Re: [Elecraft] HI Current
KD7YZ tapped out: I see my email-er somehow sent and resent the reply. no idea why, however, I apologize for the hassle. -- 73 KD7YZ Bob __ 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] Can there be a delay before xmit after pressing the XMIT button on my K3?
Howdy K3' people: I use a sequencer which helps ensure that RF does not flow from the K3 before a sensitive LNA is switched out of the RF path. This works if a foot-switch is pressed here. It works when the Tigertronics SignaLink USB closes the sequencer's PTT input. However, the K3's XMIT button will key the rig and I see no wy to have that action tell the Sequencer that it's internal PTT needs activation. This would need doing prior do RF flowing. If there was a way that a delay could be chosen/set to follow the pressing of XMIT button then I might try using the K3 PTT out or the XV144 Key-Out. I would like to think I will not press the K3 XMIT button but that ain't gonna happen as I am likely to use XMIT with a reduced output to tune an external 2m PA . Or, sometimes I am just stupid and press XMIT anyway ... wouldn't be nice to destroy an expensive LNA . especially in the middle of a QSO with a severely weak station. -- 73 KD7YZ Bob __ 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] Can there be a delay before xmit after pressing the XMIT button on my K3?
On Thursday John_N1JM used a Straight-Key to send: -Original Comment--- In the K3s menu there is a TX Delay setting. Maybe that will accomplish what you need. In any event, irrespective of the delay( and I set it to 30ms anyway), the K3 sends no signal to the sequencer when the K3 is activated by either the CW key/paddle being tapped, nor by the XMIT/Tune (and or) being pressed. Or at least this is what I am seeing as I try to stop myself from doing as I did moments ago and swipping at the Vibroplex key-paddle, which in turn activated the K3 which was in CW mode. Fortunate for me I had the RF lone form the rig unscrewed form the line which goes to the LNA. -- Best regards, Bob KD7YZ http://www.qrz.com/db/KD7YZ __ 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] Can there be a delay before xmit after pressing the XMIT button on my K3?
On 12/19/2013, Ed (KL7UW) sent : I am using a Down East Microwave sequencer with my K3/10 (mainly on VHF with transverters but it will work for any band - keep reading). I was going to get the DEMI seq but was trying with the SSB-DCW2004b since I already have 2 of them. I use the INHIBIT command in the CONFIG menu was wanting to try that but got wound up in what I would have to do with the three Elecraaft transverts I use, 6m, 2m, 70cm. And all hae their won mast mounted pre-amps as well as PA's to sequence. JT65 (digital) is the usual mode I am using on 2m and 70cm. It pulls it lo and is FB to pull the Sequencer into work. Unless I hit the Vibroplex or the xmit button. I will try as you suggested first then will email directly. thanks With the sale of the vhf/uhf transverts, I'd like to see Elecraft start providing internal sequencer. MUCH simpler for me then. -- 73, Bob KD7YZ http://www.qrz.com/db/KD7YZ http://www.denstarfarm.us/LGD __ 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: the actul IF QRG ?
thanks for the help to everyone who replied direct and List. Have expected readings now. -- Best regards, Bob KD7YZ http://www.qrz.com/db/KD7YZ __ 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: the actul IF QRG ?
Howdy K3' people: I am playing with the SDR-IQ and a program called SDR-Radio. I previously thought that the K3 IF was 8.215mHz. However, today I ran K3-Utility and the Command Tester. I issued FI; and got back 6550 .. guessing that's a 6.550 megs. So I turned on 6m (internal not my XV500) and put the frequency to 50.067, that of the WZ8D/b , a beacon. I set the SDR-Radio console QRG to this new IF and somewhere around 6.499.094 I get a -80dbm CW ID of WZ8D. I could not find same beacon in the IF when the SDR-Radio QRG was set to rad the SDR-IQ box at 8.215 so what's the real IF of my K3 when the K3-Util command FI; returns 6550? -- 73 KD7YZ Bob __ 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: Is Width of Notch-Filter adjustable in some reasonable amount
On Tuesday Prather used a Straight-Key to send: -Original Comment--- I'm curious, what do you consider a reasonable amount? On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Edward Dickinson III softb...@windstream.net wrote: The width of the K3 Notch-Filter is not adjustable in some reasonable amount. MY reasonable amount, and I started the original Question, is circa 200Hz ... since that was the extra width I perceived I needed to wipe out the offending traces from my ears. -- Best regards, Bob KD7YZ http://www.qrz.com/db/KD7YZ __ 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: Is Width of Notch-Filter adjustable in some reasonable amount?
Howdy K3' people: I am looking at some signals I'd like notched out. I am using WSJTx, a Data-Mode .On 30m there is some constant garbage I was trying to remove. However, it seems to be about 100Hz wider than the apparent notching being done, as seen on the Waterfall around 2000 of the WSJTx display. So, is there a hidden setting where I can make the Notch bout 400?? It seems to be effective to 300 . -- 73 KD7YZ Bob __ 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: Is Width of Notch-Filter adjustable in some reasonable amount?
On Monday Zilmer used a Straight-Key to send: -Original Comment--- I didn't word that quite right CW = continuous carrier. It's very good for SW BC carriers, but not intended for broader signals like power supply gudge. nah, ya got it right ... there's a bunch of PSK-like tones as well as a few spaced WSPR signals especially in the early morning. At that time, for me, and on a 300 foot DP, they are really annoyingly strong. I can neatly notch most, but the roughly 200Hz width would be neat if I could make it wider or narrower ... like a surgical removal of CW/Narrow-PSK modes/ WSPR was just wondering. My K3 does so many things, most of them I haven't discovered. Found nil in the manual; had to ask here just in case. -- Best regards, Bob KD7YZ http://www.qrz.com/db/KD7YZ __ 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: Is Width of Notch-Filter adjustable in some reasonable amount?
On Monday Wilhelm used a Straight-Key to send: -Original Comment--- Bob, Instead of using a notch filter, how about narrowing the DSP filter width to select the signal that you want. Hi Don. And notwithstanding what W4TV said, I am using the DSP, namely the Lo and the Hi, to truncate theends of whichever JT65/JT9 Band-Segment I am on. That I do because the RTTY people have a horrible tendency to get right into the edges of what they perceive is JT65 territory. So I start cutting off the ends, as needed, leaving a fairly orderly slice for JT65/JT9, depending on which CQ I am answering. Some places, or a place, can't remember at the moment, have plethora WSPR and PSK kinda in the middle. So I began using the Notch after asking around for ideas. -- Best regards, Bob KD7YZ http://www.qrz.com/db/KD7YZ __ 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] Retaining Split and VFO-B
On Sunday used a Straight-Key to send: -Original Comment--- Bob, Try the menu setting for SPLT SV. It is a per band setting, so you will have to set it for each band of interest. thanks to you and Matt for the help. I'd forgotten about being Per Band. I also discovered that the K3 must also have Config:VFO IND set to No, not independent. The latter was likely my bailiwick and the reason I'd never attained the ability to switch WSJT-x from band to band and NOT be on some weird VFO split/difference. tanks all, it's now working properly for my usage from 160m thru 70cm . -- Best regards, Bob KD7YZ __ 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] Retaining Split and VFO-B
Howdy K3' people: Is there a way that a Band's Split and VFO-B can be retained in K3 Memory between band switching? -- 73 KD7YZ Bob __ 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] XG3: unable to do Firware Upload
Howdy K3' people: It seems I am connected to the XG3. I can't remember in the past doing a Firmware Upload though ... I tried this twice ---error Elecraft XG3 Utility Version 1.4.3.22 OS Version 6.1 Build 7601 Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2 XG3 firmware file xg3_114.hex verified Sending firmware file xg3_114.hex to XG3 XG3 firmware file checksum reconciliation word is x Retry 1 successful at address x001CC0 Retry 1 successful at address x002B40 Retry 1 successful at address x002FC0 Retry 1 successful at address x005D80 Retry 1 successful at address x006C00 XG3 checksum reconciliation word was replaced with computed value x7FE5 Waiting for reset to complete Total number of retries was 5 Highest number of retries for any block was 1 Error code xE220, No response to MCU version query XG3 firmware load failed Click Close to close this window -- -- 73 KD7YZ Bob __ 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] XG3: unable to do Firware Upload
On 7/21/2013, () sent : This sounds like a marginal USB to serial adapter power situation. thanks info/help Dick. Quick Response! Mainframe. seems it was the 9v battery. I plugged into a 12v wall-charger, then got the d/l to work. however, I also had a confusing time with the pop-up which comes up and says xg3 ready for firmware ... on COM6 but I have this on COM9 .. so even though I selected COM9, maybe because I didn't close-port and go to COM9 .. rather than go straight to COM9 ... dunno .. anyway, the Firmware uploaded. thanks again __ 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] XG3: unable to do Firware Upload -works great
BTW, that little XG3 has really been handy. In this recent case, I have a nice LNA the splitter for the 2 meter array. The other day I did a My Bad I jut put the XG3 at the input of that, out there at the splitter, and could see back here that I didn't wreck the low noise pre-amp. Really cool . XG3's so compact that I mounted the connector right to the LNA N-connector . Yup, I like tools that are easy to use and that solve problem Quickly. Hat's off to René for suggesting its use here with the weak signal stuff I fiddle around with. __ 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: Tuning on 6m
Howdy K3' people: There is an 8-element yagi connected to the KAT500 for the K3 internal 6m selected 6m antenna. I set KAT500 default antenna for 6m to Ant2. On the KAT500 I can press 'TUNE' then tap K3 XMIT and the KAT500 will usually settle on or about 1.1:1 . Then when I .run a WSJT, Data, QSO, if the KAT500 is left in AUTO, re-tuning will often take occupy 10 or more seconds of the time before the KAT500 finds a place it likes. Often the SWR is then in the RED or worse, FAULT. Not very often on FAULT however. Mostly what I see are SWR's around 2:1 . (KAT500 in AUTO . If I put KAT500 in BYP, the K3 often shows SWR's of 2 to 3. If left in AUTO, the mismatch is apparent in received audio. Without the KAT500, the antenna itself exhibits a 1.3 SWR consistently . The constant re-tuning or irregular attenuation due to mismatch form KAT500 is annoying. On a weak-signal QSOit means the difference from making the QSO or not decoding. -- 73 KD7YZ Bob __ 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] KAT500: Tuning on 6m
On Sunday Brown used a Straight-Key to send: -Original Comment--- exact wording, but it establishes the upper limit on SWR for which the tuner should be in bypass mode. In other words, if the SWR is below 1.5:1, the tuner should go into bypass. I'll look it up. And, for Don, I am on one freq calling CQ. Usually on mode JT9-1. No QSY just calling every minute and sitting here awaiting a reply. . Make sure that EVERY connector in the path says AMPHENOL on it, and that it is wrench tight. Mine don't. I will have to find a source to buy them. -- Best regards, Bob KD7YZWin7-64bit + K3 __ 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: Hi-Cut/Lo-Cut not available
Howdy K3' people: I've searched the manual and pushed/held/tapped a lot of K3 buttons. Somewhere in the recent past, I have lost ability to TAP Shift or Width to get to be able to contorl Filter's Hi-Cut/ Low-Cut . The green LED always remain on Shift and the other one on Width. Holding either will only go to Norm or I/II . -- 73 KD7YZ Bob __ 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: Hi-Cut/Lo-Cut not available
On Saturday used a Straight-Key to send: -Original Comment--- * In CW and DATA modes, SIG RMV should not be used in combination with a CONFIG:PB CTRL setting of Shif t=.01.* PB CTRL Shift=.05 (Advanced) Specifies the granularity of the passband SHIFT control on a per mode basis: .05 (default) or .01 kHz. Select the desired mode first, then select the desired granularity. A while ago I did try to remove birdies on 144 and 432 xvtr, the K3 versions. tuning around the EME area was a nightmare of birdies. The auto remove tool did nothing for the transverters. Either it's not designed to do that or I'm not designed t try the tool. PB CTRL was Shift =01 now it's .05 on SSB/CW/Data Anyway, Now I have lo-cut and hi-cut back in CW SSB Data Thanks a bunch! -- Best regards, Bob KD7YZWin7-64bit + K3 __ 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 - anyone have experience with effects of metal roofs on antenna performace?
On Thursday Taenzer used a Straight-Key to send: -Original Comment--- We've been considering having a metal roof, but I'm wondering about the possible impact of the metal roof on the radiation pattern I can tell you that my barn metal roof allows me to make about an hour window to the WNW for 6m EME. I do not have Az/El rotator. The 6M8GJ 8 element is about 30 feet above , and at the apex of, the barn roof. The orientation of the barn is generally also WNW. It's predictable, never fails and I have made a few EME contacts on 6m looking that way towards moonset and an Elevation of about 28 degrees and down. -- Best regards, Bob KD7YZWin7-64bit + K3 __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] K3 SDR/IQ
Howdy K3' people: I have an SDR/IQ. I also have three Elecraft transverters. When I connect a BNC to the BNC-RX T chain, and I tune Spectravue to 28.07 and the 6m xv50 transverter is on, I am looking at the area around 50.070 .. I can look for beacons and Sporadic-E openings. Nothing new. However, the other day, I suspected the xv50 transverter to on the Fritz. So I switched to the internal 6m Rx/Tx section. Made some contacts. So now I want to once again look for 6m Beacons down below 50.080 . My only option seems to be the IF BNC output. I connected there and tried to set Spectravue for 8.215; 10.0; 28.0 and still see nothing from 6m. I even tried to set it at 50.10, to no avail. So how do yu set it up to watch lower end of 6m on the K3, without using a transverter? thanks -- 73 KD7YZ Bob __ 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: K# doesn't see it. Utility doesn't see it either
Howdy K3' people: so my vv50 seems to have stopped working correctly (says 25w but only 4) So I decided to tell the K3 that xv1 was not on, and BandMap that 50 was back in. I am listening to 50.1 but the antenna goes to Ant-2 on the KAT500. Thing is that the ANT button on KAT500 will not cycle thru 1,2,3. And the ANT button on K3 tells me 'no atu', which might be what it does. I haven't used HF for a few weeks now. The K3 has a cable which does go to the KAT500. I do power the KAT500 before powering the K3. I have the cable from KAT500 to PC, as provided 'cept now the utility does not find the KAT500 on the only three COM-Ports listed in device manager (including hidden). what do I try next? thanks -- 73 KD7YZ Bob __ 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] KAT500: K# doesn't see it. Utility doesn't see it either
On Thursday Dievendorff used a Straight-Key to send: -Original Comment--- I'd look at the KAT500 Utility Configuration Menu, Edit Configuration, and make sure that the desired antennas are enabled for 6 meters. that was one problem. Thanks I'd consider removing the KXUSB adapter from your PC, wait a few seconds, and insert it again. Then start the KAT500 Utility and see if it reconnects. You can view USB port inserts and removes with the Windows Device Manager. That was the other. A rebooot helped .. plus .. there were a dozen remains of virtual ports. Anyway, running fine now; loaded latest beta firmware 141 I believe. How much can the KAT500 stand in bypass? I am testing my 2 x 3cx800a7's . Howver, I am keeping it to about 350 watts for the time being. -- Best regards, Bob KD7YZWin7-64bit + K3 __ 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 doesn't see COM Port on PC anymore
Howdy K3' people: Admittedly I've goofed. That said, I have an EME QSO tomorrow morning and I can't get a program like 'Commander' to see that the K3 is on COM3. I'd been fiddling around trying to find a way to make three programs lok at the K3 and still keep Commander working. Last used or tried was VSPmgr. Then Com0Com Anyway, I used windows dev mgr and view hidden ports, got rid of all the myriad which were the virtual ports. Left is Com1. I reboot the Win7-64 bit machine, see that the Gigaware RS232 to USB gets named COM3. Next to verify it's connected to the K3, I unplugged the cable from the PC. Plugged it back in and it gets installed as COM4. Settings show RS232 38400 as does the Dev-Mgr COM4 38400, 8N1 Still, the K3 Utility nor Commander will see that the K3 is connected. Can anyone please help?This situation I have never seen, and despite re-installing the com-port, there are no errors from K3, just the continual searching for any handshake on whichever port I'd used. -- 73 KD7YZ Bob __ 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 doesn't see COM Port on PC anymore
Don tapped out: If you have opportunity to use a real serial port on the computer, do so, it will take that uncertainty away. OK Don, good idea. I pulled the cable from rotor (COM1) and stuck it on the K3 ... thus straight to the RS232 port, DB9 on the back of the PC .. works fine and I'll be able to make the EME sked! Now to try and find out why the K3 would not see, or be seen by, the USB/COM port as it has for 6 months. Was quite a shock. The XV432 transverter works quite famously in JT65 mode for long periods of time on EME skeds when the QSO doesn't go in ten minutes. Have had it up to an hour and the xv432 is still solid. The watt meter tells me what the output it. The LED's, well, still goofy and generally just eye-wash for accuracy measured over time. 73 -- 73 KD7YZ Bob __ 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] Help with missing Filter-Control Shift
Howdy K3' people: There's a 6m opening to South America right now. The most I am working aere CW in the Brazil and Venezuzla region. CW. I've been making great use of the filters, my 8-pole matching, and so forth. Suddenly I have no control of the upper-left knob. No Shift. No Lo. If I push it in, the beep goes butI see FC*060 usually I could shift the filter response drawing back and forth. If I hold it in, I get NOR but still no control Somehow I also can get a QRQ off or QRG off .. dunno, can't make it happen every time . may not be related. Mainly, pushing upper-left knob makes the green LED go from Shift toLO and the width LED to HI -- 73 KD7YZ Bob __ 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] Help with missing Filter-Control Shift
On Tuesday Wilhelm used a Straight-Key to send: -Original Comment--- Push either knob and the LEDs will change to HiCut and LoCut. Exactly! Unfortunately, I did not write correctly. I wanted to make FC move. I also then wanted to push in and get LO HI led's active. Could not do that. Could not change the shift and I was having a heck of a time copying the YV5 at times. K6ja wrote and told me to look at ConfigCW:QRQ and make sure it was Off. Bingo!! that was the problem. Dunno how or why I would have changed it in the last day, or even in the last hours actually. I was probably pushing buttons, twisting knobs, in the excitement of working a Sporadic-E opening on 6m sigh I done it, don't beat me. Mea Culpa Now, what the heck is QRQ and why's that affect my filters? -- Best regards, Bob KD7YZWin7-64bit + K3 __ 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-INH help please
Howdy K3' people: I am a dummy as I can not quite figure this one out. I hav a 2m LNA, the SSB-MHP-145, which MUST be switched out before any RF. The LNA does not have RF sensing. I use an SSB-ACS-2004 and an SSB-DCW-2004b, the latter of which runs the necessary 12v to the MHP-145 when the DCW-2004 is keyed/grounded on Pin-3. So I would like to make use of the K# and TX-Inhibit that I have heard so many mention. However, page 11 of the K3 tells me that pin-7 of the Daisy-Chain from K3 to the transverters can activate TX-Inhibit if Pin-7 is grounded. To me, that's not a Toggle, it's a steady state until Pin-7 is released. So all the time I am receiving/listening, TX-H must be activated. The DCW-2004 does not apply output to one of four pins until the DCW-2004b is keyed by ... something, a foot-switch; a PTT output from the K3, or something. I therefore erroneously conclude that nothing is holding TX-INH active until the DCW-2004 sequencer is itself keyed. Therefore I have to ask anyone using TX-INH to guide me through this confusing process. Kinda specialized, however I hope somebody is using it like I wish to do. thanks in advance -- 73 KD7YZ Bob http://www.qrz.com/db/KD7YZ __ 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] FW: K3: Use VFO-B to select dBV
On Friday Cady used a Straight-Key to send: -Original Comment--- I forgot to hit reply all. Note that dBV is NOT dB relative to a volt. It is relative to the last time you made the AFV voltage measurement. wow Fred, great and helpful reply. I printed it out so I cn make the tests. Whoda thunk it was relative to the last measurement! I ordered some BNC attenuators in the usual ranges. Tracking says they arrive today. thanks for the help!! and RR on the forgetting to make the effort to Reply All. This happens to me several times a day but now I don't bother to go back and re-do it on any of the Lists I am on. I think Admin's set it that way to reduce overall List-Traffic . I could argue either way on the topic. -- Best regards, Bob KD7YZWin7-64bit + K3 __ 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: Use VFO-B to select dBV
On Friday Gregory used a Straight-Key to send: -Original Comment--- Have you got Menu Tech Mode ON? yes. -- Best regards, Bob KD7YZWin7-64bit + K3 __ 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: Use VFO-B to select dBV
Howdy K3' people: According to the Manual, Page 36, I can use VFO-B display to see dBV after AFV settles down. I see the RMS voltage reading but I never get to see the equivalent dBV. So I rotated through the variables available, by turning the VFO-B knob, everything else is the but no dBV. And the reason I want to see this is because I just received my new XG3 Signal Source. In it they mention a way to see dBV on the K3 . -- 73 KD7YZ Bob __ 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: Use VFO-B to select dBV
On Friday Gregory used a Straight-Key to send: -Original Comment--- Have you got Menu Tech Mode ON? Well, gee. Yes, I did have it on. Really. But now it is OFF. So I will guess that the selection is not Persistent. Or that setting has another way of reverting to OFF. Not I am seeing 99.9dBV for an RMS reading of 1.09 A. This isn't too helpful though. Perhaps David can elaborate on how I get to a meaningful reading. thanks for the help. -- Best regards, Bob KD7YZWin7-64bit + K3 __ 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] ERR DSE while xmit CW from K3 through xv144 @15w
Hi Don, The suggested correction is to reload the DSP firmware (and DSP2 if applicable). thank you Don. -- 73 KD7YZ Bob __ 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] ERR DSE while xmit CW from K3 through xv144 @15w
The suggested correction is to reload the DSP firmware (and DSP2 if applicable). thank you Don. seems to have worked by doing updates and so forth. -- Best regards, Bob KD7YZWin7-64bit + K3 __ 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] ERR DSE while xmit CW from K3 through xv144 @15w again
On Sunday, Don () sent on an old Straight Key: Bob, The suggested correction is to reload the DSP firmware (and DSP2 if applicable). As I said, I did the 2 .. used cw on the transverter for a while. Back to 144 CW again and Just got the error message again. -- 73, Bob KD7YZ www.denstarfarm.us/LGD __ 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: ERR TXG now
Howdy K3' people: This time I see ERR TXG while trying to xmit CW on transverter xv50. So I was wondering, am I asking too much from my setup? I want EME on 144 and 432, as I told Elecraft when I was laying it all out to buy over the phone. Does anyone use a K3 with XV50, XV144, XV432, KXREF with external GPS, tcxo's 8-pole matched filters, KAT500, and so forth ?/ Anyone. Because I can not get the three xvters to work together. One at a time xv432 and xv50. But xv432 won't put out more than 7 watts here .. at my place. XV144 won't put out unless I use an inline mini-circuits lowpass filter. Then it only gets 15w out. Here .. in my kludgy setup. XV144 xv50 together in the daisy chain? XV50 won't put out over a half watt. If I use the low-pass then xv50 puts out 30, if you want it, but I run it a lot less. But then, with the low-pass inline, in the daisy chain, the XV144 won't put anything out. The xv144 somebody told my you simply must use a preamp. I believe that as I have trouble hearing a friend with 800 watts and 4 15 element 144mHz yagis at 160 miles from me.I am using two 15 element yagis at 50 feet on a ridge. So what do ya think out there? Have I just put too many add-ons to the K3 to make any of it work reliably? Todays Critical Error messages twice with ERR DSE and once ERR TXG. I did the Utility download and firmware update. I watched it go thru it. No error messages ensued. -- 73 KD7YZ Bob __ 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] ERR DSE while xmit CW from K3 through xv144 @15w
Howdy K3' people: Was just siting here calling CQ (CW) on 144 with the transverter.. All of a sudden I wasn't calling CQ and the screen said : E046068 ERR DSE or D5E, can't tell what the middle character is. I had to power-reset to get back to calling CQ. what's it mean? -- 73 KD7YZ Bob __ 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: remove birdies on a transverter band?
Howdy K3' people: Don was telling me about removing birdies when I mentioned they seemed all over my three transverters. The manual says go to the IF, in this case 28mHz. Well gee ... I don't hear them on 28 megs so I wouldn't be removing anything if I tuned there and said 'remove birdies. Any of you guys see plethora birdies down around 432.0 -432.15 and/of 144.0 -144.2 ?? I was going to try that, if it works, before locating the sources of this monsters. Most seem to not go away if I remove the antenna. Some seem to get loud if I move cables. I could run the rig on a large 12v battery and switch the mains off if I wanted to reset all the microwave and clocks .. and if I remembered to disable the 10k generator that kicks in 30 seconds after a power failure. Not much in the way of businesses to generate stuff out here; nearest house about 3/4 mile but not line-of sight through the hills. -- 73 KD7YZ Bob __ 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] XV144 drops power if PWR is moved during xmit in USB mode
Howdy K3' people: Here's another anomoly I can not figure out. Thus by the way does NOT happen with my xv432 module. Put xv144 in USB mode. Use WSJT9 and put it in echo mode. Set it to Auto On which simply sends a few seconds of a single-note Tone then waits to see if something comes back from the moon. Then transmits again, then listens .. and so forth. I was looking at the LED bars on the XV144 and decided to up the power. As soon as my fingers touched the PWR knob, the XV144 ceased output, verified on watt meter also. WSJT9-echo-mode waited then transmitted again. No power out. Stopping WSJT9 and restarting di not help the lack of power out of the xv144. However, if I held-down XMIT ... to Tune, then instantly the LEDS all it up and the watt meter was happy. So I went to the WSJT9 window and pressed to Auto-run again. Echo mode started with full power from the xv144 transverter. I let it go ten or fifteen times. Then I touched the PW knob and began the who sequence all over ... no power out. So I switched Bands to 28 ... started Echo Mode and it went thru its off and on sequences a few times. Then I rotated the PWR knob on the K3 and the Power FROM the K3 varied as much as I had the patience to rotate the PWR knob. But, as I said, I could not replicate this on the XV432. Next I set Mode to SSB and used a microphone/headset to produce speaking and whistle-tones. While I was pinning the meter, so to speak, which whistles, I rotated the power knob and Voila!!! reduced or no power. Ever again .. until I held XMIT (Tune). Thereafter I could key the K3 and shout in the heil headset to make 25 watts out appear. Until I rotated the knob and the xv144 transverter ceased output. This is repeatable on the xv144. -- 73 KD7YZ Bob __ 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] XV144 drops power if PWR is moved during xmit in USB mode
On Tuesday Boresz used a Straight-Key to send: -Original Comment--- I was unable to cause it to just drop as you have experienced. 73, Dale WA8SRA Thanks!! .. I guess that is another strike for my xv144 it is 100% repeatable here. So I imagine I have a user setting fouled up. Not an uncommon happening to a newbie to a piece of equipment. I wonder of this is related to the constant 5kHz transmit offset I wrote about. Thinking aloud. Time I buy an Icom for 144 EME I guess. Though I really didn't want another rig. thanks for the reply. -- Best regards, Bob KD7YZWin7-64bit + K3 __ 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] XV144 drops power if PWR is moved during xmit inUSB mode
On Tuesday Lemay used a Straight-Key to send: -Original Comment--- ... I suggest you run through the TX Gain Calibration routine, which is in the manual – pay ... I’m not 100% convinced this will help, because you say that the 432MHz transverter behaves fine. as does the XV50 I own. I just connected the 50-ohm Dummy Load and ran thru the three transverters. Only the xv144 behaves oddly -- Best regards, Bob KD7YZWin7-64bit + K3 __ 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] K3XREF Question
On Wednesday Zilmer used a Straight-Key to send: -Original Comment--- Hi Bob, I use the Trimble Thunderbolt as a 10 MHz reference. snip One thing you would want to set up different from the receiver's defaults is the elevation mask. Hey, great info, thanks. I am getting one via Geo N4UA again, thanks! -- Best regards, Bob KD7YZWin7-64bit + K3 __ 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] K3XREF Question
Howdy K3' people: I have the K3XREF board and would like to get a device to use with it. What is suggested? And what external antenna goes with it? thanks -- 73 KD7YZ Bob __ 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] Paddle Keyer and PTT
Howdy K3' people: So as not to accidently blow out a Pre-Amp at the Mast, I want my Vibroplex Key to Not key the rig. Rather, I'd like to use a Heil Foot-Switch that I have. What's the setting to make the Keyer not key up the rig? Where's the connector where I plug in the foot-switch ? Thanks -- 73 KD7YZ Bob __ 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] Odd transverter bugaboo agian --solved
Hi Don, Do you have 50 MHz mapped out in the K3 band mapping? Excellent call, Don ! I'd not fully understood the BND-Map with respect to additional transverter implications, especially that the K3 has 50mhz as does the XV50. So my error was that I'd unmapped XV650 and allowed K3(50) . With regards to the bugaboo about 6m xvter nt functional all the time, Daisy-Chain Plug #2 measured from the end of the chain, had a very very small pigtail extending from where the two cable-bare-ground wires went into that pin on the end. The pigtail allowed contact to the adjacent non-used pin. Now, I can't say that it mattered since the pin is unused in the plug itself. I do knpw that once I clipped the roughly 1/32nd extension that no matter how I twisted-about that cable, the XV50 continued to transmit. 'd missed it I guess the other times I'd opened the connector. Well, I hope this fixed it anyway If I come back in a say or two whining about intermittent output on xvtr then its a different matter. While I have the attention, the outputs power of the XV50 is 30, on its LED's and sorta that on the wattmeter(s). This is good. Except that the indicated drive from the K3, via CONFIG:XV1-PWR, is L . 12 If I allow the setting of 1.0 mw then I can get more out and we know this is absolutely not what we want lest I blow the PA. I'd had it set as the other xvtr's at L 1.0 mw . -- 73 KD7YZ Bob __ 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] Odd transverter bugaboo agian
Howdy K3' people: I have not solved an annoying bugaboo with the workings of the transverters. So I unchained the three and am trying to get the 6m transverter to stay consistent. the 432 and the 144 will work individually. The 6m one is not-sp-much For example, I have the 6m internal ability to get on six and I have the red-hot, weak-signal ready, xv50. But when I try to transmit, it may or may not actually put out RF/make the LED;s light and make a sound of some internal relay inside it. Or ... I will put out 30 watts. I was calling cq a little while again. I then dialed around looking for 6m beacons. There seems to be certain combinations of buttons I can activate which will make the transverter not put out RF. Sometimes I can shut the power supplies off and come back later and it will transmit. I have inspected cables; swapped cables; twisted turned and shook, looking for loose connections . I am not able, even at the moment, to make the darned thing transmit. Yes, the XV50 light is on. Just out of curiosity, how t=does the 6m transverter know that if I use DxLab Commander to select 50.095 CW, that I am talking about a transverter and not the internal? Cuz, if I go Band-up to 6m, I am on the internal 50meg band. If I i use 'Commander' then I get activation on the XV50 but not always the output. -- 73 KD7YZ Bob __ 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] Odd transverter bugaboo agian
On Wednesday Bob used a Straight-Key to send: -Original Comment--- Howdy K3' people: I have not solved an annoying bugaboo with the workings of the transverters. But I may be onto something. after sending this, I picked it up off the desk while I was sending a string of dots and it came to life. Now, I have opened up al the connectors which run form the K3 daisy-chained to each transverter. More than once. So anything loose is going to be a tough one since it's not obvious. will get back with another result. __ 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 , XV144, XV432 for Satellite work?
Howdy K3' people: Does anyone use K3 , XV144, XV432 for Satellite work? I have my Transverters which were put together by our very own Don, W3FPR. Since they look so good and work so nicely I decided I wanted to try them on the available satellites. However, I haven't a clue if this is possible. So if you're currently doing this, please email me direct and go thru how I configure things for this mode. It's been 20 or 30 years since I've tried the birds. If you don't have transverters and are thinking about it, send them over to Don and you'll be in business quickly. You can spend your time putting up the tracking antennas while he puts the Xvrtrs together. -- 73 KD7YZ Bob __ 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 XV50 transverter question
Howdy K3' people: Is there a setting on the K3 that I could set which would cause the XV50 transverter to receive nicely but not transmit? I have also a XV432. it functions. If I take the same driving cables for it and put them on the XV50, then I can receive nicely ... EME, for example, yesterday. But when I transmit, or try to, the K3 shows red-LED for xmit; shows 50 to 100mw out, on the K3 RF bars. However, the same power-supply which shows 5 or 6 amps on xmit for the XV432, shows no current when trying to make the xv50 transmit . Also, the inline SSB-Electronics Pre-amp, sequencer, does not remove the pre-amp when keying the K3, meaning that the Sequencer dos not sense RF either ... sort of proven by the external power meter too. I've swapped cables and can receive. In my mind that leaves some setting in the K3 I have over-looked. Right? -- 73 KD7YZ Bob __ 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]2M Module
On Saturday Cole used a Straight-Key to send: -Original Comment--- I recently posed this question to Wayne and he replied they think it will be about May as the engineer for the project is currently working on the KXPA-100. What question? I must have missed the Thread. And I see no included snippet from original post. I have an XV144 and thus am curious. thanks -- Best regards, Bob KD7YZWin7-64bit + K3 /KAT500/XV50/XV144/XV432 __ 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 question
Howdy K3' people: I have a KAT500. The Auto green LED is lit. I have previously tuned to the best it could get on 17m. This morning it is drizzling. The 450 ladder can sometimes act up when it is raining. So I begin a JT9, one-minute long, sequence. Next I hear a little chatter and see the Red-LED come on for SWR=3. The Auto LED is now flashing. No tuning is taking place and the one-minute transmission finishes. I press hold the XMIT/TUNE button and the KAT500 finds a nice SWR of 1.1 . Next sequence comes around and the K3 switches to xmit. The KAT500 chatters maybe once and the Red SWR LED comes on again. The Auto LED is now flashing. I can do nothing about this while the K3 is transmitting. Technically I should kill the XMIT and correct the SWR problem. We all know this. Fortunately I was running but 5 watts on the JT9-1 mode so I don't believe I did any damage. When I used my Palstar AT2K tuner, and it was raining, I'd see the VSWR climb, and knowing the cause, would just manually turn a knob and keep the SWR down. Was jut something ya do when it's raining, Is there something I am overlooking with my new automatic-tuner? -- 73 KD7YZ Bob __ 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] KAT500 question
On Monday Claire used a Straight-Key to send: -Original Comment--- The blinking MODE light says it's ready to tune once you apply enough RF power. Five watts won't do it. The KAT500 cannot tune with less than 10 watts of RF applied (20 watts is required for the most accurate tuning). I upped the power to 20w to see if it could tune itself during a transmit sequence. It seems that it can, though I only got one chance to see it as the drizzle let off, Keeping such high power though on this mode is not only unnecessary but it also serves to Jam a lot of the other guys who are using this weak signal mode. Usually 1 to 5 watts is sufficient for the continents I have worked. Very occasionally on what seems to be a dead band here, I have used 50 to work the EU area. -- Best regards, Bob KD7YZWin7-64bit + K3 __ 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] KAT500 question
On Monday Claire used a Straight-Key to send: -Original Comment--- You don't have to keep that power level, Bob. You only need it if the KAT500 needs to retune, and then only for the retune cycle. For that you might QSY a few KHz On CW or SSB I could try that. With some of these WSJT-Like modes, it's pretty important to be on the same freq u were on, within Hertz; And, call me old, but with about 6 to 10 seconds before the other cycle starts, there isn't a lot of time to QSY and retune. to a clear spot although between five and twenty watts you are only talking about a one S-unit difference in signal. thanks. Although I was more worried about damaging the K3 than the signal strength. The next thing is to find out why your antenna is so sensitive to moisture. hmmm, true. Same when there is ice on it or snow. The other night in a 45mph wind, the 160m DP was going up and down about 30 feet it looked to me. I use blocks and pulley to let it float It was graceful to watch but worrisome too. -- Best regards, Bob KD7YZWin7-64bit + K3 __ 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 Freezes turned on with no pwr to XVnnn
Howdy K3' people: My XV432 and XV50 get power from their own Astron P/S. When I turn on the P/S for the K3 and KAT500, the KAT LEDs light up. Then I press the K3 'Power' button. The K3 face is frozen and the 'Power' button on the K3 is non-functional. To turn off the K3 one needs to turn off its P/S. If, on the other hand, the P/S for the transverters is turned on and then the P/S for the K3 and KAT500, then all is well. This is repeatable. -- 73 KD7YZ Bob __ 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 doesn't retain freq setting?
Howdy K3' people: I've noticed that when I QSY to another band, by pressing a memory on DX-Labs 'Commander' that the KAT500 does not arrive there and have the previous settings retained. So when I start a call, the SWR is usually quite high. I've gone thru the bands, made settings, stored them. I have Auto selected on the KAT500 -- 73 KD7YZ Bob __ 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 KAT500 'Err AT3' recurring
Howdy K3' people: I asked this one before. Apparently I never resolved it and I vcan't make it quit. So am asking again. Every time I power on the K3, I see the error 'ERR AT3'. 1. There is always power on the KAT500 before the K3 power is on 2. If I 'Tap' the ATU TUNE button the VFO-B line is BYPASS 3. Tap 'TUNE' button on KAT500 and some very brief clattering then KAT500 'AUTO' remains green-flashing endlessly until tapped again. This takes me to another question: When I actually do try to tune a frequency, I would like to press the Dash paddle on the Vibroplex in the old Semi mode where a hold on the Dash-Paddle produces an endless dash until the Opr lets up on the paddle ... however the Dot paddle produces endless dots my original Vibroplex, which I still have, was this way as there were no Keyers then. If that's not possible, then how do you hold-the-key-down to adjust for SWR? Tapping the old space-paddle very gingerly was my best way of ever-so-briefly seeing if anything was going to blow-up when I go key-down. Reaction time to push a radio Key or XMIT button is far, far, to slow to avoid major mishap .. sometimes anyway. tnx -- 73 es DX de KD7YZ Bob __ 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 KAT500 'Err AT3'
Howdy K3' people: I see the error message of ERR AT3 on the screen of the K3. I thought I followed the direction. And the KAT500 is working; the SWR on bands doesn't seem odd to me, or much past 1.2 anyway. So what is the cause of the message? -- 73 KD7YZ Bob __ 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 with SDR-IQ and external antenna for SDR-IQ?
Howdy K3' people: Here's another one I am trying to solve. What if I want to receive down at 17.2KHz sometimes ... or certainly below 4 or 500KHz, the base of the K3? Well,, that connection to the IF, was handy and safe, but now I need external antenna. Also, it is safest of when the SDR-IQ is not to the IF that we switch the SDR-IQ input to maybe a 50 ohm dummy during xmit cycle of K3. Anyone have this worked out? What equipment re you using and what connection from K3 does the switching. I have sequencer's for my 6m EME pre-amp ... just wondering what anyone else does with the K3? Actually, I need to know this anyway since the EME stuff was driven/switched by my former rig, the FT-950 and I haven't figured out how to switch the sequencer on K3 xmit anyway. -- 73 KD7YZ Bob __ 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 with SDR-IQ and external antenna for SDR-IQ?
Don tapped out: To receive VLF you will need a VLF converter. Well, that would be neat if Elecraft made one ... would integrate nicely. Then, since all I want to do is RX, I'd be isolated and not worry about frying the SDR-IQ. However, that's not the case, so I have to run an antenna straight into the SDR-IQ, and I have already done this twice. The first time, I was handily listening down at 17KHz with just the antenna to the SDR-IQ. Second time I was also xmit on the K3 and tuning the 450 ladder line. The SDR took a hit, I fear. Thus, I want to switch the SDR-IQ's antenna input OFF whatever existing external antenna she has WHEN I hit xmit on the K3. Call it a precaution. Won't have anything to do with xmit on the K3 nor Rx. Just the fact I want to externally close a relay that puts the SDR-IQ into 50-ohm lad when K3 xmit. This is essentially what we do with some high-end Pre-amps for EME. I was hoping somebody in the list had already solved the mechanics. The IF connection on the K3 is only an output, so the converter will connect to one of the antenna inputs to the K3. If it is to be receive only, you could connect to the RX antenna input or to the ANT1 or ANT2 connections of the KAT3, or to the RX port of the KXV3. If the external device is to transmit as well as receive, you can connect it to one of the KAT3 antenna jacks, or if it is capable of 1 mW IF transmit levels, connect it to the same IF connectors as used for the VHF/UHF transverters. 73, Don W3FPR On 12/16/2012 6:31 PM, KD7YZ Bob wrote: Howdy K3' people: Here's another one I am trying to solve. What if I want to receive down at 17.2KHz sometimes ... or certainly below 4 or 500KHz, the base of the K3? Well,, that connection to the IF, was handy and safe, but now I need external antenna. Also, it is safest of when the SDR-IQ is not to the IF that we switch the SDR-IQ input to maybe a 50 ohm dummy during xmit cycle of K3. Anyone have this worked out? What equipment re you using and what connection from K3 does the switching. I have sequencer's for my 6m EME pre-amp ... just wondering what anyone else does with the K3? Actually, I need to know this anyway since the EME stuff was driven/switched by my former rig, the FT-950 and I haven't figured out how to switch the sequencer on K3 xmit anyway. -- 73 KD7YZ Bob __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] K3 + SDR-IQ and regular CW operation
Howdy K3' people: I was wondering what precautions are taken, or I need to invoke, when I use any form of transmitting? At present, the SDR-IQ is connected to the K3's IF BNC. K3's output is through KAT500 then outside to the antenna some distance away at 80 to 85 feet AGL. Power, while I am testing, is circa 5 to 10 watts. So I keyed the K3 a few times; called CQ, and so forth. I see my own trace on the WF of CW-Skimmer, which is set to operate with SDR-IQ as its Input . Am I golden? Or am I about to overload the K3 and kill it? thanks -- 73 KD7YZ Bob __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] K3 + SDR-IQ and regular CW operation
On Thursday Wilhelm used a Straight-Key to send: -Original Comment--- Bob, You are OK. There is some bleed-through Whew! .:B Thanks Don. And thanks too to Irizzary who replied. -- Best regards, Bob KD7YZWin7-64bit + K3 __ 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] Put my new KAT500 thru the wringers today
Howdy K3' people: Got my factory-built KAT500 today. Despite the missing cable (paid for) E850463, I figured out how to run it manually. They did send along a strange 3ft RCA RG59 cable though. right now the cat's playing with it. Getting an automatic AT, for me, was kinda just a laughing point. I quizzed Dave about it rather heavily. Me and Marconi weren't sure young Dave could be right on all counts since he hasn't seen the wire here. But I thought it would be fun to switch bands rapidly, and without my short clip-board and penciled columns of the current settings for the wonderful Palstar AT2K tuner. Well, I started at 160m and went thru 60m and finished at 10m. Didn't miss anything. There was the clattering expected; the metering reported wonderfully high SWR's as she tried to figure out how to match the 110' section of 450 fed with a few loops of coax at the shack end. I got to raise my eyebrows in that All-Too-Certain of ones-self that we get after operating on a few continents with wire and one of the combat tours I had a 1500 foot V-beam ... That was before most of your respective times though. So I was about to say Ah HAH! when the noise stopped. Gave up, did ya?? .. The last number I saw on the K3 was something like 98:1 ... hahahahahahahahaha ... But it was quiet and now the K3 said !.1:1 One-point-one to one? I asked .. OK, I lost that one on 160 .. so on to make it fail somewhere else. By 30 meters I was having fun because the pragmatic side of me knew this was going to be wa tooo KEWL ... IF she made it to ten. Somewhere in 280 feet of wire at 80 feet, there must be a rotten mis-match that the slim little beastie can't handle. Guess I was wrong. Kudos to Dave at Elecraft for steering me to the KAT500. K# is perched on a thin mat of that rubber-cloth ya get at Wal-Mart sewing area. Who knows, if I get a cable I think it will be automated. There is a Computer Interface Cable which has a 3.5mm one-end and USB the other. That's into the computer now but I have no idea who talks to it. K3-Utility didn't anyway. Nice piece of gear. In a week or two my 1200' wire goes up .. gotta have something for the diversity setup. Wonder if I can bamboozle the KAT500 on that one. Coax-balun to 600-ohm ladder to the wire .. heh heh heh heh If you don't have one and wonder if it will load into your stealth clothesline, there is a good chance it will. Afterall, I am loading some of the 80 foot oak trees. KAT500: Good for the shack! -- 73 KD7YZ Bob __ 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 Split-Mode CW pressing Rev Problem
Howdy K3' people: I tried out my new K3 attempting to jump into the ZL9HR melee on 40m. I set VFO-B for my TX freq, way-up from his xmit. I set VFO-A to listen to the ZL. I set QSK-full VOX . Sometimes I wanted to Rx on MY Xmit freq to see if I was 'maybe' close to where he was currently listening. And Sometimes after I did that, VFO-A, ostensibly the freq I was trying to copy the ZL on, became the same as VFO-B, the freq I was transmitting on. That is, occasional REV press made VFO-A become VFO-B . Why? -- 73 KD7YZ Bob __ 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] Settings for CW filter 400hz
On Wednesday Smith used a Straight-Key to send: -Original Comment--- Bob WSJT-9 was devolved to be used for 30m and down, low bands only and best on 80/160m was never meant for the higher bands like20m. That is likely the original intent when JT was developing JT9. Once it got in the wild and many of us tried this and that, it has proven far better than JT65a at DXing weak signal conditions from 160m to 6m. And I for one have used it in the aforementioned bands. It's also been used very nicely on EME. Yesterday's testing by me revealed that when I had a station reduce power, and he went eventually from +30db to -9db, I got sync=2 and 3 but no decode. Thus my original question about 'Could this mean we can hear a weaker signal because we use a 400Hz filter', results in a No answer empirically. So far. But I am so new to the K3 that I am not going to categorically say that is fact. -- Best regards, Bob KD7YZWin7-64bit + K3 __ 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 Split-Mode CW pressing Rev Problem
On Thursday Wilhelm used a Straight-Key to send: -Original Comment--- Bob, That is the way it is supposed to work if you do not have a SubRX in your K3. Ah, but I do have a Sub-Rx and likely no clue how to make use of it yet. Also, I was not using the Cans but rather just the Bose Speakers. I'll have to try the Heil cans .. might be a nifty way to hear the other freq. So, what then is the correct way to work CW split since I have a matched Sub-Rx in the K3? And replying to what Dick suggested that I and accidently pressed AB, I just now tried to make it happen and all I got was VFO-A became the DX station where I w as listening. Thus A did then equal B ... where B was the intended XMIT freq .. it was now the DX station AND also still the xmit (bad) in a pileup What I saw was B original was 8kHz up from the Dx and was my correct xmit. A was the DX freq and where I wanted to RX. Pressing something, albeit the intended button or not on my part, put B over A ... B was the TX (for split) and now A was also the RX, having over-written the DX freq where I wanted to listen confusing to write .. but I can't duplicate the results you lined-out -- Best regards, Bob KD7YZWin7-64bit + K3 __ 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] Settings for CW filter 400hz
Howdy K3' people: I need help setting the parameters if my 8-pole 400hz filter. Recently a friend explained the advantage of using a narrow filter on the mode JT9-1. He has a Flex5000. I have a K3. So I tried today to get a waterfall display with the 400hz filter and despite turning up soundcard and all, I could not. Yesterday I was able to fiddle with Width/shift and CUT/Lo/Hi and actually get s,ethg to get me down to 1khz. But I hadn't selected XFIL anything at that moment. I have 8-pole 2.8 , 4kHz , and FM filter . I need some guidelines on how to select the cw filter while listening to the JT9-1, very-narrow, signal then I can buy the 8-pole 250hz CW filter for both the Sub-Rx and Main. thanks -- 73 KD7YZ Bob __ 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] Settings for CW filter 400hz
On Wednesday Smith used a Straight-Key to send: -Original Comment--- If anyone is using a very narrow filter for JT9 please tell us how it works for you in that mode. I think more than a few of us are exploring this new mode Joe has brought out. I used it on about 15 contacts yesterday, 20m .. What I saw on the readings were every Report which was generated was = +30 . What I heard was that all the adjacent QRM crud was non-existent. In fact, using Shift I could eliminate one of you guys 20hz away in a legitimate QSO and still decode and get the +30 reports. So I posited a question to the academics which revolved about the notion I had that If the sig-rep is really +30, here, in the mind of the JT9-Genie inside my Win7 machine, then that should mean that I could also hear down to the typical level of -25 and decode. So, my non-Professor of Radio Astronomy brain decided that a guy running 5 watts from France, who was getting +30 from me, should be able to reduce power 20 db, and I should be able to decode him .. well, or her, but I dunno any French Amateur Radio girls ennaweh, so guys stands. However. it's a real Juggle for me, the Newbie-K3 driver, to try and balance all the 4 to 6 setting possibilities and wind up with a visible trace. I won't believe this is actually making weaker signals possible until I have somebody systematically reduce the output power on his end of the planet while i write down the sig-reps. 'Doubting Thomas' you say? Ey-yup, true. -- Best regards, Bob KD7YZWin7-64bit + K3 BTW I wish they wouldn't make the List-Emails auto-reply to original person only .. seems a lot of useful info in the answers will never get to the general populace. I only caught the reply-to address at the last second B4 Sending .. way too much trouble to re-address these. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] K3 SDR-IQ from re-space
Howdy K3' people: I did some more research on my goals of using my new K3, Sub-RX with matching 8-pole, for low-low bands. If anyone uses the actual SDR-IQ with a K3, I would like some guidance. And I' would like to ask is it possible to listen/hear a particular point on the displayed segment when used in conjunction with the K3? On-List or direct email, either way, I'd like to get one this week, so answers would really help out. :-B -- 73 KD7YZ Bob __ 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 VLF transverter?
Howdy K3' people: I'd like to listen down around and below 100kHz Well, and be ready to transmit if they approve us to xmit in the 137kHz area ( I think that's the proposed new band anyway). Anyone using a good transverter for that area on their K3? thanks -- 73 KD7YZ Bob __ 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 VLF transverter?
On Friday Jensen used a Straight-Key to send: -Original Comment--- band. An EFHW antenna is only 1.1km long. :-) I can do that here. 2.1KHz would accommodate one SSB signal? that's funny! I forgot that one .. but I was thinking really about JT9-1 mode .. wsjtx from K1JT ... nice and narrow -- Best regards, Bob KD7YZWin7-64bit + K3 __ 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: How to setup K3 with Signalink-USB ?
Howdy K3' people: I have another 'Newbie User' Question. This one regards the fact that I notice when the K3 is already on AND I then turn-on the Windows-7 machine, at some point the rig switches to Xmit. Per the manual, it goes into Test mode, and thus, no RF Power. No other Radio software programs had been Started yet. K3 associated with COM1 which is 38400-8N1/Xon/Xoff K3 Baud Rate to 38400 This, for me anyway, repeatable. While not a problem OF the K3, whatever I haven't set up is annoying. -- 73 KD7YZ Bob __ 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: How to setup K3 with Signalink-USB ?
W3fpl K2VCO tapped out: If one doesn't do CW via DTR/RTS you can turn off the CONFIG PTT-KEY (set it to OFF-OFF). Then the boot process won't affect the K3. I finally got so annoyed by this that I got a WinKey USB. The computer-generated CW is cleaner, too. Do you have the K3 set to activate either keying or PTT from the DTR or RTS lines (CONFIG: PTT-KEY menu set to something other than OFF-OFF thanks Vic and Don .. I'd forgotten that I DID set that before I had the interface cable from K3 to SignaLink-USB. now set to OFF-OFF -- 73 KD7YZ Bob __ 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: Help DxLabSuite Commander to K3
iain tapped out: Did you set the K3 to 38400 baud too? (CONFIG menu, RS232 = 38400 b) Yes W4TV had replied and gave a different setting than I thought I'd read in the K3 things. Namely, 8N(1) not 2 .. plus setup for RTS to key xmit. Commander now reads and controls K3 nicely. Now I am awaiting a K3 cable for the SignaLink-USB which connects to K3. I prefer the external soundcard so as to isolate Win-7 audio and alerts for the K3. Yes, the KAT500 connects to the K3 ACC port if you ordered (or will build) the interface cable. H... did I order the cable ... hm .. last heard the KAT500 was B/O .. surely Dave suggested I order the cable ... h Yikes! -- 73 KD7YZ Bob __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] My First Oh, isn't THAT Kewl moment with new K3
Howdy K3' people: Having read this List for almost a month, I'd sheepishly resigned myself to not bother to write something saying that I had a new K3 #6945. Dunno what I was thinkin' when I thought that. Just fired it up having read the bare minimum of the manual parts pertaining to setup and start. (I'm impetuous after 50 years of this). Well, here I am, all Collins Filters stopped down on a great CW signal on 30m while I was listening to the 5mc version of WWV .. ALL AT THE SAME TIME, for goshsakes! It seems the band is dead .. but wait! ... I somehow had pushed XFIL because FIL looked like it meant Filters ... and then decided Shift Width might have something interesting to add to XFIL, and,Yeah = What QRM ... HI HI ... what will happen after I start reading the manual this morning? Thanks for listening. -- 73 KD7YZ Bob __ 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: Help DxLabSuite Commander to K3
Howdy K3' people: I had been using Commander on my FT-950. I just re-read the DxLabSuite pages about Commander and Elecraft. Tried RS232 cable from K3 to RS232 on Computer (Win-7-64bit)named as COM1 with 38.4-N-1-OFF Tried the KXUSB cable from K3-rs232 to USB on Computer, named as COM2 with 38.4-N-1-off Tried some variations of above WRT Flow-Control x-on/x-off and so forth. At no time did 'Commander' read the frequency of K3. The only control I saw was when I used the Config of Commander to try PTT. It did toggle K3 to xmit and back off. I am guessing I need some different cable. I'd already ordered the larger ATU (500) but haven't seen it arrive yet. Does that connect to the ACC conn on back of K3? Also have three transverters arriving soon. Just wondering if some interconnection of these will make the computer wake-up to the fact she is supposed to run the K3 so I can sleep. -- 73 KD7YZ Bob __ 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} Spam influx
On Tuesday SR used a Straight-Key to send: -Original Comment--- no spam here! I've received dozens of Lam-Radio List emails where, in every case, the respective Ham owns a YAHOO free email account and their account password has been hacked/compromised. Literally Dozens just today. Some people need to take some Internet Security classes comparable to the studying they did to get licensed. Yahoo, for one, may lead the world, along with Hotmail, in the frequency of which their customers get Hacked on a per-year basis. Many of us have auto-Spam-reject. Those compromised email addresses get put on a Blacklist. Automatically. We don't see it happen and we don't get email from our friends anymore either ... until we figure out they were compromised and Their address sent out 100,000 Spam Emails, world-wide, and garnered them a Blacklist status across the globe. -- Best regards, Bob KD7YZWin7-64bit + K3 __ 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: Whoops, I can't turn it on
Howdy K3' people: Shocker. I just pushed/hold for Tune on 160m. I'd pre-tuned the AT2K-Palstar tuner to the general setting for the bottom end. I knew it wasn't exact. When I hit Tune, the needles crossed for high .. then the electric went off. I have unplugged the 12v lone from the Astron and waited and re-connected. So far, after ten minutes pushing Power has no effect. I have pushed the white 2 fuse n the rear apron. Won't turn on. I don't see anything in the Manual about fuses or power. Any help please. -- 73 KD7YZ Bob __ 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: Whoops, I can't turn it on
odd .. abt 20 mins later, with plug removed. Reconnected and power on. what's probable cause of failure? thanks -- 73 KD7YZ Bob __ 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] Help choosing
Howdy K3' people: for several days I have gone over and over the fine details of accessories and must-haves on the K3 pages. The result is that I have a general idea of what I need. However, I'd like to have several users tell me what to keep on the list and what to toss-or-add. Primary concern here, usually, not always, is JT65 or CW on 10-10m. 6 meters a lot of weak signal and some EME using, again, JT65 .. meteor-scatter with FSK441 and tropo-dx with ISCAT. I want to get back onto EME on both 2m and 432 . The transverter selections actually confused me in that it's not obvious how an antenna gets connected to them. And, what's the advantage on 2m of the X-verter versus the built-into the K3? Filters ... and the TCXO ''' that seemed logical .. what filters then. Do I need a filter for each transverter as well as the second Rx and the main Rx? I like to run the CW-Skimmer. Is the K3 able to receive wider than my not-so-appropriate FT-950? Can I run JT65hf on one K3 receiver, say on 20m and the other Rx be running JT65HF-RX on 10m? Or CW-Skimmer on the other? If you here/copy someone on one RX, can youeasily/quickly switch the Tx portion to the respective receiver so as to make the call? Since the Digital modes take access to a soundcard, how are some of you using two different Bands Rx input from a soundcard to whatever program (JT6gHF, HRD, FLDigi) for example? Pardon the deeply detailed questions, I am able to do a moderate level with the old FT-950 but want more; want wider receiving sometimes; want true ability to simultaneously rx then transmit on two or more bands where xverter or main rig is listening Single-Op multi bands or whatever they call it. Thanks for the patience. If it's too complex for an Email list then just send to me direct email either way, I'd like the answer to order the right things. -- 73 KD7YZ Bob __ 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
