Re: [Elecraft] Backward balun
Thanks for all of the excellent advice. To sum up, today I measured a 4:1 current balun backwards and Tom was pretty right on... the high frequency cutoff is so severely lowered that it is unusable for my application. I did not test a 4:1 voltage balun. I think one approach to take is to use a unun to transform down to 12 ohms and then a conventional 1:1 balun following that to transform to a balanced feed. I'll try this and report back if it doesn't work. I know that there were several who suggested Sevick's book-- and I hope I'm not commiting sacrilege by saying that I've gotten very little understanding of balun theory from that book. It's a great cookbook for constructing baluns (and ununs), but not so great to learn why one is doing what he's doing. But that's just me. It is also very surprising that I found almost no reference to a 50-to-12.5 ohm balun on the web. You can certainly find one for purchase, but you can't find the instructions on how to wind one. You have to buy the book, I guess! This is surprising to me because I can think of many applications where one needs to transform 50 ohms to a lower (balanced) impedance, including the one I am currently battling. Thanks again to everybody. Good weekend, Al W6LX __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] [OT] Backward Baluns
On Fri, 6 Aug 2010 19:57:20 -0700 (PDT), Al Lorona wrote: Can it be connected backwards A MUCH better question is, EXACTLY WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH? 73, Jim K9YC __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
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Re: [Elecraft] Backward balun
I think one approach to take is to use a unun to transform down to 12 ohms and then a conventional 1:1 balun following that to transform to a balanced feed. I'll try this and report back if it doesn't work. You will have trouble. Lead lengths will kill SWR (as will lengths through connectors and connectors) because it is almost impossible to build 12.5 ohm line and connections without special cables (very thin dielectrics and thick center conductors). Look at baluns for solid state amplifiers. You can series connect two 25 ohm lines (each small 50 ohm cables) on the 50 ohm end, and parallel them on the 12.5 ohm end. Use an RG Teflon cable about 1/8th inch or so diameter. Don't try the silly idea of a single core, build two isolated lines. I've done this with solid state amps with bandwidths of 1-100 MHz. I know that there were several who suggested Sevick's book-- and I hope I'm not commiting sacrilege by saying that I've gotten very little understanding of balun theory from that book. It's a great cookbook for constructing baluns (and ununs), but not so great to learn why one is doing what he's doing. But that's just me. You should look at other sources anyway. A few errors in books aren't uncommon, and that's why we should never trust a single source for learning how things work unless it has been extensively critically reviewed. You might want to look at broadband matching applications for solid state amplifiers. Many of them go from several ohms balanced to 50 ohms unbalanced. Dig through Motorola application notes on transformers by Helge Granberg and look at Walt Maxwell's books for theory. Walt is much more in tune with how antenna systems work, and Granberg spent a lot of time working with transformers. DeMaw might have some stuff on baluns also in the form of matching solid state amps to 50 ohm filters if you can borrow a copy of Solid State Design for the Radio Amateur. You'll have few core worries because balanced impedance is so low, and since you can use coax balun windings will be easy. I think your project will be easy if you watch lead or connection lengths on the 12.5 ohm end. 73 Tom __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] K3 + SDR-IQ + CW Skimmer+ SpectraVue
Anyone know if it's possible to configure all four of the above to simultaneously run CW Skimmer and SpectraVue? I have tired every possible iteration to port audio from SpectraVue to CW Skimmer with no luck. I've also tried VAC and still no luck. If there's anyone that's successfully tried this, please contact me off-line by private E-mail. Tnx! Paul, W9AC __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] K3 + SDR-IQ + CW Skimmer+ SpectraVue
Why not publicly? Would be helpful to others, I should think, if it is possible. -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Paul Christensen Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 8:16 AM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: [Elecraft] K3 + SDR-IQ + CW Skimmer+ SpectraVue Anyone know if it's possible to configure all four of the above to simultaneously run CW Skimmer and SpectraVue? I have tired every possible iteration to port audio from SpectraVue to CW Skimmer with no luck. I've also tried VAC and still no luck. If there's anyone that's successfully tried this, please contact me off-line by private E-mail. Tnx! Paul, W9AC __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html This email message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain information that is proprietary, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender by return email and delete the original message. Please note, the recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The organization accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. = __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] K2 internal keyer problem
Mark, That has to be either a firmware glitch (not likely), or the result of RF-in-the-shack causing it. The internal keyer routines in the firmware have been in place for a long time, and this is the first report of that behavior that I have heard. If it were a firmware problem, I would think others would experience the same thing. Try operating into a dummy load and see if you can produce it. If not, then suspect RF in the shack. If that is the case, the cure is within your antenna system. If the behavior is band dependent, then it is caused by RF being where it should not be. Do you have effective current baluns on your antennas? It is possible that the power level produced by the K1 would not cause any indication of a problem, but the higher power of the K2 might cause the RF problem to be noticed. 73, Don W3FPR ve7ymm wrote: I finally finished my k2 a couple of weeks ago, and it seems to be working fine. I do have an infrequent, intermitant problem with the internal keyer sticking and producing a steady carrier when I'm holding the dah paddle on the bencher. So far, I've noticed this on 20 and 40m. I don't have this problem with my K1. It occurs rarely, perhaps once in a half hour of sending. I can't reproduce the problem at will. Any suggestions? Thanks, Mark __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] K3/P3/Quadra
Hi Larry: I have a question about hooking up the P3 to the K3 12vdc out. I'm using a cable of your design and it's been really great. I'm using that output for the 12vdc sense voltage to turn the Quadra on and off. My P3 will be here Monday. It seems to me the that cable they supply is made to connect to the 12vdc out on the K3. And it is. Will there be a problem if I put a Y connector on the 12vdc out and fed both the P3 and the sensor 12vdc and the P3. It Depends... I 'think' the Quadra PROBABLY only requires a 'knowledge' that there's 12VDC on that port in order to turn itself on... e.g. it's not being 'powered' in an manner from the K3, just being 'told' that yes, I'm turned on, so virtually no CURRENT is being require from the K3 +12VDC output. To confirm this, I'd insert a mA meter and check to see how much (if any) current is being supplied TO the Quadra. If there's a significant amount of current, then a Y connector may not be appropriate. The P3 Owner's Manual specifications state that the P3 requires 10 to 15 VDC @0.5A which, if accurate, pretty well consumes the 'rated' 0.5A output from the K3's +12VDC @ .5A output. HOWEVER... if the Quadra only requires a 'knowledge' that there's +12VDC at the port, and really doesn't require much current (if any), then yes, I'd think that you could probably get by with a Y cable to control the Quadra and to POWER the P3 as well. If it turns out that the Quadra AND the P3 (together) do REQUIRE more current than the K3 +12VDC port can (or should be asked to) supply, then I'd probably suggest that you consider using the L3's +12VDC port to drive a small relay (or possibly a MOSFET) which would switch on/off the output from a small external 12VDC power supply which could supply maybe 1A or so output. Shouldn't me much difficulty to do this if it comes to that point. Hope this helps. 73, Tom Hammond N0SS Or should I make a longer cable and feed the P3 separately? Thanks in advance for any information you can provide. de mailto:k...@k2gn.comK2GN - Larry - http://k2gn.com K3 S/N - 3278P3 S/N - soon __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] LEARNING CW
As a long time high speed CW op, let me pass on an few of what I feel are the keys to learning to receive effortlessly at QRQ levels. The goal is to get to the point where listening to CW is exactly like listening to a conversation; that is, there is no conscious translation from dits and dahs into letters, words, and ultimately, phrases. The first thing do to do is throw away your pencil. Learn early to copy in you heard, even if it initially lowers your copying speed. As you work through this stage, you will be amazed how quickly you begin to hear words instead of letters. This approach will get you to at least 15 WPM if you stick with it. For higher speeds, you must train your brain always hear words and phrases. I found that the best way to do this, is to scan, and later, read some printed material while youare copying CW. Again, this may require you to cut back your copying speed as the process sinks in. What this does is to permit you to parallel process two things-one of which is hearing the CW and unconsciously turning it into words at the same time you are doing something else. When you reach this stage, you have the tools to take your CW copying to any level of speed you wish. Once you are over the 20 WPM barrier, speeds of up to 45 or can be achieved by anyone. You say you can't parallel process?? Sure you can--you do it every time you are, for example, reading the paper and the XYL is talking to you ( and you are answering her ) at the same time!! Bill N6FB __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Backward balun
Al, your comments about Jerry's book makes me wonder even more about what you are trying to do with a backward 4:1 balun. With a BS in Physics and 30 years as an EE I found the book anything but a cook book. To begin to understand what I thought previously to be a simple device I had to drag up every bit of transformer theory I ever knew and found the book to be at the PHD level with basics assumed to be common knowledge. I had to read the chapters several times to feel that I understood what Jerry was telling me. In trying to guess what you are trying to match with a 50 to 12.5 ohm balun the only good guess is some sort of shortened dipole. This will not respond well to a broadband approach because it will have a low impedence at resonance and high impedance everywhere else. The approaches that I can see working for this type of antenna are LC networks rather than broad band transmission line transformers. You can probably make it work with a non-inductive resistance by experimenting with different mixes of cores until you find the range of interest. If you are trying to match a shortened whip you will need a unun which is similar, but wired differently than a balun. Willis 'Cookie' Cooke K5EWJ From: Al Lorona alor...@sbcglobal.net To: Elecraft_List Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Sun, August 8, 2010 1:02:22 AM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Backward balun Thanks for all of the excellent advice. To sum up, today I measured a 4:1 current balun backwards and Tom was pretty right on... the high frequency cutoff is so severely lowered that it is unusable for my application. I did not test a 4:1 voltage balun. I think one approach to take is to use a unun to transform down to 12 ohms and then a conventional 1:1 balun following that to transform to a balanced feed. I'll try this and report back if it doesn't work. I know that there were several who suggested Sevick's book-- and I hope I'm not commiting sacrilege by saying that I've gotten very little understanding of balun theory from that book. It's a great cookbook for constructing baluns (and ununs), but not so great to learn why one is doing what he's doing. But that's just me. It is also very surprising that I found almost no reference to a 50-to-12.5 ohm balun on the web. You can certainly find one for purchase, but you can't find the instructions on how to wind one. You have to buy the book, I guess! This is surprising to me because I can think of many applications where one needs to transform 50 ohms to a lower (balanced) impedance, including the one I am currently battling. Thanks again to everybody. Good weekend, Al W6LX __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] (no subject) SPAM ALERT!!!
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Re: [Elecraft] Problem connecting LP_Bridge through the P3 to the K3
Hi, Ted: Yes, the LP-Bridge requires one to keep the P3 turned off until the end. LP-Bridge is not required, of course, but I had left mine in play because I originally was running the P3 and the LP-PAN in parallel and hadn't gotten around to reassigning COM ports to my logging programs when I disconnected LP-PAN. I was still using that configuration when I tripped over what you report. I suppose the good news is that if anyone has LP-Bridge installed for what ever reason, the P3 doesn't mind so long as you do what one always has to do: set up the virtual ports first. 73, Gary, VE1RGB -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Ted Roycraft Sent: August 7, 2010 6:31 PM To: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: [Elecraft] Problem connecting LP_Bridge through the P3 to the K3 I tried to connect LP_Bridge passing through the P3 to the K3 ... Has anyone else run into this? 73, Ted, W2ZK __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] K3 # 4518 is QRV
Hello Elecrafters, K3 #4518 arrived via UPS last Tuesday afternoon and made the first contact last night. The inventory and build took me about 11 hours over the course of 4 days with lots of stopping and starting. All the checks and calibrations went smoothly. The excellent documentation and quality parts made for an enjoyable project. Good Job! to the Subassembly Packers Ryan, Susan, Alex and Leony, and to everyone else at Elecraft that had a part in putting this kit together and processing my order. 73, Glenn/KD0Q __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] [K3] MMTTY
Mike, I have not found this to be critical at all, once the audio and VOX levels are set. First, using manual keying adjust the level out from the sound card and the LINE input level on the K3 to just get the required 4-5 bars of ALC. Then increase the K3's MAIN:VOX GN setting until the output from the sound card triggers the VOX reliably. If you also use voice modes with VOX, your VOX GN setting might be different between voice and data modes. If this is a problem, my suggestion would be to try changing the gain distribution in the first step, by increasing the sound card output level and decreasing the K3's LINE input level. This should allow you to use a lower VOX GN setting. Just make sure that the sound card level is not set so high that the audio amplifier inside the sound card is overdriven. 73, Rich VE3KI NF4L wrote: How critical is the match between the K3 and MMTTY for it to transmit using VOX. If I key the rig manually, or use DTR it's OK. A different program (but using MMTTY) works just fine. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] [K3] MMTTY
And turn off all WINDOWS alterts, sounds when operating AFSK! 73 DE Brian/K3KO Richard Ferch wrote: Mike, I have not found this to be critical at all, once the audio and VOX levels are set. First, using manual keying adjust the level out from the sound card and the LINE input level on the K3 to just get the required 4-5 bars of ALC. Then increase the K3's MAIN:VOX GN setting until the output from the sound card triggers the VOX reliably. If you also use voice modes with VOX, your VOX GN setting might be different between voice and data modes. If this is a problem, my suggestion would be to try changing the gain distribution in the first step, by increasing the sound card output level and decreasing the K3's LINE input level. This should allow you to use a lower VOX GN setting. Just make sure that the sound card level is not set so high that the audio amplifier inside the sound card is overdriven. 73, Rich VE3KI NF4L wrote: How critical is the match between the K3 and MMTTY for it to transmit using VOX. If I key the rig manually, or use DTR it's OK. A different program (but using MMTTY) works just fine. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] learning CW...off topic elecraft reflector...
Bill... Good advice. You may be amused to hear MY version of reading some printed material while listening for phrases. I spent 15 months in west Germany (before the re-unification) as a guest of their gov't, and took along my Kenwood TS-520 and a fold-up vertical. All of my operation was done with the vertical clamped to the apartment balcony and IN CW. With this set-up most of the stations I worked were German or German-speaking, and learning to morse in German, both sending and receiving, did absolute wonders for my speed. I have always been a CW type (until recently, when PSK got my attention), and had at that time a 35 wpm certificate from the ARRL, but by the time I got back to the states, I could copy upwards of 65-70 wpm in my head. I sent with a keyboard and a buffer, as i am a fast typist, but it was the copying /in the head and not on paper with a pencil/ that did all this for me. I figure if one uses a stick and the signal corps letter system that 35 wpm is about the upper limit for hard copy. I never tried to copy with a mill, but I type easily 100 wpm -- the best high school course I ever took! -- so there was no problem keeping the buffer full. It was the listening/copying that transformed my ability to converse in CW. The brain's ability to do this sort of thing is quite amazing...I always felt like it was a tape unrolling inside my head...and your comment about 45 wpm is certainly true. Due to a long lay-off, my CW speed has slackened a bit, but I still have the experience of words and phrases popping into my head rather than letter by laborious letter. I thought that the FCC's deletion of the CW requirement was a seriously retrograde step for ham radio. CW is certainly one of the premium weak-signal modes available to the non-computerized part of the world. I never learned to copy RTTY in my head, and the same applies to BPSK31. I am not sure if /anyone/ can copy e.g. Olivia 16/500 by ear, even though it sounds nice. Maybe Mozart? 73 John Ragle -- W1ZI __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Problem connecting LP_Bridge through the P3 to the K3
Thanks Gary, I have an LP-PAN and will continue to use it even though I have the P3. It is still needed if you want to run CWSkimmer. Even if I weren't going to use LP-PAN I would still want to keep LP-Bridge running because it allows multiple programs to control the K3 - one of those things I've gotten used to and now can't live without. Maybe it is a nit on my part but the RS-232 port on the P3 is supposed to be transparent to apps connecting to the K3 via RS-232 and it isn't - not strictly speaking anyway since LP-Bridge hangs while connecting to the K3 if the P3 is on. I figure now is the time to get Elecraft to address these kinds of things. 73, Ted, W2ZK On 8/8/2010 9:22 AM, gary bartlett wrote: Hi, Ted: Yes, the LP-Bridge requires one to keep the P3 turned off until the end. LP-Bridge is not required, of course, but I had left mine in play because I originally was running the P3 and the LP-PAN in parallel and hadn't gotten around to reassigning COM ports to my logging programs when I disconnected LP-PAN. I was still using that configuration when I tripped over what you report. I suppose the good news is that if anyone has LP-Bridge installed for what ever reason, the P3 doesn't mind so long as you do what one always has to do: set up the virtual ports first. 73, Gary, VE1RGB -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Ted Roycraft Sent: August 7, 2010 6:31 PM To: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: [Elecraft] Problem connecting LP_Bridge through the P3 to the K3 I tried to connect LP_Bridge passing through the P3 to the K3 ... Has anyone else run into this? 73, Ted, W2ZK __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Problem connecting LP_Bridge through the P3 to the K3
... Maybe it is a nit on my part but the RS-232 port on the P3 is supposed to be transparent to apps connecting to the K3 via RS-232 and it isn't - not strictly speaking anyway since LP-Bridge hangs while connecting to the K3 if the P3 is on. I figure now is the time to get Elecraft to address these kinds of things. Absolutely! We need this kind of feedback to help us improve the product. The P3 is in its earliest rollout and we know there are bugs not yet found, and there will be feature requests we hadn't thought of. Please keep the feedback coming -- and look for updates! 73, Lyle KK7P __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] [K3] MMTTY
Thanks Rich. Turning up the vox gain did it, and I was able to turn down the computer sound card a bit to get the ALC reading correct. I didn't want to mess with the MIC gain, because it's touchy for me to set it for phone. I'd like to turn VOX off for phone only, but that's not possible yet. The volume on my sound card is set using the Main and Wave sliders. No line out control, so anytime I adjust the volume, I'm hosing my RTTY settings. I'm going to look at an additional sound card, or maybe go to FSK. What really threw me was that using one program it worked fine and one didn't, both programs use MMTTY, plus I've had the mark tone mismatch bite me before. I don't see a level control in MMTTY itself that would account for one working and one not. But as they say All's well that ends. Thanks for the solution! 73, Mike On 8/8/2010 10:45 AM, Richard Ferch wrote: Mike, I have not found this to be critical at all, once the audio and VOX levels are set. First, using manual keying adjust the level out from the sound card and the LINE input level on the K3 to just get the required 4-5 bars of ALC. Then increase the K3's MAIN:VOX GN setting until the output from the sound card triggers the VOX reliably. If you also use voice modes with VOX, your VOX GN setting might be different between voice and data modes. If this is a problem, my suggestion would be to try changing the gain distribution in the first step, by increasing the sound card output level and decreasing the K3's LINE input level. This should allow you to use a lower VOX GN setting. Just make sure that the sound card level is not set so high that the audio amplifier inside the sound card is overdriven. 73, Rich VE3KI NF4L wrote: How critical is the match between the K3 and MMTTY for it to transmit using VOX. If I key the rig manually, or use DTR it's OK. A different program (but using MMTTY) works just fine. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] [K3] MMTTY
Ohhh yeah, Been bit by that too. 73, Mike On 8/8/2010 10:53 AM, Brian Alsop wrote: And turn off all WINDOWS alterts, sounds when operating AFSK! 73 DE Brian/K3KO Richard Ferch wrote: Mike, I have not found this to be critical at all, once the audio and VOX levels are set. First, using manual keying adjust the level out from the sound card and the LINE input level on the K3 to just get the required 4-5 bars of ALC. Then increase the K3's MAIN:VOX GN setting until the output from the sound card triggers the VOX reliably. If you also use voice modes with VOX, your VOX GN setting might be different between voice and data modes. If this is a problem, my suggestion would be to try changing the gain distribution in the first step, by increasing the sound card output level and decreasing the K3's LINE input level. This should allow you to use a lower VOX GN setting. Just make sure that the sound card level is not set so high that the audio amplifier inside the sound card is overdriven. 73, Rich VE3KI NF4L wrote: How critical is the match between the K3 and MMTTY for it to transmit using VOX. If I key the rig manually, or use DTR it's OK. A different program (but using MMTTY) works just fine. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Problem connecting LP_Bridge through the P3 to the K3
... Maybe it is a nit on my part but the RS-232 port on the P3 is supposed to be transparent to apps connecting to the K3 via RS-232 and it isn't - not strictly speaking anyway since LP-Bridge hangs while connecting to the K3 if the P3 is on. I figure now is the time to get Elecraft to address these kinds of things. I would not be so quick to blame the P3. P3 works just fine with microHAM Router and other port sharing software. It may be that LP-Bridge is too critical of the timing or expects the K3 to respond to a particular AI or K3 mode that is incompatible with the P3. 73, ... Joe, W4TV __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] Power Supply
Would anyone be interested in an Elecraft DC power supply? It would look nice to have a powersupply that matches my K3! Maybe in two models. First a QRP model super clean DC, the other a 25-30 amp model. Anderson Powerpoles on the BACK so you dont have wires bent around the back of the powersupply. I would like to see an option for a battery charge controller and terminals for an external battery. Would any one be interested either model? Any thoughts? Looking for Hams with an opinion. -- Nicholas W. Farrar Network Engineer / IT Coordinator Brown Folse PACS nfar...@bfpacs.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] [K3] MMTTY
Mike, On the K3, MIC level and LINE level settings are independent; you can adjust the LINE level in data modes without affecting the MIC level for voice and vice versa. Regarding changing levels in different software, you might take a look at QuickMix (http://www.ptpart.co.uk/quickmix/) - this software allows you to save and restore mixer settings separately for each application. Brian's comment on Windows sounds is my main reason for using a second sound card. For digital modes, pretty much any sound card will do; I use an old SB16 card that I keep moving from one computer to the next. I leave the Windows sounds, music players, etc. on the motherboard sound device and use the SB16 for my digital-mode software. 73, Rich VE3KI __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Power Supply
Would it be cheaper and better then my Astron power supplies? My Astron's do not sit next to my K3 or any of my other equipment. Therefore, whether they match the look of a K3 (or not) is not important. But, if a kit version were produced and if it was cost comparable to other non-kit power supplies I might be tempted and only because the idea of putting together a kit, and thus knowing my power supply a bit better, would be a plus. However, the quality of engineering and design of Elecraft is the most important part of buying one of these kits (to me) so if you are thinking of producing a kit power supply, I would not be as enthusiastic as I would with one from Elecraft. I don't mean to imply any scourge on your skills and capabilities but rather that Eric and Wayne have established quite a good reputation already and that is hard to beat or hard to even come close without the advantage of time in doing the same thing. Then again, the hardest part of putting a linear power supply together from scratch (scratch means properly chosen components) is creating a solid and nice looking cabinet. So, maybe the idea of a kit boils down to the choice of cabinet box hardware after all. That is my opinion and I will stick to it for a few more seconds. 73, phil, K7PEH On Aug 8, 2010, at 9:24 AM, Nicholas Farrar wrote: Would anyone be interested in an Elecraft DC power supply? It would look nice to have a powersupply that matches my K3! Maybe in two models. First a QRP model super clean DC, the other a 25-30 amp model. Anderson Powerpoles on the BACK so you dont have wires bent around the back of the powersupply. I would like to see an option for a battery charge controller and terminals for an external battery. Would any one be interested either model? Any thoughts? Looking for Hams with an opinion. -- Nicholas W. Farrar Network Engineer / IT Coordinator Brown Folse PACS nfar...@bfpacs.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Power Supply
Yes, that would be interesting, especially if the options included solar charge controller and generator options--a green Elecraft power supply system useful for various DXpedition, emergency and home uses. Rich NU6T On 8/8/2010 9:24 AM, Nicholas Farrar wrote: Would anyone be interested in an Elecraft DC power supply? It would look nice to have a powersupply that matches my K3! Maybe in two models. First a QRP model super clean DC, the other a 25-30 amp model. Anderson Powerpoles on the BACK so you dont have wires bent around the back of the powersupply. I would like to see an option for a battery charge controller and terminals for an external battery. Would any one be interested either model? Any thoughts? Looking for Hams with an opinion. -- Nicholas W. Farrar Network Engineer / IT Coordinator Brown Folse PACS nfar...@bfpacs.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Power Supply
I have heard a rumour of a commonly available power supply that was installed in the back of a P3. Can anyone conform or deny this? And, if confirmed, publish photos? I suspect it wouldn't be hard to put a QRP-level PS/charge controller in the KPA3 space, either. 73, doug Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 11:24:15 -0500 From: Nicholas Farrar nfar...@bfpacs.com Would anyone be interested in an Elecraft DC power supply? It would look nice to have a powersupply that matches my K3! Maybe in two models. First a QRP model super clean DC, the other a 25-30 amp model. Anderson Powerpoles on the BACK so you dont have wires bent around the back of the powersupply. I would like to see an option for a battery charge controller and terminals for an external battery. Would any one be interested either model? Any thoughts? Looking for Hams with an opinion. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] K2 internal keyer problem
I have seen this on occasion with my K2. Occasionally I get a very long DAH when I key as if I have mis-keyed. Tap the DIT paddle and all is well again. I only run 5W so I don't think it is RF, I suspect a bug in the firmware. But so infrequent not to worry about. 73 Dave G3YMC K2 #2498 -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/K2-internal-keyer-problem-tp5385342p5386476.html Sent from the [K2] mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] [K3] MMTTY
Rich, Both use the MIC knob tho, right? Quickmix looks good, thanks for the link. This afternoon I'm may run down to the candy store and look at sound cards, probably a USB one. When you add another sound device, how do the Windows mixer controls work? I'd guess it works for the default device. How is the second one adjusted? Mike On 8/8/2010 12:26 PM, Richard Ferch wrote: Mike, On the K3, MIC level and LINE level settings are independent; you can adjust the LINE level in data modes without affecting the MIC level for voice and vice versa. Regarding changing levels in different software, you might take a look at QuickMix (http://www.ptpart.co.uk/quickmix/) - this software allows you to save and restore mixer settings separately for each application. Brian's comment on Windows sounds is my main reason for using a second sound card. For digital modes, pretty much any sound card will do; I use an old SB16 card that I keep moving from one computer to the next. I leave the Windows sounds, music players, etc. on the motherboard sound device and use the SB16 for my digital-mode software. 73, Rich VE3KI __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] K2 internal keyer problem
This sounds like the K2's auto-detect feature, which allows connecting both paddles and a straight key or computer, along with a couple of diodes, at the same time and sending from either. If the paddles are squeezed at exactly the same time, it looks like the straight key to the circuit. If I remember right, it can be avoided by choosing normal rather than auto in the input menu. Peter W0LLN On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 11:56 AM, g3ymc d...@davesergeant.com wrote: I have seen this on occasion with my K2. Occasionally I get a very long DAH when I key as if I have mis-keyed. Tap the DIT paddle and all is well again. I only run 5W so I don't think it is RF, I suspect a bug in the firmware. But so infrequent not to worry about. 73 Dave G3YMC K2 #2498 -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/K2-internal-keyer-problem-tp5385342p5386476.html Sent from the [K2] mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Problem connecting LP_Bridge through the P3 to the K3
Nevertheless, it's not transparent. Maybe we should allow it to be translucent? :-) 73, Ted, W2ZK On 8/8/2010 12:22 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote: ... Maybe it is a nit on my part but the RS-232 port on the P3 is supposed to be transparent to apps connecting to the K3 via RS-232 and it isn't - not strictly speaking anyway since LP-Bridge hangs while connecting to the K3 if the P3 is on. I figure now is the time to get Elecraft to address these kinds of things. I would not be so quick to blame the P3. P3 works just fine with microHAM Router and other port sharing software. It may be that LP-Bridge is too critical of the timing or expects the K3 to respond to a particular AI or K3 mode that is incompatible with the P3. 73, ... Joe, W4TV __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Power Supply
The issues in putting a linear supply in the P3 case are both the size of a transformer capable of handling 25A continuous/30A peak (or the cost of a special toroidal transformer) and the necessary heat sink area for the pass transistors. Switching supplies also have issues with heat sink area or fans to move air over a smaller heat sink. A switching supply with a small continuous power rating and a large capacitor would not be appealing just because it came in a case that looked like the K3/P3/KPA500. 73, ... Joe, W4TV On 8/8/2010 12:48 PM, Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-655-8604 wrote: I have heard a rumour of a commonly available power supply that was installed in the back of a P3. Can anyone conform or deny this? And, if confirmed, publish photos? I suspect it wouldn't be hard to put a QRP-level PS/charge controller in the KPA3 space, either. 73, doug Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 11:24:15 -0500 From: Nicholas Farrarnfar...@bfpacs.com Would anyone be interested in an Elecraft DC power supply? It would look nice to have a powersupply that matches my K3! Maybe in two models. First a QRP model super clean DC, the other a 25-30 amp model. Anderson Powerpoles on the BACK so you dont have wires bent around the back of the powersupply. I would like to see an option for a battery charge controller and terminals for an external battery. Would any one be interested either model? Any thoughts? Looking for Hams with an opinion. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] K2 internal keyer problem
On 8 Aug 2010 at 12:09, Peter Wollan wrote: This sounds like the K2's auto-detect feature, which allows connecting both paddles and a straight key or computer, along with a couple of diodes, at the same time and sending from either. If the paddles are squeezed at exactly the same time, it looks like the straight key to the circuit. If I remember right, it can be avoided by choosing normal rather than auto in the input menu. I think you might be right Peter. I don't think I had ever looked at that setting, and the way it works it is hard to see what it is set to. ie if you press DISPLAY while at the INP menu setting it toggles it rather than just displays it. I THINK I have it OFF now, so will see what happens. Thank 73 Dave G3YMC http://www.davesergeant.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Power Supply
No Fan please Figure out a way to cool it with heat sinks but please no more fans. Steve N4LQ - Original Message - From: Nicholas Farrar nfar...@bfpacs.com To: elecraft elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 12:24 PM Subject: [Elecraft] Power Supply Would anyone be interested in an Elecraft DC power supply? It would look nice to have a powersupply that matches my K3! Maybe in two models. First a QRP model super clean DC, the other a 25-30 amp model. Anderson Powerpoles on the BACK so you dont have wires bent around the back of the powersupply. I would like to see an option for a battery charge controller and terminals for an external battery. Would any one be interested either model? Any thoughts? Looking for Hams with an opinion. -- Nicholas W. Farrar Network Engineer / IT Coordinator Brown Folse PACS nfar...@bfpacs.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] [K3] MMTTY
Both use the MIC knob tho, right? Yes, but the mic knob is an encoder ... changes mic level in SSB and Line level in Data A/AFSK A if you are using Line In. The mic /line levels are maintained separately. When you add another sound device, how do the Windows mixer controls work? Depends on the version of Windows but one can generally change the device being controlled - using the menu bar in 2000/XP and directly selecting the endpoint in Vista/Win 7. For inexpensive basic USB sound cards look at: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829128004 Line IN/Line Out for $17 or http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829180006 Line In/Mic In/Line Out for $30.00 Similar products are available from other vendors. 73, ... Joe, W4TV On 8/8/2010 1:03 PM, Mike wrote: Rich, Both use the MIC knob tho, right? Quickmix looks good, thanks for the link. This afternoon I'm may run down to the candy store and look at sound cards, probably a USB one. When you add another sound device, how do the Windows mixer controls work? I'd guess it works for the default device. How is the second one adjusted? Mike On 8/8/2010 12:26 PM, Richard Ferch wrote: Mike, On the K3, MIC level and LINE level settings are independent; you can adjust the LINE level in data modes without affecting the MIC level for voice and vice versa. Regarding changing levels in different software, you might take a look at QuickMix (http://www.ptpart.co.uk/quickmix/) - this software allows you to save and restore mixer settings separately for each application. Brian's comment on Windows sounds is my main reason for using a second sound card. For digital modes, pretty much any sound card will do; I use an old SB16 card that I keep moving from one computer to the next. I leave the Windows sounds, music players, etc. on the motherboard sound device and use the SB16 for my digital-mode software. 73, Rich VE3KI __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] [K3] MMTTY
Mike, Both level controls use the MIC/SPEED knob. You can see the current setting by tapping the knob twice (once for CW speed, once for the level setting). Right now mine reads MIC 21 when I tap it with the radio in a voice mode, and LINE 8 when I tap it with the radio in data mode. Adjusting either one has no effect on the other. Re the Windows mixer, I can only talk about the mixer in Windows XP and earlier. Vista and Windows 7 are different, and I am not familiar with them. I am not at a computer with multiple sound cards to verify this, but I would expect that if you use MMTTY to call up the mixer (from the Option(O) Sound card output level(V) menu item), it should invoke the mixer for the sound device MMTTY is using. On the other hand, if you call up the mixer from the Windows Start menu it will start up the output mixer for the default sound card. Either way, you should see the name of the sound card in the status bar at the bottom of the mixer panel. If this is not the sound card you want to adjust, you can use the mixer's Options Properties menu item; the control at the top of the dialog box is a pull-down list of sound devices to choose from. Below that you can select either the playback (transmit) mixer or the recording (receive) mixer. BTW, MMTTY version 1.66G has a Sound card tab in the MMTTY Setup window that makes selecting sound cards much easier than using the numerical device identifier under the Misc tab. 73, Rich VE3KI NF4L wrote: Both use the MIC knob tho, right? Quickmix looks good, thanks for the link. This afternoon I'm may run down to the candy store and look at sound cards, probably a USB one. When you add another sound device, how do the Windows mixer controls work? I'd guess it works for the default device. How is the second one adjusted? __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] My K3 doesn't wear Prada...
On 8/8/2010 12:24 PM, Nicholas Farrar wrote: Would anyone be interested in an Elecraft DC power supply? It would look nice to have a powersupply that matches my K3! Maybe in two models. First a QRP model super clean DC, the other a 25-30 amp model. Anderson Powerpoles on the BACK so you dont have wires bent around the back of the powersupply. I would like to see an option for a battery charge controller and terminals for an external battery. Would any one be interested either model? Any thoughts? Looking for Hams with an opinion. = Well, I certainly have opinions of all sorts. Here is mine WRT matching power supplies: a bit on the silly side. I replaced my brutish linear with sleek switchers half the size of my K3 with no discernible ill effects. I have two 7 x 7.5 x 2 13.8 VDC x 25 amp units from Radio Shack and one only slightly larger from Pyramid. They are fan-cooled but very quiet, and only the Pyramid has the leads coming out the front. Since the only control in evidence is an on/off switch, these little guys can live their lives in the background, leaving operating space for other items such as a log a set of paddles, or even a lap-top. Over and over again we hear bad vibes about switchers, but my power supplies and my computer live within 2' of my K3 and my ICOM 910H with no deleterious effects in either direction. They contribute nothing WRT noise or birdies.Once again, it is physician, heal thyself for those who have problems with them. The really neat thing is that the switchers are portable. They're not much good without an AC outlet, (e.g. mobile in the underbrush) but they are a very easy carry when the mains are available, and form the nucleus of a nice hotel-room portable: K3 + small switcher + trailing antenna (apologies to old-time pilots out there). My K3 with its parasitic SignaLink USB is happy as a non-Gulf oyster on its Pyramid switcher. John Ragle -- W1ZI __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] P3 Utility for Mac ?
A big thanks to all the developers of Mac ham radio software and utilities. I am in the midst of a move (physical) that was proceeded by a move (PC - Mac). The hold up had been the availability of Mac Ham software. There are still some holes here (Weather related, like GR Level 3) but as I bring my station back up after the move, it will be on a Mac. I look forward to using this software. Dave Wilburn NM4M On 8/6/10 23:56 , Phil Hystad wrote: OK, thanks. No problemo. I think I can still pound on the keyboard of my Windows machine. On Aug 6, 2010, at 8:47 PM, Dick Dievendorff wrote: My colleague David Fleming, W4SMT, has indicated that it is close. His P3 has probably just arrived. He has done the coding but needs to test with a real P3. He is also porting the K3 Freq Memory Editor. I'd guess these are probably days or a week away but not months, barring unforeseen difficulties. Dick, K6KR Sent from my iPhone On Aug 6, 2010, at 8:37 PM, Phil Hystadphys...@mac.com wrote: I see that the P3 Utility for Mac OS X is not yet available. Will this be available soon? I do have a Windows 7 laptop that I can dig out of the corner and dust off but I prefer to maintain stuff on my Mac where my backup and other files (K3) are kept. By soon, I don't mean by tomorrow, which is a Saturday. That would be silly. I was thinking maybe by Monday. OK, just kidding. Now, where is my Sony VAIO laptop... 73, phil, K7PEH __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Power Supply
Couldn't agree more! I've resolved that I simply will not buy another piece of radio equipment that has fans. 73 -- Joe KB8AP On Aug 8, 2010, at 10:30 AM, Steve Ellington wrote: No Fan please Figure out a way to cool it with heat sinks but please no more fans. Steve N4LQ - Original Message - From: Nicholas Farrar nfar...@bfpacs.com To: elecraft elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 12:24 PM Subject: [Elecraft] Power Supply Would anyone be interested in an Elecraft DC power supply? It would look nice to have a powersupply that matches my K3! ... Would any one be interested either model? Any thoughts? Looking for Hams with an opinion. -- Nicholas W. Farrar Network Engineer / IT Coordinator __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] Huntsville, AL hamfest 21,22 Aug
Anyone going? Bringing your Elecraft products? I might be able to attend, and have a banner, some literature, etc. Mike AI4NS __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Power Supply
Don't know about anyone else, but I'm perfectly satisfied with the performance of my 25A MFJ switching PS. It's small, light, cheap, and noise (electrical) free. The only caveat is its loud cooling fan. James K2QI Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -Original Message- From: Joe Planisky jp...@jeffnet.org Sender: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 11:46:43 To: Steve Ellingtonn...@carolina.rr.com Cc: Elecraft Reflectorelecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Power Supply Couldn't agree more! I've resolved that I simply will not buy another piece of radio equipment that has fans. 73 -- Joe KB8AP On Aug 8, 2010, at 10:30 AM, Steve Ellington wrote: No Fan please Figure out a way to cool it with heat sinks but please no more fans. Steve N4LQ - Original Message - From: Nicholas Farrar nfar...@bfpacs.com To: elecraft elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 12:24 PM Subject: [Elecraft] Power Supply Would anyone be interested in an Elecraft DC power supply? It would look nice to have a powersupply that matches my K3! ... Would any one be interested either model? Any thoughts? Looking for Hams with an opinion. -- Nicholas W. Farrar Network Engineer / IT Coordinator __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Power Supply
I believe those little fans are cheaper than a large aluminum heat sink. Did you ever count how many fans are running in the average shack? With 2 PCs and my rig, I count 9. I use the Astron linear supply to avoid yet another one. Steve N4LQ - Original Message - From: k2qi@gmail.com To: Joe Planisky jp...@jeffnet.org; elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net; Steve Ellington n...@carolina.rr.com Cc: Elecraft Reflector elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 2:55 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Power Supply Don't know about anyone else, but I'm perfectly satisfied with the performance of my 25A MFJ switching PS. It's small, light, cheap, and noise (electrical) free. The only caveat is its loud cooling fan. James K2QI Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -Original Message- From: Joe Planisky jp...@jeffnet.org Sender: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 11:46:43 To: Steve Ellingtonn...@carolina.rr.com Cc: Elecraft Reflectorelecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Power Supply Couldn't agree more! I've resolved that I simply will not buy another piece of radio equipment that has fans. 73 -- Joe KB8AP On Aug 8, 2010, at 10:30 AM, Steve Ellington wrote: No Fan please Figure out a way to cool it with heat sinks but please no more fans. Steve N4LQ - Original Message - From: Nicholas Farrar nfar...@bfpacs.com To: elecraft elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 12:24 PM Subject: [Elecraft] Power Supply Would anyone be interested in an Elecraft DC power supply? It would look nice to have a powersupply that matches my K3! ... Would any one be interested either model? Any thoughts? Looking for Hams with an opinion. -- Nicholas W. Farrar Network Engineer / IT Coordinator __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] K3 memory editor printing
I find that selecting and then copying my memory list in the editor and then pasting it into Excel, lets me massage it quite nicely (colors, fonts, etc.) for printing. It sure is a great way to manage memories. Thanks Elecraft. 73, Lee (K9CM) __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Power Supply
All the fans in my station are overwhelmed by my air conditioner and heat pump. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 8, 2010, at 14:07, Steve Ellington n...@carolina.rr.com wrote: I believe those little fans are cheaper than a large aluminum heat sink. Did you ever count how many fans are running in the average shack? With 2 PCs and my rig, I count 9. I use the Astron linear supply to avoid yet another one. Steve N4LQ - Original Message - From: k2qi@gmail.com To: Joe Planisky jp...@jeffnet.org; elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net; Steve Ellington n...@carolina.rr.com Cc: Elecraft Reflector elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 2:55 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Power Supply Don't know about anyone else, but I'm perfectly satisfied with the performance of my 25A MFJ switching PS. It's small, light, cheap, and noise (electrical) free. The only caveat is its loud cooling fan. James K2QI Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -Original Message- From: Joe Planisky jp...@jeffnet.org Sender: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 11:46:43 To: Steve Ellingtonn...@carolina.rr.com Cc: Elecraft Reflectorelecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Power Supply Couldn't agree more! I've resolved that I simply will not buy another piece of radio equipment that has fans. 73 -- Joe KB8AP On Aug 8, 2010, at 10:30 AM, Steve Ellington wrote: No Fan please Figure out a way to cool it with heat sinks but please no more fans. Steve N4LQ - Original Message - From: Nicholas Farrar nfar...@bfpacs.com To: elecraft elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 12:24 PM Subject: [Elecraft] Power Supply Would anyone be interested in an Elecraft DC power supply? It would look nice to have a powersupply that matches my K3! ... Would any one be interested either model? Any thoughts? Looking for Hams with an opinion. -- Nicholas W. Farrar Network Engineer / IT Coordinator __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Power Supply
Nicholas, That would be a fine addition. Start with 25A continuous, 30A ICAS, add a *good* front facing speaker, 2- 4 pair of Anderson power pole connectors in the rear, 1 binding post just because, an ammeter and a voltmeter, adjustable over-voltage protection with indicator, and you are there. Remote-sense would be the frosting on the cake... 73, Gene K1NR On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 11:24:15 -0500 Nicholas Farrar nfar...@bfpacs.com wrote: Would anyone be interested in an Elecraft DC power supply? It would look nice to have a powersupply that matches my K3! Maybe in two models. First a QRP model super clean DC, the other a 25-30 amp model. Anderson Powerpoles on the BACK so you dont have wires bent around the back of the powersupply. I would like to see an option for a battery charge controller and terminals for an external battery. Would any one be interested either model? Any thoughts? Looking for Hams with an opinion. -- Nicholas W. Farrar Network Engineer / IT Coordinator Brown Folse PACS nfar...@bfpacs.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html - Web mail provided by NuNet, Inc. The Premier National provider. http://www.nni.com/ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Power Supply
On 8/8/2010 8:55 PM, k2qi@gmail.com wrote: Don't know about anyone else, but I'm perfectly satisfied with the performance of my 25A MFJ switching PS. It's small, light, cheap, and noise (electrical) free. The only caveat is its loud cooling fan. James K2QI Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -Original Message- From: Joe Planiskyjp...@jeffnet.org Sender: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 11:46:43 To: Steve Ellingtonn...@carolina.rr.com Cc: Elecraft Reflectorelecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Power Supply Couldn't agree more! I've resolved that I simply will not buy another piece of radio equipment that has fans. 73 -- Joe KB8AP On Aug 8, 2010, at 10:30 AM, Steve Ellington wrote: No Fan please Figure out a way to cool it with heat sinks but please no more fans. Steve N4LQ - Original Message - From: Nicholas Farrarnfar...@bfpacs.com To: elecraftelecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 12:24 PM Subject: [Elecraft] Power Supply Would anyone be interested in an Elecraft DC power supply? It would look nice to have a powersupply that matches my K3! ... Would any one be interested either model? Any thoughts? Looking for Hams with an opinion. -- Nicholas W. Farrar Network Engineer / IT Coordinator __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Jim, I am also completely satisfied with MFJ power supply, this is the one which is silent electrically, but do not like the noise of the fan. I removed the top cover and it is silent. MFJ may think about making a new cover or placing the fan 5-10 mm from the cover. This would help. 73 István ha4zd -- István Szabó Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Power Supply
How about auto fail-over to a battery backup, with recharge upon restoration of commercial power ? 73 K1NR K2 6k On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 09:41:41 -0700 Richard Hill reh...@ix.netcom.com wrote: Yes, that would be interesting, especially if the options included solar charge controller and generator options--a green Elecraft power supply system useful for various DXpedition, emergency and home uses. Rich NU6T On 8/8/2010 9:24 AM, Nicholas Farrar wrote: Would anyone be interested in an Elecraft DC power supply? It would look nice to have a powersupply that matches my K3! Maybe in two models. First a QRP model super clean DC, the other a 25-30 amp model. Anderson Powerpoles on the BACK so you dont have wires bent around the back of the powersupply. I would like to see an option for a battery charge controller and terminals for an external battery. Would any one be interested either model? Any thoughts? Looking for Hams with an opinion. -- Nicholas W. Farrar Network Engineer / IT Coordinator Brown Folse PACS nfar...@bfpacs.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html - Web mail provided by NuNet, Inc. The Premier National provider. http://www.nni.com/ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Power Supply
OK, IMHO, I don't think a non ham device needs to be on the operating position. I use a linear ASTRON with remote sensing of the voltage at the radio and a 5 Farad cap under the shelf and then the problem is solved. Good clean DC and no noise in the shack. Mel. K6KBE --- On Sun, 8/8/10, Willis wrco...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Willis wrco...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Power Supply To: Steve Ellington n...@carolina.rr.com Cc: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net, Elecraft Reflector elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Sunday, August 8, 2010, 12:46 PM All the fans in my station are overwhelmed by my air conditioner and heat pump. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 8, 2010, at 14:07, Steve Ellington n...@carolina.rr.com wrote: I believe those little fans are cheaper than a large aluminum heat sink. Did you ever count how many fans are running in the average shack? With 2 PCs and my rig, I count 9. I use the Astron linear supply to avoid yet another one. Steve N4LQ - Original Message - From: k2qi@gmail.com To: Joe Planisky jp...@jeffnet.org; elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net; Steve Ellington n...@carolina.rr.com Cc: Elecraft Reflector elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 2:55 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Power Supply Don't know about anyone else, but I'm perfectly satisfied with the performance of my 25A MFJ switching PS. It's small, light, cheap, and noise (electrical) free. The only caveat is its loud cooling fan. James K2QI Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -Original Message- From: Joe Planisky jp...@jeffnet.org Sender: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 11:46:43 To: Steve Ellingtonn...@carolina.rr.com Cc: Elecraft Reflectorelecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Power Supply Couldn't agree more! I've resolved that I simply will not buy another piece of radio equipment that has fans. 73 -- Joe KB8AP On Aug 8, 2010, at 10:30 AM, Steve Ellington wrote: No Fan please Figure out a way to cool it with heat sinks but please no more fans. Steve N4LQ - Original Message - From: Nicholas Farrar nfar...@bfpacs.com To: elecraft elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 12:24 PM Subject: [Elecraft] Power Supply Would anyone be interested in an Elecraft DC power supply? It would look nice to have a powersupply that matches my K3! ... Would any one be interested either model? Any thoughts? Looking for Hams with an opinion. -- Nicholas W. Farrar Network Engineer / IT Coordinator __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Power Supply
Now thats what I was thinking. It would be a little expensive but I would pay a little more for an Elecraft quality design not to mention the powerpoles. I would want a linear power but I thought that was implied. I don't mind if it has a fan that is a quiet as the pair on my K3 and only comes on when the load increases. I currently use a RV battery charge controller that does this. Its designed to charge batteries and run the DC devises when on shore power. I go from the charge controller to a Deep cycle gel cell to a rig runner. I have the 60amp model and I have never heard the fans kick on. -- Nicholas W. Farrar Network Engineer / IT Coordinator Brown Folse PACS nfar...@bfpacs.com Office 318-595-0451 Mobile 318-381-9863 Fax 866-248-6128 On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Eugene Balinski euge...@nni.com wrote: Nicholas, That would be a fine addition. Start with 25A continuous, 30A ICAS, add a *good* front facing speaker, 2- 4 pair of Anderson power pole connectors in the rear, 1 binding post just because, an ammeter and a voltmeter, adjustable over-voltage protection with indicator, and you are there. Remote-sense would be the frosting on the cake... 73, Gene K1NR On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 11:24:15 -0500 Nicholas Farrar nfar...@bfpacs.com wrote: Would anyone be interested in an Elecraft DC power supply? It would look nice to have a powersupply that matches my K3! Maybe in two models. First a QRP model super clean DC, the other a 25-30 amp model. Anderson Powerpoles on the BACK so you dont have wires bent around the back of the powersupply. I would like to see an option for a battery charge controller and terminals for an external battery. Would any one be interested either model? Any thoughts? Looking for Hams with an opinion. -- Nicholas W. Farrar Network Engineer / IT Coordinator Brown Folse PACS nfar...@bfpacs.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html - Web mail provided by NuNet, Inc. The Premier National provider. http://www.nni.com/ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] KXV3A Mod Question
Do I need to install the KXV3 RXA board or is that mod already in the KXV3A? Thanks in advance, Dave __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Power Supply
I presently have an Astron that does nicely. Like Phil, I don't care if it doesn't match the K3 because it's on the floor under the operating desk. It's linear and I have learned (the hard way at times) that other electronics can be adversely affected by the big magnetic field around the supply power transformer so I'd not put it next to the rig even I had the space. However, I would like to have an uninterruptable supply that will run the K3 at full power for a number of hours or at reduced power for even longer for emergency communications. I have been looking over options for sealed storage batteries that I can put in the shack coupled with a charger. Such systems can provide truly big currents when needed without voltage droop or being overloaded and do so continuously as long as there is mains power. While it's straightforward to locate components and assemble my own, I haven't stumbled upon any off-the-shelf packages for sale above the 8 or 10 Ah level. A nice option for such a system would be a solar charger for those with plentiful sunshine to either replace or back up the mains power charger. I steadfastly resist any sort of switcher power supply - just too many variables trying to keep all that RF hash buttoned up inside their cabinets for me :-) Ron AC7AC __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Power Supply
At the moment there's only about a 4x4x6 space available inside the P3 (unless you want to build something with a very odd form factor to fit around the pc boards). And that's at the moment. IMX, Wayne has a habit of eventually occupying every cubic millimeter of space inside a cabinet with useful options. Ron AC7AC -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-655-8604 Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 9:49 AM To: Nicholas Farrar Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Power Supply I have heard a rumour of a commonly available power supply that was installed in the back of a P3. Can anyone conform or deny this? And, if confirmed, publish photos? I suspect it wouldn't be hard to put a QRP-level PS/charge controller in the KPA3 space, either. 73, doug __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] KXV3A Mod Question
DBellW6AQ wrote: Do I need to install the KXV3 RXA board or is that mod already in the KXV3A? No, it's in there already! 73, Bill -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/KXV3A-Mod-Question-tp5387040p5387077.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] K3 memory editor printing
Thanks, Lee. Print is on my to do list but I wasn't planning to get very fancy. A spread sheet allows you to play with column sizing, fonts, colors, and remove columns that aren't of interest. Dick, K6KR Sent from my iPhone On Aug 8, 2010, at 12:40 PM, Lee Trout trou...@gmail.com wrote: I find that selecting and then copying my memory list in the editor and then pasting it into Excel, lets me massage it quite nicely (colors, fonts, etc.) for printing. It sure is a great way to manage memories. Thanks Elecraft. 73, Lee (K9CM) __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] [K3] MMTTY
Thanks Joe. This will mostly be on XP, with occasional excursions on Win7. What does directly selecting the endpoint mean? I'm real new to Win7. I saw some 99 cent units on the estore. Maybe a bit TOO cheap. ;-) 73, Mike NF4L On 8/8/2010 1:36 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote: Both use the MIC knob tho, right? Yes, but the mic knob is an encoder ... changes mic level in SSB and Line level in Data A/AFSK A if you are using Line In. The mic /line levels are maintained separately. When you add another sound device, how do the Windows mixer controls work? Depends on the version of Windows but one can generally change the device being controlled - using the menu bar in 2000/XP and directly selecting the endpoint in Vista/Win 7. For inexpensive basic USB sound cards look at: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829128004 Line IN/Line Out for $17 or http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829180006 Line In/Mic In/Line Out for $30.00 Similar products are available from other vendors. 73, ... Joe, W4TV On 8/8/2010 1:03 PM, Mike wrote: Rich, Both use the MIC knob tho, right? Quickmix looks good, thanks for the link. This afternoon I'm may run down to the candy store and look at sound cards, probably a USB one. When you add another sound device, how do the Windows mixer controls work? I'd guess it works for the default device. How is the second one adjusted? Mike On 8/8/2010 12:26 PM, Richard Ferch wrote: Mike, On the K3, MIC level and LINE level settings are independent; you can adjust the LINE level in data modes without affecting the MIC level for voice and vice versa. Regarding changing levels in different software, you might take a look at QuickMix (http://www.ptpart.co.uk/quickmix/) - this software allows you to save and restore mixer settings separately for each application. Brian's comment on Windows sounds is my main reason for using a second sound card. For digital modes, pretty much any sound card will do; I use an old SB16 card that I keep moving from one computer to the next. I leave the Windows sounds, music players, etc. on the motherboard sound device and use the SB16 for my digital-mode software. 73, Rich VE3KI __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] [K3] MMTTY
Rich, A very good explanation. I got 1.66G a couple of days ago. It's SO nice when a problem is solved. 73 Mike On 8/8/2010 2:04 PM, Richard Ferch wrote: Mike, Both level controls use the MIC/SPEED knob. You can see the current setting by tapping the knob twice (once for CW speed, once for the level setting). Right now mine reads MIC 21 when I tap it with the radio in a voice mode, and LINE 8 when I tap it with the radio in data mode. Adjusting either one has no effect on the other. Re the Windows mixer, I can only talk about the mixer in Windows XP and earlier. Vista and Windows 7 are different, and I am not familiar with them. I am not at a computer with multiple sound cards to verify this, but I would expect that if you use MMTTY to call up the mixer (from the Option(O) Sound card output level(V) menu item), it should invoke the mixer for the sound device MMTTY is using. On the other hand, if you call up the mixer from the Windows Start menu it will start up the output mixer for the default sound card. Either way, you should see the name of the sound card in the status bar at the bottom of the mixer panel. If this is not the sound card you want to adjust, you can use the mixer's Options Properties menu item; the control at the top of the dialog box is a pull-down list of sound devices to choose from. Below that you can select either the playback (transmit) mixer or the recording (receive) mixer. BTW, MMTTY version 1.66G has a Sound card tab in the MMTTY Setup window that makes selecting sound cards much easier than using the numerical device identifier under the Misc tab. 73, Rich VE3KI NF4L wrote: Both use the MIC knob tho, right? Quickmix looks good, thanks for the link. This afternoon I'm may run down to the candy store and look at sound cards, probably a USB one. When you add another sound device, how do the Windows mixer controls work? I'd guess it works for the default device. How is the second one adjusted? __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] cw recieving
Hello Group, Har! getting old is not for sissies!! I was coping cw with my new (first ever) hearing aids. When they are out, rx is normal. With the aids in, its picking up the high pitch. Sorry about the wasted bandwith. Thanks Don...w2xb -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/re-cw-recieving-tp5387149p5387149.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] PS with speaker
Astron makes power supplies for the two-way radio market that have speakers. 73! Ken Kopp - K0PP elecraftcov...@rfwave.net __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] cw recieving
Don, Have your audiologist give you a program setting with no noise reduction. You can use it for CW as well as listening to music. Mine default to that program and stay there until I encounter a situation where the NR helps - noisy places or if there is a lot of background noise. If these are new aids, bive yourself 4 to 6 weeks to acclimate the the new sounds. The brain will filter out the extraneous stuff eventually, but at first you become aware of all those sounds that you could not hear before. 73, Don W3FPR W2XB wrote: Hello Group, Har! getting old is not for sissies!! I was coping cw with my new (first ever) hearing aids. When they are out, rx is normal. With the aids in, its picking up the high pitch. Sorry about the wasted bandwith. Thanks Don...w2xb __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] cw recieving
Thanks Don, will wait serveral weeks and then go in for a tune up.. boy its nice to hear again... Don...w2xb -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/re-cw-recieving-tp5387149p5387306.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] Elecraft SSB Net results (8-8-10)
East coast stations were not very strong today, and we had no California check-ins. Lyle using his prototype KPA500 was S9+10 into the side of my quad - not bad for less than 300 miles! The net only ran 20 minutes with 26 participants. No discussion. Here is the list of the participants. Station NameQTH Rig S/N KK7PLyleWA K3 3036 N1LQDaveMA K3 371 KD0QGlenn IA K3 4518 VE3NFK Jon ON K3 709 K9VUJ DaleMN K3 2268 KA0NCR Arnie NE K3 185 KJ7LE Steve MN TS450 W0RSR MikeCO K2 5767 W4RKS Jim AL K3 3618 KZ1XSteve NC K3 1209 W1EQBob CT K3 4199 W7NMD Palmer AR K3 3779 W9EJB Ed IN K3 1593 KD6QM Jim AZ K3 4231 K7SJRoger WA K3 75 KC0TDJ Ron IA K2 4857 K5OAI Sam TX K3 4123 AC0NM Glenn CO K3 2843 K8DJC Nelson OH K3 560 KE4IMN Jim FL K3 3307 KB3FBR Joe PA K2 6178 N1JMJohnAZ K3 2555 K8EILoydUT K3 4379 KL2GW Charles AK FT857 AB9VMikeIN K3 398 NS7PPhilOR K3 1826 73, Phil, NS7P __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft SSB net announcement
This is a strange long delayed echo. I sent it yesterday morning! 73, Phil NS7P -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net]on Behalf Of Phil and Christina Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 9:16 AM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: [Elecraft] Elecraft SSB net announcement The weekly Elecraft SSB net will meet tomorrow (8/8/10) at 1800z on 14.314 MHz. I will be net control from western Oregon, and I will try to swing the antenna in multiple directions to get as many of you as I can. See you then. 73, Phil NS7P __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] cw recieving
W2XB wrote: Hello Group, Har! getting old is not for sissies!! I was coping cw with my new (first ever) hearing aids. When they are out, rx is normal. With the aids in, its picking up the high pitch. Sorry about the wasted bandwith. I'd normally reply direct but there has been a sporadic K3 and hearing aids thread on the reflector so it's not wasted bandwidth. Getting used to hearing aids takes time, especially these days because most are wonders of DSP microelectronics and do some amazing things. Mine have 5 programs for different conditions, and they switch automatically -- that's good. Both ears don't always switch at the same time, which isn't quite so good. You could probably buy a couple of fairly well appointed K3's for what mine cost. They'll even notch a fire truck siren down to an acceptable level. Hearing aids won't make things sound like they did when you were a kid and could hear well [except when Mom was calling you], their goal is to make things more intelligible for you. For nearly all males, hearing loss starts at the higher frequencies and proceeds downward as you encounter birthdays. Your audiogram is thus very likely a curve that slopes downward as frequency increases, and the aids attempt to invert that curve and what you describe is a direct result of that. You'll get used to at least most of it, you're just not used to hearing those higher frequencies like you did when you were a kid at first. However, there is good news if you have a K3 ... very good news. Take the aids out when you operate. If you're comfortable with headphones, use them, it works much better and with a boom mic too, you have two free hands. Then find a rag chew going on [75 at night has a number of them, the content repeats and is usually medical, just pick the disease you want to listen to], go to MAIN:RX EQ 1 in the main menu, and start adjusting the equalizer. There are 8 bands which you select by pressing the number keys and the VFO A knob will vary the level of that band 16 dB up or down from zero [32 dB total range]. You're going for most intelligible sound, not necessarily most natural, since you no longer know what natural sounds like. It will take some playing around, and you have to give yourself some time to adapt to the varying conditions on the radio. But, if you stick with it you will be surprised. Wayne, Eric, and the E-crowd did us deaf-ies a big favor with the RX EQ feature. I have no clue how to adjust the TX EQ, and I get very good audio reports with it just flat. But you can really improve things with the RX EQ. Just be patient and adjust things in small steps and then wait and see how it plays for you under different conditions. If they weren't busy doing radio things, I'd ask for some equalizer memories ... when I found a configuration that seemed to work in power line QRN, I could save it and recall it instantly. E-Crowd: I'm just illustrating, not asking :-) 73, Fred K6DGW - Northern California Contest Club - CU in the 2010 Cal QSO Party 2-3 Oct 2010 - www.cqp.org __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft SSB Net results (8-8-10)
Couldn't hear anything but S7 noise in eastern Mass. Phil and Christina wrote: East coast stations were not very strong today, and we had no California check-ins. Lyle using his prototype KPA500 was S9+10 into the side of my quad - not bad for less than 300 miles! The net only ran 20 minutes with 26 participants. No discussion. Here is the list of the participants. Station NameQTH Rig S/N KK7P LyleWA K3 3036 N1LQ DaveMA K3 371 KD0Q Glenn IA K3 4518 VE3NFKJon ON K3 709 K9VUJ DaleMN K3 2268 KA0NCRArnie NE K3 185 KJ7LE Steve MN TS450 W0RSR MikeCO K2 5767 W4RKS Jim AL K3 3618 KZ1X Steve NC K3 1209 W1EQ Bob CT K3 4199 W7NMD Palmer AR K3 3779 W9EJB Ed IN K3 1593 KD6QM Jim AZ K3 4231 K7SJ Roger WA K3 75 KC0TDJRon IA K2 4857 K5OAI Sam TX K3 4123 AC0NM Glenn CO K3 2843 K8DJC Nelson OH K3 560 KE4IMNJim FL K3 3307 KB3FBRJoe PA K2 6178 N1JM JohnAZ K3 2555 K8EI LoydUT K3 4379 KL2GW Charles AK FT857 AB9V MikeIN K3 398 NS7P PhilOR K3 1826 73, Phil, NS7P __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html -- 73, Dick ka1oz Middleborough, MA Radio: Elecraft K3/100(Kit) SN 859 Antenna: Titan-DX __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] [K3] MMTTY
This will mostly be on XP, with occasional excursions on Win7. What does directly selecting the endpoint mean? I'm real new to Win7. When you open the Volume Mixer in Windows 7, the device box has a drop down box (down arrow to the right of Speakers etc.) that allows you to select the output to be controlled. With Vista, there is one entry in the Menu bar that says device. In either case you select the endpoint (output) to be controlled. In Vista/Windows 7 terminology an endpoint is the output or input device (or jack) on a soundcard. For example, speakers, headpone, HDMI, SPDIF, etc. A single soundcard may have only one active input endpoint (mic, line, SPDIF, CD, etc.) and one output endpoint (speakers, headphone, SPDIF, HDMI, etc.) at a particular time. If one application opens the Line Input on a soundcard other applications may not open the Mic Input on that soundcard until the original application releases the line input. Note - if an input or output endpoint is defined as the Windows system or communications default (there are four defaults, system input, system output, communications input and communications output) they are locked and applications may not change (use) other endpoints on those soundcard(s). 73, ... Joe, W4TV On 8/8/2010 5:44 PM, Mike wrote: Thanks Joe. This will mostly be on XP, with occasional excursions on Win7. What does directly selecting the endpoint mean? I'm real new to Win7. I saw some 99 cent units on the estore. Maybe a bit TOO cheap. ;-) 73, Mike NF4L On 8/8/2010 1:36 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote: Both use the MIC knob tho, right? Yes, but the mic knob is an encoder ... changes mic level in SSB and Line level in Data A/AFSK A if you are using Line In. The mic /line levels are maintained separately. When you add another sound device, how do the Windows mixer controls work? Depends on the version of Windows but one can generally change the device being controlled - using the menu bar in 2000/XP and directly selecting the endpoint in Vista/Win 7. For inexpensive basic USB sound cards look at: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829128004 Line IN/Line Out for $17 or http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829180006 Line In/Mic In/Line Out for $30.00 Similar products are available from other vendors. 73, ... Joe, W4TV On 8/8/2010 1:03 PM, Mike wrote: Rich, Both use the MIC knob tho, right? Quickmix looks good, thanks for the link. This afternoon I'm may run down to the candy store and look at sound cards, probably a USB one. When you add another sound device, how do the Windows mixer controls work? I'd guess it works for the default device. How is the second one adjusted? Mike On 8/8/2010 12:26 PM, Richard Ferch wrote: Mike, On the K3, MIC level and LINE level settings are independent; you can adjust the LINE level in data modes without affecting the MIC level for voice and vice versa. Regarding changing levels in different software, you might take a look at QuickMix (http://www.ptpart.co.uk/quickmix/) - this software allows you to save and restore mixer settings separately for each application. Brian's comment on Windows sounds is my main reason for using a second sound card. For digital modes, pretty much any sound card will do; I use an old SB16 card that I keep moving from one computer to the next. I leave the Windows sounds, music players, etc. on the motherboard sound device and use the SB16 for my digital-mode software. 73, Rich VE3KI __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] cw recieving
Thanks Fred. Don...w2xb -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/re-cw-recieving-tp5387149p5387380.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] K2 SSB ALC Problem
Hi All, I have a K2 which I bought used. I never really used it on SSB but from time to time would like to. The problem is when I transmit (Mic is the Elecraft MH2) I get very hard ALC action which jumps to full ALC scale reading. I tried to inject (via the Mic in a quiet room) a constant modulation and even with this constant source I get a very erratic ALC action. I get this ALC action with all Mic-gain and Mic-comp settings - more or less ALC respectively. In all cases the actual Power-out is as it should be and I have no problems with the power control neither in CW or SSB. This was present from the first day I got it but till now did not really bother me much. Options installed are: KSB2, K160RX, KNB2, KAF2, KIO2, KAT2, K60XV, KBT2. Thanks in advance for all tips! Sanjin, E71DX -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/K2-SSB-ALC-Problem-tp5387387p5387387.html Sent from the [K2] mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Power Supply
On 8/8/2010 11:46 AM, Joe Planisky wrote: I've resolved that I simply will not buy another piece of radio equipment that has fans. There are fans and there are FANS! I just replaced my main computer which sounded like a vacuum cleaner when it was running with a brand-new (expensive) Dell Professional with four - count 'em - four fans and I can't hear them at all. Hard to tell that the machine is turned on. Ditto for the HP laptop that I use with my K2 for digital stuff. The only real fan noise is the auxiliary fan that I mounted on top of the K2 that's controlled by the PTT circuit so it's not going continuously. Now that one is loud.. -- 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Problem connecting LP_Bridge through the P3 to the K3
Nevertheless, it's not transparent. Depends on one's definition of transparent. It appears to work with every application I've thrown at it except for initializing LP-Bridge. To me that implies an issue with LP-Bridge - perhaps an excessive sensitivity to timing - not an issue with the P3/K3. 73, ... Joe, W4TV On 8/8/2010 1:21 PM, Ted Roycraft wrote: Nevertheless, it's not transparent. Maybe we should allow it to be translucent? :-) 73, Ted, W2ZK On 8/8/2010 12:22 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote: ... Maybe it is a nit on my part but the RS-232 port on the P3 is supposed to be transparent to apps connecting to the K3 via RS-232 and it isn't - not strictly speaking anyway since LP-Bridge hangs while connecting to the K3 if the P3 is on. I figure now is the time to get Elecraft to address these kinds of things. I would not be so quick to blame the P3. P3 works just fine with microHAM Router and other port sharing software. It may be that LP-Bridge is too critical of the timing or expects the K3 to respond to a particular AI or K3 mode that is incompatible with the P3. 73, ... Joe, W4TV __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] recieved signals ringing
What are you running with NR, NB, what bandwidth, roofing filters, etc? 73, Guy. On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 5:56 PM, W2XB haircut...@verizon.net wrote: hello group, Noticed the past couple days that when I tune on a cw signal on my K3 (all updates) and go to the top edge of the signal its tone starts to rise until its ringing like a very narrow filter. Going down in freq it does not do it. I am I missing a setting? Hope I explained this right Don...w2xb -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/recieved-signals-ringing-tp5387137p5387137.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Power Supply
Phil: In this case, may I refer you to the hearing aid thread? joke Steve N4LQ - Original Message - From: Phil Kane k2...@kanafi.org To: Elecraft elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 8:06 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Power Supply On 8/8/2010 11:46 AM, Joe Planisky wrote: I've resolved that I simply will not buy another piece of radio equipment that has fans. There are fans and there are FANS! I just replaced my main computer which sounded like a vacuum cleaner when it was running with a brand-new (expensive) Dell Professional with four - count 'em - four fans and I can't hear them at all. Hard to tell that the machine is turned on. Ditto for the HP laptop that I use with my K2 for digital stuff. The only real fan noise is the auxiliary fan that I mounted on top of the K2 that's controlled by the PTT circuit so it's not going continuously. Now that one is loud.. -- 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Problem connecting LP_Bridge through the P3 to the K3
Do you know how the P3 is implementing the transparency? Why do you feel it necessary to prejudge? Oh, right ... 73, Ted, W2ZK On 8/8/2010 8:07 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote: Nevertheless, it's not transparent. Depends on one's definition of transparent. It appears to work with every application I've thrown at it except for initializing LP-Bridge. To me that implies an issue with LP-Bridge - perhaps an excessive sensitivity to timing - not an issue with the P3/K3. 73, ... Joe, W4TV On 8/8/2010 1:21 PM, Ted Roycraft wrote: Nevertheless, it's not transparent. Maybe we should allow it to be translucent? :-) 73, Ted, W2ZK On 8/8/2010 12:22 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote: ... Maybe it is a nit on my part but the RS-232 port on the P3 is supposed to be transparent to apps connecting to the K3 via RS-232 and it isn't - not strictly speaking anyway since LP-Bridge hangs while connecting to the K3 if the P3 is on. I figure now is the time to get Elecraft to address these kinds of things. I would not be so quick to blame the P3. P3 works just fine with microHAM Router and other port sharing software. It may be that LP-Bridge is too critical of the timing or expects the K3 to respond to a particular AI or K3 mode that is incompatible with the P3. 73, ... Joe, W4TV __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] LEARNING CW
Yep, a few of them are still with me like: CQ and SK and TEST and RST and NAME...pretty good since the last time I operated CW for any extended time was in 1958-1959 as a novice! But you have hit on what my problem is -- No parallel processor! ;-) MY wife can rattle off at length when I am reading and I hear nothing! Of course this is due to my college years, when as an engineering student, I had to filter out all the noise made in the dorm by the jocks and art history majors, etc. the ability to focus with total concentration. But I think once CW becomes a language that you hear, parallel processing is not needed. What I find in progressing beyond 10-12 wpm is having to copy one word, decode another, while listening to a third one. One unrecognized character and the whole deal halts into a blue screen. Another parallel problem I am facing is learning to run a paddle. I have had a straight key for over 50-years and back in the day I could send perfect 20wpm (could'nt copy it worth ding, though). I have tried using the CW decoder on the K3 but the decode delay is a lot like trying the listen to TV while watching closed captioning. Got to chose one or the other...see no parallel processor, here! Good advice, Bill. Ignore us old fuddies. 73, Ed -- Message: 24 Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2010 09:06:24 -0400 From: n...@aol.com Subject: [Elecraft] LEARNING CW To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Message-ID: 8cd0511a3b94ba8-1608-1e...@webmail-m092.sysops.aol.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii As a long time high speed CW op, let me pass on an few of what I feel are the keys to learning to receive effortlessly at QRQ levels. The goal is to get to the point where listening to CW is exactly like listening to a conversation; that is, there is no conscious translation from dits and dahs into letters, words, and ultimately, phrases. The first thing do to do is throw away your pencil. Learn early to copy in you heard, even if it initially lowers your copying speed. As you work through this stage, you will be amazed how quickly you begin to hear words instead of letters. This approach will get you to at least 15 WPM if you stick with it. For higher speeds, you must train your brain always hear words and phrases. I found that the best way to do this, is to scan, and later, read some printed material while youare copying CW. Again, this may require you to cut back your copying speed as the process sinks in. What this does is to permit you to parallel process two things-one of which is hearing the CW and unconsciously turning it into words at the same time you are doing something else. When you reach this stage, you have the tools to take your CW copying to any level of speed you wish. Once you are over the 20 WPM barrier, speeds of up to 45 or can be achieved by anyone. You say you can't parallel process?? Sure you can--you do it every time you are, for example, reading the paper and the XYL is talking to you ( and you are answering her ) at the same time!! Bill N6FB 73, Ed - KL7UW, WD2XSH/45 == BP40IQ 500 KHz - 10-GHz www.kl7uw.com EME: 144-QRT*, 432-100w, 1296-QRT*, 3400-fall 2010 DUBUS Magazine USA Rep dubus...@hotmail.com == *temp __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] More Fun with the P3
Watching the P3 while listening to DX operating split and using the second receiver to listen to the pile-up, for the first time, is a technique that everyone told me would be nice but I wasn't prepared for how easy and effective it turned out to be. Everyone knows how to set up the K3 so the only other things to do are (1) get the P3 MRKR A on the run station's frequency just so you know where it is. Now use MKR B to select your location in the pile up. Find the hole; push the QSY knob. The technique of using the K3 receiver and your ears to look for a hole and then transmitting there was obvious right thing to do, but it's easier said than done to do well. The P3 takes away all that hassle. I agree that this is a highly suspect claim but the visual technique actually worked for me on the very first try, probably mostly good luck, but nonetheless the pile-up covered 2 kHz and I found a hole with the P3 and he heard me. Those who wonder at my good luck might as well know that it was 9X0TL at 0010 9 Jan , new band-country for 9X (20M0. 73, Gary, VE1RGB __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] K2 SSB ALC Problem
Sanjin, What setting do you have for the SSBA menu parameter - for the MH2, it should be set at 1. Does your K2 have any additions to the KSB2 board, such as the KI6WX increased gain mod? If you don't know, open the K2, remove the KSB2 board and check for an additional transistor mounted on the board - it will be near U5 and could be either on the top or bottom of the board. If that mod is present, *and* especially if you have the KPA100 (either internal or external), there are changes to the ALC circuit on the KSB2 board that must be made to keep from slamming the ALC. There is also the possibility that you have an ALC problem on the KSB2 board - if it is a very early KSB2 board, there were some changes made to improve the IMD for data modes that changed the ALC component values. Download the current KSB2 manual from the Elecraft website and compare the values of the components in the lower left corner with the values you have on your KSB2 board. That is one downside to buying a used K2, you can never be certain which changes have been installed without inspection, unless the seller provided you with complete and detailed information about changes. 73, Don W3FPR Sanjin Tajic, E71DX wrote: Hi All, I have a K2 which I bought used. I never really used it on SSB but from time to time would like to. The problem is when I transmit (Mic is the Elecraft MH2) I get very hard ALC action which jumps to full ALC scale reading. I tried to inject (via the Mic in a quiet room) a constant modulation and even with this constant source I get a very erratic ALC action. I get this ALC action with all Mic-gain and Mic-comp settings - more or less ALC respectively. In all cases the actual Power-out is as it should be and I have no problems with the power control neither in CW or SSB. This was present from the first day I got it but till now did not really bother me much. Options installed are: KSB2, K160RX, KNB2, KAF2, KIO2, KAT2, K60XV, KBT2. Thanks in advance for all tips! Sanjin, E71DX __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] K2 SSB ALC Problem
Hello Don, thanks a lot for taking you time! I have SSB-A set to 1 but I can get a lot ALC action very easily. My KSB2 Board is a Revision D with firmware 1.08 and there is no additional transistor around U5 on the top or the bottom side of the board. I do have an KPA100/KAT100 in an EC2 enclosure. I will check the components as good as I can in the morning. Once more, thank you for the help! 73, Sanjin E71DX -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/K2-SSB-ALC-Problem-tp5387387p5387538.html Sent from the [K2] mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] [P3] Display bug ...
There is a repeatable problem in the P3 display of the bandwidth cursor in AFSK A and FSK D data sub-modes. In both submodes the VFOs (correctly) display the RF frequency of the MARK (as set by Pitch). However, the P3 displays the filter limits as if the mark frequency were always set to 915 Hz, that is it does not make use of the IS; data from the K3. Instead P3 appears to ignore IS in AFSK A and FSK D (uses a fixed IS=1000). This results in a display error of -(IS - 1000) for other mark frequencies. The error does not appear to be related to the choice if PB Control (0.5 | 0.1) or the use of the K3 extended command set by any external software. K3 FW 4.05, P3 FW 0.28 73, ... Joe, W4TV __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Problem connecting LP_Bridge through the P3 to the K3
Even with the latest version of LP-BRIDGE (9.8), I continue to experience some rig time outs. All occur during periods of transmitting where one does not drop back to RX during that period. Direct connect without LP-BRIDGE shows none of these. They happen even with the K3 throttled back to 5 W or less so RFI isn't the cause. There certainly appear to be some timing issues with LP-BRIDGE/K3. It occurs with no P3, two different rigs and two different logging programs. Just what RS232 activity is permitted between the rig and LP-BRIDGE during transmit? Are there blackout periods where the K3 will not respond to polls? The nature of the time out is that the logging program doesn't think the K3 is attached any more. 73 de Brian/K3KO Ted Roycraft wrote: Do you know how the P3 is implementing the transparency? Why do you feel it necessary to prejudge? Oh, right ... 73, Ted, W2ZK On 8/8/2010 8:07 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote: Nevertheless, it's not transparent. Depends on one's definition of transparent. It appears to work with every application I've thrown at it except for initializing LP-Bridge. To me that implies an issue with LP-Bridge - perhaps an excessive sensitivity to timing - not an issue with the P3/K3. 73, ... Joe, W4TV On 8/8/2010 1:21 PM, Ted Roycraft wrote: Nevertheless, it's not transparent. Maybe we should allow it to be translucent? :-) 73, Ted, W2ZK On 8/8/2010 12:22 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote: ... Maybe it is a nit on my part but the RS-232 port on the P3 is supposed to be transparent to apps connecting to the K3 via RS-232 and it isn't - not strictly speaking anyway since LP-Bridge hangs while connecting to the K3 if the P3 is on. I figure now is the time to get Elecraft to address these kinds of things. I would not be so quick to blame the P3. P3 works just fine with microHAM Router and other port sharing software. It may be that LP-Bridge is too critical of the timing or expects the K3 to respond to a particular AI or K3 mode that is incompatible with the P3. 73, ... Joe, W4TV __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] [P3] Display bug ...
Joe Subich, W4TV-4 wrote: There is a repeatable problem in the P3 display of the bandwidth cursor in AFSK A and FSK D data sub-modes. In both submodes the VFOs (correctly) display the RF frequency of the MARK (as set by Pitch). However, the P3 displays the filter limits as if the mark frequency were always set to 915 Hz, that is it does not make use of the IS; data from the K3. Instead P3 appears to ignore IS in AFSK A and FSK D (uses a fixed IS=1000). This results in a display error of -(IS - 1000) for other mark frequencies. The error does not appear to be related to the choice if PB Control (0.5 | 0.1) or the use of the K3 extended command set by any external software. K3 FW 4.05, P3 FW 0.28 This was fixed in 0.29. QRX for public release. -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/P3-Display-bug-tp5387544p5387594.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report for August 8th 9th, 2010
Good Evening, Twenty meters was fairly quiet yet it provided strong signals. Two CT stations both of whom sounded very good. However, I wonder where everyone else has gone? Maybe the long spate of unfavorable propagation has forced them into other endeavors. Maybe a bit of advertising during the week will help regain lost contacts. Forty meters had some QRN but not bad, not like some weeks where my ears rang for half an hour afterward. Weather reports were mostly pleasant except for the Midwest. The two CT station both had lower temperatures than I would have expected. Even reports from California were cooler. Here it has been very nice. No need for heat or for air conditioning for a number of weeks. On to the lists = On 14050.5 kHz at 2200z: W0CZ - Ken - ND - K3 - 457 AB9V - Mike - IN - K3 - 398 K1THP - Dave - CT - K3 - 686 N0AR - Scott - MN - K2 - 4866 W0RSR - Mike - CO - K2 - 5767 K1EV - Bill - CT - K2 - 2152 W6BK - Dave - CA - K2 - 4910 On 7045.5 kHz at z: K6DGW - Fred - CA - K3 - 642 K6PJV - Dale - CA - K2 - 5345 KL7CW - Rick - AK - KX1 - 798 W0RSR - Mike - CO - K2 - 5767 K7SJ - Roger - WA - K3 - 75 I will write a little more during the week to see if I can stir up interest in ECN once again. The sun is doing its part and hopefully the coming weeks will show further propagation increases. I will monitor 15, 12, and 10 meters to see how the higher bands are doing and extrapolate that knowledge downward to determine MUF. It may be time for me to put up a vertical to get a different look on the continent. Hopefully DX stations will be heard once again too. I almost asked K1EV to act as NCS as he has done so well in the past. Next week I shall do so. Until then stay well, 73, Kevin. KD5ONS (Net Control Operator 5th Class) - __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] P3 Unexpected Control Operation ...
Rotary controls in the K3 and P3 increase their parameter as the encoder is turned clockwise except in two cases. 1) The P3 REF LVL is decreased with clockwise rotation. Maximum reference level is -10 dBm with the encoder fully counterclockwise while it is minimum -160 dBm with the encoder fully clockwise. 2) The P3 SCALE (range) is decreased with clockwise rotation. Scale is minimum (10 dB) when the encoder is fully clockwise and maximum (80 dB) when the encoder is fully counterclockwise. Both of these controls violate the principle of expected behavior and consistent operation. 73, ... Joe, W4TV __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Problem connecting LP_Bridge through the P3 to the K3
Do you know how the P3 is implementing the transparency? Only that it appears to implement it with all of the software I've tested (except for LP-Bridge obviously). Why do you feel it necessary to prejudge? Who is prejudging? If other software operates normally while LP-Bridge which has many other reported issues (to the extent that several developers require their users to document a bug when LP-Bridge is NOT in use before it is considered a valid bug report) is the only software not to operate correctly, why do you arbitrarily blame the P3? Just because it is the last device added is not a reason to expect the P3 to fix potential problems with other software ... show the incorrect operation first before expecting Elecraft to divert resources to fix a problem that may not even exist. Oh, right ... What does that mean? 73, ... Joe, W4TV On 8/8/2010 8:25 PM, Ted Roycraft wrote: Do you know how the P3 is implementing the transparency? Why do you feel it necessary to prejudge? Oh, right ... 73, Ted, W2ZK On 8/8/2010 8:07 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote: Nevertheless, it's not transparent. Depends on one's definition of transparent. It appears to work with every application I've thrown at it except for initializing LP-Bridge. To me that implies an issue with LP-Bridge - perhaps an excessive sensitivity to timing - not an issue with the P3/K3. 73, ... Joe, W4TV On 8/8/2010 1:21 PM, Ted Roycraft wrote: Nevertheless, it's not transparent. Maybe we should allow it to be translucent? :-) 73, Ted, W2ZK On 8/8/2010 12:22 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote: ... Maybe it is a nit on my part but the RS-232 port on the P3 is supposed to be transparent to apps connecting to the K3 via RS-232 and it isn't - not strictly speaking anyway since LP-Bridge hangs while connecting to the K3 if the P3 is on. I figure now is the time to get Elecraft to address these kinds of things. I would not be so quick to blame the P3. P3 works just fine with microHAM Router and other port sharing software. It may be that LP-Bridge is too critical of the timing or expects the K3 to respond to a particular AI or K3 mode that is incompatible with the P3. 73, ... Joe, W4TV __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] [P3] Display bug ...
Thanks Bill. 73, ... Joe, W4TV On 8/8/2010 10:14 PM, Bill W4ZV wrote: Joe Subich, W4TV-4 wrote: There is a repeatable problem in the P3 display of the bandwidth cursor in AFSK A and FSK D data sub-modes. In both submodes the VFOs (correctly) display the RF frequency of the MARK (as set by Pitch). However, the P3 displays the filter limits as if the mark frequency were always set to 915 Hz, that is it does not make use of the IS; data from the K3. Instead P3 appears to ignore IS in AFSK A and FSK D (uses a fixed IS=1000). This results in a display error of -(IS - 1000) for other mark frequencies. The error does not appear to be related to the choice if PB Control (0.5 | 0.1) or the use of the K3 extended command set by any external software. K3 FW 4.05, P3 FW 0.28 This was fixed in 0.29. QRX for public release. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
