Re: [Elecraft] K3 Headphones
I've had Sennheiser HD400 for many years (long since out of production but there is a newer model). These are very light. I've also the Heil Proset noise cancellers. The Proset and any other can-style headphone I've ever used just kill my ears after a while, like in a contest. The HD400's are better but still, eventually after 4 hours or so I have to take them off. I bought a set of Sennheiser CX300-II earbuds on ebay new for $35, some special. I think they're regularly $50. These have excellent sound quality as one expects from Sennheiser. They're noise blocking, nearly as good as the Heil noise cancellers. And they completely solve the long term ear pain issue. I can wear them all day (or night) without any discomfort. I set the K3 AF Gain to Low and the AF LIM to 20. Highly recommended! -- 73 Art Allison, Colorado Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right. --Henry Ford. __ 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 - SR2O
Chris: You do have Config: L-Mix-R set to A on one side, B on the other? (A b) That should put one rx on the tip, the other on the ring. It does on mine. -- 73 Art Allison, Colorado Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right. --Henry Ford. __ 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 Digest, Vol 72, Issue 5
Maarten Stroke can mean many things. Stroke of a hydraulic piston. Stroke of an engine piston. Stroke as in medical condition. Stroke as in pull on the oars in a boat. Stroke of a pencil. English is obfuscatory. Stroke has been used on the bands for as long as I've been a ham which is many years. Anyone who calls you on it is him(her)self the idiot. As you know in English stroke is but one syllable. Portable is three (Port--a--ble), wasting lots of your time and effort to pronounce it. And adds absolutely nothing to intelligibility. Pleasecontinue to sign OZ Stroke PD2R. 73 Art K6XT, K6XT Stroke NH9 -- 73 Art Allison, Colorado Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right. --Henry Ford. The last two weeks of May I will be staying in Denmark and of course I'll take my K3 with me. Normally there's not much time to play with the radio but during these two weeks of vacation I will have some time to have some fun on the bands. Now, it's not the first time I've been in OZ but recently I discovered that I may have pronounced the / incorrectly. During previous visits I used to say Oscar Zulu Stroke Papa Delta Two Romeo. But I noticed the NA stations pronounce the / as portable. After realizing that stroke means a very bad condition involving the loss of brain function, it sure sounds stupid. So I guess I should say Oscar Zulu Portable Papa Delta Two Romeo, am I right? I know it's a bit OT but I don't want to sound like an idiot anymore ;-) 73, Maarten PD2R __ 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 Keying Up For A Split Second When Power Button, IsPushed (Tom W8JI)
It is not normal behavior for my K3. The red tx light comes on for a split second but there is no amp keying or RF output. 73 Art -- 73 Art Allison, Colorado Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right. --Henry Ford. Message: 51 Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 07:50:22 -0400 From: Tom W8JI w...@w8ji.com Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 Keying Up For A Split Second When Power Button IsPushed To: -.-. --.-N3TU -.-. --.- connectme...@hotmail.com, elecraft@mailman.qth.net Message-ID: b545db30c1794028b301fbf152f95...@radioroom Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-1; reply-type=original Is it normal for the K3 to key up right away for a split second when turned on. I have a Drake L4B with a soft key behind the radio. If by accident the amp is out of the stand-by mode and you turn on the K3, it will key the amp for a split second. Is this normal? Don't get me wrong, I try to put it in standby but every now and then I'll forget. That's normal behavior for the K3. I don't like it either, but a properly designed step-start should still be OK with just the quiescent current of the PA tubes so long as RF is not applied. The only problem would come in when the step-start and the radio both have issues. If the step-start isn't planned well, and blows a fuse or a resistor when starting under quiescent current loads, then the radio doing closing the relay line at power-on becomes a problem. As a suggestion you could easily build a time-delay start up for the amp, which it should have if simply closing the relay control line at amplifier power-on causes damage. You'd have to add a small relay and wire it in series with the relay control jack. My amplifiers start just fine at quiescent loads, so I don't worry (although what you observe annoys me too and I can see where it could cause step-start damage in some systems). 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] KTCX03-1 FS
Selling this unit for $90 shipped CONUS no insurance priority mail. Good working order. Ended up with 2 TXCO, 1 K3. Email k6xt at arrl dot net. UPS, insurance etc available at buyer expense. Check, postal MO, Paypal OK if you pay seller fee. -- 73 Art Allison, Colorado Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right. --Henry Ford. __ 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 dumb Q about PPM
Gents Lots of confusion about oscillator specs. Allow me to add more. Specs on TXCO's are given at specific conditions. Deviate from those conditions and the spec does not apply. In deviating conditions one must review the manufacturer's spec sheet to discover how the TXCO will respond. The PPM spec only refers to long term drift, as defined in the manufacturer's specifications. It has no bearing to short-term changes in room temperature as suggested in some of the posts. Again, see the manufacturer's specifications. This is exactly why the (for example) K3 has a TXCO alignment procedure. So that a picky user can adjust the TXCO exactly on frequency under a specific set of operating conditions. Deviate from the alignment condition, the TXCO will respond by deviating from perfect alignment. The need to control temperature change and remove heat is exactly why industrial and military electronics are often in cold climate controlled spaces where the temperature never varies and the carbon units wear sweaters. Lastly, for the newer folks, be happy. We hams used to be in the business of chasing each other up and down the bands as our oscillators wandered randomly about. Receiving station wanders one way, transmitting station wanders the other. Many newer folks may not even know what youp means. These days just about any rig worthy of the name newer than 20 years old is rock solid from turn on +1 minute. And quite a number, rock solid from turn on plus 10 seconds. Try that with the old Hallicrafters with the valve handwheel knobs where a sharp rap on the desk sent the rig five kHz up the band! -- 73 Art Allison, Colorado Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right. --Henry Ford. __ 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 Digest, Vol 71, Issue 43
RS-232 isn't going away any time soon. Witness the large number of USB to COM converters, the large number of mobo's available with COM port, and the huge installed base of equipment. Wayne wrote a paper on why the K3 uses COM vs. USB. I use at least two different varieties. One model from www.byterunner.com and one from www.lonetworks.com. The lonetworks.com unit is purported to understand baudot RTTY although I haven't tried it because I use the actual COM1 on my PC for FSK. Rig control on either of these converters is flawless. This is like the money deal or the electrical outlet deal. There is no such thing as too many ports. Not to say that USB isn't a good idea. It works fine, just like a COM port does, and connectorizing is more compact. OTOH USB cannot perform all the services the COM port does. Bearing the above in mind and rewriting the last part of the complaint below a bit: I bought a handicapped computer that doesn't have a COM port because this model is too cheap to include that feature. So I'm going to fault Elecraft for choice of IO port. 73 Art -- 73 Art Allison, Colorado Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right. --Henry Ford. John Ragle wrote: Does anyone know the nature of the K3 USB - COMM adapter sold by Elecraft? I cannot find anything in the Elecraft literature about it (other than the price, of course). For example: Does it come with a pre-defined COMM port number? A settable COMM port number between 1 and 10? A settable COMM port number which may be anything (e.g. 17 or 25 or...). How do driver software programs/suites such as DigiPan, FLDIGI, HRDeluxe recognize this adapter (if at all)? [Some software will not recognize ports above 10, while other programs are more relaxed about such things.] Can the adapter be used for CAT control? Any information would be useful. John Ragle -- W1ZI P.S. Grumbling about the fact that RS-232 is still being used when long obsolete...grumble grumble grumble...USB-2.0 on a chip...etc. __ 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 options input sought
David The onboard tuner is pretty handy and fast tuning. I have a couple 1KW size outboard manual tuners but still use the K3's often. If you don't contest much and don't plan to record off the air the KDVR3 might be overkill. Last I heard, KDVR3 won't stream rx audio to an external device such as your PC's HDD. The tuner, btw, is only useful for impedance matching. Its an L section which will not attenuate harmonics. 73 Art -- 73 Art Allison, Colorado Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right. --Henry Ford. David wrote: From: david beckwith david.beckw...@att.net Subject: [Elecraft] K3 options input sought To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Message-ID: 977804.36998...@web82101.mail.mud.yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 I am upgrading the shack from a K2 to K3. I have a nice Palstar tuner and an ACOM amp.? I am mostly a SSB guy, not big on contests or FM.? Given these resources and needs my planned configuration for the new K3 is: K3/100? KXV3A IF Out and RX Ant.?General?coverage RX bandpass ?KDVR3-DVR? KUSB 500 Hz 5pole CW filter and 6kHz AM/ESSB 8 pole filter.? Thoughts? Am I unwise for not including the internal ATU even though I have the Palstar? Thanks and 73? 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
[Elecraft] WTB -- K3 2.7kHz 5 pole filter
I want to buy a 2.7kHz K3 5 pole filter. Please reply to k6xt at arrl.net -- 73 Art Allison, Colorado Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right. --Henry Ford. __ 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 components FS
For sale Filter Elecraft KFL3A-2.8K 2.8kHz BW 8 pole $88 Filter Elecraft KFL3A-6K 6kHz BW 8 pole $88 Filter Elecraft KFL3B-FM 13kHz BW 8 pole $88 KBPF3 general coverage module $98 All prices Shipped to CONUS parcel post no insurance. UPS and/or insurance on request at buyer's expense. Sorry no FedEx their service is a disaster out here. -- 73 Art Allison, Colorado Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right. --Henry Ford. __ 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] [Fwd: K3 components FS] **all sold
All sold within 30 minutes of my original post this morning. 73 Art Original Message Subject:K3 components FS Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:23:26 -0600 From: Art K6XT k...@arrl.net To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net For sale Filter Elecraft KFL3A-2.8K 2.8kHz BW 8 pole $88 Filter Elecraft KFL3A-6K 6kHz BW 8 pole $88 Filter Elecraft KFL3B-FM 13kHz BW 8 pole $88 KBPF3 general coverage module $98 All prices Shipped to CONUS parcel post no insurance. UPS and/or insurance on request at buyer's expense. Sorry no FedEx their service is a disaster out here. -- 73 Art Allison, Colorado Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right. --Henry Ford. -- 73 Art Allison, Colorado Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right. --Henry Ford. __ 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] CW filters
Not sure how best to do this. My original K3 uses 250Hz 5 pole filters in main and sub rx. I love 'em. Now I've acquired a second K3 which came with a 400Hz 8 pole filter. Oh, what to do. 1. Put the 400 in Rig 1 main RX. Buy a second 400 for the sub RX to keep them the same for diversity (which I use all the time on 80 and 160). 2. Put the 400 in the main RX, leave the 250 in there for diversity, buy another 5 pole 250 for 2nd K3. 3. Don't do anything, the 8 pole 400 isn't that much better than the 5 pole 250's in actual combat. 4. Sell the 400, get an 8 pole 250, recycle to step 1 above. 5. Option I haven't considered yet. Watsa from you CW users? -- 73 Art Allison, Colorado Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right. --Henry Ford. __ 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 - 'High Isolation Headphones'
I was using a Heil Proset noise cancelling. These headphones cancel just about everything. Amp noise, XYL, doors, barking dogsyou name it. But. After a couple hours or so my floppy ears start to notice they're being compressed into my skull. Ditto my Sennheiser HD400 headset except these are much lighter so it takes a bit longer to get that squeezed feeling. Seeking a solution I tried Sennheiser CX300-2 button phones, about $30. That is the solution for long term use! Noise blocking is excellent, just behind the ProSet. No squeezed ears. Excellent audio quality. They're a bit more sensitive than either headset so I turned the K3 to low audio. I also reduced the max audio clipping level in the K3. What a difference! Should have done this 30 years ago. 73 Art __ 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
