[Elecraft] the hummers
I cut and pasted the fefinition below from Wikipedia. It does a very good job of stating what I often read here. I often wonder about folks who want to get matching serial numbers for their K Line. Now we have the hummers. Next week I celebrate my 59th year on the air. We had no idea then what the gear of today could possibly be. We threw switches to spot and then to transmit and then to receive. I wonder what the hummers of today would have done 59 years ago ? ? ? I enjoyed reading about the guy who puts his hand on top of his P3 and the base line goes back down. Now that one I can appreciate as having some merit. BRW I turn my fan on the KPA 500 to 2 and leave it there all the time. Do any of these folks get bothered by flashing LEDs ? ? ? If they do I have missed that one. In the old days we did not have flashing lights. Sometimes we did not have meters eithers. Just used a neon bulb on a stick to tune the rig. Crude but it worked. It would flash though when you keyed the rig. Umm The term *anal retentive* (also *anally retentive*), commonly abbreviated to *anal*,[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anal_retentive#cite_note-0 is used conversationally http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversation to describe a person who pays such attention to detail that the obsession becomes an annoyance to others, and can be carried out to the detriment of the anal-retentive person. The term derives from Freudianhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud psychoanalysis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoanalysis. People who are said to be anal retentive usually suffer from obsessive–compulsive personality disorderhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsessive%E2%80%93compulsive_personality_disorder [*citation needed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed*] . __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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] the hummers
On 9/27/2011 10:12 AM, jim danehy wrote: People who are said to be anal retentive usually suffer from obsessive-compulsive personality disorder Or have learned the hard way that it's better to make sure that it's done right the first time rather than to have to do it over at far more expense of time and resources. Measure twice, cut once, you know. I'm sure that somewhere in the Elecraft manual(s) there's some urging to do something like that, if only to read the manual first. -- 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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] the hummers
While many of these issues seem to annoy other people, I believe that it is excellent feedback for Elecraft. If a bunch of people started to have a humming issue then they would know that something might be wrong. When something runs quiet for 3 months and then starts making noise I think it is worth mentioning. A while back I reported a problem with the K3 that when I plugged in headphone to the front jack that the S meter would jump 2 units. Using the back jack did not do this. The actual cause was that a pin was bent while reconnecting the front panel after installing the DSP mod. Reporting back to Elecraft what I found might save the next guy a bunch of time as they now have it detailed that this issue could be caused by X. So what if people are obsessive compulsive or Anal Using the delete key is much easier than stewing about it. Mike W0MU J6/W0MU November 21 - December 1 2011 CQ WW DX CW W0MU-1 CC Cluster w0mu.net On 9/27/2011 11:12 AM, jim danehy wrote: I cut and pasted the fefinition below from Wikipedia. It does a very good job of stating what I often read here. I often wonder about folks who want to get matching serial numbers for their K Line. Now we have the hummers. Next week I celebrate my 59th year on the air. We had no idea then what the gear of today could possibly be. We threw switches to spot and then to transmit and then to receive. I wonder what the hummers of today would have done 59 years ago ? ? ? I enjoyed reading about the guy who puts his hand on top of his P3 and the base line goes back down. Now that one I can appreciate as having some merit. BRW I turn my fan on the KPA 500 to 2 and leave it there all the time. Do any of these folks get bothered by flashing LEDs ? ? ? If they do I have missed that one. In the old days we did not have flashing lights. Sometimes we did not have meters eithers. Just used a neon bulb on a stick to tune the rig. Crude but it worked. It would flash though when you keyed the rig. Umm The term *anal retentive* (also *anally retentive*), commonly abbreviated to *anal*,[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anal_retentive#cite_note-0 is used conversationallyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversation to describe a person who pays such attention to detail that the obsession becomes an annoyance to others, and can be carried out to the detriment of the anal-retentive person. The term derives from Freudianhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud psychoanalysishttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoanalysis. People who are said to be anal retentive usually suffer from obsessive–compulsive personality disorderhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsessive%E2%80%93compulsive_personality_disorder [*citation neededhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed*] . __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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] the hummers
Absolutely Mike. I am not an Elecraft employee, but I have worked with Eric, Wayne and the Elecraft staff on for ten years now. I monitor this reflector primarily to see if there are any consistent issues with building the gear that I can fix with an addition or change to the manuals. I know that Wayne and the rest of the engineering staff are watching for issues like this to investigate or ideas that they can incorporate into the product (without pricing it out of the market, Hi!) They have been doing that since the first K2 shipped over a decade ago. 73, Ron AC7AC -Original Message- While many of these issues seem to annoy other people, I believe that it is excellent feedback for Elecraft. If a bunch of people started to have a humming issue then they would know that something might be wrong. When something runs quiet for 3 months and then starts making noise I think it is worth mentioning. A while back I reported a problem with the K3 that when I plugged in headphone to the front jack that the S meter would jump 2 units. Using the back jack did not do this. The actual cause was that a pin was bent while reconnecting the front panel after installing the DSP mod. Reporting back to Elecraft what I found might save the next guy a bunch of time as they now have it detailed that this issue could be caused by X. So what if people are obsessive compulsive or Anal Using the delete key is much easier than stewing about it. Mike W0MU J6/W0MU November 21 - December 1 2011 CQ WW DX CW W0MU-1 CC Cluster w0mu.net On 9/27/2011 11:12 AM, jim danehy wrote: I cut and pasted the fefinition below from Wikipedia. It does a very good job of stating what I often read here. I often wonder about folks who want to get matching serial numbers for their K Line. Now we have the hummers. Next week I celebrate my 59th year on the air. We had no idea then what the gear of today could possibly be. We threw switches to spot and then to transmit and then to receive. I wonder what the hummers of today would have done 59 years ago ? ? ? I enjoyed reading about the guy who puts his hand on top of his P3 and the base line goes back down. Now that one I can appreciate as having some merit. BRW I turn my fan on the KPA 500 to 2 and leave it there all the time. Do any of these folks get bothered by flashing LEDs ? ? ? If they do I have missed that one. In the old days we did not have flashing lights. Sometimes we did not have meters eithers. Just used a neon bulb on a stick to tune the rig. Crude but it worked. It would flash though when you keyed the rig. Umm The term *anal retentive* (also *anally retentive*), commonly abbreviated to *anal*,[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anal_retentive#cite_note-0 is used conversationallyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversation to describe a person who pays such attention to detail that the obsession becomes an annoyance to others, and can be carried out to the detriment of the anal-retentive person. The term derives from Freudianhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud psychoanalysishttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoanalysis. People who are said to be anal retentive usually suffer from obsessive-compulsive personality disorderhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsessive%E2%80%93compulsive_personali ty_disorder [*citation neededhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed*] . __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto: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
