Re: [Elecraft] April QST: review and The Secret is Out

Actually the bulk of the Navy's ELF TX antenna in Clam Lake WI is/was burried underground... Jon w1jp Before we laugh too much, underground antennas do work. See "Practical Wire Antennas", John Heys, G3BDQ, p79: Subsurface (underground) Antennas. (OK, define, "work"). Rich NU6T __

[Elecraft] Brown box

Just received K3/100 #493 in Boston! Ordered w/ deposit 6/28/07. Received 2/26/08. Now to work on my schedule to free up the time to play/build... :) 73, Jon w1jp K3-493 ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subsc

Re: [Elecraft] [K3] NB indicator flashing

Easy one: 299,792,458 m/s. Since dark is merely the vacation of light and light vacates thus. ;) w1jp - Original Message - From: "David Ferrington, M0XDF" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "elecraft" Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 07:15 Subject: [Elecraft] [K3] NB indicator flashing I mi

Re: [Elecraft] K3 display for contesters

Not in this venue-- maybe on the yahoo group perhaps, we should start a discussion of what a K3 HUD (head's up display) might look like. I am sure there are a bunch of us that could contribute "gadgets" if we could come up with an architecture to support it (e.g., Adobe AIR, Flex, Flash, Java,

Re: [Elecraft] Jota

Ditto-- We (Boston Minuteman Council) will also be on-the-air (same freqs.) from Camp Sayer (42° 13' 59" N, 71° 05' 33" W) using individual callsigns (or mine W1JP). YiS,73, Jon w1jp - Original Message - From: "Richard Kent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 14

Re: [Elecraft] K3 test results?

Just convert it: PdBm=20*log(V/Vo) where Ro=50 ohm, Pm = 0.001 W, thus Vo=sqrt(0.001*50)= 0.224 V so for Pdbm = -136: V=Vo*10^(-136/20) ... V = 35nV or 0.035uV! Jon w1jp - Original Message - From: "Brett gazdzinski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 12:38 Sub

Re: [Elecraft] OT: Keying contacts - Clairification

What if they are 'gold plated' contacts-- does this change the scenario at all? On another note-- how does one tell the checmical makeup visually between bronze, gold, etc.? - Original Message - served to help keep them clean. Modern very low voltage/low current keying circuits d

Fw: [Elecraft] Hate the word HAM

I have a different perspective on the code requirement... I was really into Heath Kits when I was in h.s. (~1977). I _so_ wanted to get my Novice license; however, I didn't have an Elmer. I would look at the Heath catalog dreaming that some day I would. I tried learning the code by myself (as