[Elecraft] KX3+Remoterig > K3
Has anyone managed to use a KX3 to control a remote K3 via remoterig interfaces? Marcelo, PY1KN __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Retro Encabulator
The original one, from the 70's http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac7G7xOG2Ag&feature=related PY1KN > Dingle Arms are still legal for import into the US however Panametric > Phams do not meet Part 15 requirements and may only be imported by BPL > providers. > > 73, > > Fred K6DGW > - Northern California Contest Club > - CU in the 2012 Cal QSO Party 6-7 Oct 2012 > - www.cqp.org > > On 4/13/2012 2:49 PM, David Fleming wrote: >> Hehe. He said "Panametric Pham" and "Dingle Arm". > > __ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] KPA500 Shipping dimensions
Thanks for the info Dave. 73 Marcelo, PY1KN > My KPA500 (kit version) came in a box sized 390mm x 390mm x 320mm. > > 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 > __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] KPA500 Shipping dimensions
Hello Does anyone know the shipping dimensions (box size) of the KPA500? Is it the same as the K3? I am trying to estimate transportation costs and could not find this information on the Elecraft site. Thanks Marcelo, PY1KN __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Thanks Elecraft -- HK0NA DXpedition
Wayne I was especially impressed by the prompt response of Elecraft yesterday to the ham who is in Togo with damaged gear. Actions like that speak louder than words. Congratulations. Marcelo, PY1KN > Thanks for noticing, Bill :) The HK0NA crew certainly did a great job, > as > have other recent DXpeditions using K3s, etc. > > DXpedition use of our gear has been a source of input and inspiration > for us, and we provide a lot of support to the teams. Many hardware > and firmware refinements now in shipping products can be traced to the > kind of stresses put on the gear in inhospitable terrain and climate. > > We're now looking forward to a few "micro DXpeditions" featuring the > KX3. > > 73, > Wayne > N6KR > > > On Feb 7, 2012, at 8:20 AM, cqbi...@q.com wrote: > >> Surprised the lack of comments on this subject, unless I missed it. >> I do want to thank the Elecraft gang for their support of the HK0NA >> operation. I have been a ham for 57yrs and had NEVER chased a single >> HF DXpedition, but I got the bug with this one. What an amazing >> performance by the DXpedition team in all respects. The collection >> of operators was outstanding and the Elecraft gear sounded great. I >> wonder how many of the team had actually used a K3 before the >> DXpedition? I'm guessing more of them will be in the future! Hi Hi >> >> I worked them on 14 - band/modes with 100w and nothing but dipoles >> on 160/80/40/20. Thank heavens for antenna tuners. I was shut out on >> 80, 160 and 6m but heard them on both 80 and 160 well enough to call >> them, just too much competition and tropical QRN on their end. >> >> Thanks again Elecraft, well done. Some fun photos involving Elecraft >> gear on the DXpedition website under "Island Reports and Photos" >> See HK0NA dot com. >> >> 73 Bill K0AWU -- K3 -#3460 >> >> >> __ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > __ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] Features for K3/0 - Wish list
Hello On the topic of the announced K3/0, I thought about putting together an unrequested wish-list of the desired features, in my view. 1 - Form Factor 1.1 Wish: Small size and weight, a full size K3 front panel, but just an inch or so deep. Reason: Portability 2 - Functionality 2.1 Wish - Full K3 front panel functions Reason - Full experience of operating the K3 2.2 Wish -Speaker on the back Reason - Like the K3, possibility of monitoring with the headphones unplugged Wish - No RF circuitry Reason - Cost, power consumption and size. If one needs RF, there's already a bare-bones K3 3 - Connections 3.1 Wish - A TTL-level RJ11 Connection Reason - Full and straightforward integration to the Remoterig unit 3.2 Wish - RS232 port Reason - Second option. Less straightforward, but larger compatibility. 3.3 Wish - Power supply from the Remoterig via RJ11 Reason - No need for a separate PS. This is what I managed to think of, so far. Any other ideas? Marcelo, PY1KN __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] K3/0
Friends After more than a year spent in making it work, I’ve been using my remote station since last September with huge success. For me it’s a natural solution, living in an apartment at the side of a huge granite mountain that blocks half of the globe. I never thought of it as an excuse, like it was mentioned here, but a great solution. My station is in my beach house, about 100km (80mi) away from home. There I have my Steppir and dipoles. Much has been said that ham radio has evolved into appliance operators. Well, in this time I´ve been fiddling with my station I’ve built kits, came to know my equipment really well, optimized my station. I learned the importance of sound construction and reliability. It’s been a long time since I´ve had so much fun. Propagation wise, my stations lies in the same area of my operating point, and I am OK with that. Maybe I wouldn’t feel confortable if it was too distant, maybe even in a different time zone, but I can’t judge that. However, some of the positions in this reflector really surprise me. Yes, for better or worse, ham radio has evolved a lot in the last decades. The ozone smell of smarks don't exist anymore, the glow of tubes are gone, Dxing has became a point and shoot game based on clusters, skimmers are scanning the bands to feed spots. Just look at recent spots confusing PJ4C and HK0NA to realize how many code illiterate are on the CW segments. Remote stations are a part of the change, and for me, a welcome one. I respect all opinions, but I sincerely don’t care if one is for or against it. It works for me, I am very OK with it, and – trying to go back to the list purpose– I look forward to having my K3/0 so I can replace the TS-480 that sits there with my wonderful K3. But maybe this discussion has driftet too off-topic. 73, Marcelo, PY1KN > I think we can safely say that operating a remote mountaintop station > from > the comfort of one's retirement home is nothing but a pipe dream > for most of us. The extent of my own remote operations is likely to be > from the far flung regions of my house. I'd be willing to pay about > 150 bux for this added capability which, I guess, means it is bound to > remain a remote possibility. > > 73, > Drew > AF2Z > > On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:30:24 -0800, you wrote: > >>On 1/16/2012 9:38 PM, Guy Olinger K2AV wrote: >>> This hobby really needs fewer intolerant and narrow minded old men ... >> >>I've missed this thread, which has obviously gone on for quite a while. >>But I SURE DO AGREE with this statement, except that I would change one >>word -- This WORLD really needs . . . . >> >>I've operated from a Chicago city lot with wires and an S7 noise level, >>from a couple of west coast super stations, from a damn nice station in >>PJ4, and from my own station in Nor California that is getting to be >>pretty nice. I've run QRP in contests, and I've run legal power. In >>every situation I've had fun, but I've had the most fun in the stations >>I've built myself (with considerable help from friends). For a short >>time I had a lease on a mountain-top QTH that I hoped to develop, >>perhaps even remotely operated, but the realities of cost set in, and I >>gave up the lease. From experience, I can say that operating from a >>mountaintop can be good for another 10dB or more on the HF bands, and >>the noise levels are often quite low too. >> >>With all of this experience, I would be the LAST to begrudge a guy who >>lives in the city, or in a small place where antennas are limited and/or >>the nose is high, the opportunity to compete with a remote station he >>has built himself -- indeed, I would applaud him for it! Anyone who >>thinks it's easy should talk to some who has done it -- like K6VVA, a >>serious contester and expeditioner who has been working on developing >>his for nearly three years now. Remote control of a rig is a tiny >>fraction of the problem, although in a remote site you may also have to >>build the communications link (K6VVA did). There's also the matter of >>building a shack, building a power system, building an antenna farm (and >>it's seriously WINDY on mountain tops), building a switching system and >>a control system for it, even building a road to get to it and buying >>snow vehicles to get to it during contest season. >> >>As to cheating -- I include in that category a guy who starts working >>DXCC at a QTH on one coast, then moves 2,000 - 3,000 miles (CO and NC, >>or CA and NY), still within the US, and counts the QSOs he has made from >>both locations for ANY award, including DXCC. or oper
Re: [Elecraft] Prayers for
Hi Alex, PY2WAS is in Hawaii now, and has written saying that there were no major problems there. Let's hope everyone is safe, especially the SP's at T30, that is only 2m above sea level. Marcelo, PY1KN > > And our news is focused on Hawaii and California, but in addition, how are all our > friends in Alaska? It is closer to the quake center.? > > --... ...-- Dale - WC7S in Wy > > > >> From: daleput...@hotmail.com >> To: qr...@mailman.qth.net; elecraft@mailman.qth.net >> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 07:52:29 -0700 >> Subject: [Elecraft] Prayers for >> >> >> Prayers for all the victims of the earthquakes and aftershocks, and tsunami activity >> in the Pacific area throughout today and following. The cleanup and restoral will be a >> chore, but the loss of life is very saddening. >> Prayers for the survivors will aid. >> >> >> >> --... ...-- Dale - WC7S in Wy >> >> >> __ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > __ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] K3 + LP-Pan + PowerSRD + Skimmer
Hello I´ve just posted a small blog entry about my experiment this weekend, when I first hooked toghether my K3 + LP-Pan + PowerSRD + Skimmer in order to have Skimmer spots flowing into the logging software.. I hope it encourages those who want to try the same setup. Check the post at: http://py1kn.blogspot.com/2011/02/using-cw-skimmer-and-powersdr-if-with.html 73 de PY1KN __ 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
