Joe,
Again, ***if VFOB is not on the same band/mode as VFOA***, and you press and
hold SPLIT (which clearly means you want to go SPLIT) this should cause a
VFOA- VFOB and then turn on SPLIT.
Please explain how this is a bad idea and under what circumstances this
would cause a problem.
73,
Bob
I'm trying to install an older M8 with my K3 for PSK31. I can't seem to find a
chart anywhere as to the jumper configuration. Any ideas? It did work at one
time with my old IC718.
Thanks in advance.
73,72
Mike, W9QS
EX: KN6TBP (1956), K1DGQ, DL4KM, K5LJN, W9FRR, W9KVF
K3, SP1
Fists
Over the last few weeks I have been enjoying my K3/P3 combination.
Overall it works very well and the P3 addition has been worth while.
Their are however a couple of things that I feel would improve it's use.
a) Being able to monitor your own signal on the P3 without needing to
disconnect the
I'd suggest you take a look at some of the sample macro files that K8UT
has put on the N1MM Logger web site, at
http://n1mm.hamdocs.com/tiki-list_file_gallery.php?galleryId=13. As
an aid to deciphering, F1 is your CQ message, F2 is your exchange, F3 is
the TU message used at the end of the
I believe Stewart has two good suggestions. Let me also say that I am very
pleased with the latest changes to the P3 firmware. I often use my P3 on TB
to find a clear spot in the frequency range of those calling a DX station
during split operation. Sometimes I place myself on the very edge
Dear List,
I have figured out how to send some button commands to the K3 from the
radio panel in DM780 which is tied to HRD.
What I do on digital mode is go to my widest filter to find a signal
that I want to work. Then when on it I push the I/II button to go to
filer II where I have a
Thank you Pete, this is a tremendous amout of help at the sites listed.
I can go at my reading pace to understand what is going on.
Don
KD8NNU
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 7:05 AM, Pete Smith wrote:
I'd suggest you take a look at some of the sample macro files that
K8UT has put on the N1MM
Anyone having luck getting the DXpedition S9DX.
I am struck out since Thursday, any K3 tips or are they just not getting
out?
Don
KD8NNU
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While there may be some who on some rare occasions need VHF Cross-mode AND
Split at the same time, this is not a valid justification for the radio to
behave in the illogical way it does now.
And, no, the VFOs should not be tied to each other all the time so changing
the VFO IND parameter is not
Worked them on cw on 80, 40, 30 since Thursday. They had a big signal
on 80 here in Colorado and good signal on other bands.
My rig K3 to a minimal vertical set of parallel, mostly shortened
vertical dipoles, short inverted L on 80.
Dunc, W5DC
On 2/12/2011 9:14 AM, gold...@charter.net wrote:
Worked them on 6 bands since Thursday.. 12, 15, 20, 40, 80 and 160
W4CCS
On 2/12/2011 11:14 AM, gold...@charter.net wrote:
Anyone having luck getting the DXpedition S9DX.
I am struck out since Thursday, any K3 tips or are they just not getting
out?
Don
KD8NNU
If you bring up the K3 Utility and punch the Help menu, Dick's set up
a very thorough macro help page. It contains many examples, some of
them contributed by the Field Test group.
The part of the Help system you want is called
Command Tester / K3 Macros.
Might give that a try. It is quite
They should be workable, Don. I struck out the entire first week with my
100 W and vertical in Colorado. But now the crowd is thinning out nicely.
Worked them on 17, 20, 30 and 40 within the past 5 days. The 30 and 40
contacts were within an hour yesterday. The new Cameroon DXpedition should
Hi Bill (et. al.)
I followed and at first the driver wasn't recognized but after deleting
the driver and running the install (from prolific) again the driver is
recognized and installed.
Thanks.
Fred
KE7X
Fred Cady
fcady at ieee dot org
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From: Bill K9YEQ
A couple more tips:
They have been running very big splits at times, and tend to move around a
lot rather than sitting on one frequency. I had the most luck by calling a
couple hundred Hz above or below their last contact. If you have a P3, you
will find it to be quite beneficial in this
I got them on CW with my K3/10 and random wire antenna. It can take a
bit of work. I use a straight key also, so have to pace myself a
little more. (I probably don't send my callsign more than a few
hundred times in one sitting, ha-hah...) I like to pretend that the
hand-sent code gives me an
For family reasons I haven't been very active and I concentrate on RTTY these
days. But I worked them on 17, 20 and 30-meter RTTY and I really only have a
decent antenna for 20. The other bands are worked with an 80-meter inverted vee
fed with 150 feet of coax. Certainly not the greatest.
I found them and want to work rtty, but are they running split in this
mode also,
If so then i am out of luck as I have no clue how to run dm780 is split.
Don
KD8NNU
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 11:31 AM, W4CCS wrote:
Worked them on 6 bands since Thursday.. 12, 15, 20, 40, 80 and 160
W4CCS
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
DX summit was the key to finding them
Thank you all for the help I got them once thats all i needed.
Don
KD8NNU
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Wes Stewart wrote:
For family reasons I haven't been very active and I concentrate on
RTTY these days. But I worked them on 17, 20 and
Bob,
Why should it do that?
The description of what you want to happen would cause me, who primarily uses
split to work CW DX, to have to retune my B VFO to the DX listening frequency,
which is much more trouble than double tapping AB to put both VFO's on the same
frequency.
In addition,
I have some questions on the results of my check.
U6 pin 29 should read between 70 and 90k, I'm reading 96k.
U6 pin 30 should read between 70 and 90k, I'm reading 97k.
U8 pin 15 and 16 should read 100k, I'm not getting a reading at all so I'm
wondering if this is the way my DMM reads infinity.
Ed,
The first two readings are very likely OK, you might re-check by
reversing the leads or putting new batteries in your DMM. The other
possibility is that you are using auto-ranging, and the reading may be a
bit different if you switch to the first fixed range greater than 90k
I don't
Those should be good, Ed. When trying to measure resistance in a circuit
containing semiconductor junctions, DMMs voltage can sometimes alter
readings a bit. You are within 10%.
Many DMMs give no reading at all when seeing an open circuit. What does you
DMM do in resistance scale with the leads
Does the K3 have a means to set the volume for speakers independently of
the headphones?
New headphones - specifically Heil's new ProSet with the HC6 element and
the Elite have a lower audio output put. The K3 requires an AF Gain
adjustment each time I switch between them.
Some radios have a
A fellow list member and I have are swapping each other's KAF / KDSP2. Each
has been installed and operational in their original K2's (i.e. the initial
mods have been done to the control board... removing resistors, etc.)
Assuming firmware and hardware is up to date, should we be able to simply
Andrew,
Just remove one and put the other one in - no problem.
73,
Don W3FPR
On 2/12/2011 1:45 PM, Andrew Moore wrote:
A fellow list member and I have are swapping each other's KAF / KDSP2. Each
has been installed and operational in their original K2's (i.e. the initial
mods have been
All,
It has been pointed out to me that I misread Bob's post.
It turns out that I did indeed read it wrong.
Apologies to all...
73,
Tom Childers
Radio Amateur N5GE
Licensed since 1976
QCWA Life Member 35102
ARRL Life Member
Retired Professional
C# Software developer
http://www.n5ge.net
On
way to go Don !
I have them worked on 40, trying to get some other bands.
They were marginal copy here on 40, the K3 APF really helped.
73,
Bob
K6UJ
On Feb 12, 2011, at 8:31 AM, W4CCS wrote:
Worked them on 6 bands since Thursday.. 12, 15, 20, 40, 80 and 160
W4CCS
On 2/12/2011
S7 here in North Texas, but a very large pile up.
N5GE
On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 11:14:48 -0500 (EST), gold...@charter.net wrote:
Anyone having luck getting the DXpedition S9DX.
I am struck out since Thursday, any K3 tips or are they just not getting
out?
Don
KD8NNU
Lee:
Go to AMQRP.ORG. They have an online instruction booklet on programming PICs
that you can download. On the upper right of the webpage, click on Elmer 160
course. You will learn a lot about PIC programming from the author, John
WB8RCR. The chip he talks about probably isn't the one you
Lee:
Go to AMQRP.ORG. They have an online instruction booklet on programming PICs
that you can download. On the upper right of the webpage, click on Elmer 160
course. You will learn a lot about PIC programming from the author, John
WB8RCR. The chip he talks about probably isn't the one you
How about just making the SPLIT button one that can be programmed via macros.
Seems more reasonable than the current situation that often results in
calling on top of a DX station when you meant to be split.
73, Floyd - K8AC
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I wired a headhpone/speaker switch into my K2 when I replaced the
headphone jack.. The switch is mounted on the back panel (in the
unused XVTR hole).
I leave the headphones plugged in all the time and select between
headphones and speaker with the switch, saving a lot of wear and tear
on the new
Being lazy and hating to plug and unplug headphones, I simply made an audio
box that I feed the audio from the speaker output of the K2 to a switch that
switches between my head phones and my external speaker. I use an old
Heathkit Speaker HS-1661 rather then the built in Elecraft speaker. The
Wayne, Eric,
I'm referring to some concerns described by inputs to the Elecraft
Reflector, about not only the stability but also L.O. calibration of
the 2 M xvrtr, K144XV and probably the XV144. I wonder if in the
near future you might consider phase locking their L.O.s to a 10 MHz
OCXO. I
As far as I know, Chuck, Wayne has this in hand.
My own K144XV is unusable because of the amount of frequency drift I am
getting. If I do use my K144XV I find that I am repeatedly having to
apologise for Elecraft. It drifts almost 100Hz for every 5 minutes I
transmit. This might be okay for
Well Joe, it seems you're attaching a lot of emotion to this issue, but I
think you still miss the point.
I apologize if I'm not making this issue clear enough to you, but I'm afraid
you're attacking when you should be supporting. I therefore must conclude
that I am just not able to communicate
K8AC wrote:
How about just making the SPLIT button one that can be programmed via
macros. Seems more reasonable than the current situation that often
results in calling on top of a DX station when you meant to be split.
I would strongly support that proposal: for a config option[1] to
It is tough to get old and find most of your electronics know-how is out
of date- so much so that creating a macro from scratch seems beyond my ken.
APF is a very useful function, and I use it along with RIT as the fine
tuning mechanism. How would one generate and execute as either a
I configured my K3's RIT button (push hold) to engage split with the VFO B freq
5kHz up from VFO A, and the XIT button (push hold) to clear split.
For split the macros I put together are: SWT13; SWT13; FT1; UPB7; RT0; XT0
For clear split the macros are: FT0; RT0; XT0; LN0; SW000
Hope this
Age notwithstanding, many of us find messing with macros or other
'programming' activities right up there in desirability with hauling out the
trash.
Perhaps it would be possible for Elecraft to start building a macro library.
Even if a macro isn't exactly what you want, it's often a lot easier
Send me your macros and I'll put them up on ke7x.com
Fred Cady
fcady at ieee dot org
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[mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Ron
D'Eau Claire
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2011 4:14 PM
To:
The help file of the K3 Utility program has lots of useful macros as well as
the information on how to send them to the radio and assign them to radio
buttons using the CONFIG menu.
For anyone using DXLab's Commander rig control program, that program offers
an alternative to macros in the K3.
Anyone have the hole layout dementions for mounting this unit in a
enclosure? Tnx George/W2BPI
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George,
I don't have the hole dimensions, but I would like to point out that
Dave, W8FGU has some very nice acrylic enclosures for many of the
Mini-modules including the AF1. See
http://w8fgu.home.comcast.net/~w8fgu/af1encl.html
73,
Don W3FPR
On 2/12/2011 7:24 PM, w2b...@aol.com wrote:
Good Evening,
If the house or antennas do not get blown away in the next twenty-four
hours then we can have a net. Currently the wind is howling and the rains
have begun. It was sunny earlier in the day but never calm. I awoke to
branches hitting the roof and jake brakes rumbling by.
The weekly SSB net will meet tomorrow (2/13/11) at 1800z on 14.314 MHz. I
will be net control from western Oregon. We'll arrange for relays to try to
pull you all in. See you then.
73,
Phil
NS7P
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I am getting hi current message into a 50 ohm dummy load for any setting
over 1 watt (even 1 watt is drawing well over 3 amps). If I try to set the
power output higher, the K2 clicks off and resets. In previous tests, I
could put 10 watts into the same load with out any problem. Any ideas on
There is an article in the March 2011 QST by KC2KZJ (page 48) where he
describes using his spectrum display to adjust his antenna tuner. I just
tried it with the K3/P3 and a Drake MN-4 tuner connected through a 4-to-1
balun to a 132' center-fed zepp antenna. The noise source was a Palomar
Being a connoisseur of the various grades of Loctite, frustration with the
loosening of the KXPD1 thumbscrew tempts me to use a drop of #242, know as,
and the color of, blue. This is the removable grade. My question is,
has anyone here (especially W3FPR) used this successfully?
73 de Moe
AB8XA
I could be all wet but I'm not sure you can, regardless of talent. The K3
command set is simply too limited.
Ideally you would want to be able to go into the CONFIG menu and enable (make
it available) the APF function. This isn't even straightforward doing it
manually, because even though it
Moe,
I would shudder to think of locktite of any variety being used on the
KXPD1 thumbscrew - you just might want to remove it someday. Removable
is just not that much removable - it works for things that need
wrenches to remove, but the thumbscrew is a small diameter.
Newer KXPD1s come
Thanks Matt,
I think there is enough info there for me to make the macros that I want
for filter width.
The stuff I read actually made sense to me. Plus examples with well
written explanations help also.
Thanks
Don
KD8NNU
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Matt Zilmer wrote:
If you bring
I recently built an XV144, and the LO was badly out of calibration.
The crystal is marked 116.000, but the offset was about 15 kHz, totally
uncorrectable with the K3 -- CONFIG -- XV 1 OFS, which manages +/-
9.99 kHz. Elecraft quickly shipped me a mod which consists of a small,
variable,
Yet another filter question...
My k3's main receiver (only rcvr just now!) has filters for FM, AM, 2.8
kHz, and 400 Hz. I occasionally enjoy SWL and also have the general
coverage option.
I'm considering a subreceiver but am not sure there's a need for more
than duplicating the 2.8 kHz and 400
Fair enough. Dick D. is a very good writer, and his Help menu has
saved a lot of frustration!
73,
matt W6NIA
On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 21:23:58 -0500 (EST), you wrote:
Thanks Matt,
I think there is enough info there for me to make the macros that I want
for filter width.
The stuff I read
I'll second Don's endorsement of Dave, W8FGU's enclusures for Elecraft
Mini-Modules.
We show some of them at Rose's booth at west coast hamfests. I have
several, and they're nicely done.
73!
Ken - K0PP
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On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Don
There are some samples in K3 Utility help, look for command macros in the
index. I'm open to adding and annotating more samples. This isn't to discourage
use of other repositories, however.
73 de Dick, K6KR
On Feb 12, 2011, at 17:14, Ron D'Eau Claire r...@cobi.biz wrote:
Age
Ditto. And Don is not limited to the mini module cases. I recently
purchased a very nice N0SA key. I sent Don the measurements and he made a
very nice dust cover for it. Excellent work and very reasonable prices.
73
Greg
AB7R
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 7:27 PM, Rose elecraftcov...@gmail.com
Brian,
HiCur messages combined with Low Power output is usually associated with
a problem with T4 or the Low Pass Filter.
Since it did work before (I know it did last November). it may be that
you have a PA transistor failure. Such a PA transistor failure could be
due to operating the K2
I noticed today when starting to transmit on RTTY in the WPX test, although the
power out from the K3 was set on 60 W, the rig only put out about 30 W for the
first several transmissions then the output gradually rose to 60 W as selected.
The antenna SWR is 1.5.
Any ideas? S/n is 855 But has
Like you, John, I find the XV144 to be extremely stable after allowing a
few minutes for the oven to attain its operating temperature. I get the
correct offset without the need for any additional inductance to pull
the crystal.
A modification I have made though is to add a cooling fan similar to
Another approach is to substitute a socket head cap screw for the knurled
screw provided in the kit.
Steven Bornstein K8IDN
475 E. North Broadway
Columbus, Ohio 43214
614 263-5819
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I reported a macro for turning on APF, RIT, and FINE and shifting RIT
down 20 Hz in a
reflector message dated November 4, 2010. I also included a macro for
clearing all these
functions, since I could not seem to come up with a toggleable version.
Since I wrote that, I revised my macro's to the
Are you using AFSK or FSK? If it's AFSK, when you set the meter to
display ALC, how many bars do you see when you transmit?
A possible cause of the symptoms you observe is too low audio input in
AFSK. The input level should be high enough to display 4-5 bars on the
ALC meter. With sufficient
Steve,
Assuming you are operating RTTY in AFSK mode rather than FSK, my guess
is that you are not driving the audio input to the K3 sufficiently.
Use TX TEST and observe the ALC meter. Bring the audio up until you
have at least 4 bars on solid and then increase it a bit more until you
just
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