Is that supposed to be a compliment?
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On 9/6/07, Charles Harpole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Again I say, the K3 will be the IC 706 of the new century.
Living in a densely populated area like I do and with indoor antennas
- no chance!
If my 10 watts can't make a particular contact then it's no big deal
to me. It's only a hobby, a pastime, not life or death communications,
not worth causing interference to the neighbours. I don't understand
why
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Predictions for future:
I've seen this sort of thing since I was a kid reading Popular Science.
What you don't see is a recap of how wrong so many predictions turn out to
be, and how few predictions turn
On 6/9/07 12:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent:
Besides, it's hard enough talking to *people* and getting them to
understand...
Sorry, what was that again - I don't understand %-)
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In a message dated 9/6/07 3:52:24 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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I don't understand
why people have to get so competitive about radio.
Because, for some folks, it's fun to compete.
Why do folks do amateur sports competitively? (As soon as you start keeping
score and
On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 9/6/07 3:52:24 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I don't understand
why people have to get so competitive about radio.
Because, for some folks, it's fun to compete.
So, with today's trends in education to
If I understand correctly, the K3 is to have a jack for a keyboard on the
underside of the case.
What type of jack is this?
Regards,
Dick - KA5KKT/4
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Dick,
I saw an RJ-45 jack on the bottom of one at Dayton. It is not your
normal PC keyboard connector.
I believe we will just have to wait and see what Elecraft will come up
with before we can use it.
73,
Don W3FPR
Edward Dickinson, III wrote:
If I understand correctly, the K3 is to have
On 9/6/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Because, for some folks, it's fun to compete.
OK, I'll believe you. But some of the folks getting antsy in a pile-up
don't sound like they are having much fun, do they?
And consider this: The Ancient Ones were working the Antipodes on HF
I do wonder what Elecraft could come up with if
size, weight, and power consumption were not an issue.
It would likely be a rig I would really like, as there
are plenty of small rigs out there.
They dont need to go head to head with the major manufacturers
if they dont want to, they can sell
I would rather see them expanding into a surface mount miniaturized
version of the k2 with improved performance for a k4.
Matt KD8DAO
On 9/6/07, Brett gazdzinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I do wonder what Elecraft could come up with if
size, weight, and power consumption were not an issue.
It
Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy wrote:
Never had a problem John getting full rated PEP output from K2/100
#3255 using the HC-4 and HC-5 elements in the Heil ProSet Plus
headset without an external preamp, but I don't use the K2/100's VOX.
If I used VOX a little more audio gain would be required in
If the end result of that would be a battery powered radio the size of
an FT-817 or smaller, with K2 + KAT2 functionality then it would be a
must-buy. The FT-817 has been very popular but technically it is a
huge disappointment, with a poor receiver, far too high power
consumption for its battery
Gee, I pray it's -NOT- the IC-706 of the 21st century.
The '706 is an ho-hum radio for the casual operator ... maybe. (;-(
73! Ken Kopp - K0PP
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Someone, in past 2 weeks, posted a message with
a link - to a SET of K3 PHOTOS, taken at various
places. Inside cabinet, bottom, front, front,
front, all over the K3.
Does anyone remember or have this photo Link?
Fred N3CSY
On Sept.06/07 Julian G4ILO [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
N2EY:
And consider this: The Ancient Ones were working the Antipodes on HF 75+
years ago with simple regenerative receivers, wire antennas and oscilator
transmitters putting out a few watts of RF power. All of the improvements
in
our
http://www.n4lcd.com/k3/
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Think it was me, as well as the original poster
http://www.n4lcd.com/k3/
On 6/9/07 15:40, Fred (FL) [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent:
Someone, in past 2 weeks, posted a message with
a link - to a SET of K3 PHOTOS, taken at various
places. Inside cabinet, bottom, front, front,
front, all over the K3.
So you want a revised K1, not a K4.
K3 performance in a K1 size box using surface mount.
That seems like a nitch radio, not a mainstream radio.
You need:
Backpack rig and/or handheld,
Small portable or field day rig,
Mobile rig (portable and field day also) designed with the car in mind..,
I said twice the size, with 4 times the knobs/buttons.
Four times would be HUGE!
Brett
I personally don't have the space for the four times larger K3
proposed by Brett, but as there seems to be quite a lot of space
inside the K3 already I don't really see the point in any case. If it
is a
Is there an output available for the K3 to key a remote ATU via the Tune
feature/button in the absense of an internal ATU?
Regards,
Dick - KA5KKT/4
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On 9/6/07, Brett gazdzinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think they would sell many more bigger rigs to the general ham
population then they would sell revised K1's.
On what evidence do you base this assertion? I haven't done a survey,
but on the basis of the rigs people say they are using when
That is one of the great things about our hobby, there is
surely something for everyone.
As long as others don't object about someone else's
favorite thing, its great.
I don't get into contests, but I don't mind the guys that do
taking over the bands from time to time.
I hope they don't mind
Someone, in past 2 weeks, posted a message with...
Another reminder of the great list archives at
http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft. The link is on the bottom
of every email sent to the list.
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This would be nice. I used the tune function that my Icom radios had
that keyed them up at 10 watts to activate my SGC antenna coupler.
The low power saves the relays as well as reducing interference. I
bet it's on the firmware enhancement list already.
Dave W5DHM
On 9/6/07, Edward Dickinson,
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From: Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sept.06/07 Julian G4ILO [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
N2EY:
And consider this: The Ancient Ones were working the Antipodes on
HF 75+
years ago with simple regenerative receivers, wire antennas and
oscilator
I too would like this and rather hope Elecraft have already incorporated it.
I have a long wire tuned with an SG237 outside the shack with its coax
coming inside. I am planning on continuing to use that when at home (and
probably put a 1/2 G5RV on the other Ant in).
I currently have an FT-857
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People today seem to want everything to be smaller (except for their
big screen TV's). Everything is becoming smaller, not bigger.
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Thanks to all who have replied, I've found one.
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And harder to use - I bought the K3 because I find accessing all functions
via a menu (on my FT-857) to be prohibitive.
I was looking at the FT-2000 and almost ready to buy and then there was this
announcement .
On 6/9/07 17:07, JT Croteau [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent:
People today seem to want
K2/100 S/N 6205, fully fitted with all options, is now qrv. This is the best
rig I have owned (previous was FT102 which is no slouch in the Rx
department). I was immediately convinced by its performance on 40m this
evening.
Elecraft - I am now your greatest fan!
Minor glitches with the various
Sorry, think there may be a couple of 100 others you claim that :-)
On 6/9/07 17:18, Barry Horning [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent:
Elecraft - I am now your greatest fan!
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Hello all,
I recently bought an Elecraft K2 from ebay.
It will very well with one exception. The first two XFIL setting work
well but the third and fourth XFIL settings require an adjustment in
the receive frequency to copy the signal.
Where should I start to discover the nature of this problem.
Sounds like the PO did no get the bfo and filter
alignment correct. No wonder they sold the rig.
You should do a complete alignment, if just to
familiarize yourself with it.
Its in the manual, and get the spectrogram software
also, makes it easy to align things.
Enjoy!
Brett
N2DTS
John,
If your D104 is an older one with the high impedance crystal or ceramic
element, yes it will not work so well (if at all).
There was an article in QST about a year ago with a circuit design that
had a very high impedance input and the low impedance output required by
modern day
The ATU TUNE would also be great for use with an external amplifier, along
with an external high power autotuner (Palstar AT-1K Auto, MFJ-994B/998, LDG
AT-1000, etc). The external tuner could apply a Request low power CW
signal output like the IC-706 (and others) does, and the K3 could respond
Jim N2EY wrote:
Ancient Ones is a term of respect.
Understood. In this part of the UK this usually refers to those who lived
here some thousands of years ago, whereas Elders are still living.
Consider the age of anyone who actually operated an amateur station 75+
years ago
Indeed.
.
Marshall,
Sadly, that is a common situation, although it is not really a problem
since the filters and BFOs on the K2 can easily be modified. You need
to do a filter alignment.
While you are in the process of doing that, you may as well go full bore
and do the dial calibration part too.
Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy wrote:
There is no doubt in my mind that the availability of plug and play
rigs and the growth of the ham population has increased interference
levels from what they were in 1946.
Hello Geoff!
I don't remember the bands in 1946, but I do remember 1956. The 40
I am pretty sure that there are a couple of very simple circuits in
W1FB's Design Notebook that specifically use the D104 -
modern_radio as an example.
Greg
KI4MMM
K2 #6100
On Sep 6, 2007, at 1:29 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote:
John,
If your D104 is an older one with the high impedance crystal or
On the assumption that people wanting little radios
could get or already have a K1, K2, etc.
And from looking at ads in QST and the AES catalog,
the big rigs get the attention, along with anything 'new'.
Sure, there are loads of people who would like an
expensive radio, like me, but I don't
I don't know if people want it smaller, or they push
smaller stuff to the people, or if it's a young thing, or what.
I do NOT want things smaller, my cell phone/camera is already so small
its very hard to use, look at aftermarket car radios, the buttons and
displays
are so small you have to stop
Thank you for the hints.
Thanks to your and other's comments on the Elecraft list I have found
numerous good examples with some as minimalistic as a FET + passives all
the way to a good Instrumentation Amp + passives.
This has inspired me to create a circuit based more on the modern In-Amp
Hello all,
A few weeks ago I asked for advice on the use of the KAT2 feeding a length
of coax, followed by a balun connected to the balanced feeder of my doublet.
In my case 15 metre of coax is needed between the K2 and the balun/open wire
feeders.
Quite a few people seem to have a similar
OK Guys!
I think you might missed Charles point.
The 706 is actually a super rig for what it was ment to do.
Running mobile HF or as with mk2g HF/VHF/UHF and portable setup as well.
That some has choosed to make it the primary rig is also understandable
since it has
such small footprintand it
I think we need to get with the times, i'm not saying a smaller box
for the k2, but i wouldnt mind seeing a surface mount version, which
would mean more space inside the box for user mods and tinkering, i
think with all the options installed everyone agrees the k2 is a tight
fit. And as much as
On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 20:07:02 -, Roelof Bakker wrote:
When the balance is less than perfect common mode noise is introduced
in the system. The difference is amazing;
Yes, it is. But there is a FAR easier way to achieve that with plain
ordinary coax and a good common mode choke formed by
I had exactly the same experience as Roel and reached the same
conclusions. I agree that a commercial BALANCED autotuner would be
the best solution for an all-band dipole, if there were such a thing.
Like Roel, I attempted to use a KAT2 and balun arrangement for all-
band feeding of a
Lamb, Dick Judy wrote:
I had exactly the same experience as Roel and reached the same
conclusions. I agree that a commercial BALANCED autotuner would be the
best solution for an all-band dipole, if there were such a thing.
Oh, there is all right. It's just a bit expensive!
Anyone heard of the re-work eliminators?
It seems that less and less of the K3 process is being
left to the builder, and the user influence is
becoming dangerously low with respect to the build.
I am considering a startup operation to address this
problem, costed initially as follows:
K3
I had to design and build my own because I wanted to run up to a KW through
it. If I had to buy new matched roller inductors they alone would cost over
400 dollars.
I found most of what I needed in my junkbox or on Ebay but even so the parts
and materials alone were well over 300 dollars ...
Dick,
Warning, a bit of theory talk follows:
I believe your post combined two different aspects of tuners. Matching
range limitations are a fact of life with any tuner design whether
auto-tuner or manual and whether a balanced tuner or an unbalanced tuner.
In my attic I do have an old
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I would like to rewire an old IC-SM6 desk mic so that I can use it on my K2
and K3. The K2 is currently jumpered for the MD2 so I don't want to change
the jumpers. So would any of you fine people out there have a schematic
that you could scan for me?
John [K7SVV]
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With a good balun at the output of a good unbalanced autotuner, the
balance *should* be perfect. The task of finding out why it may not be
perfect in any one installation may indeed be more difficult
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Has anyone done this? How do you set the jumpers in the radio What
of the pinout at the mic connector? Thanks
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Puzzles me that some would see the negative side of competition. If you
think the kids at the local schools can't deal with competition or somehow
shun
it, just go to the local high school football game on a Friday night - that
cheering is coming from the stands! They are competing right
Roelof Bakker, pa0rdt , wrote:
Though this works for me at the moment, it should be nice if someone
(Elecraft?) could come up with a stand alone truely balanced automatic
antenna tuner.
Good Idea...I Think there is a good, but limited, market for such a tuner.
Later
KXBill
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writes:
it should be nice if someone
(Elecraft?) could come up with a stand alone truely balanced automatic
antenna tuner.
Good Idea...I Think there is a good, but limited, market for such a tuner.
I
I have been thinking of doing the same thing, but good for
600 watts of AM carrier plus modulation.
I would wind the coils out of copper tubing, and make the coils
tapped with a switch, only the best roller inductors hold up
over time.
The coils would have a link input from the rig side.
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writes:
I think the market would be a lot more than limited. Particularly if the
tuner part could be remoted. If Elecraft made it, the market would be enormous,
IMHO.
Imagine being able to
Will somebody carry the Elecraft K3 and operate it from the summit of K3?
It doesn't seem likely. Apparently the actual identity of the K3 mountain
is uncertain.
See: http://www.jmilne.org/K3/index.html.
73, Bruce N7RR
J. Bruce Prior, PhD, CTTS
853 Alder Street
Blaine, WA 98230-8030
I made a few recordings of some noise that I hear on 40m tonight. The
.wav files can be downloaded at the address below. I have no idea what's
causing this noise, or how to filter it out. Is this the type of noise
that the KDSP2 or KNB2 could remove?
Thanks,
Zac
KD5IEF
Face it, MOST operators like a large front panel.
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Zac,
I have no idea what could be causing that noise, but it certainly sounds
like it is frequency dependent (you were tuning during the recording
were you not?) and from the intensity, I would judge it to be a local
source.
The KNB2 will not likely reduce it at all, but the KDSP2 has a
Charles,
I cannot support that assumption, but then maybe I am not among the
MOST operators.
Convenience for the most used functions is in order (and the K2 is
sufficient in that regard, the K3 will be better), but having a knob for
each and every function available on the radio is just not
Sure sounds like typical local noise from something in your home (or a near
neighbors home). Have you or someone else in the house recently acquired a
new electronic gizmo, appliance, or ??It could be most anything but the
switching power supplies used for almost everything these days are
Passing time waiting for K3, heard Wayne is in the
K3 video on YouTube. I've watched it 3 times now,
but no sign of Wayne. ???
http://tinyurl.com/2dgxey
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Can anyone tell me how one discerns an output power of (say) 200mw or
1 watt on the RF out display? I presume that at QRP levels,
the scales changes. Yes?
There are twelve bars in the power meter. At 12 watts and below, one watt
per bar. Above 12 watts, 10 watts/bar.
73,
Ed - W0YK
You can also hold TUNE, which displays QRP levels at a resolution of
0.1 W.
If you have a KXV3 installed, you can put out -10 to +2 dBm at the
transverter OUT jack. In this case, power is adjusted in .01-mW steps.
TUNE shows power in .01-mW increments as well as in dBm.
73,
Wayne
N6KR
On
Do you ... or a neighbor ... have a touch-lamp? I'm a retired
power company noise chaser and it sounds like one of these
dogs, but I'd expect it to be in the 80M band instead of 40M.
Or, the slighthly shifting buzz might be an indication of a video
related source,
Good luck!
Ken Kopp - K0PP
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