Re: [Elecraft] T1 not tuning
I changed the battery out and still the same issue from 6-80m. Tuner just stays on yellow light. Have tried bypass off and on and still seems like same results. Sent from my iPhone Fred VE3FAL/CIW649 > On Apr 26, 2022, at 17:35, Paul Jewell wrote: > __ 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] T1 not tuning
I had just read a post from someone who said their T1 had quit tuning. I pulled mine out of my qrp go-bag only to find mine has also stopped tuning. Now, with that being said. I have not changed the battery out for a new one as of yet. But wondering if the other person who had issues came to a resolve? Sent from my iPhone Fred VE3FAL/CIW649 __ 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Mobile high power
Back in 1995 during the Nordic Games here in Thunder Bay I was using my parents Ford SUV and using a 2 meter handheld and the vehicle was surging faster as I talked. When I would unkey the vehicle would go back to normal. Sent from my iPhone Fred VE3FAL/CIW649 > On May 6, 2019, at 12:21, Wayne Burdick wrote: > > Right. But it's the electromagnetically underachieving cars a foot away from > you, on four sides, that might suffer. > > Yet another challenge in the era of technology that doesn't gracefully > degrade. > > Wayne > > > >> On May 6, 2019, at 9:14 AM, Bert Craig wrote: >> >> I run approx. 200 watts from my mobile. It's been trouble free over the last >> four or five years. To the best of my knowledge, no adverse effects on other >> vehicles either. I do use LMR-240uf throughout and employ numerous snap-on >> ferrites as well as a full toroidal RF choke between the output of the amp >> and the antenna. Also, all units are grounded directly to the vehicle >> chassis and bonded to each other. So far, so good. >> >> Vy 73 de Bert >> WA2SI > > > __ > 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] Duty on warranty repairs
I have done the same going across the Pigeon River Border to MN. That piece of paper from Cdn side helps and I carry it at all times when transporting my gear back and forth as well. Sent from my iPhone Fred VE3FAL/CIW649 > On Jan 30, 2019, at 16:47, W2xj wrote: > > There are ways to do this but it involves all parties being on the same page > and paperwork. > I always found it easier to drive to the border and register equipment with > Canadian customs then drive to buffalo or niagra falls and ship from ups or > whomever. I then have it shipped back for counter pickup and drive back with > the customs documentation previously created. I have done that many times > with thousands of dollars worth of equipment. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Jan 30, 2019, at 16:27, Mike Weir wrote: >> >> Good afternoon, has any Canadian Elecrafters sent a rig to Elecraft for >> warranty repairs and if so when the radio was return were you charged any >> duty or HST taxes as it crossed over the boarder? I may be sending a rig >> down and was just wondering what cross boarder experience was of those who >> have sent a rig to Elecraft for warranty repairs? >> Thanks in advance >> Mike >> VE3WDM >> >> __ >> 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 >> Message delivered to w...@w2xj.net >> > > __ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to flesn...@tbaytel.net > __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Stupidity vs Absentmindedness - Was: Killed the KPA500 :)
In my years in the radio and electronics hobby I have learnt that the magic smoke wants out as well Fred VE3FAL Sent from my iPhone Fred VE3FAL/CIW649 > On Nov 20, 2018, at 19:40, John Simmons wrote: > > Ha! I would venture to say that anyone that says they haven't done this kind > of thing would be fibbing. I've blown up lots of stuff: > > * When I was in high school electronics class, I wired an AC power > switch in some long-forgotten transmitter in PARALLEL with the power > line instead of SERIES. Fuse? Nah. > * I built a Heathkit SW receiver. I swapped the germanium diodes for > the RF detector with the silicon diodes for the power supply > rectifier. This time there was a fuse. > * I've put many transistors in backwards. The transistors protect the > fuse. > * Many times I've tried to work the local repeater without remembering > to connect the antenna to the radio. I've done this both in mobile > and home stations. I've never blown a final, though. > * Another Heathkit was a vacuum tube voltmeter. I wired all of the > resistors on the 10 position range switch EXACTLY one switch > position off. > * I blew up a $200 LDMOS transistor for an HF amp. I recorded the > whole thing on video and posted it to YouTube. I STILL don't know > how or why the transistor blew. RF Parts was happy to sell me > another one though. > * I had an old pickup truck that I used only for snow plowing. Both > battery cables were black (don't ask why). Every fall I would put > the battery in to prepare for the season. EVERY fall I would hook > the battery cables up backwards. BZZZT! > * I built my own house while working 60 hour weeks at a two-way radio > shop. I did all the electric wiring in the house. The first circuit > I hooked up was for basement outlets. By mistake I used the cable > for the water heater for the outlet string. BANG! GFI outlets don't > like 240V. > > That's just the electronic stuff I can remember right now. We had the kitchen > floor replaced THREE TIMES because the pipe for the self-installed > dishwasher leaked. > > Don't feel bad. > > -John NI0K > > P.S. Many, many years ago there was an article in 73 Magazine written by a > ham claiming that being a klutz was his specialty. He gave lots of examples, > but the crowning one described how he put out a fire in his car (which was in > the driveway) with the liquid from his septic tank that he happened to be > pumping at the same time. I saved the article. Every time I read it I get the > giggles. > > kd...@frawg.org wrote: >> Thanks Michael, Andy, and all for the original thread. It made me focus on >> proper use of my KPA500 which has really done a great job for me since I >> acquired it and a KAT500 over the summer. >> >> Retitled this message because I do not want to hijack/derail the original >> conversation. >> >> What I want to know... is there no repair for absent minded button pushing >> and thoughtless antenna positioning? >> >> So that I don't forget again... A hopefully instructional "mea culpa" >> follows: >> >> I have been using the IC-7000 for 2M APRS ops with a Diamond VX2000 >> vertical. Also have been experimenting with HF simplex D-Star and Free DV >> digital voice recently. The KPA500 has been instrumental for DV ops because >> of recent squirrely propagation... >> >> Mistake 1: Over the summer, I forgot to shut down the packet ops and ground >> 6/2/440 tri-band antenna while using a "nearby" halo with 350 watts 6M DV. >> That blew the 2M front end of the IC-7000. Matt at SARTS/ICOM in Michigan >> repaired it and I put together a protection relay circuit to ground the >> vertical if I forgot again. That should have solved the issue... >> >> Mistake 2: A relay contact was faulty (and I did not test it properly) and >> a month later, an adventure on 6M DV mode took the 7000 front end again! >> Matt was kind about fixing it ...again... >> >> Here I claim total stupidity along with absent mindedness - I rebuilt the >> protection circuit, tested it, it "seemed" to work fine... but it failed >> again a month later! >> >> Mistake 3: Failed, because I had removed the dummy load and *forgotten* to >> replace it along with a key ground strap, which again left the receiver 2M >> front end exposed. Kindly, Matt agreed to fix the 7000 a 3rd time... >> >> The 7000 will not go back into service until I have completely re-arranged >> the station set up because, to top off this comedy of errors... I totally >> ignored one basic issue: >> >>
Re: [Elecraft] OT: Dry air static
Snow static as well during blizzards do wonders to light up a neon bulb. I used to put one between my long-wire and ground, even wind when it would get a good swing would do the same thing Fred VE3FAL Sent from my iPhone Fred VE3FAL/CIW649 > On Oct 31, 2018, at 19:13, Rose wrote: > > Fred, > > I recall the output capacitor of the pi-net capacitor in my HT-17 > rythmatically snapping in response to the charged particles of dust in the > dry Oklahoma air > building up on the long wire antenna. (;-) > > 73 ! > > K0PP > kengk...@gmail.com > >> On Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 16:42 Fred Jensen > >> Hmmm ... There seem to be different flavors of static. My reference was >> to what is often called "precipitation static" [rain, snow, maybe hail] >> and which can sometimes also be caused by wind blowing sand/dust past >> the antenna. It sounds like bacon frying in the receiver. Each drop or >> snowflake acquires a minuscule charge falling or blowing which >> discharges into the antenna on contact. The typical semiconductor >> devices in radio front ends these days exhibit a nearly infinite >> impedance to "ground" and a tiny capacitance. The constant little >> pulses from the static charge that capacitance with essentially no >> discharge path. That's what fried the 1st 760 II and then, predictably, >> the second one. >> >> There is also the combined "static" caused by distant thunderstorms. >> >> INT QRN: "Are you troubled by static" >> QRN: "I am troubled by static" >> >> which is different than "static" caused by corona or leakage on a high >> voltage power transmission line. >> >> 73, >> >> Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW >> Sparks NV DM09dn >> Washoe County >> >> PS: For those about to tell me "nearly infinite" is a meaningless term, >> save the BW. I know, I hold a math degree. Just using a little >> editorial license. >> >>> On 10/31/2018 3:10 PM, ab2tc wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> It's a dead short circuit for DC and low frequencies thanks to the SWR >>> bridge (it has a voltage transformer directly across the antenna >> terminals). >>> There seems to be different opinions on what is meant by "static". To me >> it >>> means a slowly varying DC voltage caused by static buildup in the clouds >>> during or before thunderstorms. The K3(S) is perfectly protected against >>> these. Some people include the transients that are caused by actual >>> lightning strikes nearby in the definition of "static". The K3(S) is not >>> protected against these as they have very strong high frequency content. >> For >>> these extra protection is needed as discussed several places in this >> thread. >>> I have a number of Alpha-Delta switches in my antenna system and they >> have >>> gas discharge tubes, but frankly I have no idea how effective they are. >>> >>> AB2TC - Knut >>> >>> >>> wayne burdick wrote >>>>> On Oct 30, 2018, at 12:50 PM, Fred Jensen >>>> k6dgw@ >>>> wrote: >>>>> Does my K3 have a static bleed across the antenna terminal(s)? >>>> Yes. >>>> >>>> Wayne >>>> N6KR >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Sent from: http://elecraft.365791.n2.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 >>> Message delivered to k6...@foothill.net >>> >> >> __ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to elecraftcov...@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 > Message delivered to flesn...@tbaytel.net > __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] K1 4 bander issue
I just acquired a K1 4 bander from a ham in Ottawa. It has 40,30,20 and 15 meters in it. All bands operate and function as they should except for 30 meters. Have done some searches on this possible issue but nothing solid as of yet. Anyone have a starting point where I might look to see or find the issue. Cheers Fred VE3FAL Sent from my iPhone Fred VE3FAL/CIW649 __ 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] K2 Alignment
Is there anyone in Canada or Ontario for that matter who will do the alignment and testing of a K2.. I really don't want to send it Stateside for customs reasons, I hate arguing over warranty, repairs etc with them when I already paid for an item.. Thanks Fred VE3FAL --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.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] K2/100 with tuner and more for sale or trade for loaded KX3
I am not the original builder/owner of this radio but purchased this and have not used it as I am busy playing pedestrian mobile with my backpack rig and having more enjoyment outside. This is an Elecraft K2/100 watt version fully loaded. It also comes with the KAT100 autotuner. This has the 160 meter add on, SSB add on, DSP, real time clock and much more. KSB2 SSB adaptor 2.04 firmware Split RIT/XIT mod Temperature compensated PLL Upgrade KAF2 KDSP2 KNB2 (Noise Blanker) All kinds of mods and documentation to go with it and I am sure I missed listing some of them Also RS232 cables for tuner/PC etc Hand microphone as well Has Anderson power pole connector mod on radio, and I made a cable to power tuner from radio instead of another source Serial number 01967 HS-01E Headset Adaptor and a pile of documentation Shipping approx $75.00 with insurance Had rig operating on all bands and tuner works well and quick, just no time to use it Radio will come in aluminum briefcase, all acc. are also in case. All kinds of documentation Please email for price Pictures available upon request: Thanks Fred VE3FAL --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.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
