Re: [Elecraft] Weller WTCPT soldering sta....?
You guys got me thinking that I bought my Hakko 936 in 2004 to build a newly purchased K2. So, I have had it for ten years. It has been in the yard, on the roof and all over the property working on various antenna projects as well as a bunch of bench work. It has performed well, while suffering unspeakable mistreatment, without a complaint for 10 years now. Maybe it's time for an upgrade so I bought a Hakko FX-888D this afternoon from Amazon, the 936 deserves a retirement. Well, it will be a semi-retirement (it will be my garage soldering iron for the rest of its days). Thanks alot, you guys cost me a c-note today!! Bob K6GGO FWIW, the FX-888D, at a MSRP of $107.47, or about $92 from Amazon, is ESD safe, has a DIN plug connected hand piece that will accept 30 available tips, all of which can be temp controlled between 120 899 °F. It also accepts a hot tweezers for SMD work, and offers five user selectable preset temps. http://www.hakkousa.com/detail.asp?CID=49PID=5085Page=1 73 de Dennis KD7CAC Scottsdale, AZ On Jun 5, 2014, at 11:07 AM, John W. Tipka w...@insight.rr.com wrote: Bill, Absolutely bulletproof... I have owned one for over fifteen years and have built three K2's with it. Superb for its price point - ~$140-$150. It is ESD safe, has over 35 different tips in the 600, 700, and 800 degree heat-range, a quick disconnect plug for the iron on the power unit, etc... for quick change of irons. It seems Weller has supported them forever. Replacement parts, which I have never needed, except for tips, are readily available from electronic equipment suppliers. 73 John W8UL On 6/5/2014 1:16 PM, Nr4c wrote: Is this a good gen purpose soldering station? Good or bad? Sent from my iPhone ...nr4c. bill __ 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 rwf...@comcast.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] K3 for Sale
Hi Guys, I have a fairly new K3 for sale. I purchased it new from Elecraft in June of 2009. It is Serial # 3159. I have been very happy with it. It is truly a high performance radio. As evidenced by it's popularity among DXers and Contesters world wide. The trouble is, I am not a serious contester or a DXer. I mostly enjoy homebrewing and experimenting. Also, I enjoy working on and operating older radios. This is more radio than I need. Plus, I would like to free up some money for other projects. Like maybe some improvements to my Drake C-line or an AM transmitter to go with my Hammarlund HQ-140X. A K3 for me is like using a Ferrari to take the dog down to the park to throw the ball. So, here it is: K3/100 100 watt transceiver #3159 It has the KBPF3 option that allows general coverage receive outside the ham bands The filters currently in the radio are the KFL3A-400 (8 pole), 2.7KHZ (5 pole) and the KFL3A-6K (8 pole). Heil Proset headset microphone (the actuator of the phase reversal switch is broken on the headset) I noticed the broken switch just now. I am not sure when it happened. It still switches (with a screw driver hi hi). Easy fix. Radio is in mint condition. Pictures available upon request. Asking $2100.00 plus actual shipping insurance Please respond directly by private e-mail Thanks, Bob K6GGO __ 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 for Sale
Hi Guys, The K3 is sold. Thanks, Bob K6GGO __ 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] Short Wave Receiver
Hi Guys, I also was an SWL'er as a kid but haven't done much of it recently because most of my rigs over the years have been Ham band only. I did, however order my K3 with the General Coverage option. I am also very impressed with the great sound when a good pair of tabletop speakers are added to the rig. I have done a limited amount of searching at night between 40 and 80 meters. In the day I have looked a bit between 30 and 15 meters. I have had a hard time finding interesting English language programming. Which brings me to the question, for those of you that enjoy SWL'ing, what are your favorite programs. What Freq are they on and when? I did stumble across a Morning show from an African Station one evening late here in Ca. I think they were in Zimbabwe. They had traffic reports, financial reports and a couple of guys joking around in between, just like a drive time show here in the states I found it fascinating. So what do you SWL'ers listen to? Sorry if this is Off Topic or too long, Bob K6GGO As an SWL since childhood, this is a subject near and dear to my heart... :-) __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] OT - Interesting Accident with Homebrew Vertical
This is slightly off topic but I was using my K3, so it is close. I was trying to set up a 2 element Vertical array in the back yard today (actually for the last couple of days). A couple of 17 foot aluminum tubing elements spaced 1/4 wavelength apart. With the bottoms of the verticals about 6 feet high so I could run elevated radials to the top of the surrounding back yard fence. (My wife loves the new view out the back window, but, I digress). I could not get the verticals to play with each other, I think the elevated radials were detuning each other or something. So I gave up and decided to take down one vertical and just run a single regular vertical with elevated radials.After I set up the single vertical I went in the house and found the K3 had come alive with lots of signals on the band and even some DX. I found a pileup working a gent in Senegal on the CW part of the band and after ten minutes of trying I worked him. So I was pretty happy with my project. I just went out to put a plastic bag over the feed point because I haven't waterproofed it yet and don't moisture in the open coax end. I noticed that I had hooked up the shield of the coax to the vertical element and the center conductor to the radials. (I was experimenting with running 180 deg out of phase for end fire and forgot to change it back). I am not sure what that proves except that he radials really are half the antenna. Working Africa from here on the west coast with only 100 watts is pretty rare these days, so the backwards hookup is obviously working. I guess it makes sense that it shouldn't matter. What do you guys think? Bob K6GGO __ 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] Touch lamps
Hi Guys, A few years ago I was up late at night and decided to send a couple of late night CQ's on 40 meters. On about my third CQ my wife appeared at the door to my shack looking very upset. She had gone to bed a couple of hours earlier and was awakened by the touch lamps blinking on either side of our bed in what was a very dark room. We had just installed the lamps for reading a few weeks before and neither of us had been back there while I was transmitting so we didn't know they did this. My wife doesn't know much about radio so the first thing she thought wasn't RFI. She was convinced our house was under siege from demonic spirits. It took awhile before she saw the humor in this episode. Of course every time I think about it it makes me smile. Bob K6GGO I had two tough controlled reading lamps in my bedroom. They didn't cause rfi but they changed on/off state each time I transmitted. Ferrite clamps didn't change the sensitivity of the lamps to RF. I replaced them with manual switch controlled lamps; my #2 son who is not a ham has them now. 73m Dunc, W5DC __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] K3 TX light on
Hi Gene, I have the same setup as you (HRD /DM780) and the same thing happened when I upgraded to 3.63. The transmit light stayed on at the end of PSK transmissions. I fixed it by changing PTT options in DM780 to serial port instead of through HRD. This definitely happened after upgrading to 3.63. I don't know if this is a permanent fix as/ /I am worried about conflicts with HRD rig control as it uses the same port. So far so good though. 73, Bob K6GGO // On 11/25/09 I downloaded latest firmware, MCU 03.63 and DSP1 02.46. While using HRD/DM780 for PSK31 I now notice the TX light stays on at the end of a transmission. The light will not go out and the K3 will not go into receive unless I tap, xmit, atu tune, rx ant, or ant button. When using version 3.44 beta release and same setup all was well. Has something changed in the new firmware that I need to reset or did I do something that would cause this? Thanks, Gene W2BXR K3 1188 __ 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
