Re: "You do the drive north to southso you can easily pull over for every OMG
view turnout without needing to turn left."100% correct...and you won't need
left turns to get back on Highway 1 southbound. Much safer.Mark,KE6BB
Original message From: Jeff Stai Date:
1/14/20 10:5
Re: "I know this gets monotonous...thanks, Elecraft management for creating
this extraordinary corporate culture".
Nope! It just can't be stated often enough because it is so true. I am still
kicking myself for not buying and building a K1 back when it was introduced.
It wasn't until the KX
Eric
Best post of the year!!! I will be chuckling at that all night; yet, you
delivered exactly what Wayne asked for and we all wish our radios had. You
even gave the K4 speculators something to chew on for a while. I will go to
the gym tomorrow to start building my arms and legs to handle m
Re: "2- The second pixel on the SWR display is lighted even without signal.
Not a major problem .. just want to know what is going on ..."
I will take a shot at that question, Pierre. If the "faulty" pixel is in the
S-meter, it means that you have the rf gain turned down. Tap the AF/RF-SQL
k
Hello!
I am subscribed to the Yahoo KX3 group and successfully getting daily digests.
I am so successfully subscribed to the Elecraft (QTH?) reflector, but my
Android device cannot seem to open the digest documents attached to the daily
digest email from that reflector.
What do I need on And
Re: "...batteries were quite discharged..."
Bob,
Glad you got things working.
Keep in mind that if any cell was discharged below 1 volt, there is a likely
chance that it has been damaged and cannot be recharged successfully. That is
why the KX3 shuts down at 8 volts, to protect the cells (1V
Re: "if you don't understand the language, go away".
THANK YOU, DON!!!
I agree with your entire post. I have actually asked for help in forums, and
the responders have made typos what they tell me to type, and then they brow
beat me because they made a mistake. One of them actually said, "Y
Oh my! I hope we aren't having a pop quiz on this tomorrow!
Wayne wrote:
Many of us have vanishingly little τ, and from earlier posts it’s clear that K
is irrational, so I propose reordering the terms as a Taylor series.
Doug wrote:
My limited math abilities express then relationship as-
D
Clay Autery wrote: "Elecraft Owners are AWESOME!!! My request to the
community has been met FULLY! Thank you ALL!
For me, this in the essence of this hobby. Someone needs some assistance, so
several hams step up and loan him their hardware, without ever having met the
guy except through this
The 25.4:1 SWR indicates there is no antenna connected. Check the antenna
connection to the ATU board. You may have dislodged it while replacing
batteries.
Mark
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Re: >> use the terms K3's or K3s'<<
>Grammatically incorrect. Use of the>
>apostrophe indicates possessive<
Well, not always. Websters New World Dictionary (mine is a 1965 edition and
getting pretty used up) lists six uses for the apostrophe, with number six
being:
"6) in the forming the
Re: "Wayne posted this message early in the K3S era..."
Good find, Phil. I think that would make more than one K3S be K3S's. That is
just my opinion and it is free, so take it for what it is worth. Mr. Websters
rules were not free. I had to pay for them.
Mark,
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Re: "Back in the K2 days, many hams folded some stiff card or paper to make
such a deflector to tape to the top of their rigs."
That idea was highlighted again in May 2016 QST Hints & Kinks, pg 63.
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Lyle KK7P wrote:
"The IQ output is not processed by the DSP. A signal above OR below the
carrier will show up. There is no opposite sideband rejection."
I think the point of Lyle's response was missed. Signals in both sidebands
will be displayed on the FLDIGI waterfall!
What does this mean?
Re: << contact Elecraft support. >>
I agree. Sounds like you checked the items that are accessible.
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Those that think there are bad radios now don’t remember those of 60s. I hear
the same signals that sound bad on the bands. I hear amplified signal with no
thought of overdriving. I have seen CW almost as wide as a SSB. I worked a
PSK-31 station that was running 100 watts when I was 20 and
RE: “…with all the praise for this unit, it seems odd it is such a wall
flower…”
I wouldn’t call it a wall flower. The radio was designed as a high performance
trail friendly radio (TFR). As such, it represents the best there is for that
mission. Light weight, small size, self contained
David Anderson GM4JJJ wrote: It could be the low level of the XG50 is not
enough to trigger the counter properly.
I suspect you are correct, David. The XG50 output is spec’d at 10mv p-p and,
as an example, an HP 5315 counter requires 25mv rms between 10Mhz and 100Mhz.
Not sure which HP cou
Don said: “Yes, but you have to do a bit of math.”
…or use one of the most useful pieces of software ever written (for an
engineer, anyway), Convert (http://joshmadison.com/). I used it throughout my
career which required skills in both metric and imperial systems. Like Morse
Code or lear
Fred wrote: “It took awhile
for my "knower" to know what a kilometer was without translating to
miles, but it did, and now I just "know" what a kilometer is, same for
meters, centimeters and millimeters. I "know" how hot my KPA500 is when
it says "60C".”
Exactly, Fred!!! Great concept.
Re: http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=92864
So, "The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated"???
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Re: "...even with 24/7 external power (13.5V) when the rig is "Off", it will
drain the internal batteries down to near zero!"
One problem is that you now have damaged cells since they have been discharged
to below 1 volt per cell. I suggest you stop trying to troubleshoot your radio
with dama
Re: I’d settle for a menu choice.
That would be nice. Something like "STKY DECODE ON/OFF". Read that as:
Sticky decode display on or off.
The KX3 Utility works well, but requires a compurer. The PX3 will give you
several lines, the Ham Central Terminal and Sidekar give you many more, but
Excellent tip, Mike! It brought back memories of my kid's toys that had a
small ribbon behind the cells that you could pull and the cells would come out
easily. So, I just looked at the toys all of my grandchildren got for
Christmas, and NONE of them had that feature. Looks like I will use yo
Re: Am I the only one being bombarded by old posts? 50+ turned up this
morning...
Same here. This has been going on for several days, and I am even getting
duplicate old messages that I deleted a week ago. It is only happening with
messages from this list.
Mark
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Re: Being able to back up the (ATU) L/C settings before heading out the door
and then restoring them when you come back home would be great.
I second Jim's suggestion, even if you could only do it with the KX3 utility.
Can I currently do this by saving and restoring the configuration? I don't
Excellent, Wayne! Now I wish I had a KX2 to test it on. I guess my KX3 will
have to wait.
Mark
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Re: I could see no wires going in to the ground.
They really hide them these days. I watched my house being built and noticed
that just below the service box, they passed the ground wire from the inside of
the wall to the outside, and then down to the ground rod. Since the wall was
then cov
Re: We hope to add this to the KX3 as well, if there’s enough interest.
Plenty of interest here!!!
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Re: "In SSB mode, the display no longer shows the SWR and power output scales.
It remains "stuck" on the CMP..."
Jon,
I don't have a KX2, but my KX3 behaves this way when CW in SSB is enabled. On
the KX3, you toggle it on/off in the CW WGHT menu by tapping the 1 key.
I hope that helps.
Mar
Congratulations to Don. That is an amazing feat!
…and thank you, Wayne, for posting this.
Mark
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From: Wayne Burdick
Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2014 09:48 PM
To: Elecraft Reflector, k...@yahoogroups.com, QRP-L
Cc: Donald Bush
Hi all,
I wanted to acknowledge wh
Re: …reads 12.2V on my Fluke DMM - the KX3 reports 10.2V while idling.
Arlen,
My first thoughts are that you need to fully charge the battery. I don’t have
a lot of experience with lead acid batteries, though.
The input diode (CMS04 if my memory is correct) should only account for ab
Re: The float voltage is 1.25 so the numbers are 10 (for 8 cells), 11.25 (for
9 cells), and 12.5 (for 10 cells)…
The voltages Fred lists are correct for a float charger where you are charging
at a rate of less than 0.05Cma for an indefinite period of time. The KXBC3
isn’t really designed
Jeff,
Re: when I cable the xg3 to the kx3, and set the mode to cw, normalize the
filters, and set the xg3 to -73 dbmI read a S-5 reading the S-meter…I would
expect a S9 reading.
Having a family get-together here, so haven't have a lot of time, but I sneaked
away for a few minutes to
Jim,
In support of Bob’s post requesting more information, let’s take this one step
at a time:
Re: “my KX3 has no Power Out with a "matched antenna".”
It is not clear what you mean by a “matched antenna”, but based on your later
statements, I assume you mean “matched” with your MFJ-993B
David,
The backlight follows the Menu>BKLIGHT setting no matter what you are doing.
Just go to Menu>BKLIGHT and select OFF. You can do this even while you are
charging. If you shut your KX3 off during charging, you can still restart the
KX3, go to Menu>BKLIGHT, and then select OFF and backl
I tried several of these apps, but none of them really did what I wanted. I
finally recorded a separate ringtone for each person I wanted by using the
Samsung Voice Recorder on my Galaxy S5. I used the sidetone from my KX3 and a
CW Touch Keyer to eliminate “paddle clatter”. I suppose you cou
Re: I have been noticing a 1 second on / 1 second off carrier at 30.53 KHz
intervals on 40 meters.
My washing machine does something very similar to this. The source is very
obvious since the carriers rise up and down in time with the washing machine
agitator motion. I’m not saying that is w
As a follow on to David's post:
"Check the RF Gain setting. I'll bet it is not zero!"
I had the same problem when I first got my KX3. Thought I was going to have to
send the radio in for an LCD replacement until Wayne politely suggested I press
the AF/RF SQL knob until RF appears, then turn it
Re: ...But I do need to get out the cheat sheet out in order to get the
KXPA100 cabling correct. I really should label those cables.
...or get a KX2 for portable use!!! That would be a lot more fun than making
labels.
Mark,
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Re: If you want to point and click to EXACT frequencies, I recommend CW Skimmer
Both CA Skimmer and Rocky have this feature. All you need to do is click
within a pixel or two of the desired signal and it pulls the frequency to zero
beat the signal. I have only used it on CW, so I don't know if
I suggest an SD-AUD20101. It has stereo input and output (2 DAC's for output
and 2 ADC's for input) so it can utilize the KX3 IQ output.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B006SF68P2/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1470087537&sr=8-1&pi=SL75_QL70&keywords=sd-aud20101
There are others out there, but if
Re: "...the clock seems to lose a couple of minutes per month."
I didn't buy the KXBC3 for the clock, and I don't expect it to automatically
sync with WWV or GPS, but mine seems to be sensitive to applied voltage:
If I leave 14v applied to my KX3, it gains a few seconds per day, probably not
f
Re: "You know a radio must be pretty good when the complaints start drifting
off to how accurate (or not) it is as a timepiece ;-)"
That is why I have never complained about it, and I only offered my experience
with it as a data point. I do, however, need to run controlled tests and spend
som
Re: "$10 wristwatches are accurate to a few seconds per month."
Yep! That is exactly what the original poster was concerned with. You said it
even better than he did. The original poster's KXBC3 clock isn't as accurate
as a $10 wristwatch. Mine isn't either, last time I checked it.
The po
Re: "...Tweak the rate a bit each time the clock is set."
Back in early 2013, there was some discussion on the Yahoo Group about doing
something like that either through the Utility, or even a menu entry with
"factor" that could be adjusted by the user. It never went a anywhere because
most o
For those who don't know, Edouard is the author of of the Wizkers:Radio
software.
When I saw this, I thought it looked like a cool idea for portable use, an
ideal companion to a KX2...except a KX2 doesn't have RX IQ out :-(
Mark
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Original message From: Edouard Lafargue
Re:
[Elecraft] KX2 battery in PX3
Re "a KX2 doesn't have RX IQ out :-( ": But you
knew that when you bought it, Mark -- Right? Most
of us sure did :-)
Phil W7OX
On 9/1/16 3:03 PM, Mark via Elecraft wrote:
> For those who don't know, Edouard is the author of of the Wizker
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