Re: [Elecraft] How to recover emails

2018-07-13 Thread Bob Steding
My cat somehow renamed my "My Documents" directory. I know not how.

Bob - AB8MA

On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 12:31 PM, Robert G Strickland 
wrote:

> While I was reading emails from/for Elecraft, the cat sat on the keyboard
> and somehow deleted all my Elecraft mail; note, they didn't go into the
> Trash or Junk bins. Just gone. Is there a way to get blocks of past emails
> from the list server, either individually or in aggregate volumes [I forget
> the term for this]?  Thanks.
> ...robert
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Re: [Elecraft] PROGRESSIVE TUNING RATE

2018-01-02 Thread Bob Steding
My 20+ year old Icom 775 DSP does the same thing.

On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 8:39 AM, Michael Murphy  wrote:

> I was watching a video last night that Bob Nagy, AB5N did on the Icom 7610.
> In the video Bob showed a feature called "Progressive Tuning Rate" that
> varies the tuning rate based on the speed of the tuning knob.  Please see
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elW42Nkiu0U at about 5 minutes into the
> video for more info.
>
> I'm wondering if there could be a firmware enhancement that would allow a
> K3(s) (or a KX3 for that matter) to do this?
>
> Thanks
>
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Re: [Elecraft] Items you think you can depend on

2017-09-04 Thread Bob Steding
*This means that an electric company can sell a customer the same batch of
electricity thousands of times a day and never get caught, since very few
customers take the time to examine their electricity closely. In fact, the
last year any new electricity was generated was 1937.*

On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 2:04 PM, Fred Jensen  wrote:

> Yes indeed!  For many years, unscrupulous electric power companies have
> been capitalizing on the fact that they send electrons to our house and
> charge us for them, we toast the bread with them, and then ... get this ...
> the electrons we paid for go back to the power company!!  They get away
> with this because none of us ever inspect our electricity closely.
>
> 73,
>
> Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
> Sparks NV DM09dn
> Washoe County
>
>>From: David Robertson
>>   To: ElecraftSent: Monday, September 4,
>> 2017 9:39 AM
>>   Subject: [Elecraft] Items you think you can depend on
>>
>> In the 12 years we have been at this qth we found that our town's locally
>> run power company has been very reliable but this experience showed me
>> that
>> it is not a bad idea to check your line voltage every once in a while.
>> 73
>>
>> -- Dave Robertson KD1NA
>>
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Re: [Elecraft] Maintaining Sanity with Filters

2017-07-30 Thread Bob Steding
And here I thought this thread was about Roofing *filters and their
potential to harm a ham's mental stability.*

On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 6:45 PM, Drew AF2Z  wrote:

> It's quite easy to scan the subject lines of individual emails, sorted by
> subject in a mail reader, and instantly deleted en masse if need be, rather
> than plowing through a serial listing of random topics in a digest; "speed
> reading" or no.
>
> Also, with the tap of a key one can save the occasional interesting post
> for future reference. Can't do that in a digest.
>
> After all these years on the internet the only slight irritation I have
> with email lists are subject lines such as "Question" or "How about this",
> etc. I assume that when someone hasn't put any thought into the subject
> line the rest of the post will not be worth reading. Such non-specific
> topics usually get deleted without further inspection. I don't mind
> off-topic posts at all if the subject line is descriptive of the content.
> Most list traffic is "off topic" to my narrow individual interests.
>
> I enjoy quickly sorting the wheat from the chaff with a good mail reader.
> It's the email equivalent of a good HF receiver. Both deal with retrieving
> information from the noisy channel. Using a mail reader effectively does
> require touch typing ability and familiarity with the shortcut keys. If I
> had to do it by mouse clicking my way through each individual message in
> turn, that would indeed be agonizing.
>
> The only reason I read the current thread is because I thought the topic
> was referring to receiver filters, not email filters. But maybe the above
> will help.
>
>
> 73,
> Drew
> AF2Z
>
>
>
>
>
> On 07/30/17 16:41, Dauer, Edward wrote:
>
>> At one point during my time teaching law school some of my students
>> suggested that drafting regulations when market forces are arrayed against
>> you is like playing Whack-a-Mole.  Never having heard of it before, I
>> looked into it.  Apparently Whack-a-Mole is generic for machines found in
>> bars where graduate students go, in which the player whacks a plastic mole
>> with a rubber mallet only to see another pop up from some other spot on the
>> playing field.  I didn’t see much point in the game, then or now, other
>> than as an outlet for educational frustration or just excess testosterone.
>> But the simile was apt.
>>
>> Can a G-mail or any other filter really identify subjects whose name
>> changes from time to time – notice that I changed the title of this thread
>> by dropping just one word.  Or another example – in how many ways would I
>> have to type title descriptions into a filter that would make it block
>> posts that try to instruct Elecraft how to run its business?  Whack-a-Mole,
>> indeed.   Conversely, are filters smart enough to allow through those posts
>> that use the same name but whose contents have migrated to something
>> actually worth reading?  My favorite example of that was an excruciatingly
>> long thread a couple of years ago about using KX3s for communications on
>> motorcycle club rides.  I couldn’t care less about the nominal subject –
>> but I did learn a good deal about portable use of my KX3.   Ditto more
>> recently for finding the right grounding point on a Chevy Silverado.  Gems
>> of all sorts in that one.
>>
>> My solution is to take the reflector not in individual e-mails but in the
>> once or twice daily collected format, whatever that’s called, then do a
>> quick speed-read to ID what interests me. I don’t even bother with the
>> delete key.  For extreme cases the nudging of a human moderator usually
>> helps a lot.  Works great.
>>
>> Maybe I am just not yet ready to trust AI to replicate my judgment.  Am I
>> wrong in that?  After all, Whack-a-Mole is a good metaphor for the habit of
>> being a Luddite too.
>>
>> Ted, KN1CBR
>>
>>
>>  Message: 1
>>  Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2017 17:55:46 -0400
>>  From: Kevin der Kinderen 
>>  To: Elecraft Reflector Reflector 
>>  Subject: [Elecraft] Maintaining Sanity with Gmail Filters
>>  Message-ID:
>> > gmail.com>
>>  Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
>>   For those with Gmail, the only way I have found to reduce the
>> amount of
>>  reflector emails that don't interest me is to set up a filter.
>>   The way I do this is to first do a search on the subject I'm no
>> longer
>>  interested in: "K3S Package Discounts" for example. Then, beside the
>> search
>>  field there's a little arrow you can click. The little popup has a
>> "Create
>>  filter with this search" link at the bottom. Click this. The next
>> popup
>>  lets you decide what to do with current and future emails that meet
>> the
>>  criteria. I select mark as read and delete it. I wish it could do
>> more with
>>  the emails but that's another matter. There's a Learn More link if
>> you get
>>  stuck.
>>   You can filter on many other search criteria such as sender.
>> Th

Re: [Elecraft] K3 with switching power supply??

2017-02-13 Thread Bob Steding
Is there a problem using the Powerwerx to power both the K3S *and *the
KAT500, or would I need a second Powerwerx?

On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 3:05 PM, Mike Furrey  wrote:

> I have been using that Powerwerx power supply since before Elecraft
> started listing them on their web page and it is a good, quiet power
> supply. I use a big linear power supply at home and the Powerwerx unit for
> portable operations since it is a good compact supply. I got one for my
> newly licensed YL and it is on all the time with her rig with no issues and
> no noise.
> 73, Mike WA5POK
>
>
>
>
> On Monday, February 13, 2017 12:52 PM, NOEL POULIN <
> ve2...@globetrotter.net> wrote:
>
>
>  Hi,
> I am using a standard linear power supply with my new K3S.
> Anyboy using the ELECRAFT SWITCHING POWER SUPPLY WITH THE K3S
> I am on the way to change my old Astron RS35M power supply
> Which one is better??Linear or Elecraft Switching power supply
> Thanks
> Noel
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Re: [Elecraft] K3S QST Article

2016-10-18 Thread Bob Steding
Is this there a SN after which these upgrades are automatically included in
all K3S's?

On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 10:56 PM, Jan Erik Holm  wrote:

> Wayne,
>
> Is there a way to do this " at home" ? Since I´m in Sweden
> it might not be practical to send the radio all the way to
> California for this.
>
> 73 Jim SM2EKM
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> On 2016-10-17 02:25, Wayne Burdick wrote:
>
>> Knut,
>>
>> The K3S as originally shipped does not have a design flaw. Like virtually
>> all 12-V-class transceivers using currently available MOSFETs, it was
>> already right around -30 dBc or better, worst-case, for 3rd-order IMD. We
>> simply found a way to make it better by a few dB, and we're offering to
>> make this upgrade at no charge.
>>
>> 73,
>> Wayne
>> N6KR
>>
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