[Elecraft] KPA 1000 1500
If you're a serious contester maybe you want the extra DBs. But for DXers, with any skill you can wrk. what's out there with the K line. If a bigger amp cabinet was needed. A much larger heavier one they probably wouldn't be going on DXpeditions as they are now. Most recent DXpeditions are exclusively K3s and/or KPAs. I have an average DXer stn. I've not yet missed anything. I know the rare call locations help them but I've not been where I couldn't copy the DX. I've had my K line nearly 3 yr.s and I personally wouldn't go back to a tube amp. Can't tell you how much rare DX I've seen spotted been there in 15 seconds wrkd it. I wouldn't want to sit there waiting a minute or two til the warm up light goes out on a tube amp. Be 20 or 30 more calling by then. Probably K line guys Just my opinion. K9IL __ 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] Last of the leftiness...
I know you 'righties' are just kidding. I'm not offended. But see it from our side. The only class in school I ever failed was in the Chicago PS system. I failed penmanship. Yes, it was a course in the 1950s public schools. I failed because I couldn't write with the proper 'slant'. The teacher refused to accept the fact I was lefthanded it was impossible for me to write that way. Poor way to treat a 9 yr. old. Still a painfull memory. One reason [ down the list a bit] I chose the K3 was it is an easier radio to operate being a leftie. I tuned several other brands the K3 was best. So I guess I got it right ! Hi! Hi! K9IL __ 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] Learning CW
Just my opinion guys... Most radios have an electronic keyer built in . My K3 does I use it. So it's straight key [ UGH] or electronic key. If you want to send the letter A. It's DIT DAH. With a keyer it's tap one side then the other. The keyer sends DIT with the proper spacing then DAH. With a straight key anyone sending especially if they're just learning will send five As every one will have different spacing DAHs of a different time length. Why not just start with electronic keying. You can even use the keyboard to send. Receiving or copying code is the real job. I've been on CW 55 yr.s. I can still 'head copy' 45 WPM but so what. A person making a contact with another CW stn. at 10 WPM is having just as much pleasure as a contact at 40 WPM. I speak a little Spanish. Very little. But I speak another language. CW. From the time I was 13 yr.s old I've felt I speak a language other than English. Sense of pride in that. If you want to use machines to work CW that's how you see it. Like JT65 or RTTY. Machines doing the work. Nothing wrong with that. If you want to actually send CW why waste yr.s on an old way of sending when the modern way is easier easier on the ears of those copying your CW. In my opinion if you really want to learn to send get an electronic key use the keyer built into your radio. You can practice off air. If you want to later try nostaligic straight keys at least you will know what letters should sound like on CW. You can match your straight key sending to what you know the CW should sound like. My opinion. K9IL __ 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] Left handed CW
I am left handed but I send with the electronic key set for a righthander. I learned this way for several reasons but the primary reason 50 yr.s ago was I could sit at 90% of other stn.s and operate. Primarly FD contest operations. All lefties are semi-ambidextrous out of necessity. K9IL __ 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] 4W/G3ZEM
Tnx for the 80m CW Q. Fun to know ur K3/KAT500/KPA500 vertical talked to my K3/KAT500/KPA500 vertical. Only diff. is my vertical is a HyTower. K9IL __ 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] HF noise.....30m
Often on 30m. Starting arnd. 10115 anywhere from 20 kc wide to out of the top of the band. A fast pulse. Only happens after dark in NA. I believe it's OTH radar. Of course no one has ever said it was theirs. My K3 doesn't block it as some nights it's 20 db over S9. Once in a while on 10120 there's an extremely strong CW signal sending only a series of 5 letter or number groups. On less than an hr. then gone. No I D. Seems to come from Cuba. The RTTY on 10100 is a 10kw German stn. sending WX info to ships at sea. Makes a gud prop beacon. Unfortunately, the illegal SSB stn.s are discovering 30m. For such a tiny ham band we seem to attract a lot of strange signals. K9IL __ 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 vfo b knob
3 days after I e mailed Elecraft it arrived. No charge. Fantastic service. Know any JA company that does that? Also why I'm all Elecraft. K3, KPA500 KAT500. Probably when something new I want appears with the Elecraft name my order will be on it's way. 54 yr.s an active ham I can say this is as good as it gets. K9IL __ 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 B knob
All of the knobs on the K3 and KX3 are under warranty for the life of the radio (assuming we are still here ;-) I have one on the way. Fantastic service! In nearly 4 yr.s with my K3 I had one tech. problem with it. When I called Elecraft the tech I talked to only did K3s answered every question. With his help on the phone the problem was resolved in 10 minutes. This is why I then bought a KPA500 and a KAT500. I've not been sorry. I wish every company was Elecraft. I'll be a lifetime customer. K9IL __ 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 B knob
My K3 is over 3 yr.s old. I read the posts got the flashlight out. I can see feel a crack across the front of the knob. About 1/4'' left of the set screw. Still seems OK. Anyone else see cracks or feel them on knob B. The 1st yr. I had two of the inner knobs on the AF RF controls break. Elecraft replaced them very quickly. K9IL __ 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] KPA500 fan noise comment
Mine does kick up speed @ 50C. I've only had an SB 200, SB 220, Ameritron 811h the KPA. None had the ramp up feature like the KPA. It's the quietest of all I've had even running on it's higher speed. When it's idling or resting vs. the the other amps...Forget abt it. They let you know they were on !!! K9IL __ 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] Summary post
Twice this week blank summary e mails. Got a normal one a few hr.s later. Anyone had this? K9IL __ 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 ergonomics
My K3 is a LOT more ergonomic than that JA HF radio that looked like the grille from '52 Buick. K9IL __ 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] 6m......just my thoughts
Being an HF DXer I'm down to one. 6 yr.s ago I'd tried 6m. A friend said load my TA 33 since I had no 6m antenna. Well I wrkd 25 countries with 100w an HF tribander.Then I put up a 3 ele 6m wrkd abt 60 countries. I've since put up a 5 ele 6m yagi with a larger one gg up this Spring. One of the reasons I got a KPA500 was 6m. I'm at 90 countries now from TN. The band is open from late March thru August with quick openings anytime. Last week there were openings to KH6 SA from Ca to Wa. The Gulf Coast guys are hearing SA most evenings now. The last two Winters we've had openings[ only 20-30 min.s] to the S Pacific. Mostly CW but sometimes SSB too. Build a little 3 ele 6m yagi. It'll only be a 6' boom. Smaller than TV antennas. 6m is like 10m. When it's open antennas don't matter that much. I've wrkd Japan 100s of times on HF but it was a rush to wrk Japan on 6m In the QRN times of Summer 6m offers a gud break from HF. K9IL __ 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] 10100 RTTY
That is a 10 kw commercial stn.It's located in Germany. It sends wx other info to ships at sea. I use it as a prop. beacon on 30m. K9IL __ 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] KAT 500 problems
In 6 months useage of mine in a K line no problems. K3/KPA500/KAT500. The only cycling it's done after set up has been OP error. Wrong antenna connected. It's never failed remembering a setting. The only cycling it's done on the remembered antenna was OP error too. I'd jump from band end to end forget to tap a few dits to engage it's memory. Op error. Individual ant. s 160m thru 6m no problems. Last software update apx 6 months old. Just my experiences. K9IL __ 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,KPA500 on 30m
Simply follow the set up instructions for each band. I'm awful with computers/software I got it. I run apx 480-500 on all bands but 30m where it's set at 200w. Normal is 100w on 30m rarely I kick the KPA on it remembers its 200w setting. Been using my KAT500 abt 2 weeks. I love it !!! K9IL __ 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] CW keys
Several wks ago I had a problem keying my K3. All of a sudden the outboard keyers [ MFJ Logikit ] sounded normal in the monitor but what was coming out of the K3 was like using two bare wires to send with. I talked to the Tech @ Elecraft. He thought it was an acustic loop. AF. Maybe one of the wire glum of wires behind the OP desk was moved by me or the cat. He said I was the 2nd case he'd hrd of. He suggested I go to the internal keyer. I did problem solved. I won't go into why I used external keyers but I'm getting used to the K3s keyer now. It's great to call talk to someone who knows the K3 inside out. Tnx Elecraft. As to a key. For the guy looking for a key. I think the best advise is to try out several keys.If you have ham friends who operate CW go visit try their key. Some ham stores in big cities often have keys you can try out on site. Don't go by anothers idea of the best key.Some of the keys suggested in posts I tried didn't like or just plain hated. I use a Vibrokey. I have for 50 yr.s. However that's me. Everyone needs to find a key they like. Unlike SSB guys who change mics or settings as the situation calls for keys are very personal. I'd never go to Field Day without MY key. I only feel totally comfortable with my key. Lots of CW Ops feel the same I'm sure. I want to send the best CW I can that's very personal. For a CW guy listening to some of the stuff that passes as CW on the air these days is painful. To me nothing is more pleasing to the ear than really great CW. Just my opinion.. K9IL __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] help K3/KPA500
Tnx for the suggestions guys. It was a cable problem. So obvious I should have seen it right off. Forest for the trees. I use a Y cable to feed the KPA500 the PR6.After plugging unplugging I just realized the other side of the Y cable had nothing plugged in. I pulled the black cable coming from the KPA500 it was just dangling off the OP desk. Plugged it into the Y cable everything back. Yahoo! I did realize I had just plugged the KPA500 cable into the Y cable and FORGOT to tighten the screws. My error for sure. Tnx agn guys. If this happens again I'll go to the cables right away. K9IL __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] Help,advise K3/KPA500 problem
They have been humming along for a yr. I'm not computer savy so with help from my friend Jamie I was up and going. Three days ago my outboard keyer died. I pulled the K3 forward on the desk to plug in my spare keyer. [I prefer an outboard keyer]. When all was connected the radio pushed back in position the K3 KPA500 are not talking. I get no message on the K3 display the KPA is on. The amp is just bypassing RF. The KPA displays the K3 output power but when I key the amp sits in standby.The band following is not working. They just are not communicating. Jamie suggested unplugging all the interconnect cables reinserting them in the K3 KPA. Maybe a lost connection. That had no effect. I'm open to suggestions as a starting point or if anyone else has experienced this how they resolved the problem. I want to get the KPA going as I have a new KAT500 in a box on the shack floor. TNX K9IL __ 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] KAT 500 manual
Tnx for the link. Just read it. Maybe my e mail coming soon. K9IL __ 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/KPA500/KAT500/PR6
I was away last week during the discussions abt. cabling. I used the Y cable to ad the PR6. I guess I need to order the KPAK3AUX cable kit string the new Y cable in so it will go to the KAT500 when it arrives? K9IL __ 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] Swains Is
This morning I wrkd them on 40m SSB from Tn with my trusty K3/KPA500 Hytower vertical. He was strong [S9] here. After he got the K9 he asked several times for my suffix before getting it. After the QSO I flipped to my xmit freq. There were 3 or 4 tailgaiters calling him on my old xmit freq. He picked up a K3. When he asked for his suffix I flipped back to the old xmit. As the K3 was giving his call at least 5 or 6 idiots were calling him. They wouldn't quit. Finally the NH8 OP said :stop I'm only calling the K3. When I flipped there were still two idiots calling him. The NH8 OP then said: I'll only answer the K3. Then the K3 got his QSO. Who knows who had the poor rx who were the idiots. I think you can guess. Besides bad manners it slows the QSO count down. Bottom line is that this idea of I'll yell my call til he's forced to answer me is counterproductive. They embarrass themselves. It slows the QSO count down. It means a few stn.s will never get the QSO. The hobby loses. Maybe that's what they want. Who knows. The axium of work the obnoxious ones first get them out of the way has it's points but this is a hobby. Or it is sometimes K9IL __ 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] KAT 500
Saturday is Sept !. I know the tentative shipping date is early Sept. Any news ?? K9IL __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] KAT500...e mail today
Last week, thanks to some very diligent field testing, we discovered a way to significantly reduce LC network losses on the highest bands (especially on 6 meters). We just redesigned the PC board to take advantage of this, so you'll be getting a better ATU. This will push the production schedule out farther, and we had to scrap a lot of material, but the change will be worth the trouble. We'll post a revised shipping date as soon as Eric recovers from his latest hamfest adventure. 73, Wayne N6KR Tnx Wayne, This is why I'm glad I own a K3 a KPA500. I'll be waiting. My opinion if this was an offshore manufacturer this would be fixed in the second or third generation. Maybe. I've been happier with my Elecraft than any other brand I've owned. I've owned every JA brand I'll not go back. Keep up the great work. 73 K9IL __ 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] CY9M CW Note
Hrd it on 40m last night. Could be hot keying or possibly the generator or something else. K9IL __ 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/KPA 500 PR6 question
Anyone using this set up? Since the K3/KPA cable is in the K3 ACC socket did you just solder the white wire to pin 11 of that cable? Going to try to connect the PR6 today. K9IL __ 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] KAT 500 order
I sent a check three days after they went on sale. 5/19/12 got an email that all arrived confirmed. They are fast. If you're not sure callum' . They're friendly...k9il __ 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] Sad
You'd love a K3 on 6m. I've not gotten the pre amp yet but I hear well with a modest short boom 5 el yagi. What I really love is the KPA500. Man that 500w on 6m is the difference. Not to the century mark yet just 89/88 but if 6m ever picks up this summer I hope to get closer. Been DXing for 50 yr.s as a CW OP it's the best RX I have used I've used every brand you could name and then some. K9IL __ 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] Manuals
I still want a printed manual. I don't live with a PC screen in my face. I do sit read. A printed manual is a lot lighter than a laptop cooler too. I can read an index find the page quicker than I can scroll. Just MHO. K9IL __ 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] KAT 500
I placed my order. I hope to be in the 1st run. I have a question or two for the guys who saw it at Dayton. How is it cabled. Not the antenna connections. K3 to it or thru the KPA500? Will there be a special cable like the one for the K3 to KPA500? Is elecraft offering a wart xfmr for the KAT500? Any minor details yet to be spoken about? K9IL K3, KPA500 in Aug KAT500 __ 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] Which rig
We were just there. I use a K3/KPA500. My XYL who is mostly a contest OP on SSB needed an updated radio for her desk. We didn't want to spend the cost of a 2nd K3 as she only operates a few DX contests FD. We would have prefered American made but the TT Eagle was the only other option. We compared it to a Kenwood TS 590s. By the time you get one or two roofing filters the cost of the Eagle approached the K3. The TT filters were 4 pole vs the 8 pole in the K3. The Kenwood had all the filters built in along with a few bells whistles the TT didn't. The cost was $400 less for the Kenwood. But what really killed the TT Eagle was two things most above entry level radios have the TT doesn't. It has only one SO 239 antenna port. So you screw unscrew or use an external antenna switch. Really unhandy if you have HF/VHF antennas as we do. It also has no RX ant input. Needless to say I got her the TS 590s. The most radio for the money. It's a fine radio but it's NO K3... K9IL W9DHD __ 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] KAT 500 mounting position
The only place I want to see one is in my shack. Where it rests I don't care. I'm ready guys... K9IL __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] My TNX too
Last weekend I discovered the AF knob for the sub RX on my K3 was broken in half. I don't have the sub so I don't use that knob. Just a failure. I e mailed Elecraft two days ago I got 2 sets of replacement knobs. Can't beat that. K9IL __ 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] OCF
Put up what you can it may surprize you. I put up a 160m OCF fed with coax to a 4:1 balun. Nothing fancy just what I could do. That was 4 yr.s ago. I chase DX and with 500w I've wrkd 125 on CW 2 or 3 on SSB. You need to try SOMETHING if you want to get on the air. Worst case is it will not work. Then you go from there. K9IL __ 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] KPA on 6m
TU Elecraft for adding 6m to the KPA500. Wrkd FK8CP on 6m from NW Tn tonight. K3 wouldn't have made it alone. Nice to have a 6m amp !! K9IL __ 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] m5e
Fun to know my K3/KPA wrkd their K3/KPA on 40m. K9IL __ 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] Tuning an 811h
I simply put a momentary switch in a mini box wired across the key line. Hold it down as long as you need.The max key down time at max power on the 811h is 7 seconds per the manual. Was LOL at the send dits at 35 WPM. Try dipping the 811h to resonance while bringing up the drive with one hand in 7 seconds. The 811h doesn't peak resonance at low drive then just turn the exciter drive up. It must be 'tweeked' at full drive as per the manual. Lots of work with just one hand in 7 seconds. LOL. That's why my 811h is on the XYLs desk where she mostly contests single band SSB I use a KPA500. With the auto set on the KPA500 I still tap it for an instant to see the LEDs light correctly. Just in case I am on the wrong antenna or some other problem. Parts are under $10 it makes using an 811h a lot easier K9IL __ 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] KPA DXing
Yes antennas are important but also skill helps. You can buy mighty
antenna systems multi KW amps but if you can't master simple DXing
technique you won't work anything. I've never ran more than 700w. {My
old SB 220] I've always used my TA 33 tribander @50' a few homemade 2
element WARC yagis all under 50' high low wires and verticals. But
I've done OK I guess. 360 countries confirmed 9x DXCC. From middle
America. To me a DB or three won't help if you don't have a good
antenna, skills and propagation. I wonder if some of the crop of
Dxpedition jammers that appear are from this group. They run big
antennas high power but can't work the DX so they get mad try to
stop everyone working them. No skill, they need instant gradification.
I'm happy with my KPA500. I would like the KAT500 but I don't ever plan
to go higher power. The KPA500 is one of the very few to cover 6m. By
the way I have 83 countries confirmed on 6m from Tn. Oh well, one day
I'll have a REAL DX station. NOT. K9IL
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[Elecraft] Operator error?
Since I got the KPA this has happened three times. I get so used to being almost instant go I may be too fast. K3 on I see a DX spot. I hit the on switch on the KPA. I push the K3 RIT on in case I want to use it. With in 2 or 3 seconds I hit the operate button on the KPA send a Dit. KPA red lights. I punch the KPA to standby take a breath. I go to operate on the KPA all is normal. If I don't punch on RIT this hasn't occured. Am I just too fast the K3 is getting too many commands at once. There's no damage just a wake up call to the operator. All this happens in just 3 or 4 seconds. Operator error? K9IL __ 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] Holiday Greetings
To all on the reflector. Happy Holidays. Tnx for the help interesting posts this yr. The same wishes to the staff @ Elecraft. Enjoy some time with your families. K9IL W9DHD PS: don't take too long of a holiday vacation. I'm on the edge of my seat waiting for a post on the KAT500!Hi! Merry Christmas Happy New Year to all __ 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] KPA pop redux
After all the posts my comment I've been paying closer attention. I'm not getting 'loud' pops just occasional clicks as things heat or cool. What got my attention I think was sometimes a few minutes after shutoff I near a click. I think that's just the amp metal coming back to room temp. I've had 4 amps. SB200/220 AL 811h and the KPA. This thing is so far ahead of those it's remarkable. I sit waiting to pounce on a KAT500 when it arrives. K9IL __ 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] KPA 500 pops
I get an occasional mild pop but not the loud pops as others report. Mine was factory built. The noises are nothing like hearing a spider or ant getting zapped in the old SB 220. Actually the clicks remind me the amp is on. It's so quiet otherwise. K9IL __ 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] Coupla' KAT500 questions
I'm ready now guys! Looks like early 2012. Is the software all finished? I am interested on how it will tune. Will the K3 provide carrier alone or with the KPA 500. Guessing it will match the load in low power. I'll miss the SWR graph dancing! I've read the size is as the K3/KPA only half as tall. Is that correct? Is there a ball park figure on cost? I am ready to get one..yesterday. K9IL __ 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] 10130
I don't print RTTY so I'm not seeing the sending. Several years ago there was a BIG signal on 10120 sending 5 letter code groups for 30 minutes most mornings. In plain Morse. The rumor was it was a 50KW Cuban. Fidel sending orders to his soldiers in Angola other spots. It went away when Cuba had a few political rebuffs Fidel got sick. AUH. Been told the constant RTTY on 10101 is from Germany. WX other info to ships at sea. I use it as a beacon. K9IL __ 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] KPA back up question
Tnx guys. I'm learning K9IL __ 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 Question
Had mine 2 months love it. Curious abt. one thing. Programed the barefoot/amp setting for all bands. My question is about the memory for that function. Not had power failure of the mains yet. Is the setting stored in a battery back- uped internal memory? I found no mention of an internal battery or access to one in my manual.Not a big deal but curious. K9IL __ 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] price rise
Such is life. No problem here. Never had a complaint with my K3 or the new KPA500. Or what little I've had to deal with Elecraft about. Actually only 1 very minor thing they were great. I wish I could order the KAT500 before the rise but so be it. I see the small promo on the KAT500 is off the web site. I hope there's no delay. Elecraft is worlds above any other brand I've used. K9IL __ 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] KPA 500 on 6m
Had the amp a month. Only used it on 6m as I'm chasing DXCC on that band. I drive it with apx 34W from the K3. Display says 500w. Modest 5 el yagi on a 12' boom here. 7 new ones since I got the amp. Wrkd three JAs one afternoon. Not bad from NW Tennessee. I love the amp. Guess it will get it's first HF test when the ST0 comes on next week K9IL __ 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] Tnx AK5X
Tnx for the photo link on the KPA500. I have a better understanding of the amp now. Mine was factory built [ #66]. One of these days I'll do the power sets on HF. I've had mine 3 weeks. I've had so much fun working DX on 6m I haven't even QSY'd !! K9IL __ 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 KPA500 3 days in.
My K3 is 2.5 yr.s old. I never bothered with updates as I was happy with the radio as is. When my friend WB4YDL helped me get the amp going we had to run the latest updates. There is a new one that must be run to be able to use the amp. I am using the Elecraft interconnect cable. . I discovered that after we had the KPA500 up running my ATU TUNE ANT [ant 1 or 2] functions were off in the K3. I had to go into the MENU turn on those functions. They are back working OK. I don't know if this is just something that happened because I had never updated the K3 or if that happens to all connecting the KPA500. It did not affect the RX ANT function. ... One curious note. My SWR on the 6m antenna is apx 1.4:1. Good enough for the amp. I tapped ATU TUNE with the amp off the K3 easily went to it's normal 1:1 SWR. When I keyed the amp the SWR LEDs are showing apx 1.2/1.3:1 SWR. The K3 reads 1:1 SWR either way.I don't know if it actually is that or what. During xmit with the amp it shows better SWR consistantly. Haven't tried the HF antennas yet. K9IL __ 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 vs others
Others can argue the tech. advantages pro or con. Some feel they need 2 KW. I don't.. For a DXer antennas skill are more important than a few more watts. I like the way it works with my K3. I've had less than stellar dealings with the Asian companies. Whether it's bias on my part or not I like the idea that it's made serviced in my home country. On a more human note. I grew up as a new ham in 1959 at 13 yr.s old. I had the thrill of at least once having used the dream lines of the time. The Collins Drake lines. I wasn't in the position to own one. I am now I see the K line as the dream line. I now have a dream line. There ain't no way on Gods Green Earth I'm not going to live my dream. Soap Box over. K9IL __ 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] KPA 500 #66
Think I mangled my message last time. With a lot of help from my friend WB4YDL it's wrking great. This AM wrd a new one [GJ] on 6m. K9IL __ 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 question
Only my 2nd day using it. Operation manual on page 8, item 4 under transmitting says you can have two power settings per band. One at any power you want one to drive the amp at the proper level. Assuming the radio is a K3. Which it is in my case. OK how is this done? I can't find any mention of this in the manual. Is it done in the K3 menu? Or am I missing something? K9IL KPA 66 __ 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] power settings KPA500/K3
Tnx for the answers guys. I understand what needs to be done. k9il __ 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] KPA 500 # 66 is up going
With a lot of help from Jamie WB4YDL we have it running. Just a few hr.s I'm still amazed. Hard to believe that little package can do all that. Only minor glitches. Mostly me. So far I love it. K9IL K3 2626 KPA 66 __ 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 #0066
Arrived late yesterday. Hope to have it up going soon. K9IL __ 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] Wahoo
Just got an e mail from Vicki @ Elecraft. As soon as I confirmed the e mail they are preparing to ship my KPA500.A MONTH EARLY!A MONTH EARLY! K9IL __ 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] Tragedy
Our sympathies to all K9IL W9DHD __ 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] KAT 500
Ok guysI'm on the July list for the KPA500. Any information on the KAT500. I've hrd the rumors but is there a true description of it anywhere? I'm of modest means so I planned for two yr.s for the KPA500. Maybe be saving the butter egg money again. I'm guessing it will remember it's setting when it returns to a previous antenna/band. Will it cover 6m? Eric I'm on pins waiting for the KPA. Give me a new thing to dream about Hi Hi ! K9IL __ 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] KPAK3AUX
For all the hoopla about the new signal generator Elecraft put the inter-connect cable for the K3 to KPA500 on sale yesterday.As a buyer of the KPA500 [on the July delivery list] I received an e mail from Vicki @ Elecraft. I assume the other buyers did also. If you were waiting to order the 500 til the cable was available wait no more. I'll be curious to see my serial nr. when the 500 arrives. Since all were gone in less than a week I wonder how many were made in the first run. .. I've been licensed 52 yr.s. As a kid I actually operated an S line. I dreamed of owning one. As a young man I wanted a C line but with young kids, etc it wasn't possible. Now it looks like in a few months I'll be the proud owner of a K line. You think this hobby can't give you a thrill after 50 yr.s on the air? K9IL __ 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] going like hotcakes
I just ordered a KPA500. I'm in the July run. So all the ones on hand are gone. Now I have wait for it..UGH! K9IL __ 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] Xyl/KPA500
XYL Rose is almost at 100 confirmed towards DXCC. Probably 130+ wrkd. The 7 towers in the yard were no problem so the KPA500 isn't a big thing here. K9IL W9DHD __ 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 Questions
Is the inter connect cable between the K3 KPA500 not available yet? I read the online manual but not clear on SWR. If say the SWR is 1.5 to 1 does the display show forward power in watts or a combination of forward reflected? If the SWR is less than ideal will the 500 back the power down to ease the heat build up? Maybe I'm just missing it. I'll re-read the manual again K9IL __ 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] Leftie keying
As a kid leftie in the late 50s when I went to a bug then electronic keyer I learned to send left handed with the keyer set for a rightie. I found it easy. My keyer has always been set so a rightie could just sit and start sending normally. After he moved the keyer to the right side of the OP desk. This has served me well guest operating or on FD. NO changing just slide the keyer to the proper side of the OP position. As a leftie in a rightie world we learn early to function with things not set for us. We adapt. Only time I was ever angry at righties was grade school in Chicago in the 50's. Dumb teacher gave me my only failing grade because I couldn't slant my writing the CORRECT way! I forgave but NEVER forgot. K9IL __ 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] KPA 500
I'd like to know the latest on when it will be available. Hope it's shipping before the May/June 6m DX season. If we have openings like last summer maybe my last 29 are possible. K9IL __ 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] Shipping a K3
With no origional packing I would wrap with 4'' of bubble wrap all the way around not just loops. I'd put that in a box with 6'' or more of peanuts around ALL sides. Pack the peanuts so when you shake the box there is no hint of movement. They should be packed so you have to put pressure on the lid to tape it shut. Do your address label in large print. Wrap the ENTIRE package with 2'' wide clear tape. All the way around. I'd put an address label like you put on letters on the radio back whatever other parts you send. I'd use an index card with both addresses on the radio under the bubble wrap one in the peanuts. This may cost an extra $10 for tape, peanuts and bubble wrap. If you send it USPS get a delivery confirmation a return receipt. This is an expensive item don't skimp! I spent 32 yr.s in the postal service with my last 6 yr.s as a window clerk. I know what I speak of. I could tell a lot of horror stories so don't skimp! Please! K9IL PS:When it returns SAVE ALL the packing! Elecraft knows how to ship! __ 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] DX spotting networks
If you have the internet in the shack ck. out DXSCAPE. You can choose between US,Worldwide or JA spots. Sometimes if say S9DX has no US spots in a while click on the WW and/or JA screens. If they are active someone in the world will spot them. If propagation is coming soon to your area on the band you want you'll be able to see if they are on that band working some other part of the world.It'll at least give you a heads up. I said this a few days ago but it's repeatable. You're gg to see more more of these Dxpeditions using Elecraft. I wouldn't trade my K3 for any of those heavy jobs. I told my XYL [a ham] we could get 3 of the K3s for the price of one of those top of the line JA rigs! Only dreaming.. K9IL __ 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] Dxpeditions
Here it's a K3, 500w and no antenna in my little antenna farm over 50'. Got the S9 on 6 bands. The TJ9 on 4 bands. The most important thing beyond a good antenna is timing. If the stn you are chasing is wrking very few in your area you probably don't have the propagation. If you know DXers around you ask them. They may have wrkd them at the peak times. Nothing wrong in asking. DX IS K9IL __ 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] K3s @ VP8
Band condx aren't the best. But if you've wrkd them they weren't very strong thank those K3s. Every evening there's a 6 kc wide CW pile up of callers on 160m,80m 40m. Most of the world calling them. I've managed a few Qs. On 15m SSB they were 53 but they hrd me. One K3 to another Hi! When the KPA500 comes on line expect to see them K3s as the norm on Dxpeditions. If you've not gotten thru hang in there. The pile ups will ease hopefully conditions will improve. K9IL __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] My opinion ..KPA 500
Everyone feels differently about QRO. What limit or no limit is enough. As a hardcore DXer I was taught as a pup antenna was everything. Skill then power in that order. I've done very well never running over 6-700w. I concentrated on antenna improving my skill. My new challenge is 6m. I've seen no mention of 6m in these comments. There are no 6m amps in this price range. ... Once the KPA 500 is on the market if you ever dreamed of going on a Dxpedition you'll be able to fulfill your fantasy. A K3 switcher PS with a KPA500 and a spool of wire in a suitcase. Weighing under 60 lb.s. .. If you ever had a REAL emergency had to go temporary location/antenna that wouldn't be a bad combination either. I guess the answer will be known in a year if it's a hit. I personally plan on buying one if I can. If it's as great as my K3 how can I lose? . K9IL . __ 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] 4:1 balun
My K3 has no problem matching my 160m OCF dipole fed with 50 ohm coax to a 4:1 balun at the feed point. K9IL __ 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] KPA 500
I know some guys are reporting seeing them at hamfests. Maybe I've missed it but is there an actual date they may be on the market? It's not the end of the world, I'm just wondering when K9IL __ 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] KPA 500
I guess because I'm a DXer more than contester [ a lot more] I don't see the need for a coax melting amp. I see 5-600 W as just about right. There are amps on the market that brag they give you an easy KW. What they're really saying is this baby will go 2+ with a bit of a push. That's DC out. Why are baluns coax advertised as good to 5 KW PEP. WINK WINK I was always under the impression antenna was the most important thing. If you have a good tuned antenna why do you need massive tuners. I rarely venture onto SSB so maybe I'd use a tuner because ALL my antennas are tuned for CW.All are under 1:1.3 SWR. I just tap the tune button on the K3 so the little graph doesn't wiggle as I send.You can pump massive watts into a wet string. You'll make contacts but ... I currently use an Ameritron AL 811H. Don't use a tuner. I like the idea of an amp in sync with my K3. As an Elecraft owner I guess I'm biased. As someone chasing 10 band DXCC I see the addition of 6m as a great selling point. I've done the first 9 three quarters of the way on 6m. The KPA 500 is right in my wheelhouse. I see this new amp as a sole mate to my K3. Why did guys get the L4B to mate with their Drakes or the Collins amp to go with their S Lines? It just feels right that's why. These thoughts are not based on price or some data sheet. I just buy what feels right. As to the Yuppie comment. I worked in an office downtown for 32 yr.s before I retired. It was the Post Office. I was blue collar. Blue shirt, blue pants blue tie too. My hat was blue too. K9IL __ 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] Lightening
Interesting reading the last few days. This morning when we couldn't raise my mother in law on the phone we went to check on her. She lives about 10 miles away. We had some thunder yesterday PM but no rain. Been over three weeks of no rain 100+ F temps. She is OK but the AC pole 150' from her home must have taken a lightening hit. Induced current I assume. The breaker on the pole pig' wasn't thrown. She lost a garage door opener, a TV, telephone answering machine we know of. She is in a rural area has dial up internet. When I get the phone back up I'll see if her PC modem is OK. If you missed it last night on Nat Geo channel was an hour long program on lightening. Maybe it will be repeated. You can't be over protective. K9IL __ 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] Big box K3
Being a six footer able a palm a basketball in my youth I don't find the K3 too crowded. I don't have small hands to say the least. I seem to be able to use the radio just fine. At least in the 18 months I've owned one. Our radio club is small. At Field Day we've used two K3s a K2. No complaints from the various operators. No big box 50+ lb. radios brought out tho. Too heavy to lug around I guess. When I contest I log with a laptop. Being an awful typer I watch what I type. For me a P3 I' d move for my best view would be better than having to stare at the transceiver straight on. If you ever wanted to try DXing from a DX location bet you can't drag a 60 lb. radio as a carry on. K3, switcher PS acc. under 20 lb.s Being a lefty only partly ambidexterous my only K3 complaint is the message pad is set for rightys. Oh well just a small problem. In my 51 years of hamming I've sat in front of just about everything made. I'm keeping my K3... K9IL PS: Going to be ruff dragging that little KPA 500 around instead of a big box 80 lb. amplifier. __ 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 amp interface
I agree on the AmpKeyer. Been using one for 7 yr.s. It was between my old radio an SB220. I now use it between the K3 an Ameritron 811h. Probably not necessary but I had it so I use it. Overkill maybe. Mine may become surplus if I can manage a KPA 500... K9IL __ 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] 6m
I am a 'lifer' DXer. Any band. Mostly CW. After 9 band DXCC 355 worked, 6m is a new quest. 6m is like 160m. Windows . Grayline on 160m windows of short duration on 6m. If I want to chat I go on SSB mostly talk to local hams. Being in NW TN EM 56 during the summer season we get 15-30 min. window a few days a month to Japan. I managed to work Japan once last yr. 2 weeks ago. On CW as SSB is too difficult. Weak signal work. No time to chat even if that were possible with the QSB short window. We've had two good openings to Europe this summer. They last from 1 to 3 hr.s then gone. You workem' contest style to give others a chance.6m will open to narrow areas for short durations. It will open to say Italy for 30 min.s then the propagation shifts to France for a bit and so on so on. Sometimes it opens to one area only then fades away. 6m is not HF. Sunday was a great DX day. Today the band was dead all day til evening then open to W7 VE7 for an hour then POOF! Who knows about tomorrow. You take what you're given. 160m is the same. You get 30 min.s of grayline DX to somewhere. That's all. No do overs. You wait til tomorrows grayline to try again. Today on 6m I had a good 10 min. CW QSO with Steve VE7SL. It was about DX our K3s 6m 160m antennas. It doesn't happen often but it does happen. I have been very pleased with my K3 on 6m. I use a homemade 5 el yagi @ 55'. In yesterdays 6m Es I worked country #70 71. My K3 is doing it's job. I have no complaints about the receiver quality on 6m. I'm not using the additional pre-amp. 6m is not HF. Guys who don't DX, chase grid squares as you would chase counties or states on HF. Even those who aren't DXers or contesters will probably be able to tell you what states they've worked on what band. Even tell you they've worked a few DXs too. Each band has it's points. You can't make the band fit you. You use the band as it is. Just my thoughts K9IL K3 #2626 __ 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] 6m CW freq
In the last 2 big DX openings to Europe I found the Italians like 50070 to 50085 along with the more Eastern Europeans. A lot of Western Eu will use CW between 50115 50100. Sometimes you do fight the beacons between 50070 50080. That's what the 8 pole 200hz filter is for in the K3. Often DX will switch between SSB CW when in the DX window 50100-50125. Might be all the RFI we hear about in Europe. Some of the BIG GUN US DXers often call CQ DX between 50060 50070. For what it's worth K9IL __ 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] Re 6m
I too am considering the K3 6m pre amp. But I hear most everything called in as DX. I sometimes can't work what I hear so the K3s rx seems fine. Today from NW TN we had a great Eu opening. The best I've heard. Got 10 new countries in Eu. this morning. K3 was flawless. K9IL __ 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] Re 6m
I too am considering the K3 6m pre amp. But I hear most everything called in as DX. I sometimes can't work what I hear so the K3s rx seems fine. Today from NW TN we had a great Eu opening. The best I've heard. Got 10 new countries in Eu. this morning. K3 was flawless. K9IL __ 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] Export Model..a brief history
In the 1960s Henry others marketed amps for other than amateur use. They were called ' export models'. For military, government civilian other uses. Most would easily reach amateur limits for domestic use. The 'export models' usually had a heavier plate transformer. Some times a larger cooling chimney. The same amperage but 500v or more higher out. Using the same amp but with the export model xfmr could result in 500 or a 1000 more watts output.A friend was stationed on Deigo Garcia in the Indian Ocean. The ham shack ran such an export model amp. They used it for hamming MARS work. He said if he LIGHTLY drove this amp it put out 3KW. Another friend bought a used amp with the 'export model' label. He had to really drive it lightly. He set the HyGain balun on his TH6 on fire! Supposed to be a 5 KW balun. The bigger Alpha had 3 holes cut in the chassis. USA ones were sold with 2 tubes but I've heard guys say they were running a full 3 holer. You fill in the blan k. These companies need to sell to other markets besides amateur radio to stay in business.Henry amps used to be used in hospitals for Diathermy. k9il __ 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] Export Model..a brief history
In the 1960s Henry others marketed amps for other than amateur use. They were called ' export models'. For military, government civilian other uses. Most would easily reach amateur limits for domestic use. The 'export models' usually had a heavier plate transformer. Some times a larger cooling chimney. The same amperage but 500v or more higher out. Using the same amp but with the export model xfmr could result in 500 or a 1000 more watts output.A friend was stationed on Deigo Garcia in the Indian Ocean. The ham shack ran such an export model amp. They used it for hamming MARS work. He said if he LIGHTLY drove this amp it put out 3KW. Another friend bought a used amp with the 'export model' label. He had to really drive it lightly. He set the HyGain balun on his TH6 on fire! Supposed to be a 5 KW balun. The bigger Alpha had 3 holes cut in the chassis. USA ones were sold with 2 tubes but I've heard guys say they were running a full 3 holer. You fill in the blan k. These companies need to sell to other markets besides amateur radio to stay in business.Henry amps used to be used in hospitals for Diathermy. k9il __ 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 160m rx antennas
I run a K3 with a 500w amp. No aux receiver. I use an 8' receiving loop on 160m. It is rotatable fed into an ICE 135b preamp then to the K3 Rx ant connector. Transmitting ant. is a simple OCF dipole @50'. Not as good as the L probably. I have had the loop up just this winter. From NW Tn the loop is better most of the time receiving SA than the dipole. Most other directions it's equal or worse MOST of the time.But every day is different. During CQ WW 160m PY0F was always better with the dipole. The week before the contest the loop was two S units better to PY0F. Last night YV1DIG was also two S units better on the dipole. Some nights the UAs are a bit better on the loop. I run the K3 pre amp all the time. Either antenna.I have the 1.8/.400 .250 8 pole filters. I normally run at .200 bandwidth.I only operate CW. Some mornings I hr. JA well some mornings NADA. It depends on the Flux. When the A K are low I hear the best. What I do is as soon as I hr. the DX I punch the loop in to see which is hearing better. The back ground noise level is obviously lower on the loop so are the signals. We are in different parts of the country so we'll have propagation differently.This is no expert opinion just what I've observed. CU in the pile ups K9IL __ 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] GFI trip
My XYL I built this house . We wired it used GFIs where required . Even where they weren't. Most were Chinese. Two were American. I've had RF trip both kinds. Just random trips with nothing repeatable time after time. I found the easiest way to fix the problem was just replace the GFI. I have no idea if it was component failure or just freak incident .Replacing has almost always stopped the trips.I only had a pull one unrequired one leave the GFI out. Trips would occur every few months or so. Chinese. For what it's worthI operate 160m thru 6m no particular freq was worse than another. My old IC 746 would lock on 40m CW once in a while but that's another RF story K9IL __ 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 on the air time
Mine is on every morning at grayline evening thru bedtime. I am no tech I don't have more than a very basic idea how things inside work. I care what it can do for my DXing. Currently I'm focused on 160m.Just 500w a dipole @50'. A long way from a big gun.I consider the K3 an equilizer. Last evening TG9NX was on 160m CW. Very weak. I listened for an hour called too. No contact tho'. However there were a lot of 'big gun' stn.s calling him. Some wrkd him some didn't. I bet they weren't using a K3. I heard him reply to EVERYONE. Some of the big boys were called back but they couldn't hear him. He would call them two or three times before they heard him reply. A couple of them never heard him reply.Alligatorsall XMIT no ears. You can't work em' if you can't hear them. In my 50 yr.s of hamming it's the best receiver I've ever used. As to size. It's a tiny bit smaller than my old IC 746. I see no difference playing with the controls. In my youth I easily 'palmed' a basketball so I don't have small hands. I'm a lefty but that's a whole another placement issue. I read the techno stuff on the reflector try to learn. As long as the K3 comes on I can start tuning AND hear DX is all I care about. Everything in this hobby is subjective. But don't just admire the radioturn it on. My '65 Mustang is driven not kept in the garage uncovered once in a while and admired. What's the point. k9il __ 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] boots
I'm not a tech by any standards. This is just IMHO. I have been active on 160m 3 winters chasing DXCC. The 1st winter I ran 100w. I managed 5 countries. I bought an AL 811h just so I had more output on 160m the WARC bands. 17m 12m. My operation is 99.9% CW. I am now at 108 on 160m. Same antenna. An OCF dipole at 50'. My watt meter shows 500w out. I don't push the amp for another 50-75w. I see no point. I added 103 counters in two winters by gg to 500w. on 160m. Since I use yagis on 17m 12m I seldom use the amp. If you want to go from 100w to 150w on 160m go to it. Have fun. If you hear me on 160m CW calling DX know that the amp is on. Now if you come up with a 200-300w amp for 6m let me know. That's my next quest. Getting 47 more on 6m! Happy Holidays k9il k3 #2626 __ 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] knobs
I received mine VERY fast but I'm in the US. As a retired postal clerk I can tell you lots of stories about shipping thru customs. I retired before 911 but even in 2000 some countries were fast some slow or stop. Even the smallest padded bag took a month to clear customs in France. One customer sent cremated ashes to Mexico. That was over 3 months til delivery. I could speak dozens of such stories. Hang in there. They'll arrive. k9il K3 #2626 __ 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] Special offer
Just ordered a handbook. Couldn't beat the price! Make great presents. Got one last yr for my son in law when he passed his extra. Not sure if I'll keep this one or make it a gift. k9il K3 #2626 Tnx Elecraft __ 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] chasing DX on cw
When I'm split I just push A/B. I am then listening to my Xmit Freq. I set the bandwidth narrow on my listening freq wider on my Xmit freq. When the DX turns it back to the stn it;s working I punch A/Btune for their signal if it's not in my receive bandwidth. Some times you find them sometimes you don't. Mostly I do.Then push A/B again to hear the DX go QRZ __ 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] astron
I use a RS35a that loafs with the K3. .. Use RS 20m with XYLs Icom 746 . Used an Astron 25 switcher with Icom 718 .. Astrons are very dependable PS __ 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 ergonomics
I went thru the same question. Being over 6' tall I could 'palm' a basketball in my youth I wasn't sure. I used a friends K2 K3 on FD the last 3 yr.s. I realized it was no more difficult or easier to operate than a big rig. Another friend has a TS 2000 which is 'prettier' maybe..but I wouldn't trade my K3 for three of them. It's also 'prettier' to move the K3 on the operating desk or take to FD than one of the 50-60 lb giants. I couldn't care less what it looks like on the outside anyway. I care what the insides DO. I'm not a full contester but a DXer. Just my opinion. k9il k3 # 2626 __ 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] Front load washer
In the 2 yr.s we've had a front loader I've experienced no noise problem. In 9 yr.s at this QTH I went thru 3 American brand top loaders.Poor construction quality control. I was finally fed up and bought an LG [ S Korean company]. Six months ago I bought a new K3. At last I found a top of the line product that was made in the USA. I wish all things I buy were as well made as my radio. k9il __ 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] knobs
I sent Elecraft an e mail this past weekend my replacement ones came today. Very fast indeed! I'm happy with the stock knobs but to each his own. k9il __ 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] Fast service
I broke the AF knob on my K3 #2626. Sent Elecraft an e mail probably an hour or so after they opened this AM I got an e mail saying a new one is on it's way! I've heard about their service now I've experienced it. FANTASTIC. Bet those other radio companys aren't this goodby a long shot. K9IL __ 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] broken AF knob
I've only had my K3 #2626 5 months. The AF knob loosened today. When I finally found an alan small enough to tighten it the knob split before it was even snugged up. Not cranked. Wasn't there a thread about this about the time I purchased my K3? Is this a common problem? Is there an improved knob available? I just sent Elecraft an e mail so I hope to get their reply Monday. K9IL __ 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] Field Day
If you wrkd K4RFT on cw or rtty it was thru a K3. We had 2 running this yr __ 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 amp
Only familiar with Heathkit amps. Driven an SB200 SB220 with various solid state radios. Ic 730,TS 430,Ft757,IC746. I used an Ampkeyer between the radios the Heath amps. There are various interfaces. Some radios it's over kill but some need it. It also a safety too. The Heath turns on 120v to key the relay. Lots of new radios use a reed relay or electronic switching. 120v WAY too much for them. $30 is not a big expense compared to fixing a radio or amp. Elecraft says I can key my Ameritron 811h but I use the Ampkeyer interface anyway. Can't be too careful. I saved my Kopeks for a while to get my beautiful K3.I don't want to have to run the back up radio. My opinion is 'better safe than sorry' k9il __ 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 external speaker
I'm using an old car stereo door speaker now. Any one tell me the source for a good speaker for the K3. Any enclosure tips too. k9il K3 #2626 __ 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
