Hi all,
problem described below is now fixed. Tnx to Wayne for the support by
email! I loaded the newest beta without any problems. Did some tests
yesterday evening. VOX works again. Everything I use seems to be fine. I
guess I had some problems during the update which wasn't successful. I
co
I've just updated the Programmer's Reference to rev B and sent it to
Bob and Don. It'll be available on our web site by tomorrow, most
likely. Still quite a few updates needed, but it's getting closer to
reality.
73,
Wayne
N6KR
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Bob,
I have been wondering why the K31; command is not documented and am very
interested in how the list responds. I have a homebrew autotuner that sends
SWH_ commands to the K3 and waited patiently for months for the promised
implementation of these commands. Then, back in February or early
This is a peculiar case for me.
I personally tried to help this individual with his K2 problems, and did
not receive much input in return from the questions I posed to him. As
a result, I have little idea about the condition of the K2 he is
attempting to sell, nor his reasons for selling it.
Dick
The conditions you describe are convincing evidence most if not all his
noise is internally generated in the 950. As Jack points out, Where is
the question, not Whether.
Since it is very unlikely the noise comes from outside the radio, no
roofing filter will eliminate it. What a narrower
I see he sold a K2/100 and tuner in February, so he's
not "new" to the product line.
73! Ken Kopp - K0PP
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Hello,
I had a ton of problems with two K2s and sent two or three a day for over a
week to support at Elecraft. The response was usually within an hour or two. I
always got thoughtful responses on where to go next to trouble-shoot my rigs.
It was truly outstanding. Both of my rigs are up and ru
For those of us who are not tone-deaf -- I'm musically inclined
myself -- the extremes that this disability can go to can be almost
incomprehensible at first. My wife is completely tone-deaf, so I finally got
to learn about it. Still amazes me. Because to her music is subjectively
indistinguishabl
Ron et al,
Compared to my XV50/K2 station my K3 is much more practical on 6 meters in a
suburban, high noise, high EMI environment (metro Phoenix). The attenuator had
to be always on in my K2 to keep it from being overloaded by the XV50 RX
output. In addition I turned the K2 RF gain down to br
K3 beta-test firmware revision 1.96 is now available. As with other
beta releases, we encourage you to load it, but if you'd rather see how
things go for everyone else, *then* load it, we'll understand. Please
send any problem reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For release notes and instructions on
NZ8J wrote:
Is it possible to set the vfo's on the K3 to different bandwidth while
operating split? For example can you set the pileup listening vfo (b) to
a 1khz or wider bandwidth while listening to the dx station on the other
vfo (a) with say a 500 hz filter? I understand if you have the sub
Kristinn:
Looks like the resistor gods were with you this time. If you look at
the schematic for the KSB2, you'll see (upper right corner) that RP2 is
4 separate resistors with no pins in common (1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8), so you
can keep RP2 installed reversed. The same is true for RP1. HOWEVER,
I had forgotten that Wayne was putting this in a different folder. I
got it downloaded, loaded and all is well. Thanks all for the help.
Stan
W5EWA
Houston, TX
K2 SN 4216
K3 SN 0690
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Go to ftp://ftp.elecraft.com/K3/firmware
You'll need to do some reading to lear
Dear Wayne,
A pitch of 880 Hz is an exactly tuned A, twice the canonical 440 that
orchestras are tuned to. Musical people might like to use 880 to
avoid upsetting their sense of pitch by hearing an off-key sidetone
all day. Also, 740.0 is within a fraction of a Hertz of a correctly
tune
Hi Bob,
i'm using these commands in macros: !! K31; is needed to enable the
command extensions !!
To all who are missing a easy way to configure the RX/TX equalizer.
Based on the available tools i would use the Macros to set the RX/TX
equalizer for different needs.
An short example (p
Charles Harpole wrote:
The status of copyright on open sites on the Web are a good question.
The old (prior to Internet) rule was easy any work given away to
the public lost its copyright protection. Example: a poet hands out
I don't believe this has been true since the USA signed the Berne
On Wed, 14 May 2008 17:21:51 -0500
Stan Rife <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I just checked the website for the new software and the K3 Utility
did not see it.
K3 Utility is not yet updated to look for Beta firmware. Please go to the
Elecraft website K3 Software page for directions to download
I just checked the website for the new software and the K3 Utility
did not see it. I'm still showing 01.88, 00.01 and 01.71 available. Did
they take it down for some reason?
Stan
W5EWA
Houston, TX
K2 SN 4216
K3 SN 0690
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I was staying up a bit too late last night, assembling my KSB2, and
accidentally installed the 2.7K resistor network RP2 reversed (pin1 is where
pin 8 should be, etc.). Now, if RP2 simply consists of four equal and
individual resistors (pins 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8) I would believe this does not
matte
Is it possible to set the vfo's on the K3 to different bandwidth while
operating split? For example can you set the pileup listening vfo (b) to
a 1khz or wider bandwidth while listening to the dx station on the other
vfo (a) with say a 500 hz filter? I understand if you have the sub
receiver this
Stephen Prior wrote:
In older houses in the UK the neutral is bonded to a real ground at the fuse
box, where the ground is usually a long copper rod just a few feet away.
This configuration (TT) is rather rare (mainly rural supplies by
overhead lines).
There is rarely in my experience more
I have no problem with the implemented commands (the buttons that do work),
for example SWH09 for VOX. Shout at me if this doesn't work for you and
we'll run through the docs.
Simon Brown, HB9DRV
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From: "Bob Tellefsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The
The programmers' reference says that the SWH and SWT
functions are not implemented yet. However, I've been
told that preceding such a command with K3; should
make them work. It hasn't for me, so I'm asking if
anyone else has attempted to get these functions to
program yet? Were you successful?
Yes, I bet that if you use that during the contest...you will have issues with
auto spot. I just haven't had time or a contest to enter to see what would
happen.
73
Lee - K0WA
In our day and age it seems that Common Sense is in short supply. If you don't
have any Common Sense - get some C
If using this in a contest you will have to make sure your filter passband is
quite
narrow. If there are multiple signals within the passband it will not know
which
signal to tune to.
-
73,
Greg - AB7R
Whidbey Island WA
NA-065
On Wed May 14 7:57 , Lee Buller sent:
I have the same experience here with my 5 element beam.
The K3 receives better on 6m than my home made transverter that I used on 6
with the K2. In general I have trouble working weak stations anyway. Perhaps
more power out would make it better -
-Bill Churchill
AA1O
K3 287
K2 1740
- Origi
Hello Ron,
It's got less gain than my 7800 but I can still hear about 2dB more
noise on my antenna than I can on a 50 Ohm load.
I do 6m EME on occasion and I have been successful in monitoring 6m EME
QSOs with the K3, so for my setup (7 ele long yagi, Quiet rural area,
low loss feeder ) the limit
On Wed, 14 May 2008 10:22:05 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
>
>
>
>Tom Childers, N5GE wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 14 May 2008 08:21:59 -0700, you wrote:
>> Tuning for zero beat is the same method orchestras use to match the
>> Concert
>> Masters note at the beginning of a concert, so it is very accurate. It i
hi Frank,
Frank Lammel schrieb am 14 May 2008 um 9:28:
> I loaded rev 1.94 yesterday evening. My main problem is the not working VOX
> in 1.88. However it was more worse than with 1.88! Once set to VOX I
> couldn't set it back to PTT. It switched the whole time to TX, no matter
> what MIC gain s
hi Wayne,
wayne burdick schrieb am 14 May 2008 um 9:04:
> I'm glad to hear that there's only one little birdie of concern to the
> list. This is a major victory :) The K3 uses down-conversion to a low
> first I.F. (so we can offer narrowband crystal filters). It's nearly
> impossible to elimin
It places your station in the middle of the other operators passband,
and has the best chance for them to hear you. I have noticed this in
contests. Some folks, especially with strong adjacent signals
(meaning they are probably running a filter) will hear you better and
respond quicker if you
Drew, AF2Z wrote:
" Yes, it is pretty easy to get within 10 or 20 hz by ear."
My dad was an entertainer and had perfect pitch. He could pick up a
telephone and tell you the note of the dial tone. I am a drummer and pretty
much tone deaf (When I sing I'm told I can change keys in the middle of a
Tom Childers, N5GE wrote:
>
> On Wed, 14 May 2008 08:21:59 -0700, you wrote:
> Tuning for zero beat is the same method orchestras use to match the
> Concert
> Masters note at the beginning of a concert, so it is very accurate. It is
> also
> the way piano tuners tune pianos with a tuning fork.
Following are by-ear impressions:
The receive audio seems to have improved. Voices sound more natural
and clear.
NR audio has improved. I used to turn it off and on and keep
evaluating whether the noise reduction was worth the degradation in
audio quality. Now I can forget sometimes that
No glitches, I just finished testing and calibrating the PA, it puts
out a little more than 100 watts on the Bird. Wonderful kit to build,
very precision kit, somebody should get an award for this design,
everything fit perfectly and no missing parts, everything worked as
per the manual, b
On Wed, 14 May 2008 08:21:59 -0700, you wrote:
>
>Good Morning Tom,
>
>>I can
>>zero beat to 1 or 2 Hz accuracy by ear.
>
>How do you know you are within 1 or 2 Hz?
>
In the Army they taught us to turn on the spot signal and tune the spot against
the received signal. When you hear the warbling s
The CWT/AutoTuneZeroBeat works perfectly on K3 #202 (latest firmware
1.94/1.73) with the sidetone set to 800Hz... from both sides of zerobeat.
73,
Ken K3IU
~
G4ILO wrote:
K4IA wrote:
On another note, I have to question why a pitch of 800hz is the maximum
the
K3
800 Hz is the highest pitch you can select for your sidetone. But this
has no effect on auto-spot. It will search the same amount above/below
any selected pitch.
On May 14, 2008, at 9:27 AM, G4ILO wrote:
K4IA wrote:
On another note, I have to question why a pitch of 800hz is the
maximum
Sorry,
I should have added that the wiring complexity is increased if you
wish to use the pre-amp with an HF receive antenna.
73
Stewart G3RXQ
On Wed, 14 May 2008 17:24:16 +0100, Stewart Baker wrote:
> Hi Ron,
> This issue has been noted and discussed before. My K3 is very
deaf
> compared with my
K4IA wrote:
>
> On another note, I have to question why a pitch of 800hz is the maximum
> the
> K3 will allow. Some folks or conditions prefer a higher pitch
> particularly
> when the band noise is a low grumbling sound. The higher-pitched CW
> stands
> out better.
>
If it really won
This is not unusual for service packs. In the past, I just updated
the drivers for the video card / display and it restores all to its
former glory. Not that I am a big proponent of M$, as this is written
from a Ubuntu Linux Box.
Dave Wilburn
K4DGW
K2/100 - S/N 5982
K3/100 - S/N 766
"For t
Hi Ron,
This issue has been noted and discussed before. My K3 is very deaf
compared with my previous 6m setup of a K2 and KXV50.
The bottom line is that the K3 receive performance has been
optimised to cope with strong signals below 30MHz. To achieve an
adequate sensitivity on 6m you either need t
Ron Spencer wrote:
Anyone else notice (and I know this will be difficult with hardly any
openings) that the sensitivity of the K3 on 6 is down? Compared to the
746 I
have it seems down quite a bit (even with the K3 preamp on).
Ron,
The K3 is optimized for high dynamic range. For example, it
I'm glad to hear that there's only one little birdie of concern to the
list. This is a major victory :) The K3 uses down-conversion to a low
first I.F. (so we can offer narrowband crystal filters). It's nearly
impossible to eliminate all birdies using this kind of conversion
scheme.
Weak bi
This type of response is why I think the K3 represents a low-risk investment.
Hurry up UPS! (Mine is on the way).
73, John W2XS
I'll restore it to its former glory, don't worry. But not until I get
back from Dayton.
73,
Wayne
N6KR
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On Wed, 14 May 2008 08:37:10 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
>
>
>Tom Childers, N5GE wrote:
>>
>> When working weak signals in QRN or QRM, getting an exact zero beat is
>> crucial if you want to have the best copy.
>>
>
>Why? (seriously)
>
>73,
>Barry N1EU
You won't notice much difference in a wide f
On May 14, 2008, at 6:21 AM, Ian J Maude wrote:
Joe Planisky wrote:
Well, that's just it: you can't change it on the K2, and the KIO2
manual says it should be 2 stop bits.
You will normally find that 4800 baud tends to be set to 2 stop bits
but everything else appears to be 1. I don't know
On May 14, 2008, at 6:11 AM, Joe Planisky wrote:
Well, that's just it: you can't change it on the K2, and the KIO2
manual says it should be 2 stop bits.
The receiver's stop-bit setting needs to be greater than or equal to
the stop bit setting of the transmitter. It is OK for the transmitte
Anyone else notice (and I know this will be difficult with hardly any
openings) that the sensitivity of the K3 on 6 is down? Compared to the 746 I
have it seems down quite a bit (even with the K3 preamp on).
Will be interested to hear what others have to say. Can report off list
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Greetings all,
After upgrading to f/w v1.94 and reading several comments on the list about
auto-zerobeat, I've deliberately used the feature on several CW nets with
all kinds of signals. My overall impression is that it works just fine, but
it seems as if the time it uses to zerobeat has been
Tom Childers, N5GE wrote:
>
> When working weak signals in QRN or QRM, getting an exact zero beat is
> crucial if you want to have the best copy.
>
Why? (seriously)
73,
Barry N1EU
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back from Dayton.
73,
Wayne
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Harrison F. Hooker wrote:
Bob,
Thanks for your work on this issue. The early FW versions really,
really
worked! I found with the early versions I could use it, to great
advantage,
for
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On Wed, 14 May 2008 08:25:07 -0600, NW8L wrote:
>I've been on the air for 25 years working 99% cw, and zero beating by
>ear the whole time, thank you. Your condescending comments aren't
>helpful in this case.
>
>I appreciated the auto-spot feature since it saves time and was very
>robust. *I* find
Bob,
Thanks for your work on this issue. The early FW versions really, really
worked! I found with the early versions I could use it, to great advantage,
for "search and pounce" in CW contests. I generally use a PC audio
spectroscope to check my zero beat. Most of the time the original version
Hello group,
I doubt if I invented this, but here is a fool-proof method of zero beating:
I start Spectroscope which has been set to display a frequency mark at 540 Hz
(my preference). I then drag it over to the right side of the screen, leaving
room for HRD on the left. As I tune, I simply b
I agree with Bob, NW8L's comments below.
I've been on the air 99% CW for 41 years and I use
Auto-spot. I can easily match tones to better than
10 cycles by ear, but why bother? Auto-spot is working
better in 1.94 Beta and I have every confidence that
it will only get better.
73,
john WA1ABI
>
S Sacco wrote:
This is not a particularly good comparison. Windows is enormously
more complicated than the firmware used to drive the K3, and in
addition, it has to support an almost unlimited combination of
hardware.
I consider it practically a miracle that Windows works as well as it
does, bu
The Auto-Spot feature is very cool and has been excellent for me. I have not
yet loaded the new release, but I want to comment on what my experience has
been.
My hearing has diminished from 300 Hz all the way to 15,000 Hz and beyond. IN
fact, I peak at around 2,000 Hz and roll off some 60 db
I've been on the air for 25 years working 99% cw, and zero beating by
ear the whole time, thank you. Your condescending comments aren't
helpful in this case.
I appreciated the auto-spot feature since it saves time and was very
robust. *I* find that *this* cw op enjoyed using this particular zero
b
I have found the 50.046.96 birdie on my K3 #732. In CW mode it does
disappear when I switch the preamp off. However, in USB the tone is there
with the preamp on or off. In only have the stock 2.7 KHz filter.
Russ, N3CO
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From: "Dr. Werner Furlan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED
I have found the 50.046.96 birdie on my K3 #732. In CW mode it does
disappear when I switch the preamp off. However, in USB the tone is there
with the preamp on or off. In only have the stock 2.7 KHz filter.
Russ, N3CO
- Original Message -
From: "Dr. Werner Furlan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED
Frank Lammel wrote:
I loaded rev 1.94 yesterday evening.Does anybody had similar
problems?
Hi Frank,
I'm very surprised that you had these problems with 1.94. The VOX issue
was addressed specifically, and many have said it works perfectly now.
So I suspect that either the MCU 1.94 or DS
At 02:14 AM 5/14/2008, Joe Planisky wrote...
extremely erratically, presumably because it assumes 2 stop
bits. The
KIO2 manual says to use 2 stop bits, but that 1 stop bit will also
work.
That is only possible if the K2 firmware sends 2 and receives 1. Since
the source code isn't available t
good article at
http://www.rsgb.org/emc/pdfs/leaflets/emc7protectivemultipleearthingmembers.pdf
on PME
-- The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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On 13 May 2008, at 18:29, Stephen Prior wrote:
Don, and others
In older houses in the UK the
If you open the hfwnotes.rtf file in WordPad (a standard Windows
application) or Word, you can print it from there.
Dick, K6KR
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Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 12:33 PM
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Frank,
Try re-loading 1.94 also load the FPF and DSP at the same time. There
may have been a glitch in your front panel firmware load, or you may not
have checked the FPF load checkbox.
73,
Don W3FPR
Frank Lammel wrote:
I loaded rev 1.94 yesterday evening. My main problem is the not
workin
One hint from someone who is tone deaf: (I can't tune a piano but I can
tuna fish).
I think most people pick an arbitrary pitch for receiving because the rig
defaulted there or their elmer told them to use a certain pitch. They then
try
to use their ear to match that note. But it is not
Joe Planisky wrote:
Well, that's just it: you can't change it on the K2, and the KIO2
manual says it should be 2 stop bits.
You will normally find that 4800 baud tends to be set to 2 stop bits but
everything else appears to be 1. I don't know why this is but it seems
to be the norm.
Ian
7
Well, that's just it: you can't change it on the K2, and the KIO2
manual says it should be 2 stop bits.
73
Joe KB8AP
On May 14, 2008, at 1:43 AM, Larry Clay wrote:
One stop bit is the normal default for most programs for serial
communications. Hyperterminal in Windows XP defaults to this. A
When tuning by ear using a wide bandwidth filter, I have found that it
is easier if you go from the low tone side to high instead of high to
low. I think the higher octave(s) can sometimes confuse you when you
go from high to low.
Yes, it is pretty easy to get within 10 or 20 hz by ear. For most
Microsoft introduced SP3 in order to kill XP and make it easier for
corporate Americal to recommend the change to VISTA.
Steve Ellington
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To:
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 8:18 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] [OT] Wind
This is not a particularly good comparison. Windows is enormously
more complicated than the firmware used to drive the K3, and in
addition, it has to support an almost unlimited combination of
hardware.
I consider it practically a miracle that Windows works as well as it
does, but the complexity
I found my SP3 removed bugs that plagued me before the release. This
replaces building our own and trying to fix it. :-)
72,
Bill
K9YEQ
K2 #35, K2 # 5279, KX1 #35, Mini Modules, etc.
-Original Message-
>
> Even after the recent news reports about problems with it, I just made th
On many TCVRs - if you are not in QSK mode - you can just press key
and hear pitch tone (sidetone) and tune signal to zero beat.
This is one reason I was opening KEY OUT port settings wish - to have
sidetone only without keying to TX by pressing key (in nonQSK), but it
is another story ;-)
On th
Guys,
There is another way to solve the CW spot problem.
It's called get on the air and work CW. You will quickly develop the skill
of zero beating by ear.
You will find that most CW ops don't use any zero beating gizmo. Much
faster and easier to do it by ear.
Another thing. Narrow filter pa
Downgrade back to 1.88 made it work again. So I don't think it comes
from outside the box...
73
Frank, DD7ZT
Stewart Baker schrieb:
No problems here.
Just an "off the wall thought", is the DC supply to your K3 OK ?
I had a similar symptoms with a loose PSU connection.
73
Stewart G3RXQ
On We
No problems here with Beta 1.94, seems to work great, including Autospot.
This just keeps on getting better!
Hope I didn't speak too soon...
Thanks
wayne burdick wrote:
>
> Thanks to your input on the last firmware release (1.88), we've made a
> number of important improvements.
>
> For th
On Wed, 14 May 2008 09:28:11 +0200, you wrote:
>I loaded rev 1.94 yesterday evening. My main problem is the not working
>VOX in 1.88. However it was more worse than with 1.88! Once set to VOX I
>couldn't set it back to PTT. It switched the whole time to TX, no matter
>what MIC gain settings I c
No problems here.
Just an "off the wall thought", is the DC supply to your K3 OK ?
I had a similar symptoms with a loose PSU connection.
73
Stewart G3RXQ
On Wed, 14 May 2008 09:28:11 +0200, Frank Lammel wrote:
> I loaded rev 1.94 yesterday evening. My main problem is the not
working
> VOX in 1.88.
HS0ZCW wrote:
>
>
> The status of copyright on open sites on the Web are a good question. The
> old (prior to Internet) rule was easy any work given away to the
> public lost its copyright protection. Example: a poet hands out copies of
> his poetry to public on a street corner. He loses hi
Gary W. Hvizdak wrote:
>
> Even after the recent news reports about problems with it, I just made the
> stupid mistake of installing Microsoft's XP Service Pack 3 on my Dell
> Dimension 9100 with ATI Radeon display adaptor. Afterwards my 20" flat
> panel monitor (which supports 1600 x 1200 DPI
I loaded rev 1.94 yesterday evening. My main problem is the not working
VOX in 1.88. However it was more worse than with 1.88! Once set to VOX I
couldn't set it back to PTT. It switched the whole time to TX, no matter
what MIC gain settings I choosed. (Oh, I didn't tried the VOX gain, it
is sti
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