Re: [Elecraft] Missng parts
Same here, Everything I thought was missing (screws or washers or whatever) I found in another bag I hadn't opened yet. 73, de Jim KG0KP - Original Message - From: "Rick Bates" To: "'Hunsdon Cary III'" Cc: Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 11:28 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Missng parts > Be sure to open ALL the bags when you check. ;-) Been there, thought > that. > > Rick WA6NHC > > -Original Message- > From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net > [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Hunsdon Cary III > Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 7:34 PM > To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net > Subject: [Elecraft] Missng parts > > Well, finally got to open KPA-500 #698. I did a parts inventory and found > the Rear Panel Envelope (#850475) is missing. > It contains some essential things so my build is stalled with the bottom > panel and power supply and left panel done. > Hope it doesn't take days to get to Virginia from Aptos! I know, everyone > makes mistakes but it is disappointing. > RATS! > 73, > Cary, K4TM > H. Cary III > h3c...@gmail.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 > __ 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] Missng parts
Be sure to open ALL the bags when you check. ;-) Been there, thought that. Rick WA6NHC -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Hunsdon Cary III Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 7:34 PM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: [Elecraft] Missng parts Well, finally got to open KPA-500 #698. I did a parts inventory and found the Rear Panel Envelope (#850475) is missing. It contains some essential things so my build is stalled with the bottom panel and power supply and left panel done. Hope it doesn't take days to get to Virginia from Aptos! I know, everyone makes mistakes but it is disappointing. RATS! 73, Cary, K4TM H. Cary III h3c...@gmail.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
[Elecraft] Missng parts
Well, finally got to open KPA-500 #698. I did a parts inventory and found the Rear Panel Envelope (#850475) is missing. It contains some essential things so my build is stalled with the bottom panel and power supply and left panel done. Hope it doesn't take days to get to Virginia from Aptos! I know, everyone makes mistakes but it is disappointing. RATS! 73, Cary, K4TM H. Cary III h3c...@gmail.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] KX3 Manual
Anything available for those of us waiting for the P3SVGA add on? 73, Bob K2TK ex KN2TKR (1956) & K2TKR On 2/15/2012 9:38 PM, Wayne Burdick wrote: > There will definitely be a February edition of the manual posted on > our website. It's already in use by our field testers. > > 73, > Wayne > N6KR > > > On Feb 15, 2012, at 4:25 PM, John Cooper wrote: > >> Will there be a preliminary .pdf manual released for the KX3 soon to >> hold us over while we wait patiently for March? >> >> WT5Y >> __ 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] P3SVGA Use of Dedicated Monitor
Thanks for the reply, Eric. And, bummer! I'm eager to get my P3 display up on the big 19' monitor. 73, --Ian Ian Kahn, KM4IK Roswell, GA km4ik@gmail.com K3 #281, P3 #688 On 2/15/2012 2:38 PM, Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft wrote: > Close - but it looks like a week or two later as we have just received > the boards from assembly and they need to be tested and packaged in > manufacturing here. Also, we are in final testing on the firmware for > the SVGA. > > Eric > --- > www.elecraft.com > > > On 2/14/2012 3:07 PM, Ian Kahn - Ham wrote: >> And are we still looking at the P3SVGA shipping late this week or early >> next? >> >> --Ian >> >> Ian Kahn, KM4IK >> Roswell, GA >> km4ik@gmail.com >> K3 #281, P3 #688 >> >> >> On 2/14/2012 4:43 PM, KM4VX wrote: >>> Will the P3SVGA be capable of direct connection to a monitor >>> separate from >>> the computer monitor that might be enabled for other uses with the >>> K3? For >>> my purposes if I am going to use a larger screen (may or may not be >>> useful) >>> I would want it to be a dedicated monitor that does not interfere >>> with the >>> normal use of the PC and its monitor. Thank you. Ron >>> >>> -- >>> View this message in context: >>> http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/P3SVGA-Use-of-Dedicated-Monitor-tp7285610p7285610.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 __ 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] KX3 Manual
There will definitely be a February edition of the manual posted on our website. It's already in use by our field testers. 73, Wayne N6KR On Feb 15, 2012, at 4:25 PM, John Cooper wrote: > Will there be a preliminary .pdf manual released for the KX3 soon to > hold us over while we wait patiently for March? > > WT5Y > __ > 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] Behavior of P3 Display Upon K3 Memory Recall
>>> Suggested behavior: Since the P3 has no idea in which direction >>> tuning will subsequently occur, the cursor/frequency should be >>> placed in the exact middle of the P3 display. In that manner the >>> P3 is useful to both sides of the memory-recalled frequency. I'm not so sure that placing the signal in the exact center of the display is correct either. Rather, the signal should be placed in the "central half" of the display consistent with maintaining even 5/10/25 KHz upper/lower frequency boundaries. 73, ... Joe, W4TV On 2/15/2012 8:19 PM, Gary Ferdinand wrote: > Hi Mike, > > Toggling between fixed tune and tracking mode is certainly faster and more > predictable than anything I've found as a work around. Thanks for the > suggestion. I'll give it a try. > > Since I'm not always contesting, I'd like to find a way to make the P3 > cursor be well behaved without using a macro from a connected computer. If > I could assign a macro to a P3 FN key, that would be a great general > solution. > > Thanks for the toggle suggestion, Mike; it's a good one. > > 73/Gary W2CS > > >> >> I can't say that I have experienced your spotting situation but I would >> like to describe a different way of getting a signal into the center of >> the P3 screen in Fixed-Tune mode. I have P3 function key FN4 set to >> toggle between Fixed-Tune mode and Tracking mode. By pressing it I get >> the signal of interest to the center of the screen in Tracking mode and >> pressing it again returns me to Fixed-Tune mode except the signal stays >> in the center. The double press can be done instantly. >> >> Then I took that one step further. I'm generally on CW using WriteLog >> for contests and as a general logging program. I'm always using the K3 >> Auto Spot to zero in on a CW station of interest. I created a macro in >> WriteLog to activate the K3 Auto Spot and to twice activate P3 function >> key FN4. It's really cool. >> >> 73, >> Mike K2MK >> >> >> >> >> Gary Ferdinand wrote >>> >>> I should like to suggest that a boundary-condition change be made to >>> the >>> P3 >>> display behavior.The current behavior I view to be a firmware >> defect. >>> >>> P3 mode settings are: Fixed Tune mode. Half Span. >>> >>> Current behavior: When recalling a frequency from a K3 memory and >>> that frequency is off the current display of the P3, the P3 sets the >>> cursor (and therefore frequency) at the left edge of the screen. This >>> obscures everything below the memory-recalled frequency. >>> >>> Suggested behavior: Since the P3 has no idea in which direction >>> tuning will subsequently occur, the cursor/frequency should be placed >>> in the exact middle of the P3 display. In that manner the P3 is >>> useful to both sides of the memory-recalled frequency. >>> > > > __ > 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 TX delay choices
> Years ago, using QSK with a 1kmp (adjustable TX delay) with an > Ameritron AL1200 (not a QSK amp), in a contest I would often get > "UE7XF?". Using 'break-in' + 'VOX' would get "VE7XF". That was typical with Yaesu FT-1000MP and MKV. If the PTT did not close more than the "TX Delay" time before the key closed the first element would be dropped entirely (not just clipped). Using break-in + VOX allowed the rig to switch before the PTT. Yaesu never did "delay" the CW ... > I'm never sure whether to use the TX Delay available in the microHAM > software or in the K3 (or both). (Any hints, Joe?) If you're using PTT switching or semi-break in (VOX), I'd set the PTT Lead in microHAM Router to 25 ms (long enough for even the slow relay in the AL-1200) and use the microHAM PA PTT output to key the amplifier *before* the K3 and leave the K3 set for its normal 8 ms TX Delay. This probably means switching the PA PTT line when switching amplifiers or adding diodes so the lines can be safely connected in parallel. 73, ... Joe, W4TV On 2/15/2012 3:25 PM, Ralph Parker wrote: > I don't use QSK - I don't like the noise between characters. > In casual DXing, I (almost) always use a footswitch to ensure the amp has > settled before any RF hits it. I always use an external keyer. > While contesting, I use N1MM to microHAM (Winkey) to K3. > I'm never sure whether to use the TX Delay available in the microHAM > software or in the K3 (or both). (Any hints, Joe?) > > Years ago, using QSK with a 1kmp (adjustable TX delay) with an Ameritron > AL1200 (not a QSK amp), in a contest I would often get "UE7XF?". > Using 'break-in' + 'VOX' would get "VE7XF". > > When I switched to a true QSK amp (Acom 1000), lead element elimination in > QSK was no longer a problem. I still didn't use it because of the noise, > but I was confident that the amp was happy. > > Now, I mostly use the K3, and I have a choice of 3 amps (the above plus > KPA500), so solving the 'Where do I put the TX Delay' question would be a > help to put my mind at ease. > > Ralph, VE7XF > > __ > 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] Behavior of P3 Display Upon K3 Memory Recall
Hi Mike, Toggling between fixed tune and tracking mode is certainly faster and more predictable than anything I've found as a work around. Thanks for the suggestion. I'll give it a try. Since I'm not always contesting, I'd like to find a way to make the P3 cursor be well behaved without using a macro from a connected computer. If I could assign a macro to a P3 FN key, that would be a great general solution. Thanks for the toggle suggestion, Mike; it's a good one. 73/Gary W2CS > >I can't say that I have experienced your spotting situation but I would >like to describe a different way of getting a signal into the center of >the P3 screen in Fixed-Tune mode. I have P3 function key FN4 set to >toggle between Fixed-Tune mode and Tracking mode. By pressing it I get >the signal of interest to the center of the screen in Tracking mode and >pressing it again returns me to Fixed-Tune mode except the signal stays >in the center. The double press can be done instantly. > >Then I took that one step further. I'm generally on CW using WriteLog >for contests and as a general logging program. I'm always using the K3 >Auto Spot to zero in on a CW station of interest. I created a macro in >WriteLog to activate the K3 Auto Spot and to twice activate P3 function >key FN4. It's really cool. > >73, >Mike K2MK > > > > >Gary Ferdinand wrote >> >> I should like to suggest that a boundary-condition change be made to >> the >> P3 >> display behavior.The current behavior I view to be a firmware >defect. >> >> P3 mode settings are: Fixed Tune mode. Half Span. >> >> Current behavior: When recalling a frequency from a K3 memory and >> that frequency is off the current display of the P3, the P3 sets the >> cursor (and therefore frequency) at the left edge of the screen. This >> obscures everything below the memory-recalled frequency. >> >> Suggested behavior: Since the P3 has no idea in which direction >> tuning will subsequently occur, the cursor/frequency should be placed >> in the exact middle of the P3 display. In that manner the P3 is >> useful to both sides of the memory-recalled frequency. >> __ 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] Receiver numbers for the KX3
Just wondering that since we are so near the initial release of the KX3 if any receiver performance numbers are available? 73, Joe W2KJ I QRP, therefore I am __ 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] Behavior of P3 Display Upon K3 Memory Recall
Hi Gary, I can't say that I have experienced your spotting situation but I would like to describe a different way of getting a signal into the center of the P3 screen in Fixed-Tune mode. I have P3 function key FN4 set to toggle between Fixed-Tune mode and Tracking mode. By pressing it I get the signal of interest to the center of the screen in Tracking mode and pressing it again returns me to Fixed-Tune mode except the signal stays in the center. The double press can be done instantly. Then I took that one step further. I'm generally on CW using WriteLog for contests and as a general logging program. I'm always using the K3 Auto Spot to zero in on a CW station of interest. I created a macro in WriteLog to activate the K3 Auto Spot and to twice activate P3 function key FN4. It's really cool. 73, Mike K2MK Gary Ferdinand wrote > > I should like to suggest that a boundary-condition change be made to the > P3 > display behavior.The current behavior I view to be a firmware defect. > > P3 mode settings are: Fixed Tune mode. Half Span. > > Current behavior: When recalling a frequency from a K3 memory and that > frequency is off the current display of the P3, the P3 sets the cursor > (and > therefore frequency) at the left edge of the screen. This obscures > everything below the memory-recalled frequency. > > Suggested behavior: Since the P3 has no idea in which direction tuning > will > subsequently occur, the cursor/frequency should be placed in the exact > middle of the P3 display. In that manner the P3 is useful to both sides > of > the memory-recalled frequency. > > > My current workaround is to doubly-hit the CENTER(HOLD) key on the P3. > That > is doubly timing sensitive: Did I hold it long enough to be recognized as > a > HOLD? Did I time the second HOLD closely enough (and long enough) to > cause > the cursor to be centered? This isn't good. > > Another workaround is for me to tune the VFO down in frequency some > arbitrarily small amount and then back. This puts an approximation of > the > proper frequency in the center due to the specified Half Span, but only an > approximation, since "Half Span" is relative to wherever I tuned down to. > > > I run net operations. I wish to be on-frequency with a single button > push. > I do not wish to use the other mode of tracking, whereby the cursor stays > in > the center and the display moves behind it. My brain does not think that > way. The displayed band segment (in my mind) should be constant, and it's > the VFO that is varying, not vice-versa. > > Tnx es 73, > > Gary W2CS > -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/Behavior-of-P3-Display-Upon-K3-Memory-Recall-tp7288400p7289606.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 TX delay
I think when in semi-break-in, you'd only be concerned about chopping the first element. I just checked my AL-811 manual and it says the relay may take 15ms to operate. My K3 is set for 8ms (default) but I turn QSK off when I use it. I just tried it while monitoring on a separate receiver sending Vs at 25 WPM with the built-in keyer and don't hear shortening of the first dit. But I am on the edge, unless the 15ms figure is for drop-out and pull in is a lot faster than that. 73- Nick, WA5BDU On 2/15/2012 12:26 PM, Sam Morgan wrote: > confused by all this K3 TX DLY chatter > please answer the following question(s) > > my cw operation is with Simi QSK @ 13-25wpm > sometimes with a straight key > but most times using the internal K3 keyer > > so are you saying. > I shouldn't run the K3 with my older AL-811 (3 tube) > or I will be transmitting these chopped off cw characters > > or would this only happen if I were to use FAST QSK > or is it ok in either Slow or Fast > as long as I stay below about 30wpm > > also, if I can use the K3 and AL-811, > in either or both QSK modes, > what TX DLY setting should be used > > -- > GB& 73 > K5OAI > Sam Morgan > > __ 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] KX3 Manual
So the date is now March or was it always March. I am excited nevertheless. I can't wait to bring it on the babymoon in April. Keith AG6AZ Sent from my iPhone please excuse typos On Feb 15, 2012, at 4:25 PM, "John Cooper" wrote: > Will there be a preliminary .pdf manual released for the KX3 soon to hold us > over while we wait patiently for March? > > WT5Y > __ > 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] KX3 Manual
Will there be a preliminary .pdf manual released for the KX3 soon to hold us over while we wait patiently for March? WT5Y __ 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] [KX3] Status?
We're half way through the month. Any word on getting close to shipment? Will it be closer to the end of February or first couple weeks of March? Steve, KC8QVO -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/KX3-Status-tp7289579p7289579.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] KAT500 latest update???
Any new info on the KAT500? $$numbers, pix etc. Any info from the Orlando show? I and my K-line are anxiously awaiting any info on my pending tuner. Joe K2UF No trees were harmed in the sending of this e-mail; however, many electrons were inconvenienced. __ 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 TX delay choices
Ralph, If you are using PTT in all cases, then you do not have to worry about the TX delay (set it to the default of 8 ms). Do NOT put the K3 into VOX and all will be OK. If you do set the K3 to VOX, then you might be in trouble because both "hit the key to transmit" and PTT will both be capable of putting the K3 into transmit - as I indicated, turn off VOX if you are using a footswitch - that will prevent you from initializing TX with the key before you engage the footswitch. 73, Don W3FPR On 2/15/2012 3:25 PM, Ralph Parker wrote: > I don't use QSK - I don't like the noise between characters. > In casual DXing, I (almost) always use a footswitch to ensure the amp has > settled before any RF hits it. I always use an external keyer. > While contesting, I use N1MM to microHAM (Winkey) to K3. > I'm never sure whether to use the TX Delay available in the microHAM > software or in the K3 (or both). (Any hints, Joe?) > > Years ago, using QSK with a 1kmp (adjustable TX delay) with an Ameritron > AL1200 (not a QSK amp), in a contest I would often get "UE7XF?". > Using 'break-in' + 'VOX' would get "VE7XF". > > When I switched to a true QSK amp (Acom 1000), lead element elimination in > QSK was no longer a problem. I still didn't use it because of the noise, > but I was confident that the amp was happy. > > Now, I mostly use the K3, and I have a choice of 3 amps (the above plus > KPA500), so solving the 'Where do I put the TX Delay' question would be a > help to put my mind at ease. > > Ralph, VE7XF > > __ > 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] K2 External T-R Relay Driver Kit by N0SS
By any chance does anyone have one of these they've never used? I ordered one from N0SS last May but it was never shipped due to Tom's untimely death. Before reconstructing one from his webpage info, I thought I'd check to see if anyone has one they don't need. Please reply direct with price, etc. 73, Bill W4ZV -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/K2-External-T-R-Relay-Driver-Kit-by-N0SS-tp7289434p7289434.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 For Sale
Fully loaded K2/15W in mint condition, for sale. S/N 3938. $1075. --Ed-- __ 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 TX delay choices
I don't use QSK - I don't like the noise between characters. In casual DXing, I (almost) always use a footswitch to ensure the amp has settled before any RF hits it. I always use an external keyer. While contesting, I use N1MM to microHAM (Winkey) to K3. I'm never sure whether to use the TX Delay available in the microHAM software or in the K3 (or both). (Any hints, Joe?) Years ago, using QSK with a 1kmp (adjustable TX delay) with an Ameritron AL1200 (not a QSK amp), in a contest I would often get "UE7XF?". Using 'break-in' + 'VOX' would get "VE7XF". When I switched to a true QSK amp (Acom 1000), lead element elimination in QSK was no longer a problem. I still didn't use it because of the noise, but I was confident that the amp was happy. Now, I mostly use the K3, and I have a choice of 3 amps (the above plus KPA500), so solving the 'Where do I put the TX Delay' question would be a help to put my mind at ease. Ralph, VE7XF __ 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] P3SVGA Use of Dedicated Monitor
Close - but it looks like a week or two later as we have just received the boards from assembly and they need to be tested and packaged in manufacturing here. Also, we are in final testing on the firmware for the SVGA. Eric --- www.elecraft.com On 2/14/2012 3:07 PM, Ian Kahn - Ham wrote: > And are we still looking at the P3SVGA shipping late this week or early > next? > > --Ian > > Ian Kahn, KM4IK > Roswell, GA > km4ik@gmail.com > K3 #281, P3 #688 > > > On 2/14/2012 4:43 PM, KM4VX wrote: >> Will the P3SVGA be capable of direct connection to a monitor separate from >> the computer monitor that might be enabled for other uses with the K3? For >> my purposes if I am going to use a larger screen (may or may not be useful) >> I would want it to be a dedicated monitor that does not interfere with the >> normal use of the PC and its monitor. Thank you. Ron >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/P3SVGA-Use-of-Dedicated-Monitor-tp7285610p7285610.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 __ 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 TX delay
confused by all this K3 TX DLY chatter please answer the following question(s) my cw operation is with Simi QSK @ 13-25wpm sometimes with a straight key but most times using the internal K3 keyer so are you saying. I shouldn't run the K3 with my older AL-811 (3 tube) or I will be transmitting these chopped off cw characters or would this only happen if I were to use FAST QSK or is it ok in either Slow or Fast as long as I stay below about 30wpm also, if I can use the K3 and AL-811, in either or both QSK modes, what TX DLY setting should be used -- GB & 73 K5OAI Sam Morgan On 2/15/2012 11:03 AM, Jim Brown wrote: > El cheapo amps > with open frame relays (like some MFJ/Ameritrons I've seen) are never > going to follow CW, no matter what is done at the rig. __ 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] Filter installing question
TNX all for answering ! So I understand I have to use 2.7KHz for TX and all others for RX only. Switching RX filters on XFIL between 2.1 and 2.7 KHz best regards Erwin/DK5EW http://www.dk5ew.de - eMail ist virenfrei. Von AVG überprüft - www.avg.de Version: 10.0.1424 / Virendatenbank: 2112/4811 - Ausgabedatum: 15.02.2012 __ 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] Behavior of P3 Display Upon K3 Memory Recall
I should like to suggest that a boundary-condition change be made to the P3 display behavior.The current behavior I view to be a firmware defect. P3 mode settings are: Fixed Tune mode. Half Span. Current behavior: When recalling a frequency from a K3 memory and that frequency is off the current display of the P3, the P3 sets the cursor (and therefore frequency) at the left edge of the screen. This obscures everything below the memory-recalled frequency. Suggested behavior: Since the P3 has no idea in which direction tuning will subsequently occur, the cursor/frequency should be placed in the exact middle of the P3 display. In that manner the P3 is useful to both sides of the memory-recalled frequency. My current workaround is to doubly-hit the CENTER(HOLD) key on the P3. That is doubly timing sensitive: Did I hold it long enough to be recognized as a HOLD? Did I time the second HOLD closely enough (and long enough) to cause the cursor to be centered? This isn't good. Another workaround is for me to tune the VFO down in frequency some arbitrarily small amount and then back. This puts an approximation of the proper frequency in the center due to the specified Half Span, but only an approximation, since "Half Span" is relative to wherever I tuned down to. I run net operations. I wish to be on-frequency with a single button push. I do not wish to use the other mode of tracking, whereby the cursor stays in the center and the display moves behind it. My brain does not think that way. The displayed band segment (in my mind) should be constant, and it's the VFO that is varying, not vice-versa. Tnx es 73, Gary W2CS __ 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 TX delay
On 2/15/2012 12:06 PM, Igor Sokolov wrote: > I always use PTT foot switch. Even then longer then 8ms setting of TX > delay affects CW. I do not understand why. Apparently the K3 applies the TX Delay value to the CW input (key in) regardless of Key Out status (e.g., is the radio already in transmit) or VOX/QSK/PTT mode. However, I have not heard the effect when using PTT input - only when using QSK - and I can restore normal operation by adding "Keying compensation" (a fixed extension of each element) equal to the TX Delay value in WinKey. > Thank you everybody for you comments. It looks like external > sequencer is the only solution. Pity. I think most would agree that Elecraft should either delay the CW element or add a fixed compensation equal to the TX Delay (which would achieve the same result). "Bit clipping" is a problem, particularly at higher speeds. 73, ... Joe, W4TV On 2/15/2012 12:06 PM, Igor Sokolov wrote: > You are correct Rich. > I always use PTT foot switch. Even then longer then 8ms setting of TX delay > affects CW. I do not understand why. It is not brake in. It is just switched > to TX and stays put. Why CW should be affected by this setting? > My K3 is below 2000 serial number. I have just checked with my friend's > above 6000 serial unit. It is still the same. BTW the internal delay > between PTT into the radio and KEY OUT signal from the radio is about 6-6.5 > ms. I assume there is only one relay in between. So if we have two relays > in series externally or even one relay a bit more powerful (and therefore > slower then the internal one) we have to use external sequencer. Even most > popular power vacuum relays here have make time of 12-15 ms which precludes > their use without external sequencer. > Thank you everybody for you comments. It looks like external sequencer is > the only solution. Pity. > > 73, Igor UA9CDC > > > - Original Message - > From: "Richard Ferch" > To: > Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 10:04 PM > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 TX delay > > >> I think there's a bit more to it than that, Joe. My recollection, based >> on my experience in SS CW a couple of years back, is that if CONFIG:TX >> DLY is set to 20 ms, the K3's CW (with an external keyer) is "choppy" >> even when using semi-breakin or PTT. I can't be 100% sure whether I was >> using VOX or PTT, but I know for certain I was not using QSK, and I got >> reports of "distinctive-sounding" CW, not just a truncated first >> element. Setting CONFIG:TX DLY to 8 ms appears to have fixed it. >> >> 73, >> Rich VE3KI >> >> >> W4TV wrote: >> >>> One solution is to use a keyer like the K1EL WinKey that permits >>> adding a fixed length to the elements to compensate for the K3's >>> "bit clipping". However, the proper solution would be for the K3 >>> to extend each element by the length of TX Delay when in QSK and >>> extend the initial element by TX Delay when in semi-break in. >> __ >> 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] Filter installing question
The Tx filter for SSB, Data, and CW must be 2.7 or 2.8 kHz, so FL2 is right for your installation for TX SSB and TX CW. The 2.1 kHz filter is not used for transmit, just receive. You should be able to use all your filters for receive, just enable (for receive) all installed filters for CW, LSB, USB, and DATA. My K3 radio doesn't have an FM or AM filter, so I can't transmit in those modes, but I can receive AM using my 2.8 kHz filter and tuning to one sideband. 73 de Dick, K6KR -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of DK5EW Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 9:14 AM To: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: [Elecraft] Filter installing question Hi all, I have a small understanding problem in using filters. I installed a additional SSB filter 2.1KHz/8pol on row 3. (1. is FM and 2. is 2.7KHz). I configured new 2.1KHz filter FL3_BW and set it with number 3 to 2.10, FL3_Freq to 0.00, FL3_GN to 0db, FL3_ON to YES _What I do not understand:_ On menu FL_TX_SB is now FL2 so I TX now with FL2(2.7KHz) ? Do I have to switch there on FL3 to transmit with FL3 (2.1KHz) ? Can I switch between filters in operating ? Is it then only in RX between 2.1KHz and 2.7KHz filter ? And TX filter is always that one I configured in FLTX_SB menu ? Erwin/DK5EW __ 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] Filter installing question
Erwin, You must use the 2.7kHz (or 2.8) filter to transmit SSB (or CW or data) - the narrow filters are only for receive. 73, Don W3FPR On 2/15/2012 12:13 PM, DK5EW wrote: > Hi all, > I have a small understanding problem in using filters. > > I installed a additional SSB filter 2.1KHz/8pol on row 3. (1. is FM and > 2. is 2.7KHz). > I configured new 2.1KHz filter FL3_BW and set it with number 3 to 2.10, > FL3_Freq to 0.00, FL3_GN to 0db, FL3_ON to YES > > _What I do not understand:_ > On menu FL_TX_SB is now FL2 so I TX now with FL2(2.7KHz) ? Do I have to > switch there on FL3 to transmit with FL3 (2.1KHz) ? > Can I switch between filters in operating ? Is it then only in RX > between 2.1KHz and 2.7KHz filter ? > And TX filter is always that one I configured in FLTX_SB menu ? > > Thanks for reading ! > __ 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] Items for Sale
Doing some shack cleaning, and have the following mostly Elecraft items for sale. All prices include insured USPS Priority Mail shipping to your US address. US sales only, please. Payment via PayPal. Can save some $$ with combined shipping on purchase of multiple items. Contact me directly via email if interested. All items are in mint or like-new perfectly operating condition and include all original documentation. Elecraft MH-2 hand mic. Includes mounting bracket and hardware and original box. Only used once when I first got my K3 to verify that SSB worked! $ 50 Elecraft BL-2 switchable 1:1 4:1 250W balun $ 34 Elecraft BL-1 1:1 150W balun $ 20 Elecraft BL-1 4:1 150W balun $ 20 Elecraft SL-1 20W dummy load $ 23 Japan Radio Corporation ST-3 Mono headphones. These are the perfect phones for mono usage on CW and SSB. VERY comfortable for extended contest use. These are in perfect condition. 5 ft cord terminated with ¼ inch mono phone plug. Rated at 600 ohms impedance. Measure 82 ohms at DC. These work very well with any of the Elecraft rigs if you don't need stereo audio. I bought these new from Universal Radio 6 years ago and they have since been discontinued. If I wasn't into diversity reception, I'd still be using them! Shipped in original box. $ 83 73 Craig AC0DS __ 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] Filter installing question
Hi all, I have a small understanding problem in using filters. I installed a additional SSB filter 2.1KHz/8pol on row 3. (1. is FM and 2. is 2.7KHz). I configured new 2.1KHz filter FL3_BW and set it with number 3 to 2.10, FL3_Freq to 0.00, FL3_GN to 0db, FL3_ON to YES _What I do not understand:_ On menu FL_TX_SB is now FL2 so I TX now with FL2(2.7KHz) ? Do I have to switch there on FL3 to transmit with FL3 (2.1KHz) ? Can I switch between filters in operating ? Is it then only in RX between 2.1KHz and 2.7KHz filter ? And TX filter is always that one I configured in FLTX_SB menu ? Thanks for reading ! -- best regards Erwin/DK5EW - eMail ist virenfrei. Von AVG überprüft - www.avg.de Version: 10.0.1424 / Virendatenbank: 2112/4810 - Ausgabedatum: 14.02.2012 __ 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 TX delay
You are correct Rich. I always use PTT foot switch. Even then longer then 8ms setting of TX delay affects CW. I do not understand why. It is not brake in. It is just switched to TX and stays put. Why CW should be affected by this setting? My K3 is below 2000 serial number. I have just checked with my friend's above 6000 serial unit. It is still the same. BTW the internal delay between PTT into the radio and KEY OUT signal from the radio is about 6-6.5 ms. I assume there is only one relay in between. So if we have two relays in series externally or even one relay a bit more powerful (and therefore slower then the internal one) we have to use external sequencer. Even most popular power vacuum relays here have make time of 12-15 ms which precludes their use without external sequencer. Thank you everybody for you comments. It looks like external sequencer is the only solution. Pity. 73, Igor UA9CDC - Original Message - From: "Richard Ferch" To: Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 10:04 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 TX delay >I think there's a bit more to it than that, Joe. My recollection, based > on my experience in SS CW a couple of years back, is that if CONFIG:TX > DLY is set to 20 ms, the K3's CW (with an external keyer) is "choppy" > even when using semi-breakin or PTT. I can't be 100% sure whether I was > using VOX or PTT, but I know for certain I was not using QSK, and I got > reports of "distinctive-sounding" CW, not just a truncated first > element. Setting CONFIG:TX DLY to 8 ms appears to have fixed it. > > 73, > Rich VE3KI > > > W4TV wrote: > >> One solution is to use a keyer like the K1EL WinKey that permits >> adding a fixed length to the elements to compensate for the K3's >> "bit clipping". However, the proper solution would be for the K3 >> to extend each element by the length of TX Delay when in QSK and >> extend the initial element by TX Delay when in semi-break in. > __ > 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 TX delay
On 2/15/2012 8:39 AM, briana wrote: > On older amps that could be 15ms or more. The issue is not OLDER amps, it is poorly designed amps (or el cheapo amps). My Ten Tec Titan 425s, which were designed in the late 70s and built in the early 80s, were designed for QSK, and key reliably at 8msec. They use good vacuum relays (the same used by Alpha) and smart control circuitry to positively prevent hot switching. El cheapo amps with open frame relays (like some MFJ/Ameritrons I've seen) are never going to follow CW, no matter what is done at the rig. Now, there ARE techniques that can be used to speed up a slow relay. Quite a few years ago, K6XX, a top contester and superb EE who now works for Elecraft, designed a simple circuit that adds a short, higher voltage spike to the keying signal, and causes the relay to pull in a bit faster. This circuit must be added to the amp. 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
Re: [Elecraft] K3 TX delay
On 2/15/2012 8:24 AM, briana wrote: > The fix has to be within the K3. It all depends on exactly what problem you're trying to fix, and how bad the problem is. Think about it -- a T/R relay has delays associated both with pulling in AND dropping out. Granted they may be different delays. These delays set a practical limit on how fast the amp is able to work on CW, no matter what is done in the exciter to delay keying. BUT -- there is an important difference between delaying the ONSET of CW after PTT is asserted, which seems to be what the K3 is doing, and delaying the entire CW signal, which is what is needed to avoid shortening the keying elements at higher speeds. There would still be a limit on keying speed corresponding to how fast the T/R relay can switch, but that limit could be raised to a higher speed. Put me on the list of those who urge Elecraft to attempt the latter, with the requirement that the delay be applied both to the internal keyer and to keying via the straight key input (where computer-generated keying is applied). I suspect that the limitation is either DSP cycles or RAM, or both, and these limitations were set at the original design.stage. 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
Re: [Elecraft] K3 TX delay
rick, I can't tell you what's wrong but I cqn give you the symptoms. This was several years ago. The story goes as follows. One day I sat down at the K3 for a CW session. Unlike past sessions, at 25wpm and above the was erratic timing of the characters. I thought it was my keyer. Plugged keyer into other rig and no keying was OK. So I tried using the K3 internal keyer, same QSD.This was independent of semi or full break in.No amp was in line at this time. A post to the Elecraft reflector suggested looking the the value of TXDLY. I though that crazy since it had been set by me forever at 8ms. Sure enough it was at 20 ms (how I don't know). Returning the value to 8ms solved it. Amplifiers only enter the picture if you don't want them to hot switch. That means delaying the RF until the amp relay switches. On older amps that could be 15ms or more. Thus one wants the TXDLY to be 15 ms or more. There are a lot of amps out there like this still. The suggestion to convert them to QSK means an expenditure of about $400, requires gutting parts of the amp and is probably amp specific. Now we have a problem, you might achieve the TXDLY in the K3 but you can't send good CW. This is not the case for other rigs. For example, Kenwoods work just fine at 20 ms and my old MP worked fine at some value in that ball park. You have to ask Elecraft for an explanation. This is a years' old problem that still continues. 73 de Brian/K3KO On 2/15/2012 10:06 AM, Rick Stealey wrote: > > >> Alternatively buy any Kenwood, Yaesu et al which has this figured out. >> This has been a long standing problem with the K3. >> > Brian, > Could you please explain what you think is deficient in the K3? > You close the key, the KEY OUT line activates, the K3 waits 8 ms (minimum, > adjustable up to 20 ms) > and then the cw character begins. The 8-20 ms is to give the amplifier time > to close its relays so it isn't > damaged. On key up the rf ends before the KEY OUT line drops so the > amplifier can't switch > while it is outputting, unlike ICOM rigs. > What is it the K3 should do differently? > > Rick K2XT > > > __ > 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 > > > - > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 10.0.1424 / Virus Database: 2112/4811 - Release Date: 02/15/12 > > > __ 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 TX delay
The proper solution is NOT WINKEY. The QSD occurs with an external keyer as well as internal keyer. The fix has to be within the K3. 73 DE Brian/K3KO On 2/15/2012 10:30 AM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote: > Rick, > > >> So the concern is with amps that switch in, let's say 30 ms, for >> example? You mean the 20 ms setting is still too fast for those >> amps? >> > No, the problem is with straight key or an external keyer. TX > Delay delays the onset of RF by the correct 8 - 20 ms but it does > not also delay the entire incoming CW so the elements get truncated. > This may not be an issue for those who are not using QSK but with > QSK the CW elements are truncated. > > One solution is to use a keyer like the K1EL WinKey that permits > adding a fixed length to the elements to compensate for the K3's > "bit clipping". However, the proper solution would be for the K3 > to extend each element by the length of TX Delay when in QSK and > extend the initial element by TX Delay when in semi-break in. > > 73, > > ... Joe, W4TV > > > On 2/15/2012 10:08 AM, Rick Stealey wrote: > >> >> >> >>> I suspect that as far as Wayne and Eric are concerned, any amplifier that >>> doesn't handle qsk is broken, so the K3 doesn't need fixed. >>> >>> Matthew Pitts >>> >> Matt, >> So the concern is with amps that switch in, let's say 30 ms, for example? >> You mean the 20 ms setting is still too fast for those amps? >> >> Rick K2XT >> >> >> __ >> 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 > > > - > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 10.0.1424 / Virus Database: 2112/4811 - Release Date: 02/15/12 > > > __ 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 TX delay
Rich, Since I don't use an amplifier, I can't say for sure. However, TX Delay should only be applied to the first element in semi-break in (VOX) or PTT (and with PTT, TX Delay should be triggered by PTT not Key In). 73, ... Joe, W4TV On 2/15/2012 11:04 AM, Richard Ferch wrote: > I think there's a bit more to it than that, Joe. My recollection, based > on my experience in SS CW a couple of years back, is that if CONFIG:TX > DLY is set to 20 ms, the K3's CW (with an external keyer) is "choppy" > even when using semi-breakin or PTT. I can't be 100% sure whether I was > using VOX or PTT, but I know for certain I was not using QSK, and I got > reports of "distinctive-sounding" CW, not just a truncated first > element. Setting CONFIG:TX DLY to 8 ms appears to have fixed it. > > 73, > Rich VE3KI > > > W4TV wrote: > >> One solution is to use a keyer like the K1EL WinKey that permits >> adding a fixed length to the elements to compensate for the K3's >> "bit clipping". However, the proper solution would be for the K3 >> to extend each element by the length of TX Delay when in QSK and >> extend the initial element by TX Delay when in semi-break in. > __ > 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 Owners manual translated in Italian
Thanks Carlo. That's a monumental accomplishment. Unfortunately, it's missing the appendix to teach me to read and write Italian. ;o) Terry, W0FM -Original Message- From: Wayne Burdick [mailto:n...@elecraft.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 11:25 AM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 Owners manual translated in Italian Grazie, Carlo! Sono sicuro che questo è stato uno sforzo enorme. Wayne N6KR On Feb 14, 2012, at 9:01 AM, carlo bianconi wrote: > The K3 owners manual is available translated in Italian language, > following > exactly the page numbering of the original. > All the details here: > http://www.carlobianconi.com/it/component/content/article/54-articolo-in-evidenza-2.html > > All the best > Carlo IK4ISQ __ 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 TX delay
I think there's a bit more to it than that, Joe. My recollection, based on my experience in SS CW a couple of years back, is that if CONFIG:TX DLY is set to 20 ms, the K3's CW (with an external keyer) is "choppy" even when using semi-breakin or PTT. I can't be 100% sure whether I was using VOX or PTT, but I know for certain I was not using QSK, and I got reports of "distinctive-sounding" CW, not just a truncated first element. Setting CONFIG:TX DLY to 8 ms appears to have fixed it. 73, Rich VE3KI W4TV wrote: > One solution is to use a keyer like the K1EL WinKey that permits > adding a fixed length to the elements to compensate for the K3's > "bit clipping". However, the proper solution would be for the K3 > to extend each element by the length of TX Delay when in QSK and > extend the initial element by TX Delay when in semi-break in. __ 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] kpa500 builders
In the 1950's I was an operator of an AN/GRC-26 portable radio system in the U.S. Army. It ran phone (A.M.), digital (RTTY) and CW. The transmitter was a BC-610 which I believe was the successor of the HT-4 transmitter shown here. The whole "portable" system was built into a hut that was mounted on 2-1/2 ton 10-wheel truck pulling a 1-ton motor generator on a trailer behind it. Had some real adventures climbing mountains off-road with that rig, but it had two huge advantages over today's "pocket-portables" - we could stay inside the hut out of the weather and it had a coffee pot. The Ham activity on the film has one huge missing bit: no heterodynes! When two A.M. stations are close enough to the same frequency to hear the audio, you also hear a loud tone whose frequency is the difference between the two carrier frequencies. Often on a crowded band like 20 meters you might hear three or four of these heterodynes blasting away on top of the audio of the station you are trying to hear. Unlike today's rigs, most "phone" receivers of the 40's and 50's had a 6 to 10 kHz bandwidth! In the early days of SSB, that lack of heterodynes was the most common reason cited by Hams for leaving AM for SSB. Power efficiency, denser band occupation, and the like were secondary reasons, at best. 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
[Elecraft] K3 For sale
Mint K3/100 WITH KXV3A for sale. Please contact off forum. -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/K3-For-sale-tp7287868p7287868.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 TX delay
Rick, > So the concern is with amps that switch in, let's say 30 ms, for > example? You mean the 20 ms setting is still too fast for those > amps? No, the problem is with straight key or an external keyer. TX Delay delays the onset of RF by the correct 8 - 20 ms but it does not also delay the entire incoming CW so the elements get truncated. This may not be an issue for those who are not using QSK but with QSK the CW elements are truncated. One solution is to use a keyer like the K1EL WinKey that permits adding a fixed length to the elements to compensate for the K3's "bit clipping". However, the proper solution would be for the K3 to extend each element by the length of TX Delay when in QSK and extend the initial element by TX Delay when in semi-break in. 73, ... Joe, W4TV On 2/15/2012 10:08 AM, Rick Stealey wrote: > > > >> I suspect that as far as Wayne and Eric are concerned, any amplifier that >> doesn't handle qsk is broken, so the K3 doesn't need fixed. >> >> Matthew Pitts > > Matt, > So the concern is with amps that switch in, let's say 30 ms, for example? > You mean the 20 ms setting is still too fast for those amps? > > Rick K2XT > > > __ > 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 TX delay
I think you are confusing two things. The hold time after RF output before receive can be as long as you want. The time between key down and RF output in the K3 can be from 8 ms to about 14 ms before keying is affected. It goes up to 20 ms, but at this point, the keyed elements are shortened. Most radios do not allow adjustment to this delay at all. Some (ICOM) radios actually drop the amp key output before RF output ends! I agree with Don that for fast CW QSK the amplifier should be capable of switching in about 5 ms. This is not hard to achieve, but you can't do it with cheap open-frame relays. The original SB-220 doesn't represent the state of the art anymore. For special situations like mast-mounted preamps, etc. you may need a sequencer. This won't provide QSK but will ensure that everything changes over properly. I don't think the K3 is in any way lacking as far as QSK sequencing is concerned. On 2/15/12 6:23 AM, briana wrote: > Alternatively buy any Kenwood, Yeasu et al which has this figured out. > This has been a long standing problem with the K3. > > I'd like to hear from Elecraft that it "can't be fixed". > > 73 de Brian/K3KO > > On 2/15/2012 9:07 AM, Don Wilhelm wrote: >> Igor, >> >> Yes, longer T-R delay times can chop off the leading edge of CW elements. >> The proper answer is to add QSK capability to the amplifier. >> If that is not possible or desirable, you may have to use a PTT footswitch. >> >> If the amplifier is not capable of QSK operation at the keying speeds >> you use, there is not much that can be done in the K3 to compensate for >> the amplifier inadequacy. >> >> 73, >> Don W3FPR >> >> >> On 2/15/2012 7:21 AM, Igor Sokolov wrote: >> >>> I wonder if there are plans to properly implement programmable TX delay in >>> K3 in the near future. >>> Current implementation works only with 8 ms delay. Attempts to increase this >>> setting to max 20 ms ruin CW timing especially at high CW speed. >>> Unfortunately 8 ms is too short for many of power amps, let alone other >>> external switching (stack control, external TX/RX switches etc) Separate >>> sequencer is obvious answer but carry additional box is not in line with my >>> purpose of light weight contest or dx peditions. Is there any other >>> solution? >>> >>> 73, Igor UA9CDC >>> >>> >> __ >> 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 >> >> >> - >> No virus found in this message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 10.0.1424 / Virus Database: 2112/4809 - Release Date: 02/14/12 >> >> >> > > __ > 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 -- Vic, K2VCO Fresno CA http://www.qsl.net/k2vco/ __ 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] Radio Control via HamLog on iPhone
Hello Poul-Erik, It is my understanding that Nick's PigTail device is simply the interface control device between your iPad/iPhone (or tabletPC/Android) via WiFi and your radio (K3/KX3) via serial cable. The PigTail just uses WiFi to communicate with your iPad/iPhone instead of Bluetooth, USB or serial cable. No WiFi router or network is required. The PigTail device talks directly to your rig via the serial cable and then your iPad via WiFi. In my case I'll be using it in the backcountry far from any network! ...Hope this helps! 73, Steve/wGOAT __ 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 TX delay
> I suspect that as far as Wayne and Eric are concerned, any amplifier that > doesn't handle qsk is broken, so the K3 doesn't need fixed. > > Matthew Pitts Matt, So the concern is with amps that switch in, let's say 30 ms, for example? You mean the 20 ms setting is still too fast for those amps? Rick K2XT __ 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 TX delay
110% agreement. If you want a voice-only machine, just look for "semi break-in" in the specs. (You could also look for "AM only.") Don's comment about the merit of trying to fix a broken amplifier by modifying the K3 is right on target. How about a big knife switch on the wall? John Ragle -- W1ZI /=/ On 2/15/2012 9:59 AM, Matthew Pitts wrote: > I suspect that as far as Wayne and Eric are concerned, any amplifier that > doesn't handle qsk is broken, so the K3 doesn't need [to be] fixed. > > Matthew Pitts > N8OHU > > > Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android > > __ > 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 > > > -- Sent from my lovely old Dell XPS 420 __ 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 TX delay
> > Alternatively buy any Kenwood, Yaesu et al which has this figured out. > This has been a long standing problem with the K3. Brian, Could you please explain what you think is deficient in the K3? You close the key, the KEY OUT line activates, the K3 waits 8 ms (minimum, adjustable up to 20 ms) and then the cw character begins. The 8-20 ms is to give the amplifier time to close its relays so it isn't damaged. On key up the rf ends before the KEY OUT line drops so the amplifier can't switch while it is outputting, unlike ICOM rigs. What is it the K3 should do differently? Rick K2XT __ 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 TX delay
I'd like to hear that it CAN be fixed. That would be better. On Feb 15, 2012, at 8:23 AM, briana wrote: > Alternatively buy any Kenwood, Yeasu et al which has this figured out. > This has been a long standing problem with the K3. > > I'd like to hear from Elecraft that it "can't be fixed". > > 73 de Brian/K3KO > > On 2/15/2012 9:07 AM, Don Wilhelm wrote: >> Igor, >> >> Yes, longer T-R delay times can chop off the leading edge of CW elements. >> The proper answer is to add QSK capability to the amplifier. >> If that is not possible or desirable, you may have to use a PTT footswitch. >> >> If the amplifier is not capable of QSK operation at the keying speeds >> you use, there is not much that can be done in the K3 to compensate for >> the amplifier inadequacy. >> >> 73, >> Don W3FPR >> >> >> On 2/15/2012 7:21 AM, Igor Sokolov wrote: >> >>> I wonder if there are plans to properly implement programmable TX delay in >>> K3 in the near future. >>> Current implementation works only with 8 ms delay. Attempts to increase this >>> setting to max 20 ms ruin CW timing especially at high CW speed. >>> Unfortunately 8 ms is too short for many of power amps, let alone other >>> external switching (stack control, external TX/RX switches etc) Separate >>> sequencer is obvious answer but carry additional box is not in line with my >>> purpose of light weight contest or dx peditions. Is there any other >>> solution? >>> >>> 73, Igor UA9CDC >>> >>> >> __ >> 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 >> >> >> - >> No virus found in this message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 10.0.1424 / Virus Database: 2112/4809 - Release Date: 02/14/12 >> >> >> > > __ > 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 TX delay
I suspect that as far as Wayne and Eric are concerned, any amplifier that doesn't handle qsk is broken, so the K3 doesn't need fixed. Matthew Pitts N8OHU Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android __ 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 TX delay
Alternatively buy any Kenwood, Yeasu et al which has this figured out. This has been a long standing problem with the K3. I'd like to hear from Elecraft that it "can't be fixed". 73 de Brian/K3KO On 2/15/2012 9:07 AM, Don Wilhelm wrote: > Igor, > > Yes, longer T-R delay times can chop off the leading edge of CW elements. > The proper answer is to add QSK capability to the amplifier. > If that is not possible or desirable, you may have to use a PTT footswitch. > > If the amplifier is not capable of QSK operation at the keying speeds > you use, there is not much that can be done in the K3 to compensate for > the amplifier inadequacy. > > 73, > Don W3FPR > > > On 2/15/2012 7:21 AM, Igor Sokolov wrote: > >> I wonder if there are plans to properly implement programmable TX delay in >> K3 in the near future. >> Current implementation works only with 8 ms delay. Attempts to increase this >> setting to max 20 ms ruin CW timing especially at high CW speed. >> Unfortunately 8 ms is too short for many of power amps, let alone other >> external switching (stack control, external TX/RX switches etc) Separate >> sequencer is obvious answer but carry additional box is not in line with my >> purpose of light weight contest or dx peditions. Is there any other >> solution? >> >> 73, Igor UA9CDC >> >> > __ > 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 > > > - > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 10.0.1424 / Virus Database: 2112/4809 - Release Date: 02/14/12 > > > __ 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 TX delay
Igor, Yes, longer T-R delay times can chop off the leading edge of CW elements. The proper answer is to add QSK capability to the amplifier. If that is not possible or desirable, you may have to use a PTT footswitch. If the amplifier is not capable of QSK operation at the keying speeds you use, there is not much that can be done in the K3 to compensate for the amplifier inadequacy. 73, Don W3FPR On 2/15/2012 7:21 AM, Igor Sokolov wrote: > I wonder if there are plans to properly implement programmable TX delay in > K3 in the near future. > Current implementation works only with 8 ms delay. Attempts to increase this > setting to max 20 ms ruin CW timing especially at high CW speed. > Unfortunately 8 ms is too short for many of power amps, let alone other > external switching (stack control, external TX/RX switches etc) Separate > sequencer is obvious answer but carry additional box is not in line with my > purpose of light weight contest or dx peditions. Is there any other > solution? > > 73, Igor UA9CDC > __ 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 TX delay
I wonder if there are plans to properly implement programmable TX delay in K3 in the near future. Current implementation works only with 8 ms delay. Attempts to increase this setting to max 20 ms ruin CW timing especially at high CW speed. Unfortunately 8 ms is too short for many of power amps, let alone other external switching (stack control, external TX/RX switches etc) Separate sequencer is obvious answer but carry additional box is not in line with my purpose of light weight contest or dx peditions. Is there any other solution? 73, Igor UA9CDC __ 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 Level for Voice Modes
On page 28 in the Manual there is instructions for (voice transmit gain ) is this benefical to do and does it make a differnce in the voice power ? Don W4DEE __ 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] Radio Control via HamLog on iPhone
Hi Nick I just saw your demo video and found it very interesting. I am wondering what is in the pigtail box, and whether what you are asking for is what interest there is in such a unit. It is quite interesting since it would make remote control of your K3 not depending on a PC or laptop in the shack. So you can definitely count me as one who is keenly interested. I have used HRD and worked thousands of remote controlled CW QSOs now for over 5 years. I started using HRD in server/client mode. But since I am purely using CW and since the HRD server/client serial connection is very sensitive and keeps dropping out, I soon gave that up and started using HRD via remote desktop. This in combination with using Logmein for remote access has worked well for me for several years - and I still use it. Recently I have tried KS7D Mike's K3iNetwork app. for iPhone with the SServer running on the shack PC. It still has a few bugs (connection may drop while the server still thinks its OK, so you need to reset SServer, also sending macro commands to the K3 means that the K3iNetwork app. needs restart and a few other inconveniencies). But it certainly works fine and I have made a lot of QSOs with iPhone over 3G network to the SServer/K3 (even worked HK0NA that way!) I still do not fully understand how your set up would be. Is it correct, that I need 1) to run hamlog on a portable device (PC or iPhone) and 2) connect via internet to the wireless router in shack. How then is the connection in the shack from the wireless router with the pigtail to the K3? The pigtail box connects directly to the wireless router? Sorry if my questions are silly! Vy 73 and maybe cu on air remote to remote on CW Nick! OZ4UN / Poul-Erik -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] På vegne af Nick Garner Sendt: 14. februar 2012 23:56 Til: Elecraft Reflector Emne: [Elecraft] [OT] Radio Control via HamLog on iPhone Hello Everyone, Over the years that HamLog (http://goo.gl/BMFzM) has been available on the various mobile platforms out there, I've had several users ask me for a way to get radio information into the app automatically, both at home and/or out in the field, portable, dxpeditions, etc. In the past few weeks I've put something together that allows HamLog to talk to radios for both command & control and state retrieval. Below is a link to a demo of it working with an iPad and a K3. The video should answer a lot of the questions you might have. This is all entirely beta at the moment so it might not look like this in the first release. Demo Video (about 9 minutes): http://goo.gl/N8JK7 Take a look and let me know what you think! If you're interested in having one, please visit the following URL and enter your call sign and email address. There is no obligation and I'm not asking for any type of deposit; I just need to gauge the demand for the initial run. Interest Registration: http://pignology.net/ptainterest I envision a KX3 stashed in a backpack (HF Pack style) being fully controlled by an iOS/Android device while walking down the trail, all the while logging the contacts you're making. 73, Nick N3WG/6 P.S. You might see this email cross-posted on some of the various portable/QRP interest groups out there, please excuse the duplication. __ 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] K3/100 ERR12V repair information
For those of you who want to solder the crimped Faston terminals you will find it difficult to push the covers back up the lead to allow you to do the soldering. Using a hot air gun on the terminals, as if you were applying heat shrink, will expand the insulation enough to let you push the insulator off the Faston terminal by gripping the metal through the open end with a pair of fine nosed pliers. Once you have soldered the terminal the cover can be slid back and has enough grip still to remain in place. Excessive amounts of solder on the terminal will prevent the cover going back on properly so keep the solder to a minimum. Regards Malcolm G0MIC __ 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
