Re: [Elecraft] High Altitude Solder

2006-04-01 Thread Ken K7ZUM
OK you guys, I have gone out to the garage and put on my "hip waders" now you guys can continue, as now I won't get any on me ! Well, unless it gets so deep, it goes over the top of the waders !!! 73... Ken.K7ZUM > I had the same problem, until I discovered that under

[Elecraft] K2\100 going to Guyana

2006-02-25 Thread Ken K7ZUM
Hi All, Just a short note, my DX-ped partner (AH8DX-8R1EA) and I are preparing to leave this sunday evening,Feb.26th., for Guyana 8R1 land on another "suitcase" DX-ped, plan on being in Georgetown on Tuesday Feb. 28th, and hopefully set up soon afterwards. I have applied for the call

[Elecraft] K2/100,microham keyer & RTTY

2005-12-11 Thread Ken K7ZUM
Hi All, Anybody on the list have and experience with using a K2/100 with a Microham keyer on RTTY ?? using Writelog with MMTTY If so, I would be intrested in your settings you use to key up the K2, have had no success so far getting it to work on RTTY 73 de K7ZUM Ken in Gres"HAM" Ore

Re: [Elecraft] Cooling fans

2005-10-29 Thread Ken K7ZUM
Ten-Tec has a very nice model 310 cooling fan for the Orion,Omni,Corsair series radios, that fits very nicely on the top of the K2/100, hangs a little bit off the rear, and if you use the tilt bail on the K2, you can use a rubber band to temp hold it on, have used it this way many times, works wel

[Elecraft] strange pwr out on RTTY

2005-08-20 Thread Ken K7ZUM
HI All, Have been playing around in the SARTG RTTY test this weekend, and have noticed a power problem with my K2\KPA100. If I am on 20 or 15 mtrs, in the RTTY mode, I have little if any pwr output control, even though the display shows 0 to 110 watts, my watt meter will only show abo

[Elecraft] K2 first light, no first light !

2005-02-26 Thread Ken K7ZUM
Hi All, Am working on putting my secound K2 together, have run into a bit of a problem, am on the "first light" alignment and test, part 1, K2 powers up, info 201 comes on (and disapears) then the elecraft and 7100.cc c, everything seems fine to that point, but, not a single button

[Elecraft] rig polling "noise"

2004-10-03 Thread Ken K7ZUM
Hi All, here it is, contest season, and would like to use the K2 in the C.W. tests, hooked up the computer and logging programs to the K2, work just fine, cept I pick up the computer polling the radio, is abt S-9 on ten, S-6 on 15, and gets less as I go down the bands, anybody else have su

Re: [Elecraft] Missing some "dits" and "dahs" thanks all !

2004-10-01 Thread Ken K7ZUM
Nope, just Gres"HAM" O-re-GONE !! 73 de K7ZUM Ken in Gres"HAM" Ore > Is that what makes working Multnomah County so special? :) > 73, >Kevin. KD5ONS > > > > On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 23:15:10 -0700, Ken K7ZUM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> &

[Elecraft] Missing some "dits" and "dahs" thanks all !

2004-09-30 Thread Ken K7ZUM
Thanks to all who answered my initial question about missing a few dits, and now I know that it is "normal" with an easy work around, now I'll use a single "dah" (instead of "dits") seems to bring the power up almost immediate. and btw, Ron, you would not belive what kind of weird neo-geo-grav

[Elecraft] Missing some "dits" and "dahs"

2004-09-29 Thread Ken K7ZUM
Hi All, After a few months delay of ignoring my K2, I finally got back to putting the audio board, keying mod and new firmware in, and have noticed what I think is a new problem for me, (not sure if it wasn't there before) When in CW mode, (have the 100 watt pa board) and I first