I run either a K2, or more recently a Perseus, off the back of my K3.
With the K2, you do need the 160m option to avoid transmitting into the
K3 as per Vic's post. You can mute the K2 by setting the power to zero,
TX Test mode, side tone to zero, TX delay quite long, connect the K3 KEY
OUT to t
In response to my issue that my SSB voice sounded garbled after using the K3
Utility to adjust crystal parameters.
>How did your voice sound when you used the Monitor function?
Nelson, I use a headset microphone and had the monitor in my ears. There was
nothing unusual in the monitor. Wh
A very good idea. I'll bet not very many know about it unless they are
old timers. A lot of people were preoccupied with the Washington State
Salmon Run last weekend. Most activity was on 80 and 75 because of the skip.
I wonder how many would have taken time out to help if they had been awar
Please Elecraft, I begged u direct, twice;
Now I beg u via reflector:
PLEASE send to me by email my
latest invoice for K3-100F #309.
I paid; now show me what I paid for.
Thanks,
Charles Harpole
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Thanks for the report!!! Good to know how things are moving
forward... Hope you have a fun weekend. Don't lose any parts!!!
Elecraft is closed for over 48 hours from now! :)
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 1:08 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello
>
> Well K3 s/n 1802 arrived this afternoon,ordered
I use Don's system described below in #2) with the A&A charger and recommend
it. It keeps the K2's battery healthy, and I also use it for other gel-cell
batteries around the shack. Plus, when out in the field, the added power
jack on the back of tyhe K2 makes a convenient spot to connect an analog
Trevor, is 100 milliwatts (0.1 watt) QRP enough?
The NCDSF/IARU beacons have been doing just that for years on 20 through 10
meters with transmission from up to 18 countries on a single time-shared
frequency in each band.
Each beacon transmits its call followed by four dashes. The first at 100
Julian G4ILO wrote:
So there is really no substitute to turning the radio on and listening.
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I agree 100%. I've never put much store in prediction programs. (Too often
the sun is shining outside my window on the days heavy rain is forecast.)
I listen too. And if I'm cur
Perhaps setting up a WSPR beacon might be of interest.
Have a look at http://wsprnet.org/drupal/
Headline:
The Weak Signal Propagation Reporter Network is a group of amateur radio
operators
using K1JT's MEPT_JT digital mode to probe radio frequency propagation
conditions
using very low power
I have used the Battery Tender as well, the smaller one for the K2 and a
larger one for external batteries.
You can't use the existing K2 power jack to charge unless you remove some
components, as because of the voltage drop, the smart charger will be
outwitted and overcharge the battery. So, at
Speaking of beacons, does anyone know anything about what seem to be
beacons that appeared in the CW portions of 40m, 30m, 20m, and 15m
last week? Well, I first heard them last week, don't know when they
might have first appeared. Maybe they've been there forever and I
just never noticed.
Don Rasmussen wrote:
>
> Hi All,
> The bands are opening for the Fall, and I'd like to know what paths are
> open at any given moment, using a web based resource.
>
> If I checked right now I might find that 15 meters is open between Africa
> and North America, and that 20m is open between Ha
The best "real time" system I know of that shows actual conditions is the
Northern California DX Foundation/IARU beacon system:
http://www.ncdxf.org/beacons.html
Ron AC7AC
-Original Message-
Hi All,
The bands are opening for the Fall, and I'd like to know what paths are open
at any gi
Thanks to everyone for your comments on my posting. I think I will use the
ABS setting.
73
Barry VK2BJ
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Good question. That's why I asked it :-)
In that situation I think I'd use, alternately, QRRR and SOS if I couldn't
raise someone directly, sort of like McBride did from the Titanic back in
1912, sending alternately CQD and SOS.
Ron AC7AC
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>
> I wonder if the Ham injur
Tnx for the update.
Yes, the K1 is a very nice rig but the KX1 is the ultimate "backpackable"
rig.
Glad he's okay. I lost a neighbor on Mt Hood a couple of years ago who
wasn't so lucky.
Instead of welcoming him home, we shared a memorial service with his family.
Ron AC7AC
-Original M
Hi All,
The bands are opening for the Fall, and I'd like to know what paths are open at
any given moment, using a web based resource.
If I checked right now I might find that 15 meters is open between Africa and
North America, and that 20m is open between Hawaii (or Japan) and the West
Coast o
I wonder if the Ham injured in the mountains knew to use "QRRR"? I
wonder
how many Hams today know what it means?
Perhaps he got lucky hearing that guy tune up and getting an answer
to his
call before he needed it.
Ron AC7AC
I wonder if he would be advised to use "QRRR", if most hams
>From Lester Davis K7lld
All of the stories about the rescue of Russ W7AU is correct except the Elecraft
radio he was using was an elecraft Kx1.
I live here in Corvallis Oregon a few miles from Russ so we get together often.
The helicopters could not get to the area even with the good coordinat
José Nunes CT1BOH wrote:
#1. Split does not work when sending RTTY with paddle - It is a BUG
Make sure that VFO B is also in DATA mode. You can do this by tapping
A->B twice before going into SPLIT mode.
#2.
When I end the pushing of one of the sides of the paddle, the PTT stays on
for almos
>Cell phones and VHF/UHF gear would very likely be useless in such
>locations.
Very true. One of my favorite trail systems is along the Buffalo
National River in the Arkansas Ozarks. Forget getting a signal out by
anything other than shortwave along most of its 150 mile length.
Mike / KK5F
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Would it be possible to make the NR function mode specific?
I find that the settings I need for ssb and cw are really quite different.
It would be good not to have to adjust the NR settings every time I change
mode.
Or have I missed something here?
73 Stephen G4SJP
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After 27 year of no RTTY, I finally decided to have a go using the CW paddle
of the K3.
I have two problems
#1. Split does not work when sending RTTY with paddle - It is a BUG
#2.
When I end the pushing of one of the sides of the paddle, the PTT stays on
for almost 3 seconds sending dadadadada (
How did your voice sound when you used the Monitor function?
Nelson, K8DJC
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Just wanted to give a heads up to those of you who use Mac OS (or know of
folks who use Mac OS) about a new Morse Code learning device which is
available for Mac OS.
This program is called the AD5RX Morse Trainer and it may be downloaded
*free* from the Source Forge site:
http://sourceforge.net/p
Hello
Well K3 s/n 1802 arrived this afternoon,ordered June 8th, so guess
what I will be doing this weekend!
73
Scott N5SM
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Today I used the K3 utility to adjust a crystal filter gain.
After making the adjustment to the 500Hz filter and closing the utility I
had a QSO on 40M SSB. They reported that I sounded nasal and was very
difficult to understand. After a power-off reset transmit audio returned to
normal. I have see
Hi Bruce,
I do not have the battery pack in my K2 however for years
I have been using these chargers for various
Gel cells and small lead acid batteries:
http://batterytender.com/selection_guide.php
The Plus model at $60 is a 4 step charger for gel cells,
and oth
Dave wrote:
>Fascinating story
I thought so too. I've been in a similar situation, but fortunately not
so remote from help.
>I'd be worried about someone with that kind of injury going into shock.
It seems to me that shock is often psychologically induced. Taking
actions to deal with the situ
Sorry to come in this thread so late.
Missed it because of a holidays.
Jean-Francois,
I had the same thing about a year ago and had to replace the main
control processor and the sub processor on the ssb board.
They share the ptt line that is directly connected to mic - jack without
any protection
Patrick DalPorto wrote:
I am interested in listening to my K2 and K3 at the same time using
the same antenna. I thought there was a post about how to accomplish
this but I cannot seem to locate it. Can anyone point me to the
post? or tell me how to do this.
If you have the KXV3 with the RX AN
Barry Simpson wrote:
>
> It is a fact that the band noise is not for example S5 - and my FT1000MP
> MKV and TS2000 read S0 or S1 in the same situation.
>
This is because most rigs' meters are inaccurate and indicate ~3 dB per
S-unit below S9. Identical "S1" noise on another rig would be 24
Larry N8LP found syntax error in LP-Bridge that was misreporting TX data during
SPLIT ops. His v0.9.8.2 has fixed the issue. K3 now interfaces SteppIR
controllers in SPLIT mode with this update.
Jim
K7EG
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Hi ALL
I just wanted to add my experiences with SPIKES. My K3 is
absolutely clean NOW. I say NOW because I did have a similar
experience and after a lot of testing with my Peak SWR meter I finally
traced the problem to my MIC. I was using an amplified Kenwood MC-60.
I stopp
For those of you who are having the problem Jim reports. I found a
formatting error in LP-Bridge in split mode which was dropping a "zero"
in the reported frequency to SteppIR in this mode. It is fixed in
version 0.9.8.2, which can be downloaded on the LP-Bridge page at
http://www.telepostinc.c
Toby
A couple of thoughts - have you looked at the power supply regulation - it
might be reacting badly to the sudden key down. The other thought is
whether RF is getting into something - this can cause all manner of strange
effects, I've even had multimeters giving nonsense measurements through R
Hi Pat,
It was me who asked the question, but I can't find the post anywhere.
If you have the KXV3 installed, you can bring your main antenna into the
K3 and then connect the RX Out of the KXV3 to your K2. Better yet, if
you have the KX160 module in your K2, you can use the receive antenna
inp
Hi,
Spikes are visible on both power meter on K3 and I can see on external Watt
meter including "error message" from automatic amplifier which get response
- Overdrive Input is to high!
I am forward message from Elecraft support!
it is helpful to press TUNE when the rig is first switched on, for
>In my view the K3 S meter is simply far too sensitive at the lower end.
Barry, comparing the K3 S-meter to another rig's S-meter will lead you in
circles. Different S-meter standards can be used and calibration between of
the various rigs could be quite different. From my measuring many receivers
Notice that Graham mentioned that his 'peak reading meter' indicated
overshoot, but that no overshoot was seen on an oscilloscope.
If your only indication is from a peak reading meter, that may be an
anomaly of the meter and not any problem with the K3.
Most reports of 'overshoot' that I have rea
Bruce,
The answer is yes. There are several choices, but here are two basic ones.
1) Use a power supply that you can adjust upward to the 13.1 to 14.3
volt range to power the K2. The internal battery will charge, but it
will take a long time to come to a full capacity charge.
2) Make a direct
Some spike, some don't.
Charles Harpole
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> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 05:41:47 -0700
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 RF-out spikes, was: K3 SSB Power Control and
> ALCMetering
>
>
> Hi all!
>
> I a have the same problem w
Hi all!
I a have the same problem with my K3 S/N 1577, V2.38. DSP1.90 spikes are
visible on all bands specially on SSB first second transmitting! It is very
interesting indeed
73,
E72X,
dj7mgq wrote:
>
> Hello Graham,
>
> thanks for taking another look. It sounds like your K3 is behav
Thanks Arie,
I figured this out too lastnight. I appreciate your email. You are
confirming me the problem I hve. I hope this time, when the new IC wil
be installed that everything would be fine :-)
73
Le 08-09-26 à 02:06, Arie Kleingeld PA3A a écrit :
Sorry to come in this thread
Hello Graham,
thanks for taking another look. It sounds like your K3 is behaving correctly.
I hope to update my firmware before the big RTTY contest this week
end, which means I could check my K3 (again) as well. If I still see
any errors, then one can assume that it likely is not a bug in t
Hi Toby
I've just tried it at 30w and it behaves sensibly whether I adjust o/p in rx
or tx. There's a slight "wobble" in output power as I adjust it (visible
when running carrier) but only a few percent. I tried all powers from 3w to
100w on 80m and 15m. And it also produces the same peak power o
Patrick DalPorto-2 wrote:
>
> I am interested in listening to my K2 and K3 at the same time using the
> same antenna. I thought there was a post about how to accomplish this but
> I cannot seem to locate it. Can anyone point me to the post? or tell me
> how to do this.
>
You need a Magic-T
I am interested in listening to my K2 and K3 at the same time using the same
antenna. I thought there was a post about how to accomplish this but I cannot
seem to locate it. Can anyone point me to the post? or tell me how to do this.
Pat , W8FV
K2 - 257, K3 - 1286
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Hallo Graham,
thank you for looking at this with a scope.
Did you try changing the power level while you were in SSB at lowish
power, e.g. from 30W to 35W? This (at least it used to) usually caused
my K3 to settle in on a power level which tended to be between 3db and
10dB lower than reque
I tested my rig using dummy load and scope. My rig is serial 1198, using
f/w 2.38 and dsp 1.90.
I don't see any spike in output. On cw the o/p power on key down is
initially about 95% of the set value and then rises to the set value. I
tested this on all bands using 51w o/p. On ssb the peak power
Hello all,
Is there a simple off the shelf model of battery charger which I can
buy or build that will properly charge the K2 battery?
I'd prefer not to drill a hole in the rear apron, so I'm looking for a
commercial solution, ideally with an adjustable output.
What have you found that work
hi Alexandr,
Alexandr Kobranov schrieb am 26 Sep 2008 um 9:23:
> are the birdies dependent on bandwith also?
yes they are. I can see them on the Panadapter very easy, and they jump
aside when I change XFIL:
> I have had similar problem with ma K3 base unit and replacing of RX
> mixer - small
In my view the K3 S meter is simply far too sensitive at the lower end.
I do not think so. Some band/antenna/QTH combinations will on a *good*
S-Meter show fairly high S values for band noise. Without wanting to
reopen the S-Meter mail wars of from the days after the announcement
of the K3
Hallo,
during the last hours, a couple of issues which were delaying, at *my*
request, the shipment of my KRX3 have been cleared up. It should be
leaving the door in Aptos on Monday and with a bit of luck be in
Munich by the end of the week.
My K3 is #67 and the order went out on "K3 Anno
Congratulations.
The frequency offset is perfectly normal. It is related to the synth and any
filter offsets. With matched filters it is a very low beat frequency that
can be a little disturbing on stronger signals. A greater offset might be
better and could aid in detecting weak signals. You cou
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