (sp)

Re: [Elecraft] Favorite K2 Remote Program?

2005-04-28 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
Jack Brindle wrote: Be very careful with the N1MM software. It is revised very often, and not all of the upgrades are good. That is one of the reasons I still use CT (DOS) and CTWin (Windows 98 and up). Free and one of the most widely used contest programs. 72 73HankK8DD

[Elecraft] FDIM / Hamvention Roms

2005-04-06 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
There are still rooms available in the QRP-ARCI / FISTS block of rooms for another couple of weeks. http://www.usol.com/~k8dd/rooms/rooms.htm 72 73HankK8DD -- 'Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you with experience.' -anon

Re: [Elecraft] DSP

2005-03-08 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
I'm using a good ole DSP-59+ with one of my K2's - the one that does not have the KDSP in it. They both have benefits and shortcomings . or . I'm not about to part with either! 73 HankK8DD Mike,W8KRR wrote: I'm using an old DSP-59+ with my K2 with good results. I'm curious -

[Elecraft] Hamvention 2005 Rooms

2005-03-06 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
It's not last call but it's getting close! We have to have the final list for the Holiday Inn by April 1. If you are planning on coming to the Hamvention and need a room, there are still rooms available for $99 a night plus the applicable taxes. http://www.usol.com/~k8dd/rooms/rooms.htm 72

Re: [Elecraft] Trip to Canada

2005-03-03 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
Yes, you can take it along. You should, however, take it in to US Customs at the border crossing and have it registered on a Customs Form 4457. That will show that you had it when they looked at it! And, when you return to the US and the Customs person at the re-entry point asks what are you

Re: [Elecraft] PSK 31

2005-03-02 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
Although you could build one that would work, I have a RigBlaster /nomic. Pretty much plug and play - small, simple, travels real well and works fine with Digipan or any of the popular PSK RTTY, etc program. And you can drop it and even step on it (don't ask) and it keeps on working! 73

Re: [Elecraft] K2 - NOISY POLLING

2005-02-18 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
I got rid of the computer polling noise on both of my K2/100's by removing the right side panel and tucking the ribbon cable up as high as possible - away from the main board. Not that I would recommend doing it the way that I did it (with the power on and CTWin up and running), but I could hear

Re: [Elecraft] RE: Dead Horses and such

2005-02-06 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
Ron D'Eau Claire wrote: Don, W3FPR wrote: ...all the e-mail clients that I know about put the cursor at the top rather than at the bottom when I click 'reply'. Without getting into the top vs. bottom posting controversy (!!) Mozilla Thunderbird allows you to select where the cursor

Re: [Elecraft] SO2R setup

2005-02-02 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
In CT, CTWin, NA contesting programs the PTT delay is used to immediately key the radio (and amp, if used), delay the keying from the program for a user defined time, send the CW from the PC buffer and quickly drop the PTT. PTT delay will not work with the K2 because it is common to the dit

Re: [Elecraft] K2 rx ant question

2005-01-28 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
Or put a couple 1n34a's across the rx antenna. one pointing up and one pointing down. 73hankk8dd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vic Make up the little 2 transistor keying switch that Elecraft posts on their site. It works great. Use it to key a shorting relay on the input to R2. It

Re: [Elecraft] K2 or K2/100 + amp, QSK?

2005-01-06 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com -- */Hank Kohl K8DD [EMAIL PROTECTED] */ARRL TS MI-QRP - Vice Pres. QRP-ARCI - Director */ If God intended you to be on single sideband, he would have given you only one nostril

Re: [Elecraft] Ready to buy K2/100 - question on CW qsk

2004-12-30 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
Richard Merhar wrote: Hello all- I think the K2 looks like great rig. But, how quick is QSK? If you consider that QSK means Can you hear between elements it's not QSK above about 20 WPM or so. Or it's not a Johnson TR switch and separates. Or it's not a Ten Tec. But the K2

[Fwd: Re: [Elecraft] Big K2 (or K2B - B for Big)]

2004-12-26 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that a lot of K2 owners, particularly contesters and DXers, get around the small size of the K2 by using computer control. That way they have a small rig for portable use and a big computer display for home use. The big remote knob (CRS* is causing me to block

Re: [Elecraft] K2/100 burn-in

2004-12-22 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
Bill Coleman wrote: On Dec 1, 2004, at 1:14 PM, Tom Althoff wrote: Has anyone really hammered their K2/100 with high CQ or QSO rates for a 24 hour period without a secondary fan? I'd be curious how it held up and were you successful in cooking eggs on it? On CW, I've run for a couple

AGC - was [Elecraft] OT-Preserving CW memories

2004-12-13 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
I was at VO2AAA in Labrador City for CQ WW CW with K2/100 #850 and an AL-1200. We were next to a residential area with a very high line noise and precipitation static. On 80 and 160 meters with the AF gain about 3/4 way up and riding the RF gain and DSP with noise reduction made some of the

Re: [Elecraft] Re: Rediculous, unreasonable and selfish firmware feature request..

2004-11-09 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
Not to mention the standard 559 stuff in the QRP contests! 72 / 73HankK8DD At 11/9/2004 01:20 PM, David Pratt wrote: While you're at it, Wayne, would it be possible to extract the signal strength in reports directly from the S-meter reading? All this 599 stuff in contests for every

Re: [Elecraft] Re: Time Change

2004-11-01 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
does not change and MFJ clocks that show local and UTC are real inexpensive! 73HankK8DD */ Hank Kohl K8DD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you with experience.' -anon

Re: [Elecraft] Hum coupling? - A real fix!

2004-10-29 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
At 10/29/2004 10:16 AM, Tom Hammond wrote: Supplies with big trnasformers, or even small ones carrying high current, can/will often cause hum on the K2. Best to space them a distance away. Switchers probably won't induce hum, but might cause in-band birdies by virtue of their switching

Re: [Elecraft] K2 auto-detect feature

2004-10-21 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
At 10/21/2004 12:38 PM, Lou Roux wrote: Hi guys, This discussion reminds me of something I've been wanting to for a while. I don't use the internal keyer in the K2 but prefer my own keyer and I'd like to parallel my computer/cw keyboard with it. What kind of circuit would this require or

Re: [Elecraft] Toroid Guy goes on holiday, still QRV

2004-09-27 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
At 9/27/2004 14:20, Mychael Morohovich wrote: Hi, Gang! I will be out of town on a family holiday from Thursday Oct. 02 thru Sunday Oct. 10. As is my custom, I will be packing a full compliment of Elecraft toroid sets with the intention of filling orders from the road. Now THAT is

Re: [Elecraft] Favorite pre-assembled BNC/Coax cable vendor?

2004-09-24 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
At 9/24/2004 01:25 AM, you wrote: Greetings everyone, Anyone have recommendations for a great place to buy pre-assembled BNC-to-BNC and/or BNC-to-PL259 cable assemblies in various lengths? Thanks 73's Doug N7BNT I bought from Cable X-perts (http://www.cablexperts.com/) for our repeater

Re: [Elecraft] Microphone for K2

2004-09-02 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
Don't tell me it was a J-38 mic cartridge! At 9/2/2004 09:49 AM, JEAN-FRANCOIS MENARD wrote: Could you tell us what you found in the MH-2 ??? On Thursday, September 02, 2004, at 09:46AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had the occassion to take apart the hand held mic that Elecraft carries

Re: [Elecraft] K2 Firmware change request

2004-08-09 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
And this is very important even for SO1R stations who move stations or get moved to other bands! And thanks for the Q's in NAQP, Tor 73Hankaka Duck At 8/9/2004 11:29 AM, Torsten Clay wrote: I used my pair of K2/100's in last weekend's NAQP CW. Band conditions were pretty good for

Re: [Elecraft] KAF2 v. KDSP2

2004-07-22 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
In the CQ 160 CW contest this past winter we used my K2/100 (SN 850 A)with the KDSP2. No receive antenna (that's a whole story by itself!) and an Inverted-L with a flock of radials. Probably 80% of the time we ran with out any NR or DSP filters. If you could put a dollar amount on multipliers,

Re: [Elecraft] Your favorite bands

2004-07-16 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
There's no meters like 40 meters. There's no revival like the CCR ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.):