[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
[Updated. Reason for update: Jim, K8JK has a K4D, not a K4. My apologies, and hope to hear you again next week, Jim!] 3803 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500Dave(w),(op) 2 K8NU OHK4D/KPA1500 Carl(c/o),(w) 3 WB9JNZ ILFT-990/SB-220 Eric(rel),(w) 4 K1ND MIK4Jan (c/o),(w) 5 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500Paul(w) 6 K8JK FLK4D/KPA1500 Jim (n/h),(w) 7 K2LED NYIC-7100 30W Bob (p),(n/h),(w) 8 WN9A INK4D/KPA1500 Larry (w) 9 W4VHZ VAFT-450D Doc (c/o),(w) 10 K4TM VAK4/KPA1500Cary(c/o),(w) 11 WW4JF TNK3s/KPA500John(w) 12 WM6P GAK4D/KPA1500 Steve (rel),(w) 13 K1DIH CTK4D/Tokyo Hi-PowerBrian (w) 14 KE8KF MIK4D Steve (w) 15 N2TNN VAK3 85WDean(n/h),(w) 16 W4MJE ARKX3/KXPA100 Jim (n/h),(w) (Entries with (c/o) indicate a 'one and done' station that checked out during the 1st round. (n/h) failed to respond during subsequent rounds. (p) indicates a portable station.) We had a total of 16 check ins this week (including the NCS). I'd like to thank the relay stations for assisting net control. I hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 09:38 PM ET. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage everyone in the Midwest and adjoining areas to check in next week. As a reminder, if you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you should see the frequency we are using that evening, if we must QSY again due to busy frequencies. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ 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] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3803 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500Dave(w),(op) 2 K8NU OHK4D/KPA1500 Carl(c/o),(w) 3 WB9JNZ ILFT-990/SB-220 Eric(rel),(w) 4 K1ND MIK4Jan (c/o),(w) 5 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500Paul(w) 6 K8JK FLK4/KPA1500Jim (n/h),(w) 7 K2LED NYIC-7100 30W Bob (p),(n/h),(w) 8 WN9A INK4D/KPA1500 Larry (w) 9 W4VHZ VAFT-450D Doc (c/o),(w) 10 K4TM VAK4/KPA1500Cary(c/o),(w) 11 WW4JF TNK3s/KPA500John(w) 12 WM6P GAK4D/KPA1500 Steve (rel),(w) 13 K1DIH CTK4D/Tokyo Hi-PowerBrian (w) 14 KE8KF MIK4D Steve (w) 15 N2TNN VAK3 85WDean(n/h),(w) 16 W4MJE ARKX3/KXPA100 Jim (n/h),(w) (Entries with (c/o) indicate a 'one and done' station that checked out during the 1st round. (n/h) failed to respond during subsequent rounds. (p) indicates a portable station.) We had a total of 16 check ins this week (including the NCS). I'd like to thank the relay stations for assisting net control. I hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 09:38 PM ET. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage everyone in the Midwest and adjoining areas to check in next week. As a reminder, if you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you should see the frequency we are using that evening, if we must QSY again due to busy frequencies. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ 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] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Announcement
Please join us on 3803kHz plus (not minus) QRM (see the Netlogger discussion, below), 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Note that the net stays on the same local time, when we switch back and forth to/from Daylight time, so the UTC time changes, but not the local time. As daylight persists more into the evening, we may find it more difficult to conduct the net at its regular time. For the time being, let's keep it at 9PM ET, as that is getting late on a 'school night' for a lot of folks, as it is. Your net control this week will be Dave, N8SBE. The group that meets on 3803 kHz before us has been wrapping up operations promptly at or before 9PM ET. There is also another group that normally comes on at 10PM ET, so we need to make sure to wrap up operations by 10PM ET. If any stations wish to continue past that time, please QSY to a clear frequency. If you are a US General class licensee, please ensure that your dial is accurately calibrated and that your transmitter/amplifier combination is clean and free of splatter, since we will be operating LSB within 3 kHz of the lower band edge of the 80M US General class band. I'm using Netlogger, so if you go to netlogger.org and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you will be able to see the exact frequency we've settled on for the evening. If we find 3803 kHz busy, we will move UP the band a few kHz, so we can stay in the 80M US General class band. Hope to see you this evening on the net. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ 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] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3803 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500Dave (w),(op) 2 KC9NRO OHFTdx10Greg (rel),(p),(w) 3 KN3C PAK4D/KPA1500 Rick (w) 4 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500Paul (w) 5 AK4TF GAFlex-6400/PGXLTony (c/o),(w) 6 WN9A INK4D/KPA1500 Larry (w) 7 K1NW RIK4D/KPA500Brian (rel),(w) 8 K1DIH CTK4D/Tokyo Hi-powerBrian (w) 9 WM6P GAK4D/KPA1500 Steve (w) 10 AB1FF MAK4D/KPA1500 Tom(w) 11 K1ND MIK4/KPA500 Jan(w) 12 N2TNN VAK2 5W Dean (w) 13 K4TM VAK4/KPA1500Cary (w) (Entries with (c/o) indicate a 'one and done' station that checked out during the 1st round. (n/h) failed to respond during subsequent rounds.) We had a total of 13 check ins this week (including the NCS). I'd like to thank the relay stations for assisting net control. I hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 09:38 PM ET. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage everyone in the Midwest and adjoining areas to check in next week. As a reminder, if you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you should see the frequency we are using that evening, if we must QSY again due to busy frequencies. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ 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] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Announcement
Please join us on 3803kHz plus (not minus) QRM (see the Netlogger discussion, below), 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Note that the net stays on the same local time, when we switch back and forth to/from Daylight time, so the UTC time changes, but not the local time. As daylight persists more into the evening, we may find it more difficult to conduct the net at its regular time. For the time being, let's keep it at 9PM ET, as that is getting late on a 'school night' for a lot of folks, as it is. Your net control this week will be Dave, N8SBE. The group that meets on 3803 kHz before us has been wrapping up operations promptly at or before 9PM ET. There is also another group that normally comes on at 10PM ET, so we need to make sure to wrap up operations by 10PM ET. If any stations wish to continue past that time, please QSY to a clear frequency. If you are a US General class licensee, please ensure that your dial is accurately calibrated and that your transmitter/amplifier combination is clean and free of splatter, since we will be operating LSB within 3 kHz of the lower band edge of the 80M US General class band. I'm using Netlogger, so if you go to netlogger.org and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you will be able to see the exact frequency we've settled on for the evening. If we find 3803 kHz busy, we will move UP the band a few kHz, so we can stay in the 80M US General class band. Hope to see you this evening on the net. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ 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] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3803 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBE MIK2/100Dave (p),(w),(op) 2 WB9JNZ ILFT-990/SB-220 Eric (nc),(w) 3 K8NU OHK4D/KPA1500 Carl (rel),(c/o),(w) 4 WM6P GAK4D/KPA1500 Steve (rel),(c/o),(w) 5 WW4JF TNK3s John (c/o),(w) 6 KD8DZ OHK4D/KPA500Mike (w) 7 KC9NRO OHFTdx10Greg (p),(n/h),(w) 8 W4CBS FLK4/Mercury IIIDon(rel),(rel),(w) 9 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA1500 Paul (w) 10 K1DIH CTK4D/Tokyo Hi-PowerBrian (w) 11 KO4INE TNK2Billy (n/h),(w) 12 KC8JFP OHXiegu G90, FTdx10 Richard(w) 13 KB2MN NJK4D/KPA500Larry (w) 14 N9QDS IL75S3/32S3 Keith (c/o),(w) (Entries with (c/o) indicate a 'one and done' station that checked out during the 1st round. (n/h) failed to respond during subsequent rounds.) We had a total of 14 check ins this week (including the NCS). I'd like to thank the relay stations for assisting net control, and in particular, Eric, WB9JNZ who took Net Control this evening, since I was running low power (100W) on a K2 operating portable from my RV. I hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 09:51 PM ET. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage everyone in the Midwest and adjoining areas to check in next week. As a reminder, if you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you should see the frequency we are using that evening, if we must QSY again due to busy frequencies. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ 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] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Announcement
Please join us on 3803kHz plus (not minus) QRM (see the Netlogger discussion, below), 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Note that the net stays on the same local time, when we switch back and forth to/from Daylight time, so the UTC time changes, but not the local time. As daylight persists more into the evening, we may find it more difficult to conduct the net at its regular time. For the time being, let's keep it at 9PM ET, as that is getting late on a 'school night' for a lot of folks, as it is. Your net control this week will be Dave, N8SBE. I will be operating portable from my RV, using a K2/100 SN#895, so relay help will be greatly appreciated. Check the AIM window on Netlogger for any messages I may post there, looking for relay or NCS help. The group that meets on 3803 kHz before us has been wrapping up operations promptly at or before 9PM ET. There is also another group that normally comes on at 10PM ET, so we need to make sure to wrap up operations by 10PM ET. If any stations wish to continue past that time, please QSY to a clear frequency. If you are a US General class licensee, please ensure that your dial is accurately calibrated and that your transmitter/amplifier combination is clean and free of splatter, since we will be operating LSB within 3 kHz of the lower band edge of the 80M US General class band. I'm using Netlogger, so if you go to netlogger.org and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you will be able to see the exact frequency we've settled on for the evening. If we find 3803 kHz busy, we will move UP the band a few kHz, so we can stay in the 80M US General class band. Hope to see you this evening on the net. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] K4D compatibility
Thanks for the info...73... K4TO On Sat, Jul 6, 2024 at 11:16 AM Dave Sublette wrote: > I can't find a mail list dedicated to the K4D. If there is one, please > redirect me. I want to know if the K4D will seamlessly plug into my setup, > using the same cables I am now using with my K3s, P3 driving my KPA500 and > KAT500? > > Thanks for your help. > > Dave, K4TO > __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] K4D compatibility
elecraft...@groups.io On 2024-07-06 11:16, Dave Sublette wrote: I can't find a mail list dedicated to the K4D. If there is one, please redirect me. I want to know if the K4D will seamlessly plug into my setup, using the same cables I am now using with my K3s, P3 driving my KPA500 and KAT500? Thanks for your help. Dave, K4TO __ 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 n8...@densbe.com -- 73, -- Dave, N8SBE, Hamshack Hotline 590-0971, HamsOverIP 101018, AmateurWire 1348 __ 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] K4D compatibility
I can't find a mail list dedicated to the K4D. If there is one, please redirect me. I want to know if the K4D will seamlessly plug into my setup, using the same cables I am now using with my K3s, P3 driving my KPA500 and KAT500? Thanks for your help. Dave, K4TO __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] KPA500 ISSUE
Morning, Windows updates tend to muck with everything... :) 73, and thanks, Dave (NK7Z) https://www.nk7z.net ARRL Volunteer Examiner ARRL Technical Specialist, RFI ARRL Asst. Director, NW Division, Technical Resources On 7/2/24 08:13, Rick Bates, nk7i wrote: Windows updates tend to muck with your settings, __ 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] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3803 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500Dave (w),(op) 2 WB9JNZ ILFTdx101d/KPA1500 Eric (rel),(w) 3 AK4TF GAFlex-6400/PG-XL Tony (w) 4 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500Paul (w) 5 K8NU OHK4D Carl (c/o),(w) 6 W4CBS FLK4/Mercury IIIDon(w) 7 W4MJE ARKX3/KXPA100 Jim(w) 8 K4TM VAK4/KPA1500Cary (w) 9 WM6P GAK4D/KPA1500 Steve (rel),(w) 10 KA4VHS KYTS-140s Ron(c/o),(w) 11 W3EMV PATS-530sp Bill (w) (Entries with (c/o) indicate a 'one and done' station that checked out during the 1st round. (n/h) failed to respond during subsequent rounds.) We had a total of 11 check ins this week (including the NCS). I'd like to thank the relay stations for assisting net control. I hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 09:36 PM ET. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage everyone in the Midwest and adjoining areas to check in next week. As a reminder, if you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you should see the frequency we are using that evening, if we must QSY again due to busy frequencies. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ 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] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Announcement
Please join us on 3803kHz plus (not minus) QRM (see the Netlogger discussion, below), 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Note that the net stays on the same local time, when we switch back and forth to/from Daylight time, so the UTC time changes, but not the local time. As daylight persists more into the evening, we may find it more difficult to conduct the net at its regular time. For the time being, let's keep it at 9PM ET, as that is getting late on a 'school night' for a lot of folks, as it is. Your net control this week will be Dave, N8SBE. The group that meets on 3803 kHz before us has been wrapping up operations promptly at or before 9PM ET. There is also another group that normally comes on at 10PM ET, so we need to make sure to wrap up operations by 10PM ET. If any stations wish to continue past that time, please QSY to a clear frequency. If you are a US General class licensee, please ensure that your dial is accurately calibrated and that your transmitter/amplifier combination is clean and free of splatter, since we will be operating LSB within 3 kHz of the lower band edge of the 80M US General class band. I'm using Netlogger, so if you go to netlogger.org and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you will be able to see the exact frequency we've settled on for the evening. If we find 3803 kHz busy, we will move UP the band a few kHz, so we can stay in the 80M US General class band. Hope to see you this evening on the net. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ 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] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3803 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500Dave (w),(op) 2 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500Paul (w) 3 WB9JNZ ILFTdx101d/KPA1500 Eric (rel),(w) 4 WM6P GAK4D/KPA1500 Steve (rel),(w) 5 K8NU OHK4D/KPA1500 Carl (c/o),(w) 6 AK4TF GAFlex-6400/KPA500 Tony (w) 7 K1DIH CTK4D Brian (c/o),(w) 8 KD9RRS WIIC-7300/KPA500Mark (w) 9 W4RYW ALK4/KPA1500Gill (w) 10 W4CBS FLK4/Mercury IIIs Don(w) (Entries with (c/o) indicate a 'one and done' station that checked out during the 1st round. (n/h) failed to respond during subsequent rounds.) We had a total of 10 check ins this week (including the NCS). I'd like to thank the relay stations for assisting net control. I hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 09:30 PM ET. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage everyone in the Midwest and adjoining areas to check in next week. As a reminder, if you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you should see the frequency we are using that evening, if we must QSY again due to busy frequencies. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ 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] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Announcement
Please join us on 3803kHz plus (not minus) QRM (see the Netlogger discussion, below), 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Note that the net stays on the same local time, when we switch back and forth to/from Daylight time, so the UTC time changes, but not the local time. As daylight persists more into the evening, we may find it more difficult to conduct the net at its regular time. For the time being, let's keep it at 9PM ET, as that is getting late on a 'school night' for a lot of folks, as it is. Your net control this week will be Dave, N8SBE. The group that meets on 3803 kHz before us has been wrapping up operations promptly at or before 9PM ET. There is also another group that normally comes on at 10PM ET, so we need to make sure to wrap up operations by 10PM ET. If any stations wish to continue past that time, please QSY to a clear frequency. If you are a US General class licensee, please ensure that your dial is accurately calibrated and that your transmitter/amplifier combination is clean and free of splatter, since we will be operating LSB within 3 kHz of the lower band edge of the 80M US General class band. I'm using Netlogger, so if you go to netlogger.org and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you will be able to see the exact frequency we've settled on for the evening. If we find 3803 kHz busy, we will move UP the band a few kHz, so we can stay in the 80M US General class band. Hope to see you this evening on the net. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ 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] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3803 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500Dave (w),(op) 2 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500Paul (w) 3 K8NU OHK4D/KPA1500 Carl (c/o),(w) 4 KN3C PAK4D/KPA1500 Rick (w) 5 WM6P GAK4D/KPA1500 Steve (rel),(w) 6 K1NW RIK4D/KPA500Brian (rel),(w) 7 K4TM VAK4/KPA1500Cary (w) 8 WB9JNZ ILFTdx101d/KPA1500 Eric (rel),(w) 9 W8KEN OHK4D/KPA1500 Ken(w) 10 K1VG CTK4D/KPA500Jeff (w) 11 WN9A INK4/KPA1500Larry (w) 12 K1DIH CTK4D Brian (w) 13 N9QDS ILK4D Keith (w) (Entries with (c/o) indicate a 'one and done' station that checked out during the 1st round. (n/h) failed to respond during subsequent rounds.) We had a total of 13 check ins this week (including the NCS). I'd like to thank the relay stations for assisting net control. I was having more than the usual intermittent (audio?) issues, which finally calmed down mid-net. Thanks for everyone's patience while I try to work out what seems to be plaguing me especially on 80 meters. I hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 09:43 PM ET. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage everyone in the Midwest and adjoining areas to check in next week. As a reminder, if you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you should see the frequency we are using that evening, if we must QSY again due to busy frequencies. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ 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] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Announcement
Please join us on 3803kHz plus (not minus) QRM (see the Netlogger discussion, below), 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Note that the net stays on the same local time, when we switch back and forth to/from Daylight time, so the UTC time changes, but not the local time. As daylight persists more into the evening, we may find it more difficult to conduct the net at its regular time. For the time being, let's keep it at 9PM ET, as that is getting late on a 'school night' for a lot of folks, as it is. Your net control this week will be Dave, N8SBE. The group that meets on 3803 kHz before us has been wrapping up operations promptly at or before 9PM ET. There is also another group that normally comes on at 10PM ET, so we need to make sure to wrap up operations by 10PM ET. If any stations wish to continue past that time, please QSY to a clear frequency. If you are a US General class licensee, please ensure that your dial is accurately calibrated and that your transmitter/amplifier combination is clean and free of splatter, since we will be operating LSB within 3 kHz of the lower band edge of the 80M US General class band. I'm using Netlogger, so if you go to netlogger.org and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you will be able to see the exact frequency we've settled on for the evening. If we find 3803 kHz busy, we will move UP the band a few kHz, so we can stay in the 80M US General class band. Hope to see you this evening on the net. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ 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] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3803 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBE MIK2/100Dave (w),(op) 2 AK4TF GAFlex-6400/KPA500 Tony (w) 3 WB9JNZ ILFTDX101D/KPA1500 Eric (rel),(w) 4 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500Paul (w) 5 K1NW RIK4D/KPA500Brian (rel),(w) 6 K1DIH CTK4D/Tokyo-HiPower Brian (w) 7 WM6P GAK4D/KPA1500 Steve (rel),(w) 8 WN9A INK4D/KPA1500 Larry (c/o),(w) 9 W4VHZ VAIC-706mkIIg Doc(w) 10 WW4JF TNK3S/KPA500John (w) 11 NK9R GAK3S/KPA1500 Terry (c/o),(w) 12 W4CBS FLK4/Mercury IIIS Don(w) (Entries with (c/o) indicate a 'one and done' station that checked out during the 1st round. (n/h) failed to respond during subsequent rounds.) We had a total of 12 check ins this week (including the NCS). I'd like to thank the relay stations, and in particular, Eric, WB9JNZ for doing a yeoman's job of assisting net control. I was operating portable at a campsite, running my K2/100 into an EagleOne vertical antenna, and only Eric and a couple of other stations could hear me. Next week I'll be at home and back to my usual 500W station. I hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 09:46 PM ET. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage everyone in the Midwest and adjoining areas to check in next week. As a reminder, if you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you should see the frequency we are using that evening, if we must QSY again due to busy frequencies. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ 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] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Announcement
Please join us on 3803kHz plus (not minus) QRM (see the Netlogger discussion, below), 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Note that the net stays on the same local time, when we switch back and forth to/from Daylight time, so the UTC time changes, but not the local time. As daylight persists more into the evening, we may find it more difficult to conduct the net at its regular time. For the time being, let's keep it at 9PM ET, as that is getting late on a 'school night' for a lot of folks, as it is. Your net control this week will be Dave, N8SBE. I will be operating portable from my RV this week, so will be operating at 100W on a vertical. Brian, K1NW and/or Eric, WB9JNZ may assist with net operations if folks can't hear me well. The group that meets on 3803 kHz before us has been wrapping up operations promptly at or before 9PM ET. There is also another group that normally comes on at 10PM ET, so we need to make sure to wrap up operations by 10PM ET. If any stations wish to continue past that time, please QSY to a clear frequency. If you are a US General class licensee, please ensure that your dial is accurately calibrated and that your transmitter/amplifier combination is clean and free of splatter, since we will be operating LSB within 3 kHz of the lower band edge of the 80M US General class band. I'm using Netlogger, so if you go to netlogger.org and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you will be able to see the exact frequency we've settled on for the evening. If we find 3803 kHz busy, we will move UP the band a few kHz, so we can stay in the 80M US General class band. Hope to see you this evening on the net. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ 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] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3803 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500Dave (w),(op) 2 WB9JNZ ILFTdx101d/KPA1500 Eric (rel),(w) 3 K8NU OHFT710/KPA1500 Carl (c/o),(w) 4 AK4TF GAFlex-6400/KPA500 Tony (w) 5 KD9RRS WIIC-7300/KPA500Mark (w) 6 WM6P GAK4D/KPA1500 Steve (rel),(w) 7 KA4FOX VAK4/KPA500 Steve (w) 8 AB1FF MAK4D/KPA1500 Tom(w) 9 K1NW RIK4D/KPA500Brian (c/o),(rel),(w) 10 K1DIH CTK4D/Tokyo-HiPower Brian (w) 11 NY9H PAK4D/RF-KitBill (c/o),(w) 12 K1VG CTK4D/KPA500Jeff (w) 13 KD2WCY NJK2/KXPA100Kevin (w) 14 K2RIG NJK4/Mercury IIIBill (w) 15 W0ALA INK3s/KPA500Tony (c/o),(w) 16 W4BOH NCK3Wilson (c/o),(w) 17 KM4CRB ALK4D/KPA500Michael(c/o),(w) 18 K1ND MIK4/KPA500 Jan(w) 19 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500Paul (w) (Entries with (c/o) indicate a 'one and done' station that checked out during the 1st round. (n/h) failed to respond during subsequent rounds.) We had a total of 19 check ins this week (including the NCS). Conditions were better this evening than the last few weeks, and the number of check ins proves the point. I hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 09:51 PM ET. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage everyone in the Midwest and adjoining areas to check in next week. As a reminder, if you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you should see the frequency we are using that evening, if we must QSY again due to busy frequencies. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ 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] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Announcement
Please join us on 3803kHz plus (not minus) QRM (see the Netlogger discussion, below), 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Note that the net stays on the same local time, when we switch back and forth to/from Daylight time, so the UTC time changes, but not the local time. As daylight persists more into the evening, we may find it more difficult to conduct the net at its regular time. For the time being, let's keep it at 9PM ET, as that is getting late on a 'school night' for a lot of folks, as it is. Your net control this week will be Dave, N8SBE. The group that meets on 3803 kHz before us has been wrapping up operations promptly at or before 9PM ET. There is also another group that normally comes on at 10PM ET, so we need to make sure to wrap up operations by 10PM ET. If any stations wish to continue past that time, please QSY to a clear frequency. If you are a US General class licensee, please ensure that your dial is accurately calibrated and that your transmitter/amplifier combination is clean and free of splatter, since we will be operating LSB within 3 kHz of the lower band edge of the 80M US General class band. I'm using Netlogger, so if you go to netlogger.org and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you will be able to see the exact frequency we've settled on for the evening. If we find 3803 kHz busy, we will move UP the band a few kHz, so we can stay in the 80M US General class band. Hope to see you this evening on the net. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ 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] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3803 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500Dave (w),(op) 2 WB9JNZ ILFTdx101d/KPA1500 Eric (w) 3 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500Paul (w) 4 WM6P GAK4D/KPA1500 Steve (w) 5 WN9A INK4D/KPA1500 Larry (w) (Entries with (c/o) indicate a 'one and done' station that checked out during the 1st round. (n/h) failed to respond during subsequent rounds.) We had a total of 5 check ins this week (including the NCS). There were a few staunch souls that managed to get through the horrendous lightning static that was blanketing the Midwest. I hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 09:21 PM ET. Sorry for the abbreviated version of the net. Hopefully things will be much quieter next Sunday evening. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage everyone in the Midwest and adjoining areas to check in next week. As a reminder, if you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you should see the frequency we are using that evening, if we must QSY again due to busy frequencies. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ 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] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Announcement
Please join us on 3803kHz plus (not minus) QRM (see the Netlogger discussion, below), 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Note that the net stays on the same local time, when we switch back and forth to/from Daylight time, so the UTC time changes, but not the local time. As daylight persists more into the evening, we may find it more difficult to conduct the net at its regular time. For the time being, let's keep it at 9PM ET, as that is getting late on a 'school night' for a lot of folks, as it is. Your net control this week will be Dave, N8SBE. The group that meets on 3803 kHz before us has been wrapping up operations promptly at or before 9PM ET. There is also another group that normally comes on at 10PM ET, so we need to make sure to wrap up operations by 10PM ET. If any stations wish to continue past that time, please QSY to a clear frequency. If you are a US General class licensee, please ensure that your dial is accurately calibrated and that your transmitter/amplifier combination is clean and free of splatter, since we will be operating LSB within 3 kHz of the lower band edge of the 80M US General class band. I'm using Netlogger, so if you go to netlogger.org and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you will be able to see the exact frequency we've settled on for the evening. If we find 3803 kHz busy, we will move UP the band a few kHz, so we can stay in the 80M US General class band. Hope to see you this evening on the net. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ 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] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3803 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBE OHK4D Dave (w),(op) 2 WB9JNZ ILFTd101dx/KPA1500 Eric (rel),(w) 3 WM6P GAK4D/KPA1500 Steve (w) 4 K2RIG NJK4/Mercury IIIBill (w) 5 K4TM VAK4/KPA1500Cary (w) 6 WN9A INK4D/KPA1500 Larry (w) 7 AK4TF GAFlex 6400/KPA500 Tony (w) 8 KG9NG WIKX2/KXPA100 Sam(w) 9 W9EJH INK4D/KPA500Earl (w) 10 W8KEN OHK4/KPA1500Ken(w) (Entries with (c/o) indicate a 'one and done' station that checked out during the 1st round. (n/h) failed to respond during subsequent rounds.) We had a total of 10 check ins this week (including the NCS). Very nice hearing from everyone tonight, in spite of the fact that the NCS was not audible to most of the net, since I was running 100W into a vertical from my RV in Ohio. I hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 09:36 PM ET. Sorry for the abbreviated version of the net. I'll be operating from home with 500W next Sunday. Conditions were poor this evening, as the band was recovering from a solar flare that occurred earlier today. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage everyone in the Midwest and adjoining areas to check in next week. As a reminder, if you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you should see the frequency we are using that evening, if we must QSY again due to busy frequencies. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ 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] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Announcement
Please join us on 3803kHz plus (not minus) QRM (see the Netlogger discussion, below), 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Note that the net stays on the same local time, when we switch back and forth to/from Daylight time, so the UTC time changes, but not the local time. As daylight persists more into the evening, we may find it more difficult to conduct the net at its regular time. For the time being, let's keep it at 9PM ET, as that is getting late on a 'school night' for a lot of folks, as it is. Your net control this week will be Dave, N8SBE. Note that I'm portable in Dayton and running 100w this week, so relays will be much appreciated. The group that meets on 3803 kHz before us has been wrapping up operations promptly at or before 9PM ET. There is also another group that normally comes on at 10PM ET, so we need to make sure to wrap up operations by 10PM ET. If any stations wish to continue past that time, please QSY to a clear frequency. If you are a US General class licensee, please ensure that your dial is accurately calibrated and that your transmitter/amplifier combination is clean and free of splatter, since we will be operating LSB within 3 kHz of the lower band edge of the 80M US General class band. I'm using Netlogger, so if you go to netlogger.org and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you will be able to see the exact frequency we've settled on for the evening. If we find 3803 kHz busy, we will move UP the band a few kHz, so we can stay in the 80M US General class band. Hope to see you this evening on the net. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ 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] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3803 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBE OHK4D Dave 2 AK4TF GAFlex 6400/KPA500 Tony (w) 3 WB9JNZ ILFTdx101d/KPA1500 Eric (rel),(w) 4 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500Paul (rel),(w) 5 K1NW RIK4D/KPA500Brian (rel),(w) 6 K1DIH CTK4D/Tokyo Hi-PowerBrian (w) 7 K1ND MIK4/KPA500 Jan (w) 8 WM6P GAK4D/KPA1500 Steve (rel),(w) 9 K8NU OHK4D/KPA1500 Carl (w),(c/o) 10 WW4JF TNK3S/KPA500John (w) (Entries with (c/o) indicate a 'one and done' station that checked out during the 1st round. (n/h) failed to respond during subsequent rounds.) We had a total of 10 check ins this week (including the NCS). Very nice hearing from everyone tonight, in spite of the fact that the NCS was not audible to most of the net, since I was running 100W into a vertical from my RV in Ohio. I hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 09:26 PM ET. Sorry for the abbreviated version of the net. Conditions were poor this evening, as the band was recovering from a massive CME earlier in the weekend, and a solar flare that occurred earlier today. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage everyone in the Midwest and adjoining areas to check in next week. As a reminder, if you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you should see the frequency we are using that evening, if we must QSY again due to busy frequencies. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ 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] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Announcement
Please join us on 3803kHz plus (not minus) QRM (see the Netlogger discussion, below), 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Note that the net stays on the same local time, when we switch back and forth to/from Daylight time, so the UTC time changes, but not the local time. As daylight persists more into the evening, we may find it more difficult to conduct the net at its regular time. For the time being, let's keep it at 9PM ET, as that is getting late on a 'school night' for a lot of folks, as it is. Your net control this week will be Dave, N8SBE. Note that I'm portable and running 100w this week, so relays will be much appreciated. The group that meets on 3803 kHz before us has been wrapping up operations promptly at or before 9PM ET. There is also another group that normally comes on at 10PM ET, so we need to make sure to wrap up operations by 10PM ET. If any stations wish to continue past that time, please QSY to a clear frequency. If you are a US General class licensee, please ensure that your dial is accurately calibrated and that your transmitter/amplifier combination is clean and free of splatter, since we will be operating LSB within 3 kHz of the lower band edge of the 80M US General class band. I'm using Netlogger, so if you go to netlogger.org and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you will be able to see the exact frequency we've settled on for the evening. If we find 3803 kHz busy, we will move UP the band a few kHz, so we can stay in the 80M US General class band. Hope to see you this evening on the net. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Band-specific low output
A momentary hi SWR can cause a severe fold-back on power out on the K3, which can take several tens of seconds of subsequent transmission to sort out. Changing bands or cycling power can also reset this behavior. I had an intermittent on one of my antennas that would trigger this behavior. It's really annoying, but I guess it's better than blowing the finals. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE On 2024-05-05 22:27, Roger Rose wrote: I had a weird thing happen with my K3 this morning. I tried to check into a regional 75 meter net this morning and they couldn’t hear me. I looked at the display and had no power output deflection. I’m using the rear apron mic connection and I’ve had problems with it coming unplugged, but that wasn’t it. I looked at the meter on my external tuner and it showed a tiny bit of output so it wasn’t a mic issue. I moved up the band and changed to CW. I was set for 100 watts and I was showing 50. I changed to 40 and had the full 100 watts out. Moved back to 75 and then I had full output. Powered it off and back on…still good. Any ideas? __ 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 n8...@densbe.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3803 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBE MI K4D/KPA500 Dave (w),(op) 2 WB9JNZ IL FTdx101d/KPA1500 Eric (w) 3 WM6PGA K4D/KPA1500Steve (rel),(w) 4 W9PCS WI K4D/KPA500 Paul (w) 5 K8NUOH K4D/KPA1500Carl (w) 6 KN3C/0 IA TS-488X/ALS500MRick (p),(w) 7 K1NWRI K4D/KPA500 Brian (rel),(w) 8 K5PDTX K4 Pete (n/h),(w) 9 W4CBS FL K4/Mercury III Don (w) 10 K1DIH CT K4D/Tokyo Hi-Power Brian (w) 11 N2RBP NY IC-7100Matt (w) (Entries with (c/o) indicate a 'one and done' station that checked out during the 1st round. (n/h) failed to respond during subsequent rounds.) We had a total of 11 check ins this week (including the NCS). Very nice hearing from everyone tonight. I hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 09:44 PM ET. Conditions were good this evening, as the band had recovered from a CME earlier in the weekend. Prior to the net an M-class flare struck, but flares effect the daytime side of the planet, and generally the D-layer adsorption effects fade after a couple of hours. So the West Coast and the Asia-Pacific area were effected, but not the East Coast of the US. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage everyone in the Midwest and adjoining areas to check in next week. As a reminder, if you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you should see the frequency we are using that evening, if we must QSY again due to busy frequencies. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Lightning concerns: Was: K4 Remote: My QTH vs. a friend's, many miles to the north
Jorge, Your question was answered already... 73, Dave, https://www.nk7z.net On 5/5/24 10:42, Jorge Diez - CX6VM wrote: hello To finish with this topic, I was just wondering if a device that is intended for use in remote stations, always connected and in some cases with no one to disconnect during storms, could not have a better USB connector, for example If he tells me it can't be done, fine, my question has been answered and thank you very much. time to move on to other virtues of Elecraft 73, Jorge CX6VM/CW5W El dom, 5 may 2024 a las 10:12, Mike Fatchett W0MU () escribió: Lightning is like wildfires which burn some houses or land but not others. There is no rhyme or reason why some devices are not damaged and other are. I suspect that most items were damaged but not made inoperable. Couldn't the argument be made that the computer or USB hub should do more and at what cost? You are quite lucky that your entire shack was not destroyed. I don't believe Elecraft should be blamed here, nor do I believe they need to do anything. There is no preponderance of data that shows the Elecraft interface is more or less susceptible to this damage. My power supplied failed and produced an over voltage situation which damaged my K3. It it the fault of the PS maker or Elecraft? These situations are why many of us have Insurance that cover these events. This coverage could be a homeowners policy or policies similar to the ARRL insurance program. These coverage's may or may not be available to everyone however. W0MU On 5/4/2024 10:57 PM, Rick NK7I wrote: Thread subject changed to reflect the actual topic. It is the station owner that is responsible for lightning protection (or other environmental risks); not Elecraft or most any product vendor of any type. To require more, would cost more (for the hardware and for the liability risk that the company would have to endure). The area/s missed in the protective system design, can be demonstrated by a nearby or direct hit (induced voltages and current can be almost as damaging); as you already found (and it's EASY to miss an entry point, no blame intended). The ARRL has a good amount of simplified how-to in the book "Grounding and Bonding" but several readings may still be needed for understanding the content. There are other good resources (Motorola has one, so does the cell phone industry; each is excellent but best used to induce sleep, they are intense and technical and reference various applicable laws). It's not all about lightning but static dissipation as an energy source. That static source may also be dust, wind, snow, or rain (yes, water). Diverting that charge OUTSIDE the building (shack) to GROUND is the basic plan but it must also include EVERY entry point (cable TV, phone, DSL, antenna, rotor, control cables for antennas, mast, satellite dishes and tower). Using several ground rods as part of a system is common BUT they must all be bonded to each other AND to the one common safety ground of the building (US and other countries require this, by law). Use of water pipes is no longer code, in the US (because PEX and PVC are common, defeating ability to take to ground). From your description Jorge, it sounds like you did it correctly, but missed an entry point. Now you'll have to replace parts, sadly. Let's limit any more, to Elecraft specific topics. This one has wandered well afield of Elecraft. 73, Rick nk7i On 5/4/2024 9:21 PM, Jorge Diez - CX6VM wrote: Hi Dave I have a panel like yours, each antenna to a discharger, on a copper sheet. Nothing has happened with the coaxial and antenna switch I have several rods that make the ground and a copper bar behind the desk and all the equipment is connected to the ground The lighting came through the antenna of my internet link, then it went to the router, then to the computer where I have the kpa1500 connected with a USB cable My question about whether Elecraft could do more is whether there could be something better than the USB it currently has, which seems to me to be a simple USB connector, like that of any printer for example. So there is my question, if for such an expensive piece of equipment, there could be something of better quality, if not, I apologize, we will have to live with these things. See you in the bands!!! Have a good weekend! 73, Jorge CX6VM/CW5W El dom, 5 may 2024 a las 1:08, Dave (NK7Z) () escribió: Jorge, I can only go by what you said: "Last week I experienced a lightning strike" That sounds a lot like a direct discharge into the shack, so I am responding to your comment, if that is not correct, please help me understand what actually happened... Lightening is strange, it can take out one piece of equipment, and not touch another... It all depends on how your shack is grounded, and how it is bonded. When grounding commercial equipment, even the path the wire takes is important... Curves, straight line run
Re: [Elecraft] elecraft net?
The 20M SSB Net meets on Sunday afternoons at 1800 UTC on 14.3035 MHz The NCS is usually Eric, WB9JNZ, in Illinois and often assisted with relay stations in the NE and SW USA. The 40M SSB Net meets on Sunday afternoons at 1900 UTC on 7.280 MHz The NCS is usually Steve, WM6P, in Georgia. The 80M SSB Net meets on Sunday evenings at 900pm ET on 3.803 MHz The NCS is usually Dave, N8SBE, in SE Michigan. Due to the regional nature of 80M, most check ins are from the NE, E Coast, and Midwest, USA. If someone would like to host a W Coast version of the 80M net say, at 9pm PT, I think it would be most welcome for those that haven't been able to get into the E Coast version of the net. Finally, at 2000 UTC on Sunday afternoons, there is an Elecraft Zoom meeting. If you go to K8NU's QRZ page, you will see information on how to log in to the Zoom meeting. Hope that helps, -- Dave, N8SBE On 2024-05-04 17:08, Fred Jensen wrote: Kevin, KD5ONS, in OR runs a CW net on 20 [14050 +/-] at 2000Z? and another on 7050 or close at 2300Z on Sun. Not sure of the times but he usually posts the notice here each week. There is at least one other SSB net but don't know the details since I lost my microphone. 73, Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW Sparks NV DM09dn Washoe County Justin Mann via Elecraft wrote on 5/4/2024 1:45 PM: Hi there, Is there a listing of the Elecraft nets that are on the HF bands? I seem to recall there was one on 20m but don't recall the schedule. Sent from my iPhone __ 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 k6dg...@gmail.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to n8...@densbe.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Announcement
Please join us on 3803kHz plus (not minus) QRM (see the Netlogger discussion, below), 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Note that the net stays on the same local time, when we switch back and forth to/from Daylight time, so the UTC time changes, but not the local time. As daylight persists more into the evening, we may find it more difficult to conduct the net at its regular time. For the time being, let's keep it at 9PM ET, as that is getting late on a 'school night' for a lot of folks, as it is. Your net control this week will be Dave, N8SBE. The group that meets on 3803 kHz before us has been wrapping up operations promptly at or before 9PM ET. There is also another group that normally comes on at 10PM ET, so we need to make sure to wrap up operations by 10PM ET. If any stations wish to continue past that time, please QSY to a clear frequency. If you are a US General class licensee, please ensure that your dial is accurately calibrated and that your transmitter/amplifier combination is clean and free of splatter, since we will be operating LSB within 3 kHz of the lower band edge of the 80M US General class band. I'm using Netlogger, so if you go to netlogger.org and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you will be able to see the exact frequency we've settled on for the evening. If we find 3803 kHz busy, we will move UP the band a few kHz, so we can stay in the 80M US General class band. Hope to see you this evening on the net. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Lightning
John, Remember the "Cone of Silence" in the old TV show Get Smart... There is a "Cone of Protection" for lightening, although it was not as funny as the "Cone of Silence" was... See: https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADP002181.pdf and https://duckduckgo.com/?q=lightening+cone+of+protection=v314-1=images=images If the cruiser was out of that cone, it could easily become a target for lightening... Prior to his passing, I knew Leonard Ball, he held the patent on the LASER lightening rod, which is now used, alas, Leonard never saw the use of it... 73, and thanks, Dave (NK7Z) https://www.nk7z.net ARRL Volunteer Examiner ARRL Technical Specialist, RFI ARRL Asst. Director, NW Division, Technical Resources On 5/5/24 08:46, John Canfield wrote: Some lightning musings My K3s network interface board took a surge on the USB part of the board a few years ago and toasted a diode and maybe a transistor (I forgot), RS232 was unaffected. Elecraft replaced the board and returned the old one. One of my to-do list items is to replace those components. My primary radio is now a TS-890 but the K3s is on duty for JS8Call 7x24 (when no storms are forecast.) Still salivating over a K4 BTW. As far as lightning, one of my most unusual personal experiences was when we had a sailboat (40' ketch with the mainmast 50' off the water) at a typical Florida marina. Next to us was about a 35 or 40 foot powerboat and next to him was another sailboat. So one would expect the powerboat is protected by virtue of the two tall lightning 'rods' on either side of him. Uh, no. We had a very close lightning strike, none of our electronics were damaged and the other sailboat was also unaffected. The powerboat's electronics were toast, all of them. He couldn't believe it nor could we. We suspect he took an electrical surge via the shore power cord but that's just a wild guess. We heard of sailboat that took a strike and the next morning when they started the engine they discovered the transmission was internally fused together . John WB5THT EM00ig K3s, KPA1500, etc. __ 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 d...@nk7z.net __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] K4 Remote: My QTH vs. a friend's, many miles to the north
Hi again,
Your grounding sounds good. I suspect the USB connection used by
Elecraft was standard, and not something that was lightening proof, so
yes, any manufacturer can do more, the question is why increase the cost
of the amp to everyone, when there is little chance the protection will
ever be used?
If there were a preponderance of KPA1500 amps loosing USB drivers, then
I might agree with you, but so far, your amp is the only one I have
heard about that took a lightening hit, and the only one I have heard
about that has lost a USB driver...
If all you lost was the USB driver, then you are a lucky man, go buy a
lotto ticket today!! I would expect a lot more to be damaged by a
lightening strike...
In any case, it is too bad the amp failed, but by that same token, it is
really good that is all that happened!
As you mentioned a bit ago, the more hi-tech an items is the more
sensitive it becomes...
73, and thanks,
Dave (NK7Z)
https://www.nk7z.net
ARRL Volunteer Examiner
ARRL Technical Specialist, RFI
ARRL Asst. Director, NW Division, Technical Resources
On 5/4/24 21:21, Jorge Diez - CX6VM wrote:
Hi Dave
I have a panel like yours, each antenna to a discharger, on a copper
sheet. Nothing has happened with the coaxial and antenna switch
I have several rods that make the ground and a copper bar behind the
desk and all the equipment is connected to the ground
The lighting came through the antenna of my internet link, then it went
to the router, then to the computer where I have the kpa1500 connected
with a USB cable
My question about whether Elecraft could do more is whether there could
be something better than the USB it currently has, which seems to me to
be a simple USB connector, like that of any printer for example.
So there is my question, if for such an expensive piece of equipment,
there could be something of better quality, if not, I apologize, we will
have to live with these things.
See you in the bands!!!
Have a good weekend!
73,
Jorge
CX6VM/CW5W
El dom, 5 may 2024 a las 1:08, Dave (NK7Z) (<mailto:d...@nk7z.net>>) escribió:
Jorge,
I can only go by what you said:
"Last week I experienced a lightning strike"
That sounds a lot like a direct discharge into the shack, so I am
responding to your comment, if that is not correct, please help me
understand what actually happened...
Lightening is strange, it can take out one piece of equipment, and not
touch another... It all depends on how your shack is grounded, and how
it is bonded. When grounding commercial equipment, even the path the
wire takes is important... Curves, straight line runs, etc...
What sort of ground system are you using, and what sort of lightening
protection did you have in place at the time of the lightening event?
Take a look at:
https://www.nk7z.net/building-a-coax-entry-panel/
<https://www.nk7z.net/building-a-coax-entry-panel/>
That is my entry panel. I am slowly building a ground ring around the
house... Why? Because only I can build a system to help reduce the
chances of lightening taking out something in my environment. It is
after all my home, and my environment, so I can not, and do not, hold
Elecraft responsible for things they can not control. Elecraft, can
not
be responsible for my grounding, and bonding practices.
Respectfully, in your original question you implied that Elecraft
should
have done more to make the KPA1500 withstand an as yet, correctly
defined lightening event. Again, respectfully, if you believe Elecraft
failed in some way, then you should say what, and how they failed...
Not imply they should have done more... That is unfair.
With respect to the weekend-- I hope to see you in the 7QP contest! I
will be on Sunday, but I fear the Sun will not assist much... Take
care
my friend...
73, and thanks,
Dave (NK7Z)
https://www.nk7z.net <https://www.nk7z.net>
ARRL Volunteer Examiner
ARRL Technical Specialist, RFI
ARRL Asst. Director, NW Division, Technical Resources
On 5/4/24 17:42, Jorge Diez - CX6VM wrote:
> hi Dave
>
> I don't know what to tell you, I imagine that a direct discharge
into
> the shack would have burned everything.
>
> I had 6 USB cables connected to the laptop, they burned the USB
of a box
> of GHE that costs $160 and the USB of the KPA1500 that costs +$7000
>
> rotor controls and other PCs did not burn
>
> In short, it was the fear I had of buying new and sophisticated
> equipment living so far from where the company is located.
>
> Have a good weekend
>
> 73,
> Jorge
> CX6VM/CW5W
>
> El sáb, 4 may 2024 a las 21:31, Dave (NK7Z) (mailto:d...@nk7z.net&g
Re: [Elecraft] K4 Remote: My QTH vs. a friend's, many miles to the north
Jorge,
I can only go by what you said:
"Last week I experienced a lightning strike"
That sounds a lot like a direct discharge into the shack, so I am
responding to your comment, if that is not correct, please help me
understand what actually happened...
Lightening is strange, it can take out one piece of equipment, and not
touch another... It all depends on how your shack is grounded, and how
it is bonded. When grounding commercial equipment, even the path the
wire takes is important... Curves, straight line runs, etc...
What sort of ground system are you using, and what sort of lightening
protection did you have in place at the time of the lightening event?
Take a look at:
https://www.nk7z.net/building-a-coax-entry-panel/
That is my entry panel. I am slowly building a ground ring around the
house... Why? Because only I can build a system to help reduce the
chances of lightening taking out something in my environment. It is
after all my home, and my environment, so I can not, and do not, hold
Elecraft responsible for things they can not control. Elecraft, can not
be responsible for my grounding, and bonding practices.
Respectfully, in your original question you implied that Elecraft should
have done more to make the KPA1500 withstand an as yet, correctly
defined lightening event. Again, respectfully, if you believe Elecraft
failed in some way, then you should say what, and how they failed...
Not imply they should have done more... That is unfair.
With respect to the weekend-- I hope to see you in the 7QP contest! I
will be on Sunday, but I fear the Sun will not assist much... Take care
my friend...
73, and thanks,
Dave (NK7Z)
https://www.nk7z.net
ARRL Volunteer Examiner
ARRL Technical Specialist, RFI
ARRL Asst. Director, NW Division, Technical Resources
On 5/4/24 17:42, Jorge Diez - CX6VM wrote:
hi Dave
I don't know what to tell you, I imagine that a direct discharge into
the shack would have burned everything.
I had 6 USB cables connected to the laptop, they burned the USB of a box
of GHE that costs $160 and the USB of the KPA1500 that costs +$7000
rotor controls and other PCs did not burn
In short, it was the fear I had of buying new and sophisticated
equipment living so far from where the company is located.
Have a good weekend
73,
Jorge
CX6VM/CW5W
El sáb, 4 may 2024 a las 21:31, Dave (NK7Z) (<mailto:d...@nk7z.net>>) escribió:
Hi Jorge,
That device would not stand a strike... As per the US Weather service,
(https://www.weather.gov/safety/lightning-power
<https://www.weather.gov/safety/lightning-power>), a typical lightening
bolt runs around 300,000,000 volts, at 30,000 amps. That device is
speced for 4000 volts...
For Elecraft to protect the amp against a lightening strike as you
described you had, they would need to add a LOT more hardware than that
to the price of an already expensive amp, and most people would never
see need the protection. Hence why they don't even try and protect
against a direct lightening strike.
The onus for lightening protection always rests with the device owner.
73, and thanks,
Dave (NK7Z)
https://www.nk7z.net <https://www.nk7z.net>
ARRL Volunteer Examiner
ARRL Technical Specialist, RFI
ARRL Asst. Director, NW Division, Technical Resources
On 5/4/24 16:36, Jorge Diez - CX6VM wrote:
> Dave
>
> I am not an engineer and I don't know anything about electronics
either,
> but I am very receptive to the solutions that many radio friends
give me.
>
> which made me think if the kpa1500 or k4 usb was built with
something
> like this,
>
https://www.blackbox.com/en-ca/store/product/detail/USB-to-USB-Isolator-4-kV-1-Port/SP387A
<https://www.blackbox.com/en-ca/store/product/detail/USB-to-USB-Isolator-4-kV-1-Port/SP387A>
<https://www.blackbox.com/en-ca/store/product/detail/USB-to-USB-Isolator-4-kV-1-Port/SP387A
<https://www.blackbox.com/en-ca/store/product/detail/USB-to-USB-Isolator-4-kV-1-Port/SP387A>>
it might be beneficial or not, just thinking out loud
>
> 73,
> Jorge
> CX6VM/CW5W
>
> El sáb, 4 may 2024 a las 19:06, Dave (NK7Z) (mailto:d...@nk7z.net>
> <mailto:d...@nk7z.net <mailto:d...@nk7z.net>>>) escribió:
>
> Jorge,
>
> I would imagine if you approach Elecraft with that mindset, their
> thoughts will be you should take care of your own lightening
protection.
>
> 73, and thanks,
> Dave (NK7Z)
> https://www.nk7z.net <https://www.nk7z.net> <https://www.nk7z.net
<https://www.nk7z.net>>
> ARRL Volunteer Examiner
> ARRL Technical Specialist, RFI
> ARRL Asst. Director, NW Divi
Re: [Elecraft] K4 Remote: My QTH vs. a friend's, many miles to the north
Hi Jorge, That device would not stand a strike... As per the US Weather service, (https://www.weather.gov/safety/lightning-power), a typical lightening bolt runs around 300,000,000 volts, at 30,000 amps. That device is speced for 4000 volts... For Elecraft to protect the amp against a lightening strike as you described you had, they would need to add a LOT more hardware than that to the price of an already expensive amp, and most people would never see need the protection. Hence why they don't even try and protect against a direct lightening strike. The onus for lightening protection always rests with the device owner. 73, and thanks, Dave (NK7Z) https://www.nk7z.net ARRL Volunteer Examiner ARRL Technical Specialist, RFI ARRL Asst. Director, NW Division, Technical Resources On 5/4/24 16:36, Jorge Diez - CX6VM wrote: Dave I am not an engineer and I don't know anything about electronics either, but I am very receptive to the solutions that many radio friends give me. which made me think if the kpa1500 or k4 usb was built with something like this, https://www.blackbox.com/en-ca/store/product/detail/USB-to-USB-Isolator-4-kV-1-Port/SP387A <https://www.blackbox.com/en-ca/store/product/detail/USB-to-USB-Isolator-4-kV-1-Port/SP387A> it might be beneficial or not, just thinking out loud 73, Jorge CX6VM/CW5W El sáb, 4 may 2024 a las 19:06, Dave (NK7Z) (<mailto:d...@nk7z.net>>) escribió: Jorge, I would imagine if you approach Elecraft with that mindset, their thoughts will be you should take care of your own lightening protection. 73, and thanks, Dave (NK7Z) https://www.nk7z.net <https://www.nk7z.net> ARRL Volunteer Examiner ARRL Technical Specialist, RFI ARRL Asst. Director, NW Division, Technical Resources On 5/4/24 09:10, Jorge Diez - CX6VM wrote: > Last week I experienced a lightning strike and the I/O module of my KPA1500 > was damaged, what has Elecraft thought to ensure that the equipment is not > damaged? __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft <http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm <http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net <mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net <http://www.qsl.net> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html <http://www.qsl.net/donate.html> Message delivered to cx6vm.jo...@gmail.com <mailto:cx6vm.jo...@gmail.com> -- 73, Jorge CX6VM/CW5W __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] K4 Remote: My QTH vs. a friend's, many miles to the north
Jorge, I would imagine if you approach Elecraft with that mindset, their thoughts will be you should take care of your own lightening protection. 73, and thanks, Dave (NK7Z) https://www.nk7z.net ARRL Volunteer Examiner ARRL Technical Specialist, RFI ARRL Asst. Director, NW Division, Technical Resources On 5/4/24 09:10, Jorge Diez - CX6VM wrote: Last week I experienced a lightning strike and the I/O module of my KPA1500 was damaged, what has Elecraft thought to ensure that the equipment is not damaged? __ 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] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3803 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500Dave (w),(op) 2 N2TNN VAK3Dean (w) 3 WB9JNZ ILFTd101dx/KPA1500 Eric (w) 4 K1NW RIK4D/KPA500Brian (w) 5 WN9A INK4D/KPA1500 Larry (w) 6 K1DIH CTK4D/Tokyo Hi-PowerBrian (w) 7 K1ND MIK4/KPA500 Jan (w) 8 K8NU OHK4D/KPA1500 Carl (w) 9 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500Paul (w) 10 KD9RRS WIIC-7300/KPA500Mark (w) (Entries with (c/o) indicate a 'one and done' station that checked out during the 1st round. (n/h) failed to respond during subsequent rounds.) We had a total of 10 check ins this week (including the NCS). Very nice hearing from everyone tonight. I hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 09:30 PM ET. Conditions were very good this evening, as the band had recovered from several C-class flares earlier in the day. During the net an M-class flare struck, but flares effect the daytime side of the planet, and generally the D-layer adsorption effects fade after a couple of hours. So the West Coast and the Asia-Pacific area were effected, but not the East Coast of the US. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage everyone in the Midwest and adjoining areas to check in next week. As a reminder, if you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you should see the frequency we are using that evening, if we must QSY again due to busy frequencies. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ 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] [Elecraft-K4] Elecraft 40M SSB Net Report
[Edited. Reason: Changed K8NU's name from Eric to Carl (sorry about that).] 7280 kHz, 1900 UTC Sunday. Steve, WM6P, the usual NCS, was absent this week, so Dave, N8SBE took the net with Brian's, K1NW, assist as a relay station. Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500Dave (w),(op) 2 K1NW RIK4D/KPA500Brian (rel),(w) 3 K8NU OHK4D/KPA1500 Carl (w) 4 W9EJB INK4D/KPA500Ed (w) 5 NK9A MIFT710/SB-200 Stan (w) 6 WA8SAJ OHK4D/KPA500Jeff (w) (Entries with (c/o) indicate a 'one and done' station that checked out during the 1st round. (n/h) failed to respond during subsequent rounds.) We had a total of 6 check ins this week (including the NCS). Thanks to the relay stations that helped this afternoon. Very nice hearing from everyone today, in spite of the double whammy of C-Class flares in the last couple of hours, resulting in an A index of 12. 40M was essentially dead. Hopefully we'll have better propagation next week. I hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 19:11 UTC. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage everyone in the Eastern US and adjoining areas to check in next week. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#31343): https://groups.io/g/Elecraft-K4/message/31343 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/105788264/439435 Group Owner: elecraft-k4+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/Elecraft-K4/leave/12322551/439435/1385384913/xyzzy [n8...@densbe.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 40M SSB Net Report
7280 kHz, 1900 UTC Sunday. Steve, WM6P, the usual NCS, was absent this week, so Dave, N8SBE took the net with Brian's, K1NW, assist as a relay station. Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500Dave (w),(op) 2 K1NW RIK4D/KPA500Brian (rel),(w) 3 K8NU OHK4D/KPA1500 Eric (w) 4 W9EJB INK4D/KPA500Ed (w) 5 NK9A MIFT710/SB-200 Stan (w) 6 WA8SAJ OHK4D/KPA500Jeff (w) (Entries with (c/o) indicate a 'one and done' station that checked out during the 1st round. (n/h) failed to respond during subsequent rounds.) We had a total of 6 check ins this week (including the NCS). Thanks to the relay stations that helped this afternoon. Very nice hearing from everyone today, in spite of the double whammy of C-Class flares in the last couple of hours, resulting in an A index of 12. 40M was essentially dead. Hopefully we'll have better propagation next week. I hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 19:11 UTC. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage everyone in the Eastern US and adjoining areas to check in next week. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ 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] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Announcement
Please join us on 3803kHz plus (not minus) QRM (see the Netlogger discussion, below), 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Note that the net stays on the same local time, when we switch back and forth to/from Daylight time, so the UTC time changes, but not the local time. As daylight persists more into the evening, we may find it more difficult to conduct the net at its regular time. For the time being, let's keep it at 9PM ET, as that is getting late on a 'school night' for a lot of folks, as it is. Your net control this week will be Dave, N8SBE. The group that meets on 3803 kHz before us has been wrapping up operations promptly at or before 9PM ET. There is also another group that normally comes on at 10PM ET, so we need to make sure to wrap up operations by 10PM ET. If any stations wish to continue past that time, please QSY to a clear frequency. If you are a US General class licensee, please ensure that your dial is accurately calibrated and that your transmitter/amplifier combination is clean and free of splatter, since we will be operating LSB within 3 kHz of the lower band edge of the 80M US General class band. I'm using Netlogger, so if you go to netlogger.org and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you will be able to see the exact frequency we've settled on for the evening. If we find 3803 kHz busy, we will move UP the band a few kHz, so we can stay in the 80M US General class band. Hope to see you this evening on the net. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ 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] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3803 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500Dave (w),(op) 2 WB9JNZ ILFTdx1010d/KPA1500 Eric (w) 3 AK4TF GAFlex 6400/KPA500 Tony (w) 4 K1NW RIK4D/KPA500Brian (rel),(w) 5 K8NU OHK4D/KPA1500 Carl (c/o),(w) 6 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500Paul (w) 7 K5WC ARK4D/Mercury Lux John (c/o),(w) 8 K1DIH CTK4D/Tokyo Hi-PowerBrian (w) 9 N2TNN VAK3Dean (w) (Entries with (c/o) indicate a 'one and done' station that checked out during the 1st round. (n/h) failed to respond during subsequent rounds.) We had a total of 9 check ins this week (including the NCS). Thanks to the relay stations that helped this evening. Very nice hearing from everyone tonight. I hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 09:26 PM ET. Conditions were noisy this evening for some stations, with lightning in the NE and GA off-shore area. The summer season is coming on. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage everyone in the Midwest and adjoining areas to check in next week. As a reminder, if you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you should see the frequency we are using that evening, if we must QSY again due to busy frequencies. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ 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] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Announcement
Please join us on 3803kHz plus (not minus) QRM (see the Netlogger discussion, below), 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Note that the net stays on the same local time, when we switch back and forth to/from Daylight time, so the UTC time changes, but not the local time. As daylight persists more into the evening, we may find it more difficult to conduct the net at its regular time. For the time being, let's keep it at 9PM ET, as that is getting late on a 'school night' for a lot of folks, as it is. Your net control this week will be Dave, N8SBE. The group that meets on 3803 kHz before us has been wrapping up operations promptly at or before 9PM ET. There is also another group that normally comes on at 10PM ET, so we need to make sure to wrap up operations by 10PM ET. If any stations wish to continue past that time, please QSY to a clear frequency. If you are a US General class licensee, please ensure that your dial is accurately calibrated and that your transmitter/amplifier combination is clean and free of splatter, since we will be operating LSB within 3 kHz of the lower band edge of the 80M US General class band. I'm using Netlogger, so if you go to netlogger.org and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you will be able to see the exact frequency we've settled on for the evening. If we find 3803 kHz busy, we will move UP the band a few kHz, so we can stay in the 80M US General class band. Hope to see you this evening on the net. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ 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] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3803 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500Dave (w),(op) 2 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500Paul (w) 3 K8NU OHK4D/KPA1500 Carl (c/o),(w) 4 K1NW RIK4D/KPA500Brian (w),(rel) 5 NK9R GAK3/KPA1500Harry (w) 6 K3CAQ OHKX3/KXPA100 Andy (w) 7 K1DIH CTK4D Brian (w) 8 N2TNN VAK4Dean (w) (Entries with (c/o) indicate a 'one and done' station that checked out during the 1st round. (n/h) failed to respond during subsequent rounds.) We had a total of 8 check ins this week (including the NCS). Thanks to the relay stations that helped this evening. Very nice hearing from everyone tonight. I hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 09:24 PM ET. Conditions were noisy this evening, with lightning in the PA area. The summer season is coming on. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage everyone in the Midwest and adjoining areas to check in next week. As a reminder, if you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you should see the frequency we are using that evening, if we must QSY again due to busy frequencies. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ 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] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Announcement
Please join us on 3803kHz (NOTE THE NEW FREQUENCY) plus (not minus) QRM (see the Netlogger discussion, below), 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Note that the net stays on the same local time, when we switch back and forth to/from Daylight time, so the UTC time changes, but not the local time. As daylight persists more into the evening, we may find it more difficult to conduct the net at its regular time. For the time being, let's keep it at 9PM ET, as that is getting late on a 'school night' for a lot of folks, as it is. Your net control this week will be Dave, N8SBE. The group that meets on 3803 kHz before us has been wrapping up operations promptly at or before 9PM ET. There is also another group that normally comes on at 10PM ET, so we need to make sure to wrap up operations by 10PM ET. If any stations wish to continue past that time, please QSY to a clear frequency. If you are a US General class licensee, please ensure that your dial is accurately calibrated and that your transmitter/amplifier combination is clean and free of splatter, since we will be operating LSB within 3 kHz of the lower 80M US General class band edge. I'm using Netlogger, so if you go to netlogger.org and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you will be able to see the exact frequency we've settled on for the evening. If we find 3803 kHz busy, we will move UP the band a few kHz, so we can stay in the 80M US General class band. Hope to see you this evening on the net. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ 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] Feature Request: Telnet discos when leaving update, no matter what happend...
Hi Wayne, In all your copious spare time-- could you consider disabling the reset of all telnet connections when exiting UPDATES. It appears to to force a disconnect of all existing telnet connections, no matter what action is taken. i.e. If I enter UPDATE, and then EXIT update, all existing telnet connections are dropped. Not a big deal, but if you are keeping a list of things to do, (as I am sure you are), you might consider adding that to it. Thanks for your consideration of this... -- 73, and thanks, Dave (NK7Z) https://www.nk7z.net ARRL Volunteer Examiner ARRL Technical Specialist, RFI ARRL Asst. Director, NW Division, Technical Resources __ 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] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3803 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBE OHK4D Dave (p),(w),(op) 2 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500Paul (rel),(w) 3 K1NW RIK4D/KPA1500 Brian (rel),(w) 4 K1DIH CTK4D/Tokyo HiPower Brian (w) 5 K8NU OHK4D/KPA1500 Carl (c/o),(w) 6 WM6P GAK4D/KPA1500 Steve (rel),(w) 7 W4NDK NCFTdx10Nate (n/h),(w) 8 AK4TF GAFlex-6400/KPA500 Tony (w) 9 WY3T FLK3s/KPA500Tim (w) 10 K2LED NYKx3 15W TS-890/KPA500 Bob (w) 11 K1ND MIK4/KPA500 Jan (w) 12 KD2EPJ NJKx3/KXPA100 Lou (w) (Entries with (c/o) indicate a 'one and done' station that checked out during the 1st round. (n/h) failed to respond during subsequent rounds.) We had a total of 12 check ins this week (including the NCS). Thanks to the relay stations that helped this evening. The NCS was running portable from the Dayton KOA campground running 100W. Very nice hearing from everyone tonight. I hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 09:46 PM ET. Conditions were noisy this evening, with lightning in the Midwest. The summer season is coming on. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage everyone in the Midwest and adjoining areas to try to check in next week. As a reminder, if you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you should see the frequency we are using that evening, if we must QSY again due to busy frequencies. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] K5 beta testers
Yep. Also, if you check, KF0UR is already taken, by one of the principles of QRPworks, LLC, makers of the SideKar that works with the KX2 and KX3. But, KF1VE hasn't been taken - so beat the rush! 73, -- Dave, N8SBE On 2024-04-01 17:10, Daniel Brown wrote: Check the date. On Apr 1, 2024, at 2:10 PM, Dave New, N8SBE wrote: K5? How about KF0UR? 73, -- Dave, N8SBE On 2024-04-01 10:15, David Pratt wrote: I was just wondering whether any of the K5 Beta Testers have taken out KF1VE as a vanity callsign? 73 de David G4DMP -- __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] K5 beta testers
K5? How about KF0UR? 73, -- Dave, N8SBE On 2024-04-01 10:15, David Pratt wrote: I was just wondering whether any of the K5 Beta Testers have taken out KF1VE as a vanity callsign? 73 de David G4DMP -- + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + | David M Pratt, Kippax, Leeds.| | Website: https://www.g4dmp.co.uk | + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + __ 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 n8...@densbe.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3803 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500Dave (w),(op) 2 K8NU OHK4D/KPA1500 Carl (c/o),(w) 3 K3CAQ OHKX3/KXPA100 Andy (w) 4 K2RIG NJK4/Mercury IIIBill (w) 5 N2TNN VAK3Dean (w) 6 K1NW RIK4D/KPA500Brian (rel),(w) 7 WM6P GAK4D/KPA1500 Steve (rel),(w) 8 W4MJE ARKX3/KXPA100 Jim (c/o),(w) 9 K1DIH CTK4D/Tokyo HiPower Brian (w) 10 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500Paul (w) 11 KD4IZ MDIC-7610/KPA500Jack (w) 12 WB9JNZ ILFTdx-101d/KPA1500 Eric (w) 13 NY9H PAK4D/RFKit Bill (w) (Entries with (c/o) indicate a 'one and done' station that checked out during the 1st round, or failed to respond during subsequent rounds) We had a total of 13 check ins this week (including the NCS). Thanks to Eric, WB9JNZ and Steve, WM6P, as relay stations. Very nice hearing from everyone tonight. I hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 09:33 PM ET. Conditions were noisy this evening, with an S5-S7 noise floor at my QTH, and lightning in northern Illinois to add to the mix. The summer season is coming on. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage everyone in the Midwest and adjoining areas to try to check in next week. As a reminder, if you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you should see the frequency we are using that evening, if we must QSY again due to busy frequencies. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ 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] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Announcement
Please join us on 3803kHz (NOTE THE NEW FREQUENCY) plus (not minus) QRM (see the Netlogger discussion, below), 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Note that the net stays on the same local time, when we switch back and forth to/from Daylight time, so the UTC time changes, but not the local time. As daylight persists more into the evening, we may find it more difficult to conduct the net at its regular time. For the time being, let's keep it at 9PM ET, as that is getting late on a 'school night' for a lot of folks, as it is. Your net control this week will be Dave, N8SBE. The group that meets on 3803 kHz before us has been wrapping up operations promptly at or before 9PM ET. There is also another group that normally comes on at 10PM ET, so we need to make sure to wrap up operations by 10PM ET. If any stations wish to continue past that time, please QSY to a clear frequency. If you are a US General class licensee, please ensure that your dial is accurately calibrated and that your transmitter/amplifier combination is clean and free of splatter, since we will be operating LSB within 3 kHz of the lower 80M US General class band edge. I'm using Netlogger, so if you go to netlogger.org and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you will be able to see the exact frequency we've settled on for the evening. If we find 3803 kHz busy, we will move UP the band a few kHz, so we can stay in the 80M US General class band. Hope to see you this evening on the net. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ 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] K3S/P3 for sale
I'm parting with my K3S/P3 since I'm loving my K4 just fine. I bought this one myself in December of 2016 and has worked great over the years. I sent it back for a new PA a couple of years ago and it is 100+ watts on all bands. I also had them align it. It has the second receiver and a bunch of accessories. For anyone interested I can email the original invoice...the list is long. I have the factory box for the K3S for shipping. For the K3S, the P3, and two speakers I'm <>asking $3200. Dave, AI7R (Chandler, AZ) d...@ai7r.net AI7R.NET <https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2FAI7R.NET%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR04y97gDVZfmG0UFEwpLBzVGGniCaZvL8CqP0Kc4LM4EE_sj28yIY7Equo=AT2DEht9sRCca7m4qDM1COpDGxKI1BVswmYvQbbaejVV6vSauQtDttxTPVkmLB30yKPMgq8pWh37xELpcMaMbQu-1GJw2J_q5lBZx3YPZ0qg_JTx1KIH4Fj7QrCaY9jAHHHm7YYggw&__tn__=-UK-R[0]=AT0hpZ3e_e332Re7b2P91CAljWzWaQ-muSMKIL_UfTDZtpJZkKLMD1xPYLxFjiey0nKx_a7EjwFoIVhGMRkfpkMnHsU5NMvZcIDHfAtr1gPgIY5ZFXXZw1XvrJ8WboJuJTmOc2baUfWM4vc3Yq46zQx7L4sRvb9S2xfyW3uBqCCzZqwKhy1DzsGsZoRs_jFvvT1f3r2tCyo72gb63CWpJHk> __ 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] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3803 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500Dave (w),(op) 2 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500Paul (w) 3 WB9JNZ ILFTdx101d/KPA1500 Eric (rel),(w) 4 K8NU OHK4D/KPA1500 Carl (c/o),(w) 5 K4TM VAK4/KPA1500Cary (c/o),(w) 6 K1NW RIK4D/KPA500Brian (w) 7 N0MPM IAK3s Mike (w) 8 KK9H ILK3/KPA1500Don (c/o),(w) 9 K2LED NYTS-890/KPA500 Bob (w) 10 K1DIH CTK4D/TokyoHiPower Brian (w) 11 W8KEN OHK4D/KPA1500 Ken (c/o),(w) 12 WW4JF TNK3s/KPA500John (c/o),(w) 13 KD9RRS WIIC-7300/KPA500Mark (c/o),(w) 14 WB4HUC TXK4/KPA500 Mike (c/o),(w) 15 WA0TXJ MNK4D/KPA500Keith (w) 16 N2TNN VAK3Dean (c/o),(w) 17 WA4RYW ALK4D/KPA1500 Gill (c/o),(w) 18 W4NDK NCFTdx10Nate (c/o),(w) 19 WB8VAF OHTS-570D Frank (w) (Entries with (c/o) indicate a 'one and done' station that checked out during the 1st round) We had a total of 19 check ins this week (including the NCS). Thanks to Eric, WB9JNZ, this week that did yeoman's duty to pull in signals that I couldn't hear clearly or couldn't hear me due to antenna problems at my QTH. Very nice hearing from everyone tonight. I hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 09:57 PM ET. Conditions were noisy this evening, with an S7 noise floor at my QTH, and signals were weaker than usual with some QSB, due to recovery from a recent G4 geomagnetic storm and K index = 8. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage everyone in the Midwest and adjoining areas to try to check in next week. As a reminder, if you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you should see the frequency we are using that evening, if we must QSY again due to busy frequencies. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ 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] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Announcement
Please join us on 3803kHz (NOTE THE NEW FREQUENCY) plus (not minus) QRM (see the Netlogger discussion, below), 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Note that the net stays on the same local time, when we switch back and forth to/from Daylight time, so the UTC time changes, but not the local time. As daylight persists more into the evening, we may find it more difficult to conduct the net at its regular time. For the time being, let's keep it at 9PM ET, as that is getting late on a 'school night' for a lot of folks, as it is. Your net control this week will be Dave, N8SBE. We are in the midst of a G4 geomagnetic storm, and the K index is 8, so there is a LOT of D layer absorption on the low bands. Hopefully some of this will dissipate by this evening's net. The group that meets on 3803 kHz before us has been wrapping up operations promptly at or before 9PM ET. There is also another group that normally comes on at 10PM ET, so we need to make sure to wrap up operations by 10PM ET. If any stations wish to continue past that time, please QSY to a clear frequency. If you are a US General class licensee, please ensure that your dial is accurately calibrated and that your transmitter/amplifier combination is clean and free of splatter, since we will be operating LSB within 3 kHz of the lower 80M US General class band edge. I'm using Netlogger, so if you go to netlogger.org and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you will be able to see the exact frequency we've settled on for the evening. If we find 3803 kHz busy, we will move UP the band a few kHz, so we can stay in the 80M US General class band. Hope to see you this evening on the net. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ 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] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3803 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500Dave (w),(op) 2 WB9JNZ ILFTDX101d/KPA1500 Eric (rel),(w) 3 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500Paul (w) 4 K8NUOHK4D/KPA1500 Carl (w) 5 K1NWRIK4D/KPA500Brian (w) 6 WN9AINK4D/KPA1500 Larry (w) 7 KD2WCY NJK2/KXPA100Kevin (w) 8 WM6PGAK4D/KPA1500 Steve (rel),(w) 9 N3GOD MDIC-725/ALS500 Doug (w) 10 K1DIH CTK4D/TokyoHiPower Brian (w) 11 KK5LD TXK3/HB500W Dan (c/o),(w) (Entries with (c/o) indicate a 'one and done' station that checked out during the 1st round) We had a total of 11 check ins this week (including the NCS). Thanks to all the relays this week that helped to pull in signals that I couldn't hear clearly. Very nice hearing from everyone tonight. I hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 09:44 PM ET. Conditions were noisy this evening, with an S7 noise floor at my QTH, and signals were weaker than usual with some QSB. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage anyone in the Midwest and adjoining areas to try to check in next week. As a reminder, if you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you should see the frequency we are using that evening, if we must QSY again due to busy frequencies. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ 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] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Announcement
Please join us on 3803kHz (NOTE THE NEW FREQUENCY) plus (not minus) QRM (see the Netlogger discussion, below), 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Note that the net stays on the same local time, when we switch back and forth to/from Daylight time, so the UTC time changes, but not the local time. As daylight persists more into the evening, we may find it more difficult to conduct the net at its regular time. For the time being, let's keep it at 9PM ET, as that is getting late on a 'school night' for a lot of folks, as it is. Your net control this week will be Dave, N8SBE. The group that meets on 3803 kHz before us has been wrapping up operations promptly at or before 9PM ET. They are aware of our net that follows them at 9PM ET, and have made an effort to accommodate us, and sometimes one or more of them listen in on our net, so I've made a point of thanking them for their courtesy. Likewise, I've become aware that another group normally comes on at 10PM ET, so we need to make sure to wrap up operations by 10PM ET. If any stations wish to continue past that time, please QSY to a clear frequency. If you are a US General class licensee, please ensure that your dial is accurately calibrated and that your transmitter/amplifier combination is clean and free of splatter, since we will be operating LSB within 3 kHz of the lower 80M US General class band edge. I'm using Netlogger, so if you go to netlogger.org and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you will be able to see the exact frequency we've settled on for the evening. If we find 3803 kHz busy, we will move UP the band a few kHz, so we can stay in the 80M US General class band. Hope to see you this evening on the net. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ 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} High SWR on 17 meters
I attempted to do the TX gain calibration on my K3, S/N 1171 today but it fails with 2.2:1 SWR in 18 MHz. I've tried both ANT1 and ANT ports on the K3, multiple different patch cables, and two different high-precision Cablewave dummy loads. With my LP-100A SWR meter in-line when testing it shows 1.02:1 while the K3 and the K3 utility say the SWR is 2.4:1. What should ZI look at next? __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Cable
Hi Harold, You will connect the K2 to the KXPA100 as you would any 3rd party transceiver setup as described in the KXPA100 manual. You will just route RF from the K2 to the KXPA100 input and provide a keying line from the K2 to the keying input of the KXPA100. This means you will need to add the capability of providing a keying output to the K2 as it is not available natively. If you happen to have an older K2 with the K60XV module installed, you can pick off the proper keying signal from that module. Otherwise, you will need a circuit to proved the keying signal. There are a number of circuits out there on the web that show how to do this. I happen to sell a kit for the K2 that was designed by Tom Hammond, N0SS (SK) to do exactly this: https://www.w8fgu.com/k2_trdriver.html. It mounts where the K60XV module would reside in the K2. With all of this said, you will not have a really tight integration with the KXPA100 as you would the obsolete KPA100. But it works very well. Band changes will be manual, but RF sensing in the KXPA100 would provide automatic band changing with just a dit of RF from the K2. Hope this helps. If you have further questions or need support for your K2, I am also the K2 support guy for Elecraft as well. My predecessor Don Wilhelm, W3FPR is usually monitoring this list and provides excellent support for all things Elecraft where he can. 73, Dave, W8FGU On 3/14/2024 8:52:22 AM, "Harold Howells" wrote: What cable is needed to use the KXPA 100 amplifier with the K2 transceiver? Thanks HH Harold Howells hhowe...@intrq.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to d...@w8fgu.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Mysterious K3 Symptoms - RFI?
Try upgrading your WiFi to 5 GHz, which has a few hundred channels available. 2.4 GHz Wifi has only a dozen channels, and practically, you can only use 3 of them in a crowded situation, due to overlap of adjacent channels. 2.4 GHz WiFi is a disaster in crowded situations, as you've found out. Moving to 5 GHz units will solve all your WiFi over-crowding situations. If you have an Android phone, download WiFi Analyer app so you can see the channels in use around you, both 2.4 and 5 GHz. I use an eero mesh WiFi 6 network, and there is no latency due to the WiFi, which is actually capable of higher speeds than our ISP, which is 300 Mb up/dn fiber-to-the-home (upgradable to 1 Gb up/dn without any hardware upgrades). Any wired ethernet in my house is 1 Gb, which has much less interference potential than the older 100 Mb stuff. I use shielded metal-case Netgear routers. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE On 2024-03-13 12:58, Bayard Coolidge, N1HO via Elecraft wrote: Unfortunately, with the high population density in my immediate neighborhood, especially with 150+ condominium apartments right next door, I have a difficult time getting a reliable wi-fi connection to my home network. I'm about 900 feet (240m) west of the Intracoastal Waterway, and have 2, 3, 5 and 7 floor condo buildings between me and the ICW. To the north, west and south, I have single-family homes. Along the south (i.e., rear) side of our house lot, I have 7.5kV 3-phase power lines overhead, which feed the homes on the block south of us; we're fed by underground feeders installed 2 years ago. To make matters more interesting, we have a steel "ridgepole" running the length of the house, atop the actual conventional wooden ridgepole, which supports the curved concrete tiles at the top of the roof. I suspect that noise is coupling from it onto my TWP Ethernet line as well. I used the simple/cheap MFJ clamp-on chokes at both the shack end and the end in the den where it's plugged into the ISP's modem/router. Basically, I'm doing the best I can with what I've got. 73, Brandy, N1HO (EL96xh) On Wednesday, March 13, 2024 at 12:24:24 PM EDT, Victor Rosenthal wrote: I recommend replacing Ethernet cables with wifi when possible, both for noise and rfi problems, as well as reducing the chance of lightning damage. Victor 4X6GP __ 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 n8...@densbe.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] K4D for bargain price on eBay
Alan,
You are correct, 100%!! If you want to dupe that kit, buy three
FT-240-31 cores, and wrap 12 turns of RG-400 around two core.
The cores are around 6 bucks each, and the RG-400 is around $1.25 a foot...
Put one core at the feedpoint of your antenna, one at the rig, (probably
won't need that one), and then take the third one and wrap 10 to 15
turns of your 12 volt power around it and put it close to the K4. That
will end most of the common mode issues...
73, and thanks,
Dave (NK7Z)
https://www.nk7z.net
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ARRL Technical Specialist, RFI
ARRL Asst. Director, NW Division, Technical Resources
On 3/12/24 08:12, G4GNX wrote:
It’s a no-brainer. That ad is for an RFI kit only. My question is: Are 3
toroids and some bits of wire worth $150?
Unless I was severely disabled, blind or exceptionally lazy, I’d be ashamed to
buy that item!
73,
Alan - G4GNX
South Coast UK
Elecraft K4D / KPA500 / KAT500 / IC-9700
73,
Alan - G4GNX
South Coast UK
Elecraft K4D / KPA500 / KAT500 / IC-9700
On 12 Mar 2024, at 13:42, Kurt Pawlikowski wrote:
Petr,
Looking at the only listing for anything "K4," I found this
<https://www.ebay.com/itm/204318009997?itmmeta=01HRSE265CV1YJX0XQ8K8HAGRW=item2f924d6a8d:g:bzEAAOSwiatkSVBn=enc%3AAQAI0JHSyyPQ1ljDZDKiIlX2UrjAtz%2BoiTfl74GzI6wJx0HUam1ARJ9Bwh9q7x0TfNhQeA1rBlInkrAPU6E2bEy5%2BSblGHLv6flCWtN5k5hLWLjCkWWLRQHSJxN9SxPqwibj0a1qfu%2FDhguwza7YsjNhNg%2Bkwb077Dm%2BxB1bw0i0Yg07EneSyp3Ea5R8f%2FLltGGy0yxXcOP%2Bk5mL8MIlC3Y%2BhHUgH3mpQHc%2Fno6vxRgxpc5WCBkMrdBmxZnke5pMRsQjfYfnjJzJcjKM9PR11H4uavs%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR-jiiK7GYw>.
If that's what you're looking at, it's an "RFI Kit" for a K4, I don't think it includes the K4 itself!
{'-)
kurtt WB9FMC
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Re: [Elecraft] KAT500 no PC comms
I had purchased a used KAT500 from someone that it turns out had bought it from a 'super station', but had never tried to update the firmware or use the KAT500 utility to talk to the KAT500. After I got it home, I tried to check the firmware level, only to find out that I could see the prompt from the KAT500, but I couldn't talk to it. It turned out that the FET in the input side of the PC DATA jack was blown, likely from static charge at the 'super station' and they had sold the KAT500 to my intermediate owner without telling him it had a blown PC DATA port. I asked Elecraft support for the part number for the FET, ordered a few from Mouser, and replaced it (it's an SMD device, so not for the faint of heart) and that cured the communication issue. Of course, your mileage may vary. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Transverter drift
Steve- which radio and transverter are you using? In some transverters, the Local Oscillator drifts with temperature - sometimes a lot. This is typically more pronounced on the higher bands, but can be troublesome even on 2m. I used to have the Elecraft external transverters (XV144, XV222, XV432), and tamed the drift quite a bit by adding the optional ovens on the LO crystals on each of them. Not perfect, but better. You mentioned it happens as you transmit, so it very well could be due to components heating up while transmitting. Another thing to check is the input voltage to both radio and transverter. If the voltage is sagging during transmit, you may have similar symptoms. Make sure your power supply can handle the load, and that all of your DC wiring is good and has minimal voltage drop. You might also try without the amp to see if that additional load on the power supply is making any difference. Good luck! let us know how it goes. 73 de W0ZF I have no experience with the internal transverters on any Elecraft radio. 73 de W0ZF On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 5:14 PM Steve McKee wrote: > We have a SSB 2M net on Saturday's and > I use a Mirage 30w Amp inline for the extra boost. It has the SSB mode > switch. > My issue is everyone reports when I transmit my freq keeps climbing in > where they have to continuously adjust the RIT to understand me. > Ideas > Steve/KE0RSI > null > __ > 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 dave.w...@gmail.com > __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Piggy back KPA 1500 onto KPA 100
I know that one of the Fred Cady books I have here shows that hookup with either the KPA500/KAT500 'power combo' or the KPA1500 w/ATU, so yes, it is supported. As far as ATU's go, you should only have the ATU in the unit that is connected to the coax going to your antenna enabled. All others downstream from there should be bypassed, as they are looking into a nominal 50-ohm load. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE On 2024-03-11 15:28, Karl W Hubbard via Elecraft wrote: This question may have been answered in the past. I have a KX3 and a KPA100, both with ATUs. Can I power up my TX via addition of a KPA1500, assuming I upgrade my antenna (Buckmaster 300watt OCFD 8 bander) to the 3000 watt version ? If feasible without risk of blowing up anything, and assuming the KPA 1500 also has a built-in autotuner, at what stage should auto tuner control be established? Thanks, and 73’s Karl AF5LQ Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone __ 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 n8...@densbe.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] KAT500 no PC comms
There is a 3.5mm stereo jack on the back of the KAT500 labeled 'PC Data'. You need an Elecraft KXUSB cable, which is the same USB to serial cable used on the KX2, to talk to the KAT500 from your PC. Unlink the KUSB, which has a USB A connector on one end, and a 9-pin serial connector on the other, the KXUSB has a USB A connector on one end, and a 3.5mm stereo plug on the other, so there are only 3 connections - GND, RX, and TX. Hope that helps, -- Dave, N8SBE On 2024-03-10 13:33, Mike Dodd wrote: Elecraft is taking a l_o_n_g time to repair the USB port on my K4d, so I bought a used K3 (non-s) as a backup rig. It works fine, and interfaces correctly with my KPA500 and KAT500. (The KAT is already configured for all frequency steps on all bands, and I can hear the KAT relays click when I change bands.) But the KAT Utility doesn't connect to the KAT. I'm using the same Computer interface cable plugged into the same USB port on the PC. Windows Device manager says it's working. With a K4, does the KAT communicate with the PC via the K4's USB connection, which he K3 doesn't have? What am I missing? 73, Mike N4CF __ 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 n8...@densbe.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3803 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500Dave (w),(op) 2 WB9JNZ ILFTd101dx/KPA1500 Eric (rel),(w) 3 K4TM VAK4/KPA1500Cary (w) 4 KK9H ILK3Don (c/o),(w) 5 K8NU OHK4D/KPA1500 Carl (c/o),(w) 6 KC9NRO INFTdx10Greg (w) 7 K1NW RIK4D/KPA500Brian (w) 8 K1DIH CTK4D/Tokyo HiPower1.5k Brian (w) 9 K5WC ARK4D/Mercury Lux John (c/o),(w) 10 N2TNN VAK3Dean (w) 11 WW4JF TNK3S/KPA500John (w) 12 WA2EIN VAOrion II/Titan IIIPete (c/o),(w) 13 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500Paul (w) 14 WM6P GAK4D/KPA1500 Steve (rel),(w) 15 N6JW CAK3/KPA500 John (c/o),(w) 16 AC6JA CAK3Mike (w) 17 N7EKF UTKX3/KPA500Ken (w) 18 KD2WCY NJK2/KXPA100Kevin (w) (Entries with (c/o) indicate a 'one and done' station that checked out during the 1st round) We had a total of 18 check ins this week (including the NCS). Thanks to all the relays this week that helped to pull in signals that I couldn't hear clearly. Very nice hearing from everyone tonight. I hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 09:50 PM ET. I'd like to call out N6JW, John, from California for checking in via Eric's, WB9JNZ, relay, and also bringing two additional new check ins to the net from CA and UT. Hello to Mike, AC6JA, and Ken, N8EKF. John, K5WC, reported hearing all three stations in AR. We had a quiet night, with virtually no lightning in the North America region, and a K index of 0, with very low D Layer absorption. Essentially ideal conditions to hear stations from the West Coast, in spite of the fact that it was still daylight there. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage anyone in the Midwest and adjoining areas to try to check in next week. As a reminder, if you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you should see the frequency we are using that evening, if we must QSY again due to busy frequencies. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ 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] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Announcement
Please join us on 3803kHz (NOTE THE NEW FREQUENCY) plus (not minus) QRM (see the Netlogger discussion, below), 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Note that the net stays on the same local time, when we switch back and forth to/from Daylight time, so the UTC time changes, but not the local time. As daylight persists more into the evening, we may find it more difficult to conduct the net at its regular time. For the time being, let's keep it at 9PM ET, as that is getting late on a 'school night' for a lot of folks, as it is. Your net control this week will be Dave, N8SBE. After some discussion, we've decided to try moving from 3806 kHz to 3803 kHz. The past few weeks there has been some sort of noise heard on 3806 kHz by East coast stations, making it difficult to hear net control. The group that meets on 3803 kHz has been wrapping up operations promptly at 9pm ET (so far), so it should be clear for our use then. I'll keep a watch to see if the net that normally occupies 3803 kHz the hour before our time stays with local time, or moves with the change to daylight saving time. If they move their local time, it will place them on top of our 9PM ET net, so we'll need to deal with that if it occurs. It's typical for 80M nets to use local time, as they tend to be regional in nature, not nation- or world-wide. If you are a US General class licensee, please ensure that your dial is accurately calibrated and that your transmitter/amplifier combination is clean and free of splatter, since we will be operating LSB within 3 kHz of the lower 80M US General class band edge. I'm using Netlogger, so if you go to netlogger.org and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you will be able to see the exact frequency we've settled on for the evening. If we find 3803 kHz busy, we will move UP the band a few kHz, so we can stay in the 80M US General class band. Hope to see you this evening on the net. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] KH1 -
You already answered your own question. Note that the entry says "GET only", which means you can read the limits, but cannot set them. I doubt that Elecraft will publicly release a firmware that would allow anyone to fiddle with the transmit limits on their own, since that could lead to folks just 'opening up' the radio and transmitting out of band, either by accident, or on purpose. Please contact supp...@elecraft.com, and see if they have a KH1 firmware download for you with Thailand transmit limits set in it already. I know they support MARS station requests with firmware for some of their other rigs. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE On 2024-03-06 01:27, JCG wrote: The KH1 seems to fulfil my need of a 40 to 15M CW QRP rig with SSB and AM reception capability. I'm currently studying the manuals issued by Elecraft and have a first question: did an OM or YL use the KH1 Programmer's Reference to precisely set the KH1 to his needs, using for exemple a Putty terminal emulator? I plan to use it in Thailand and I need to precisely set band edges (7.0 to 7.2 - 10.1 to 10.15 - 14.0 to 14.35 - 18.068 to 18.168 and 21.0 to 21.45) outside of which TX must be blocked. According to the Programmer's Reference manual (page 6 - TXL/TXH (Transmit Limits; GET only) FORMAT: TXLn; or TXHn; where “L” returns lower limit, “H” returns upper limit, and is 0..4 for 40..15 meters. Reponse: TXLnF; where F is limit in kHz.) this seems to be possible. Did a member already use this remote setting procedure? 73 - Pierre - FK8IH __ 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 n8...@densbe.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3803 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/AmpName 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500 Dave (w),(op) 2 K8NU OHK4D/KPA1500 Carl (w) 3 K1NW RIK4D/KPA500 Brian (rel),(w) 4 WB9JNZ ILFTdx101d/KPA1500 Eric (rel),(w) 5 K4TM VAK4/KPA1500 Cary (w) 6 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500 Paul (w) 7 WN9A INK4D/KPA1500 Larry (w) 8 AB1FF MAK4D/KPA1500 Tom (w) 9 KC1LKO NHAnan7000/RF2KS Miguel (w) 10 WM6P GAK4D/KPA1500 Steve (w) 11 VP2MDX DXK4D/KPA500 Thaire (w) 12 K1DIH CTK4D/Tokyo1.5kfx Brian (w) 13 NY9H PAK4/RFKit Bill (w) 14 WW4JF TNK3S/KPA500 John (rel),(w) 15 WD4AMC GATS-890/AL-1306 Bill (w) 16 KA0RTM MNTS-590SG/KPA1500 Mike (w) 17 WA1NSE MAK4D Jerry (w) We had a total of 17 check ins this week (including the NCS). Thanks to all the relays this week that helped to pull in signals that I couldn't hear clearly. Also I was having antenna issues, and had to run barefoot (100W) so the relays were again very helpful to allow some stations to hear me. Very nice hearing from everyone tonight. I hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 10:00 PM ET. I'd like to call out VP2MDX, Thaire, from Montserrat, as quite possibly our first DX check in to the 80M Elecraft SSB Net. I hope to hear more far-flung stations check in, if possible. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage anyone in the Midwest and adjoining areas to try to check in next week. As a reminder, if you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you should see the frequency we are using that evening, if we must QSY again due to busy frequencies. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ 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] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Announcement
Please join us on 3803kHz (NOTE THE NEW FREQUENCY) plus (not minus) QRM (see the Netlogger discussion, below), 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday). Note that the net stays on the same local time, when we switch back and forth to/from Daylight time, so the UTC time changes, but not the local time. Now that we have moved into Standard time and have shorter daylight hours, 80M should be stronger now during the winter. Your net control this week will be Dave, N8SBE. After some discussion, we've decided to try moving from 3806 kHz to 3803 kHz. The past few weeks there has been some sort of noise heard on 3806 kHz by East coast stations, making it difficult to hear net control. The group that meets on 3803 kHz has been wrapping up operations promptly at 9pm ET (so far), so it should be clear for our use then. If you are a US General class licensee, please ensure that your dial is accurately calibrated and that your transmitter/amplifier combination is clean and free of splatter, since we will be operating LSB within 3 kHz of the lower 80M US General class band edge. I'm using Netlogger, so if you go to netlogger.org and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you will be able to see the exact frequency we've settled on for the evening. If we find 3803 kHz busy, we will move UP the band a few kHz, so we can stay in the 80M US General class band. Hope to see you this evening on the net. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Happy 15th Birthday to my K2!
Congrats. I built mine in 2004. It is a 10 watt version with 160, ATU, and serial port. It is a good one. I have the KX3 and the K3S. I believe the audio from the K2 is easier on the ears than either of the other two. 73, Dave, K4TO On Sun, Mar 3, 2024 at 1:35 AM eric norris via Elecraft < elecraft@mailman.qth.net> wrote: > Completed 15 years ago TODAY! The most fun building experience of my > life, and still a great radio. Special thanks to Don, W3FPR, who > shepherded me home. > 73, Eric NF6S > > ex WD6DBM > >  > __ > 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 k...@arrl.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] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3803 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/AmpName 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500 Dave (w),(op) 2 AA3WA PAK4/Mercury III Nick (w) 3 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500 Paul (w) 4 W8KEN OHK4D/KPA1500 Ken (w) 5 K8NU OHK4D/KPA1500 Carl (w) 6 WM6P GAK4D/KPA1500 Steve (w) 7 N8WL OHK4 Steve (w) 8 K1NW RIK4D/KPA500 Brian (w) 9 K2RIG NJK4/Mercury IIIs Bill (w) 10 K2LED NYTS-890/KPA500Bob (w) 11 WN9A INK4D/KPA1500 Larry (w) 12 N0MPM IAK3s/KPA500 Mike (w) 13 K4TM VAK4/KPA1500 Cary (w) 14 K1DIH CTK4D Brian (w) We had a total of 14 check ins this week (including the NCS). Signals were all equal to or stronger than 59 to this station, with a noise floor of S6, so all readable. Very nice hearing from everyone tonight. I hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 9:39 PM ET. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage anyone in the Midwest and adjoining areas to try to check in next week. As a reminder, if you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you should see the frequency we are using that evening, if we must QSY again due to busy frequencies. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ 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] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Announcement
Please join us on 3803kHz (NOTE THE NEW FREQUENCY) plus (not minus) QRM (see the Netlogger discussion, below), 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday). Note that the net stays on the same local time, when we switch back and forth to/from Daylight time, so the UTC time changes, but not the local time. Now that we have moved into Standard time and have shorter daylight hours, 80M should be stronger now during the winter. Your net control this week will be Dave, N8SBE. After some discussion, we've decided to try moving from 3806 kHz to 3803 kHz. The past few weeks there has been some sort of noise heard on 3806 kHz by East coast stations, making it difficult to hear net control. The group that meets on 3803 kHz has been wrapping up operations promptly at 9pm ET (so far), so it should be clear for our use then. If you are a US General class licensee, please ensure that your dial is accurately calibrated and that your transmitter/amplifier combination is clean and free of splatter, since we will be operating LSB within 3 kHz of the lower 80M US General class band edge. I'm using Netlogger, so if you go to netlogger.org and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you will be able to see the exact frequency we've settled on for the evening. If we find 3803 kHz busy, we will move UP the band a few kHz, so we can stay in the 80M US General class band. Hope to see you this evening on the net. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] O.T. Increase inDigital data on 30m
Yes, Jim, you are correct. My mistake. I've participated in enough NA QSO Parties, both CW and SSB, I should have remembered they are 100W parties. One of the reasons I like to participate in them is because the power limitation helps level the playing field for us 'little pistols'. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE On 2024-02-24 21:27, Jim Brown wrote: Thanks for the explanation, Dave. One small correction -- today's RTTY contest the North American QSO Party, is intended as a 100W contest, and features team competition with a limit of 100W. There are people who enter at high power, but they are a very small minority. If I'm not mistaken, those running high power are considered check logs. 73, Jim K9YC On 2/24/2024 5:23 PM, Dave New, N8SBE wrote: It's not easy finding open frequencies for an exercise of this sort, especially because today was the NA RTTY QSO Party (which doesn't take place on 30M because it is a contest) that completely wiped out the digital portions of the bands that we normally use for Winlink messaging. So it was difficult to work around the KW RTTY stations, to say the least. __ 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 n8...@densbe.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] O.T. Increase inDigital data on 30m
Dale, It's peer-to-peer Winlink stations using VARA HF modulation, in the 500 Hz BW mode. See www.winlink.org for details. The EDM-Target-Stations (EDM = Emergency Digital Messaging) group was preparing for an exercise today, from 6am to 6pm local time (in each time zone), to practice sending check-in messages via VARA HF P2P to target stations from field stations. This is in case of widespread Internet outages, especially in a disaster area, to enable written traffic to/from that area. VARA HF is a software modem substitute for the pricey PACTOR modem hardware, and is finding favor with amateur stations and government SHARES stations as a lower-cost alternative. What you were hearing were folks unfamiliar with the process of setting up their stations to do P2P messaging, to give them an opportunity to work the kinks out before the actual exercise today. Also, the assigned frequencies were moved on 30M to avoid other digital services, like FT8/FT4, etc., so that's likely why you noticed a change in the location of digital traffic on that band. It's not easy finding open frequencies for an exercise of this sort, especially because today was the NA RTTY QSO Party (which doesn't take place on 30M because it is a contest) that completely wiped out the digital portions of the bands that we normally use for Winlink messaging. So it was difficult to work around the KW RTTY stations, to say the least. The EDM-Target-Stations group is looking for more volunteers to run Winlink VARA HF P2P target and field stations. They have an email group on groups.io that you can join. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE On 2024-02-24 13:07, Dale Boresz wrote: Hello, For the last week or so, I've been seeing/hearing a lot of digital data on the lower 20 KHz of the 30m band. This activity has increased dramatically over the last couple of days. Sometimes, a cw callsign is transmitted when the data stops, but not always. The data is about 1 KHz wide and consists of changing amplitudes of multiple tones. I'm not a digital op, and have no idea what digital mode is being employed. Anyone have any idea about what is going on? Perhaps I missed an announcement concerning a change to the 30m 'band plan'. (?) tnx & 73, Dale - WA8SRA __ 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 n8...@densbe.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3803 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/AmpName 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500 Dave (w),(op) 2 WB9JNZ ILFT101dx/KPA1500 Eric (rel),(w) 3 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500 Paul (w) 4 K8NU OHK4D/KPA1500 Carl (w) 5 WM6P GAK4D/KPA1500 Steve (rel),(w) 6 N9QDS ILIC-7300 Keith (w) 7 K3CAQ OHKX3/KXPA100 Andy (w) 8 K2RIG NJK4/Mercury III Bill (w) 9 WN9A INK4D/KPA1500 Larry (w) 10 K7RJS WAK3/KPA500Adrian (w) 11 K1NW RIK4D/KPA500 Brian (rel),(w) 12 N8GNA MIIC-7300 Tom (w) 13 W4NDK NCFTdx10 Nate (w) 14 WY3T FLK3s/KPA500 Tim (w) 15 WW4JF TNK3s/KPA500 John (w) 16 K1DIH CTK4D Brian (w) 17 K5WC ARK4D/Mercury Lux John (w) 18 KJ4UBM NCKX3 Randy (w) 19 KG9NG WIKX2/KXPA100 Sam (w) 20 KD8DZ OHK3/KPA500Mike (w) 21 K2ZA NJKX3/KXPA100 John (w) We had a total of 21 check ins this week (including the NCS). Signals came in stronger after the initial check ins. Thanks to the relay stations for the assists this evening. Very nice hearing from everyone tonight, especially from Adrian, K7RJS in Washington state! I hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 10:01 PM ET. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage anyone in the Midwest and adjoining areas to try to check in next week. As a reminder, if you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you should see the frequency we are using that evening, if we must QSY again due to busy frequencies. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ 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] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Announcement
Please join us on 3803kHz (NOTE THE NEW FREQUENCY) plus QRM (see the Netlogger discussion, below), 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday). Note that the net stays on the same local time, when we switch back and forth to/from Daylight time, so the UTC time changes, but not the local time. Now that we have moved into Standard time and have shorter daylight hours, 80M should be stronger now during the winter. Your net control this week will be Dave, N8SBE. After some discussion, we've decided to try moving from 3806 kHz to 3803 kHz. The past few weeks there has been some sort of noise heard on 3806 kHz by East coast stations, making it difficult to hear net control. The group that meets on 3803 kHz has been wrapping up operations promptly at 9pm ET (so far), so it should be clear for our use then. If you are a US General class licensee, please ensure that your dial is accurately calibrated and that your transmitter/amplifier combination is clean and free of splatter, since we will be operating LSB within 3 kHz of the lower 80M US General class band edge. I'm using Netlogger, so if you go to netlogger.org and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you will be able to see the exact frequency we've settled on for the evening. If we find 3803 kHz busy, we will move UP the band a few kHz, so we can stay in the 80M US General class band. Hope to see you this evening on the net. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ 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] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3803 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/AmpNameSent RST 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500Dave (w),(op) 2 WB9JNZ ILFTdx101d Eric (w) 59+20dB 3 K1NW RIK4D/KPA500Brian (w) 58 4 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500Paul (w),(rel) 59+10dB 5 K8NU OHK4D/KPA1500 Carl (w) 6 WM6P GAK4D/KPA1500 Steve (w) 59+5dB 7 WN9A INK4D/KPA1500 Larry (w) 59+20dB 8 K1DIH CTK4D/Tokyo Hi-Power 1.5kfx Brian (w) 58 We had a total of 8 check ins this week (including the NCS). Signals came in strong after the initial check ins, then faded a bit during the 73 round. Thanks to the relay stations for the assists this evening. Very nice hearing from everyone, in spite of the competing Superbowl broadcast. I hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 9:23 PM ET. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage anyone in the Midwest and adjoining areas to try to check in next week. We are continuing to use 3803 kHz and Brian, K1NW reported that 3803 kHz was still free of the noise he had been experiencing on 3806 kHz. We'll try 3803 kHz again next week. As a reminder, if you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you should see the frequency we are using that evening, if we must QSY again due to busy frequencies. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ 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] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Announcement
Please join us on 3803kHz (NOTE THE NEW FREQUENCY) plus QRM (see the Netlogger discussion, below), 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday). Note that the net stays on the same local time, when we switch back and forth to/from Daylight time, so the UTC time changes, but not the local time. Now that we have moved into Standard time and have shorter daylight hours, 80M should be stronger now during the winter. Your net control this week will be Dave, N8SBE. After some discussion, we've decided to try moving from 3806 kHz to 3803 kHz. The past few weeks there has been some sort of noise heard on 3806 kHz by East coast stations, making it difficult to hear net control. The group that meets on 3803 kHz has been wrapping up operations promptly at 9pm ET (so far), so it should be clear for our use then. If you are a US General class licensee, please ensure that your dial is accurately calibrated and that your transmitter/amplifier combination is clean and free of splatter, since we will be operating LSB within 3 kHz of the lower 80M US General class band edge. I'm using Netlogger, so if you go to netlogger.org and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you will be able to see the exact frequency we've settled on for the evening. If we find 3803 kHz busy, we will move UP the band a few kHz, so we can stay in the 80M US General class band. Hope to see you this evening on the net. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ 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] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3803 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/AmpName 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500 Dave (w),(op) 2 WB9JNZ ILFTDX101D Eric (rel),(w) 3 W8KEN OHK4D/KPA1500 Ken (w) 4 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500 Paul (w) 5 K8NU OHK4D/KPA1500 Carl (w) 6 W8RNG OHIC-7300 Tim (w) 7 K1NW RIK4D/KPA500 Brian (w) 8 WM6P GAK4D/KPA1500 Steve (w) 9 WN9A INK4D/KPA1500 Larry (w) 10 K0AWU MNK3s/Ameritron AI-811 Bill (w) 11 W4NDK NCFTDX10 Nate (w) 12 K3CAQ OHKX3/KXPA100 Andy (w) 13 KC9NRO INFTDX10 Greg (w) 14 K2RIG NJK4/Mecury IIIBill (w) 15 W9YK ILIC-7610/AmeritronTodd (w) 16 AE1P NHK3s/Alpha 76 Neil (w) We had a total of 16 check ins this week (including the NCS). Signals came in strong after the initial check ins, then faded a bit during the 73 round. Thanks to the relay stations for the assists this evening. Very nice hearing from the new check ins. I hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 9:42 PM ET. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage anyone in the Midwest and adjoining areas to try to check in next week. We decided to find an alternate frequency this evening, so we tried 3803 kHz. Brian, K1NW, and Neil, AE1P, reported that 3803 kHz was free of the noise they had been experiencing on 3806 kHz. There were a couple of reports from further south that there was another QSO going on, but most of the net was not hearing them. We'll keep a close eye on that, and try 3803 kHz again next week. As a reminder, if you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you should see the frequency we are using that evening, if we must QSY again due to busy frequencies. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ 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] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Announcement
Please join us on 3803kHz (NOTE THE NEW FREQUENCY) plus QRM (see the Netlogger discussion, below), 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday). Note that the net stays on the same local time, when we switch back and forth to/from Daylight time, so the UTC time changes, but not the local time. Now that we have moved into Standard time and have shorter daylight hours, 80M should be stronger now during the winter. Your net control this week will be Dave, N8SBE. After some discussion, we've decided to try moving from 3806 kHz to 3803 kHz. The past few weeks there has been some sort of noise heard on 3806 kHz by East coast stations, making it difficult to hear net control. The group that meets on 3803 kHz has been wrapping up operations promptly at 9pm ET (so far), so it should be clear for our use then. If you are a US General class licensee, please ensure that your dial is accurately calibrated and that your transmitter/amplifier combination is clean and free of splatter, since we will be operating LSB within 3 kHz of the lower 80M US General class band edge. I'm using Netlogger, so if you go to netlogger.org and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you will be able to see the exact frequency we've settled on for the evening. If we find 3803 kHz busy, we will move UP the band a few kHz, so we can stay in the 80M US General class band. Hope to see you this evening on the net. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] STOP TRANSMITTING A MACRO
See my response in the K4 groups here in groups.io. 73, and thanks, Dave (NK7Z) https://www.nk7z.net ARRL Volunteer Examiner ARRL Technical Specialist, RFI ARRL Asst. Director, NW Division, Technical Resources On 2/3/24 14:51, mza...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, Sometimes I hit the wrong macro. How can I stop without waiting for the end of the transmission? Thanks for your help Marco IZ3ERM __ 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 d...@nk7z.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] FS: K4D Complete Station
Sadly, I am forced to sell a lot of my ham radio gear (downsizing into retirement). I would like to sell my hardly used complete K4D station which includes a K4D 100W HF/6m transceiver with built-in KAT4 automatic tuner, KPOD, keyboard, and MH4 microphone, a KPA1500 HF/6m PA with all the cables, two SP4 speakers, a Nuito HD portable LCD monitor, with manuals. All works as it should. This lot would cost you over $14K new. I’ll sell the whole station for $10.5K - cash, check or PayPal only - checks and PayPal will have to clear before I ship. Shipping and insurance to CONUS included, shipping/insurance outside of CONUS at cost. Please contact me off list directly by email d...@ad6a.com <mailto:d...@ad6a.com> or by phone 408-209-7373 if interested. Photos and/or zoom call for demo available upon request. I will also be selling the following (prices still to be worked out): 1. Four KX-3 rigs, all with built-in automatic antenna tuners and 2m upgrade modules, some with added heatsink/handles, some with PX3 panadaptor, some without. 2. One KX-2 rig with built-in automatic tuner, with carry bag. 3. One T1 QRP portable automatic antenna tuner. 4. One KXPA-100 with all cables. 5. One K3S with just about every option there ever was - 2m module, 2nd RX, External reference, P3 pan adapter with video and TX monitor, lots of filters etc. 6. Two SP3 speakers (that could go with the K3S as a package). 7. One W2 wattmeter with various power heads. I’ll be posting information about these separately shortly, but do contact me if interested in any of these to focus my attention. Additionally, I will be selling a ton of other non-Elecraft radios and high-power PA’s (HF, VHF, UHF, Microwave), but not here on the Elecraft reflector. Thanks es 73, Dave Fifield AD6A __ 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] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3806 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday), although we met on 3824 kHz this evening (see discussion below). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/AmpName 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500 Dave (w),(op) 2 K8NU OHK4D/KPA1500 Carl (rel),(w) 3 WM6P GAK4D/KPA1500 Steve (w) 4 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500 Paul (rel),(w) 5 W4NDK NCFTdx10 Nate (w) 6 K1NW RIK4D/KPA500 Brian (w) 7 WN9A INK4D/KPA1500 Larry (w) 8 KD9YVJ ILFT710Ross (w) 9 K2RIG NJK4/Mercury III Bill (w) 10 K1DIH CTK4D/Tokyo Hi-Power Brian (w) 11 WX0MIK MNFT991/Collins 30L-1 Mike (w) 12 KC3TIU PAG90/G125 Bob (w) We had a total of 12 check ins this week (including the NCS). Signals came in strong after the initial check ins, then faded a bit during the 73 round. Thanks to the relay stations for the assists this evening. Very nice hearing from the new check ins and in particular from KD9YVJ who was using the gutters on his house for his antenna and the first check in from WX0MIK using a Collins 30L-1 amplifier! I hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 9:42 PM ET. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage anyone in the Midwest and adjoining areas to try to check in next week. Also, a couple of stations have complained of a 'roaring' noise (like a foreign broadcast jamming station) on our planned frequency of 3806 kHz, so I decided to find an alternate frequency this evening, which is how we ended up on 3824 kHz. Brian, K1NW, reported that 3803 kHz was free of the noise, and that the folks that meet there just prior to 9pm ET have been closing their net promptly at 9pm, so I propose we try 3803 kHz next week. As a reminder, if you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you should see the frequency we are using that evening, if we must QSY again due to busy frequencies. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ 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] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Announcement
Please join us on 3806kHz (NOTE THE NEW FREQUENCY WHICH MOVES US INTO THE GENERAL CLASS BAND)plus or minus QRM (see the Netlogger discussion, below), 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday). Note that the net stays on the same local time, when we switch back and forth to/from Daylight time, so the UTC time changes, but not the local time. Now that we have moved into Standard time and have shorter daylight hours, 80M should be stronger now during the winter. Your net control this week will be Dave, N8SBE. I'm using Netlogger, so if you go to netlogger.org and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you will be able to see the exact frequency we've settled on for the evening. If we find 3806 kHz busy, we will move UP the band a few kHz, so we can stay in the 80M US General class band. Hope to see you this evening on the net. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ 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] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3806 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/AmpName 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500 Dave (w),(op) 2 KF4BY SCK4D/Alpha 374Stan (w) 3 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500 Paul (rel),(w) 4 K8NU OHK4D/KPA1500 Carl (rel),(w) 5 K5WC ARK4D/Mercury Lux John (rel),(w) 6 KC9NRO INFT-891 Greg (w) 7 WB9JNZ ILFTdx101d/KPA1500 Eric (rel),(w) 8 W0ALA INK3s/KPA500 Tony (w) 9 KA8UGB MIOmni VII/Hercules II Tony (w) 10 N1DIH CTK4/Tokyo Hi-PowerBrian (w) 11 WA4PIM TNJupiter Bart (w) 12 WW4JF TNK3s/KPA500 John (rel),(w) We had a total of 12 check ins this week (including the NCS). Signals varied quite a lot this evening, with some QSB. Thanks to the numerous relay stations for the assists this evening. Very nice hearing from the new check ins and hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 9:48 PM ET. A shout out to the folks that checked in with classic TenTec equipment (a first in my memory of being NCS of this net), and in particular, Bart, in Murfreesboro, TN, my old stomping ground. I got my Novice license there when I was in high school in 1970. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage anyone in the Midwest and adjoining areas to try to check in next week. We also experimented with the Utah SDR#1, and were able to hear a number of us on the SDR. Later, other stations in the western half of the US covered us up on the SDR, although we couldn't hear them direct here in the Midwest. Also, a couple of stations complained of a 'roaring' noise (like an open mic) on the frequency, which we decided was likely foreign broadcast (or jamming of a foreign broadcast - take your pick). If this persists, we may yet have to go looking for another frequency. I couldn't hear it at my QTH in Ann Arbor, MI, due to a persistent S7 noise floor, here. As a reminder, if you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time, you should see the frequency we are using that evening, if we must QSY due to busy frequencies. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ 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] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Announcement
Please join us on 3806kHz (NOTE THE NEW FREQUENCY WHICH MOVES US INTO THE GENERAL CLASS BAND)plus or minus QRM (see the Netlogger discussion, below), 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday). Note that the net stays on the same local time, when we switch back and forth to/from Daylight time, so the UTC time changes, but not the local time. Now that we have moved into Standard time and have shorter daylight hours, 80M should be stronger now during the winter. Your net control this week will be Dave, N8SBE. I'm using Netlogger, so if you go to netlogger.org and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you will be able to see the exact frequency we've settled on for the evening. If we find 3806 kHz busy, we will move UP the band a few kHz, so we can stay in the 80M US General class band. Hope to see you this evening on the net. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] K144XV REFERENCE OSCILLATOR PHASE LOCK OPTION
On 1/16/2024 5:07 PM, Robert Ward via Elecraft wrote: I'm looking for the K144XV REFERENCE OSCILLATOR PHASE LOCK OPTION, part # K144RFLK. If anyone has one spare to their needs, new or used, I'd be interested in purchasing it from you. Please reply off the list to my email n...@yahoo.com Thanks, Bob Contact Marilyn at Elecraft. I just bought one a few months ago and they had a few left. Good Luck -- Dave Erickson AB0R 73 __ 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] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3806 kHz (we met on 3803 kHz this evening), 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500 Dave (w),(op) 2 K5WC ARAnan G2/Mercury Lux John (rel),(w) 3 K4TM VAK4/KPA1500 CARY (w) 4 K8NU OHK4D/KPA1500 Carl (w) 5 K2RIG NJK4/Mercury IIIs Bill (w) 6 K1NW RIK4D/KPA500 Brian (w) 7 K1DIH CTK4D/Tokyo Hi 1.5Kfx Brian (w) 8 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500 Paul (rel),(w) 9 WM6P GAK4D/KPA1500 STEVE (w) 10 WB9JNZ ILFTdx101d/KPA1500Eric (w) 11 W8KEN OHK4D/KPA1500 Ken (w) 12 N0MPM IAK3s/KPA500 Mike (w) 13 W4NDK NCFTdx10 Nate (w) 14 KJ4KKB GAK3 T Q EDWIN (w) 15 K8JK FLK4D?JIM (w) 16 WW4JF TNK3s/KPA500 JOHN (w) 17 WD8CYV WVAlinco Dave (w) We had a total of 17 check ins this week (including the NCS). Signals were mostly good all around. Thanks to John, K5WC, and Paul, W9PCS, for the relay assists this evening. 80M was in good condition, with some QSB. Very nice hearing from the new check ins and hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 9:58 PM ET. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage anyone in the Midwest and adjoining areas to try to check in next week. As a reminder, if you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time, you should see the frequency we are using that evening, if we must QSY due to busy frequencies. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ 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] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Announcement
Please join us on 3806kHz (NOTE THE NEW FREQUENCY WHICH MOVES US INTO THE GENERAL CLASS BAND)plus or minus QRM (see the Netlogger discussion, below), 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday). Note that the net stays on the same local time, when we switch back and forth to/from Daylight time, so the UTC time changes, but not the local time. Now that we have moved into Standard time and have shorter daylight hours, 80M should be stronger now during the winter. Your net control this week will be Dave, N8SBE. I'm using Netlogger, so if you go to netlogger.org and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you will be able to see the exact frequency we've settled on for the evening. If we find 3806 kHz busy, we will move UP the band a few kHz, so we can stay in the 80M US General class band. Hope to see you this evening on the net. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] K2 TUNE power reduction without ATU installed .
Just to be clear, you do not need the KAT100 ATU for this feature to work. The K2/100 will lower the power to 20W (if set above that) during a TUNE cycle. 73, Dave, W8FGU On 1/14/2024 9:31:32 AM, "Dave Van Wallaghen" wrote: Steve, I am not sure if this feature was always available on the KPA100 or when it was included (Don, W3FPR may know) but when the power is set above 20W, pressing the TUNE button will reduce the power to 20W until the operation is terminated. If you hold and press both the TUNE and DISPLAY buttons, the KPA100 will output the power requested with the power control pot. 73, Dave W8FGU -- Original Message -- From "Steve Cooke" To Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date 1/14/2024 4:10:12 AM Subject [Elecraft] K2 TUNE power reduction without ATU installed . I've just recently bought a used K2 /100 for use at field days with my local club ( to save my own K2 from getting hammered too much ! ) . I'd like to use it with a remote ATU . The output of the K2/100 is reduced to 20 W with an Elecraft ATU installed and the TUNE button pressed is it possible to fool the K2/100 into doing that when no ATU is installed ? The reason for trying to implement this is so that nobody has to remember to reduce the power level when changing bands and then trying to tune the ATU at 100 W at 4 a.m. it is bound to happen sooner or later ! 73 steve G1MPW __ 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 d...@w8fgu.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to d...@w8fgu.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] K2 TUNE power reduction without ATU installed .
Steve, I am not sure if this feature was always available on the KPA100 or when it was included (Don, W3FPR may know) but when the power is set above 20W, pressing the TUNE button will reduce the power to 20W until the operation is terminated. If you hold and press both the TUNE and DISPLAY buttons, the KPA100 will output the power requested with the power control pot. 73, Dave W8FGU -- Original Message -- From "Steve Cooke" To Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date 1/14/2024 4:10:12 AM Subject [Elecraft] K2 TUNE power reduction without ATU installed . I've just recently bought a used K2 /100 for use at field days with my local club ( to save my own K2 from getting hammered too much ! ) . I'd like to use it with a remote ATU . The output of the K2/100 is reduced to 20 W with an Elecraft ATU installed and the TUNE button pressed is it possible to fool the K2/100 into doing that when no ATU is installed ? The reason for trying to implement this is so that nobody has to remember to reduce the power level when changing bands and then trying to tune the ATU at 100 W at 4 a.m. it is bound to happen sooner or later ! 73 steve G1MPW __ 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 d...@w8fgu.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] What minimum temperature should the K station be kept at during a hard freeze
As mentioned by Bill, condensation and corrosion are perhaps more of an issue than cold storage. Be careful if bringing cold equipment into a warm room, condensation can quickly form... Most amateur equipment doesn't mention storage temperature, only operating temp. By way of an example a Rohde and Schwarz FPC spectrum analyser has a temp spec of +10C to +40C (operating) and -20C to +70C (storage). 73 Dave G4AON __ 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] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3806 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500 Dave (w),(op) 2 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500 Paul (rel),(w) 3 WB9JNZ ILFTdx101d/KPA1500Eric (rel),(w) 4 K6VWE MIK4D/KPA1500 Stan (w) 5 KF4BY SCK4D/Alpha 374A Stan (rel),(w) 6 K5WC ARK4D/Mercury Lux John (w) 7 K8NU OHK4D/KPA1500 Carl (w) 8 W8KEN OHK4D/KPA1500 Ken (w) 9 WN9A INK4D/KPA1500 Larry (w) 10 W8LVN ILK3s Bill (w) 11 K2RIG NJK4/Mercury IIIs BIll (w) 12 K1DIH CTK4D/Tokyo 1.5KfxBrian (w) 13 N0MPM IAK3s/KPA500 Mike (w) 14 WW4JF TNK3s/KPA500 JOHN (w) We had a total of 14 check ins this week (including the NCS). Signals were good all around. Thanks to Paul, W9PCS, Eric, WB9JNZ, and Stan, KF4BY for the relay assists this evening. 80M was in good condition, with some QSB. Very nice hearing from the new check ins and hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 9:41 PM ET. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage anyone in the Midwest and adjoining areas to try to check in next week. As a reminder, if you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time, you should see the frequency we are using that evening, if we must QSY due to busy frequencies. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ 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] K3S audio issue?
Hi gang! This problem seems a little strange. I can get full output on my K3S on CW and LSB, but very little if I switch to USB. On any band. Bad filter? I reloaded the firmware thinking there might be something corrupt, but no joy. Here’s hoping it is something simple. Ideas? Dave, AI7R __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Origin of Signal-Fine Structures in SSB Pass Band Waterfall, mainly 80/40m
Andy, You may wish to subscribe to this Google group: ham...@googlegroups.com and pose your questions there. There are a lot of folks on that list that are interested in scientific investigations into radio propagation anomalies. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE On 2024-01-06 14:29, Andy via Elecraft wrote: Hi Chris, Many thanks for your interesting EMI focused response. I had already some experts indicating this possibility of potential EMI originbut no... Yes, I agree EMI is a tricky issue as per standards/regulations/politics/ and technology. In some areas it is not main stream interest of some industries to avoid disturbance/interference in HF.-Spectrum. I am an EMC professional since 40 years.. EMI/RFI/EMC I can rule out because: 1.) The effect was also seen recently by a German HAM in a very quiet QTH 2.) I checked the radios (all RX ok on Dummy Load),. The effect it is not only visible on K3S P3 , but also on FTDX101MP, and direct front end sampling SDR RX Perseus. 3.) I took my mobile HF car setup and operated RX from separated battery, in very quiet location , and I could once see this propagation effect. So the propagation questions remain. Questions: 1. Is this an indication of Multi-Path Reception? May be with different propagation modes at that time over certain distances possible? 2. Is this therefore, e.g., based on delay times (phase/arrival time differences) of reflections from different ionospheric layers ( e.g. f1, f2 etc.) ? 3. Is this based on quasi simultaneous occurrences of skywave, NVIS and may be even groundwave mode ? 4.) I observed this “ shift effect” also sometimes for OTH-Radar (real or faked, yes some are faked, see my qrz.com under DQRM) signals recently on 40m, in EU late afternoon , night time here. Tnx, Cu, vy 73 de Andy HB9CVQ, DK2VQ, AK4IG https://www.qrz.com/db/HB9CVQ -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net On Behalf Of Chris Sent: Saturday, January 6, 2024 6:54 PM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Origin of Signal-Fine Structures in SSB Pass Band Waterfall, mainly 80/40m Hello Andy: I will offer some experience and opinion Your note implies that the interference is coming from the ionosphere, and you may be correct, but it is also worth considering that you may be looking at digital-based interference from local devices (in addition to possible distant signals coming from afar). Digital signals (square waves, waveforms with sharp edges) have very high spectral content (_many_ harmonics), so you may see many lines at constant frequency spacing all over the HF spectrum and beyond. Switching power supplies (inside electronic devices, wall-warts, etc), and digital signals from monitors, computers, routers, coffee makers, washing machines, (seems everything that plugs in these days has microprocessors), LED lighting, etc. can all cause interference like this. These sources may also shift or drift (slowly shift) due to changes in temperature or operating (power supply/load) conditions in the digital devices. In my experience the root causes of this kind of RFI are usually the digital devices, and possibly poor design for attenuation of the harmonics resulting from the oscillators generating the broadband interference lines. Not all oscillators are crystal based BTW, so they may have significant change in frequency over short or longer time spans. L-C and R-C circuits are just drifty. BTW, I would also try to see if the lines are from within the radio. Put the radio on a dummy load and look at the spectrum. If it is clean, then you can probably eliminate the problem as being internal (either hardware or signal processing software). Knowing Elecraft, I suspect that the problem will NOT be inside the radio, but it is a place to start. The solution to external RFI _should _be in the design phase of these devices. Design should include "right at the source" shielding of high frequency oscillators, power supplies and digital circuits which should use circuit layout which shields clock and data circuits with ground lines right in the PC board. If you let the signals escape the board, you now have to add ferrites and shielding on the wires leading to peripheral devices. It is far better to prevent the emissions at the source. But it seems to be cheaper to some manufacturers to ignore the problems and trust that your RFI generating device will escape scrutiny of regulators. Devices using high frequency signals are required by the FCC to be inspected and to have limits on their emissions. In practice it seems many devices, perhaps especially from overseas, have somehow eluded these certifications and can become real "firestorms" of RFI. Here in Colorado we have experience with grow-light power supplies that have strong emissions for miles around some "greenhouses" nearly wiping out the HF spectrum. In my own home,
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Announcement
Please join us on 3806kHz (NOTE THE NEW FREQUENCY WHICH MOVES US INTO THE GENERAL CLASS BAND)plus or minus QRM (see the Netlogger discussion, below), 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday). Note that the net stays on the same local time, when we switch back and forth to/from Daylight time, so the UTC time changes, but not the local time. Now that we have moved into Standard time and have shorter daylight hours, 80M should be stronger now during the winter. Your net control this week will be Dave, N8SBE. I'm using Netlogger, so if you go to netlogger.org and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you will be able to see the exact frequency we've settled on for the evening. If we find 3806 kHz busy, we will move UP the band a few kHz, so we can stay in the 80M US General class band. Hope to see you this evening on the net. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Ham Antenna group...
Was intended as direct email, not list email... Sorry... Jim please answer via direct email. 73, and thanks, Dave (NK7Z) https://www.nk7z.net ARRL Volunteer Examiner ARRL Technical Specialist, RFI ARRL Asst. Director, NW Division, Technical Resources On 1/7/24 05:40, Dave (NK7Z) wrote: Morning Jim, Thanks for vote of confidence sir! I have a question for you... Have you been following the discussion on CMCs and if they are coax, or two wire, vs., constructed, and the results of impinged RFI on the cables feeding a rig If so, do you have any thoughts on if there is any validity to this? __ 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] Ham Antenna group...
Morning Jim, Thanks for vote of confidence sir! I have a question for you... Have you been following the discussion on CMCs and if they are coax, or two wire, vs., constructed, and the results of impinged RFI on the cables feeding a rig If so, do you have any thoughts on if there is any validity to this? -- 73, and thanks, Dave (NK7Z) https://www.nk7z.net ARRL Volunteer Examiner ARRL Technical Specialist, RFI ARRL Asst. Director, NW Division, Technical Resources __ 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] Friend is selling his P3
Hello, I am posting this for a friend, that has sold his K3, and is selling his P3, but not a member of this group, cut text from him follows: =CUT P3 for Sale, in 9 out of 10 condition, 100% functional, used in a non-smoking, pet free environment. Latest firmware installed. Included: SVGA add-on Power cable K3/K3S to P3 cable The Nifty Mini Manual for the P3 Printed Owner's Manual Elecraft Macro Programming book by Fred Cady KE7X (see pictures). Shipped and insured, $849. Will take Venmo, Postal Money Order or personal check, once cleared. This is a 100% fully functional panadapter for a K3 or K3S, however, all sales are final. I'm not an Elecraft re-seller. This is my own personal P3 that I used the day I boxed it. Pictures available upon request at nfarr...@gmail.com or go here: https://forums.qrz.com/index.php?threads/elecraft-p3-panadapter-w-svga.893398/ =CUT I am not connected to the sale of this device in any way beyond knowing the person for the past 15 or so years. Posting this as a favor to him. 73, Dave, https://www.nk7z.net __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Origin of Signal-Fine Structures in SSB Pass Band Waterfall, mainly 80/40m
Hi Chris, I have some articles on this subject at: https://www.nk7z.net/category/info/rfi-mitigation/ I would recommend the one on using an SDR, as an RFI site survey tool as a starting point for our friend. 73, and thanks, Dave (NK7Z) https://www.nk7z.net ARRL Volunteer Examiner ARRL Technical Specialist, RFI ARRL Asst. Director, NW Division, Technical Resources On 1/6/24 09:54, Chris wrote: Hello Andy: I will offer some experience and opinion Your note implies that the interference is coming from the ionosphere, and you may be correct, but it is also worth considering that you may be looking at digital-based interference from local devices (in addition to possible distant signals coming from afar). Digital signals (square waves, waveforms with sharp edges) have very high spectral content (_many_ harmonics), so you may see many lines at constant frequency spacing all over the HF spectrum and beyond. Switching power supplies (inside electronic devices, wall-warts, etc), and digital signals from monitors, computers, routers, coffee makers, washing machines, (seems everything that plugs in these days has microprocessors), LED lighting, etc. can all cause interference like this. These sources may also shift or drift (slowly shift) due to changes in temperature or operating (power supply/load) conditions in the digital devices. In my experience the root causes of this kind of RFI are usually the digital devices, and possibly poor design for attenuation of the harmonics resulting from the oscillators generating the broadband interference lines. Not all oscillators are crystal based BTW, so they may have significant change in frequency over short or longer time spans. L-C and R-C circuits are just drifty. BTW, I would also try to see if the lines are from within the radio. Put the radio on a dummy load and look at the spectrum. If it is clean, then you can probably eliminate the problem as being internal (either hardware or signal processing software). Knowing Elecraft, I suspect that the problem will NOT be inside the radio, but it is a place to start. The solution to external RFI _should _be in the design phase of these devices. Design should include "right at the source" shielding of high frequency oscillators, power supplies and digital circuits which should use circuit layout which shields clock and data circuits with ground lines right in the PC board. If you let the signals escape the board, you now have to add ferrites and shielding on the wires leading to peripheral devices. It is far better to prevent the emissions at the source. But it seems to be cheaper to some manufacturers to ignore the problems and trust that your RFI generating device will escape scrutiny of regulators. Devices using high frequency signals are required by the FCC to be inspected and to have limits on their emissions. In practice it seems many devices, perhaps especially from overseas, have somehow eluded these certifications and can become real "firestorms" of RFI. Here in Colorado we have experience with grow-light power supplies that have strong emissions for miles around some "greenhouses" nearly wiping out the HF spectrum. In my own home, when I had ADSL/VDSL internet-phone service, I was able to show service technician the spectrum emitted by his cable coming into the house. He confirmed that those are the frequencies his equipment used, and when I pointed out that those signals become interference if they do not _stay_ inside his cable, he replaced the feed cable from the pedestal to my house. This should be of special interest to hams, who are still attempting to communicate using the HF spectrum, though the emissions can still be strong way up into VHF and even UHF bands. A local parking lot with solar-powered lighting generates signals every 15 KHz right up to high VHF. I suspect that the solar panels use MPPT switching chargers to power their batteries. Perhaps clubs should consider forming RFI committees to investigate this interference and try to identify sources, maybe even by manufacturer/model number. It is difficult to know when a device exceeds the FCC limits for emission without a measurement lab. Maybe the effort would include getting the ARRL to either build such a lab or fund tests on apparently noisy consumer devices (?). This has been a slowly growing problem for decades now, and in suburban areas HF spectrum can become almost unusable, with so many houses with computers, TVs, video cameras, and appliances emitting at low levels and adding up to make noise well over S9 at locations of which I am aware. No wonder so many hams are using remote stations - perhaps their home stations are almost unusable due to RFI. To troubleshoot, I would recommend powering your radio on a battery and then turning off all house power and looking again at the spectrum. If it has significantly red
