Re: [Elecraft] K3 not transmitting anymore
This brings up the question of what is a good UPS for the K3 and usually attendant computer? I live in a rural area and I have the entire house on a 15 KW backup generator but it requires 32 seconds to kick in. This morning we lost power for 5 seconds and I was fortunate the brains didn't get scrambled. Sid Ron D'Eau Claire wrote: Glad to hear it was such an easy fix, Maarten! But you do bring up an issue that has appeared on the reflector before: the K3 *wants* an orderly shutdown sequence to avoid unusual and troublesome issues. It's easy to forget that radios like the K3 are more computer than radio - at least as many of us know radios, Hi! __ 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] Price promo on K3 at Dayton?
I worked for a Maryland retailer at the Hamvention in the past and opinion has nothing to do with it. If you don't get an Ohio merchant's tax license and collect the tax they [the government] will prosecute you. Matt Palmer wrote: charging state tax, totally bogus IMHO, Hendricks was doing the same thing, must be a california thing. Matt W8ESE Former KD8DAO http://blog.MattIsKichigai.com On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 8:01 PM, David Wilburn dave.wilb...@verizon.net wrote: http://n2.nabble.com/K3-or-SDR-5000--td457400.html http://n2.nabble.com/SDR---K3---and-GUI-Interface-td447927.html You can do all kinds of flexible searches here; http://n2.nabble.com/Elecraft-f365791.html Flexible, he he, too funny, I made a punny. Dave Wilburn NM4M David Christ wrote: Please summarize the differences in philosophy that you noticed. David K0LUM Adam Koczarski wrote Also heard Lyle talk about the K3 as an SDR. Basically what I heard at the presentation he gave at his house last year. Prior to Lyle's presentation there was a presentation about the Flex. Differing philosophies were apparent. Maybe a few barbs back and forth. :) Adam - K3ARK __ 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 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] (OT) No kids, no lids
http://buffalokilowattbookends.blogharbor.com/_attachments/2819416/W2OY%20(calling%20CQ).mp3 Hear a recording of one of the old old timers. I guess each coast had at least one. Can we let this thread slip into the ether? WILLIS COOKE wrote: I actually remember hearing the CQs in the 1960s. __ 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: Firmware upgrade harder than construction...Help
Dick, This may not be the case. I struggled for 2 months to get my USB to serial cable to work correctly. I bought the Elecraft cable, downloaded the Prolific driver and I could not get,in my case, LP Pan to function properly. I fixed it yesterday, after some local help (Tnx N3EAQ) and an email to N8LP, by going to a straight serial cable. LP Pan and PowerSDR are now working simultaneously with 4 other programs. The telling event was when we looked at the COM ports every time I unplugged and reconnected the USB cable the other ports though they were busy. N8LP believes it is a conflict with the chip set in some computers. I also installed 2 GB of ram and an upscale sound card thinking my 2.54 GHz CPU was having issues. I have a Foxconn 661MX motherboard. 73, Sid K3SX Dick Dievendorff wrote: Jay, there's a K3 Utility Help page dedicated to troubleshooting USB to Serial adapter issues. My guess is that you're not finding the right COM port number for the USB to Serial Adapter. There's a separate troubleshooting Help page, Finding the right COM port on that topic. 73 de Dick, K6KR -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Iain MacDonnell - N6ML Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 1:11 PM To: Jay Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3: Firmware upgrade harder than construction...Help Jay wrote: After 10 months I decided to upgrade my firmware from the original 2.16 since I just got the KXV3 and KRX3...Frustration! Have a USB 2.0 to RS232 Serial adapter and have tried it in all my USB plugs and in Com ports 1, 2, and 4 which are shown as choices on the K3 Utility.The computer tells me my driver is correct, I've matched 9600 baud with the K3 and all I ever get is a K3 not responding on Com Ports 1 and 2, and Another app connected to Com port 4. I'd just order the CD, but that would not solve my communication from the computer to the K3. What should I try next? It's unlikely to be COM1 or 2 - those are usually [reserved for] built-in serial ports. Right-click My Computer, choose Manage, then in the window that opens, click on Device Manager, then expand the Ports sub-tree. You should see currently available serial ports there. See if one of them comes and goes when you plug / unplug the USB adapter. If so, you know which one you would be choosing in K3 Utility. If not, you probably have a driver (or hardware) problem. ~Iain / N6ML __ 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 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 vs. Icom IC-7600
We beat this review to death two months ago. Check the archives. Joe Subich, W4TV wrote: Everyone is allowed to make their biased analysis. Compared with the K3, the 7600 is overpriced and lacking. Dual Watch is a joke compared to the KRX3 and even with USB pasted over the CI-V interface, the protocol still fails even to allow access to BOTH VFOs without actually making the second VFO active! 73, ... Joe, W4TV __ 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: cyrpto RX
Before this thread gets stopped, as it should, my personal experience was living 1/2 block away from WPEN's transmitter in Philadelphia. I was amazed to hear WPEN coming out of our stove and toaster. True story. Shortly thereafter I became KN3SME. 73, Sid Ron D'Eau Claire wrote: Reports like that from a number of people have spanned at least half a century that I know of and seem quite true. Usually they are about people bothered by talking in their mouth or head caused by a filling rectifying a nearby AM radio station. It seems to me I saw more of such reports in the 50's and 60's than lately. I wonder if that's because mercury amalgam is not commonly used by many dentists today, and most old fillings have deteriorated and been replaced? It is a reminder that poor contacts just about anywhere near an RF field can cause bizarre effects producing RFI problems, whether it's in the mercury amalgam, a loose bolt or a poorly soldered connection in or near an antenna. Ron AC7AC -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of DOUGLAS ZWIEBEL Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 7:32 AM To: Elecraft Reflector Subject: [Elecraft] OT: cyrpto RX http://www.nature.com/bdj/journal/v206/n6/full/sj.bdj.2009.218.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 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] Where is it in the MANUAL???
I echo this. I immediately downloaded the manual when I got my K3 in January and have saved countless moments of frustration by searching. Sometimes the keyword is not what you expect it to be and having the ability to electronically thumb through the manual is a huge plus. 73, Sid K3SX Were I you, I'd strongly consider downloading the PDF version of the Manual and then use Acrobat reader (free) to SEARCH for words (like CLOCK) within the PDF... a really EASY way to find subjects you can't find otherwise in the Manual. 73, Tom Hammond N0SS __ 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] hot glue K2 toroids?
I currently work for a military radio manufacturer and we vibrate everything we make because lives depend on our products. In cases where vibration is an issue we use RTV to provide a cushion. I am not suggesting anything just stating a commercial fact. Step away from the hot glue gun. It is for scrapbooking not radio manufacture. 73, Sid Applying hot glue in tiny amounts takes a level of creativity and skill not found with most kit builders. Why risk it? __ 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] hot glue K2 toroids?
Exactly true on all counts. RTV will rot the parts eventually. Thanks Matt for stopping the thread before it gets out of control. I continue this off line with you :) Sid Matt Palmer wrote: I doubt you use actual RTV but a RTV-like sealant. RTV contains acetic acid and will eat/corrode electronics and is a no-no for mil hardware. In mil spec hardware I doubt you are winding your own toroids. While it was common practice to do your own air wound coil knifing, the CMMI people have pretty much axed that practice as it makes it too easy to loose the recipe and manufacturing costs are too high. Now everything is bought with a ridiculous tolerance spec from coilcraft or its laser trimmed. (just gave the manufacturing cost to someone else really, but the big wigs never realize that) Just wanted to give my 0.02 before some people got the idea to goto the hardware store and grab RTV, make sure you know what they are using as the solvent! /also produces military hardware Matt W8ESE Former KD8DAO http://blog.MattIsKichigai.com On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 3:14 PM, SidShusterman k...@comcast.net wrote: I currently work for a military radio manufacturer and we vibrate everything we make because lives depend on our products. In cases where vibration is an issue we use RTV to provide a cushion. I am not suggesting anything just stating a commercial fact. Step away from the hot glue gun. It is for scrapbooking not radio manufacture. 73, Sid Applying hot glue in tiny amounts takes a level of creativity and skill not found with most kit builders. Why risk it? __ 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] hot glue K2 toroids?
I was asked to make this information to the group. Sid Sid, There is a variant of RTV that is OK on circuit boards. It is made by MG Chemicals specifically for electronics. It is catalog number 1035, and comes in 85ml tubes. We buy it from Allied (www.alliedelec.com), stock number 661-0780. A datasheet is available at http://www.mgchemicals.com/products/1035.html. It is non-corrosive and works very well to seal toroids to a PC board. Please let others know. __ 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 #2738
Jim, I also ordered my K3 # 2536 factory built. Had I not, I still wouldn't be on the air and enjoying my K3! Nothing chicken or shameful just able to savor the Flavor without the cookin :) Best of luck with it. Sid K3SX Jim Brassell wrote: Received my K3 today. I'm a chicken; I ordered it factory built. It is pretty much everything I expected. After getting everything connected, I realize I have hours figuring out how to use the radio. I'm really looking forward to it. Thanks to the crew at Elecraft. They did their usual superb job. 73, Jim, K4ZMV __ 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] K3 Birdies
How does one acquire the birdie removal software and it is only usable if you have the second receiver? __ 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] MH2 mic for sale
Thanks to all. The mic is sold. SidShusterman wrote: Brand new! Never used. $40 includes shipping CONUS. Paypal no fee. Reply directly to me please. 73, Sid __ 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 No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.552 / Virus Database: 270.10.23/1950 - Release Date: 2/12/2009 6:46 PM __ 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] MH2 mic for sale
Brand new! Never used. $40 includes shipping CONUS. Paypal no fee. Reply directly to me please. 73, Sid __ 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 note of Thanks
The amount of thought put into the K3's ergonomics shows why Elecraft is the leading supplier of high quality products. I have had my K3 S/N 2536 since January 9th. In addition to providing an intuitive set of controls you even included LCD brightness and ADJ controls. BRAVO!! 73, Sid K3SX ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] Re: KBT3?
Several years ago I displayed a product at a trade show. Although we had working prototypes we did not have a pretty model to put out for the show. Using a timer chip, some LEDS, a building brick , nice silk screening and a snazzy case we allowed customers to pick it up and heft it. We received lots of physical comments such as Say, you must have a lot of parts in there. The working ones were secured to the table so the customers could verify the product worked. Elecraft continues to prove that perception is NOT reality. My K3 should be here in 2 weeks. I am more excited than a ham with 47 years on his license should be! I congratulate Elecraft for a well thought out and implemented product line. 73, Sid K3SX - Original Message - From: WILLIS COOKE wrco...@flash.net To: wayne burdick n...@elecraft.com Cc: Elecraft Reflector elecraft@mailman.qth.net; DOUGLAS ZWIEBEL doug...@gmail.com Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 3:29 PM Subject: [Elecraft] Re: KBT3? Whatever you offer Wayne, be sure that it weighs at least 50 pounds. If you have to, ballast it with a couple of cement blocks. You need to accommodate the group that really wants a work out and would like a transceiver that functions as a barbell as well as a ham radio. Willis 'Cookie' Cooke K5EWJ --- On Sat, 1/3/09, wayne burdick n...@elecraft.com wrote: From: wayne burdick n...@elecraft.com Subject: KBT3? To: wrco...@flash.net Cc: Elecraft Reflector elecraft@mailman.qth.net, DOUGLAS ZWIEBEL doug...@gmail.com Date: Saturday, January 3, 2009, 10:38 AM WILLIS COOKE wrote: Wayne, for those who complain that the K3 is not heavy enough I suggest that you sell a battery box to attach to the bottom with a 100 amp hour gel cell. That should make it heavy enough to give anyone a hernia. This is left as an exercise for the reader :) OTOH, we could offer an internal Li-ion battery for the K3 that would be interchangeable with the KPA3 module. We could get about 7 AH in there, I bet. Built-in fast charger, charge monitoring at the front panel, separate fuse h nice for QRP picnic-table outings. A fuel cell would be even more fun. 73, Wayne N6KR --- http://www.elecraft.com ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.552 / Virus Database: 270.10.2/1872 - Release Date: 1/2/2009 1:10 PM ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
