mny tnx for update,
verry impressive
i like also the green colour
great are the shadet bandwidth bars
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On 18/06/2011 14:12, Rob May wrote:
I really dislike the green color of the VFO A marker, it just does not look
very good on an otherwise beautiful screen. Bring back the light blue. Back
to 1.05 for me for now.
Rob
NV5E
How to please everybody. As there will always be differences of
As I have already told Alan N1AL directly, I think this new alpha is
brilliant. Yes, it would be nice to have control over the palette but that
will surely come with time, and perhaps via an expanded P3 utility program.
I would also like to see (optional) control of the menu from the P3 utility
Hello all,
yesterday I installed my new K144XV module inside my K3, all went fine
until I needed to use the K144XV Utility. This software has only the
Windows version and I needed to use daughter computer to install the mos
recent firmware version into K3, of course all went just fine.
Hi Guys
Is anyone successfully using their K2/100 with N1MM Logger?
I wired up the cable to connect to the laptop as detailed in the KIO2 aux
module manual having previously loaded the N1MM program.
Connected up the two and got the initial tests going OK - band mode
changes etc.
However the
Like the changes. Maybe the next release will display frequency Delta between
the markers...
73
Stewart G3RXQ
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Really looks great and the green is fine.
73 de KE4WY Jim
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Latest 1.08 firmware, both amplitude and frequency calibrated, in perfect
physical and electrical condition, will ship insured via UPS or Priority
Mail to any US Zip Code (International contact me). Current list price
$749.95 plus shipping...asking $600 plus shipping. Please contact me
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About a year ago, when I first got my K3, U1 on the KIO3 board fried
during a lightning storm, even though all my antennas and control cables
were disconnected. Apparently the damage was caused by EMP on the
serial cable. Anyway, $110 later I added a surge protector between the
radio and the
Has there been any trends over time, where the same components have failed
on a K2. I was looking to buy some spares, in case I have a failure. At
least I would not then have to wait for parts to ship, from Elecraft. A
suggested spares list?
73,
Jack VK4JRC
Headphone jack.
73,
Drew
AF2Z
On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 21:23:01 +1000, you wrote:
Has there been any trends over time, where the same components have failed
on a K2. I was looking to buy some spares, in case I have a failure. At
least I would not then have to wait for parts to ship, from Elecraft.
Sold.
Bill W4ZV wrote:
Latest 1.08 firmware, both amplitude and frequency calibrated, in perfect
physical and electrical condition, will ship insured via UPS or Priority
Mail to any US Zip Code (International contact me). Current list price
$749.95 plus shipping...asking $600 plus
The headphone jack and the volume control must be the two most common
things that are replaced. Some people seem to blow up PA transistors
but that is not common, but keeping a new set of insulating washers is
a good idea for if you need to do any work. Other than that I suspect
there is
Ray,
I see you are using a laptop, and I presume you have a USB to serial
adapter that you are using.
I suspect that adapter is the problem. Many of them do not like to run
well at the slow rate used by the K2. I cannot use my Prolific adapter
at that rate, it fails exactly as you
My friend Tony W1ZMB just finished building his K2 this week and asked
me to visit him and try it out yesterday. He did a great job and it
works great. However, a strange thing happened two times during a CW
QSO I made at 5 watts using his perfectly matched OCF dipole on 20
Meters. He has
Jack,
1N5711 diodes and the headphone jack are the two most likely failure
parts in the K2.
You might want to consider having 2N7000 transistors and a K2PAKIT on
hand as well.
Replacement firmware ICs is another possibility, but those are rather
pricey and do not normally fail unless they
Hi Don
Thanks for the response.
You may well be right, I bought the adaptor off Ebay and it came from Hong
Kong, I will look for one with the FTDI chip set. Thank you also for the
other settings. I did make the special cable which I connected to the K2 and
the other end of the cable terminates in
In addition to Don's suggestion, I have found this USB-Serial-K2 line to be
very RF sensitive. Make
sure this line is not run over/near your coax. I also use snap-over RF
beads to choke any RF, or at
least minimize, the RF on this line.
I experienced similar symptoms. My problems were
Stan,
That certainly sounds like RF was floating around in the shack and doing
strange things. OCF dipoles are famous for creating common mode current
on the shield of the feedline (even with a balun at the feedpoint).
I would suggest adding an in-line choke at the point where the feedline
Don, I've just checked my adaptor is a Prolific too but I have just found
another one available that uses the FTDI chipset so I'll order one and keep
my fingers crossed
thank you
73
Ray G3XLG
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Pete,
Are the chassis of your K3 and computer bonded together and are they
connected to the common lighting protection ground?
Are they both connected to the same AC circuit (same safety ground)?
Have you removed (bypassed) L1 on the KIO3 RS232 board?
Is your RF ground system bonded to the
Stephen Prior wrote:
What I like best in 1.08 is the red tx marker which appears as soon as
split (or RIT/XIT) is implemented without having to command the P3 to
display VFOb.
Nice feature, and I like the use of shaded bars to display the RX
passband as well as the bright line for the TX
David,
I ran into the same problem a couple months ago and was told by Elecraft (Wayne
Gary) to use a virtual machine or a Windows box, so it sounds like there are
no plans to support non-Windows OSes at the moment.
I ended up installing VirtualBox on my linux laptop and then installing XP
When in Fixed Tune Mode, hold B-Set to set Sub Rx filter width and the
green VFO A display jumps onto the VFO B purple display. You can adjust
the VFO B width but the purple band is obscured by the green band until
VFO B is wider than VFO A.
This doesn't occur in Tracking mode.
Other than that, I
Here's something I 'invented' yesterday. I'd like to think it's an
original idea but I cannot imagine it hasn't been done time and again by
others. But since I've never seen it written anywhere let me describe
it here. It might help someone.
1 golf ball (from your golf bag)
1 small
Yeah, but then you need a freezer bag, not a sandwich bag ;-).
Andit really looks weird in your pocket, too
Stan WB2LQF
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 10:59 AM, georgek...@aol.com wrote:
I do the same thing, except I put a screw into a baseball. Nothing
throws better than a baseball!
I have the following items for sale:
KRC2 Band Data Decoder and Controller: $125 ($160 new)
XG-2 Receiver Test Oscillator/S Meter Calibrator: $60 ($80 new) -- UNBUILT
N-GEN Wideband Noise Generator, 100 kHz-500 MHz $45 ($60 new) -- UNBUILT
You ship from zip 20015
If interested, please contact
OH, Thank You, Thank You for the cursor in Fixed tune mode. This is truly
awesome.
As for the color, I like the green, not sure I'd like the old CYAN for this.
The green does show nicely through the Peak ON display.
...bill nr4c
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Pete
It came in on the cable and I'm not sure about the AC, it was selective on what
it effected.
I'll look into the whole house surge protector.
73 Larry K1ZW
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Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2011 8:05 AM
To: Larry stowell
Anyone had any experience with the speaker buzzing on voice peaks?
I hear it slightly (old ears with ringing) grin. My wife and ham son say it is
annoying to them with better ears.
I plugged in external speakers and headphones all seems ok. Makes me think
internal speaker or mechanical
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Hello and thanks for the post.. I experienced the same issue with my XV144
transverter. Collector-emitter bypass capacitor didn't work for me because
activated overload protection on startup. I soldered the capacitor directly
on base-emitter of Q7. This cured the problem 100%.
73's
LZ2JR Boris
Hi all:
Is the K3 key out (for keying amps) suppose the work in tune..??
W4CCS
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I love the upgrades to the P3, but may I suggest one thing. I think the green
and red cursers should be the same height. The green curser sits under the
frequency readout but the red curser is taller, this looks odd to my eye. I
hope others agree.
K6CG
Yes.
Wayne
N6KR
On Jun 18, 2011, at 9:53 AM, W4CCS wrote:
Hi all:
Is the K3 key out (for keying amps) suppose the work in tune..??
W4CCS
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I suddenly am getting a HI CUR error message on 20 meters only. I tested with
a dummy load, all bands, and the problem is just on 20 m. It happens when the
power is set to more than 60 watts. Monitoring the current with the DISP I
see approx 23 amps at 60 watts.
On other bands the current at
Hi John,
I just made the eaxct same repair last week on K2/100 # 7006. I
installed some milled IC socket pins in the diode mounting holes, and
pressed the diode leads into the sockets. Not the best solution for a
radio that will be subject to vibration (mine is not), but it will make
it very
They are both the same height here, tune them both off the freq readout
or both
on it and see.
K9FD/KH6
I love the upgrades to the P3, but may I suggest one thing. I think the green
and red cursers should be the same height. The green curser sits under the
frequency readout but the red
Kind of hard to evaluate if it worked or not but I can say the only thing I
every
lost due to lightning was a phone modem. I put a surge arrestor in from this
company about 25 years ago. I know a neighbor who lost a control board in a
dishwasher after a close strike. Here:
I'm clearing my shack of unused items including my backup K3 (in
anticipation of eventuallly adding a KX3 plus amp as my backup/portable
unit). This K3 has barely been used but I've kept it up-to-date with all
relevant hardware mods (8 total) plus the latest firmware. The only mods
not done are
Hi all.
I have finally finished my backlog of engraving for acrylic and brass
plates. If there is someone who has contacted me earlier and not
received a reply or their plates, please email me at:
ord...@arkayengravers.com.
I have acrylic plates for the K2, K3 and P3 in stock.
My website is:
A warning.be careful using a golf ball to put your antenna over a tree.
I did the same thing about 15 years ago, except I drilled the golf ball and
tied braided nylon cord through it. Inevitably the ball got stuck in the 'V' of
a branch so I heaved on it, winding the cord round a piece
On 19/06/2011, at 5:11, Tom Boucher t...@telemetry.demon.co.uk wrote:
A warning.be careful using a golf ball to put your antenna over a
tree. I did the same thing about 15 years ago, except I drilled the golf ball
and tied braided nylon cord through it. Inevitably the ball got
I picked up a used MC-60 mic at Dayton. When I try to use it with my K3,
as soon as I connect it via the 8-pin foster on the front the frequency
starts to scan like I'm holding down the up button on the mic. Thinking that
there was a problem with the mic I tested it with a Kenwood TS2000 and it
and that's why I used 8 lb. test fishing line instead of 300 lb
test nylon..
;-) Stan WB2LQF
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Jack Chomley wrote:
On 19/06/2011, at 5:11, Tom Boucher t...@telemetry.demon.co.uk
wrote:
A warning.be careful using a golf ball to put your
Jeff,
Is there any chance that you have an MC-60A instead of the MC-60? They
are not the same.
If so, I suggest you set the mic amp switch to OUT and disconnect the
wire on pin 5 inside the microphone. If you need the mic preamp either
use batteries in the mic or connect the wire that was
Is ur noise blanker on? If so, try turning it off.
Dave, N4QS
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Using WriteLog, I have noticed that it takes the P3 (in Fixed Tune mode) a
full 3 seconds to recover after clicking on a spot. This happens
consistently even if the spot is only a few KHz away from the present
frequency. The K3 changes frequency instantly but the P3 first freezes, then
the cursor
Gentlemen,
A friend of mine just finished building his K3 which is working well except
for one anomoly: when he engages the NR, at any level, the S meter jumps to
an s7-9 level. It isn't effecting the signal to noise ratio as signals now
run in the S9 plus region--it is like it is shifting the
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Mike K2MK k...@comcast.net wrote:
...K3 changes frequency instantly but the P3 first freezes, then
the cursor jumps
Sounds like a polling issue. Does it happen with Writelog turned off? If
not, then maybe you can adjust the polling frequency in Writelog.
The weekly Elecraft SSB net will meet tomorrow (6/19/11) at 1800Z on 14.3035
MHz +/- QRM. I will be net control from cool and moist Oregon, and we'll try
relays to pull
in the stations that I can't hear. See you there.
73,
Phil, NS7P
I have a brand new K1 for sale. It has the four band module
installed-40-30-21-15.
Also installed is the backlight and the ATU and finger dimple.
Included is the internal battery option but I did not install it.
Serial number 3015, just built but I changed my plans so it is for sale.
Operates
Thanks Steve that did it. I don't need the mic up and down buttons so
disabling them in the K3 config was the answer.
73 Jeff kb2m
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Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2011 16:08 PM
To: Jeff KB2M
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 with
Great job guys.
73s Jim
JIM ROGERS, W4ATK
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K2/10
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Good Evening,
I just checked my weather forecast and was shocked! On Tuesday the
thermometer will peak at 70 degrees! Such heat is just not normal.
Another spate of summer-like heat for a short period then back to more
normal 50 degree temperatures. I shall need to stock up on ice
I have installed the 100 watt amp and this is surplus to my needs. $140.00
shipped to USA only. Preferr Paypal payment. Tnx George/W2BPI
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I have a K2 (without a K60XV) and an XV50. I am having some issues with
power output. After I turn on the K2/XV50 pair (or often after I come out
of menu mode), the power output LEDs on the XV50 don't light with tune
activated (or the keyer action). The K2 power control is fully CCW. If I
turn
My MC-60 works perfectly on my K3. Its very new.
Doug -- K0DXV
On 6/18/2011 1:39 PM, Jeff KB2M wrote:
I picked up a used MC-60 mic at Dayton. When I try to use it with my K3,
as soon as I connect it via the 8-pin foster on the front the frequency
starts to scan like I'm holding down the
Phil,
Making a few guesses about how you have reported the situation, I would
say that you may have the XV50 input attenuator set incorrectly.
I would suggest setting the K2 power for 5 watts - then with that drive
level, adjust the XV50 input attenuator to produce 20 watts output.
Then
Hi Tony,
You are right on the money. I tried this with MixW and hitting a spot
results in an instantaneous P3 update whether the P3 is in Fixed Tune mode
or Tracking mode. This is very peculiar situation. I'll have to post it on
the WriteLog reflector.
73,
Mike K2MK
Tony Estep
Sat, 18 Jun
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From: John Cooper
Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2011 6:52 PM
To: Kevin Rock
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement
wx here is cool 96 degrees 94% humidity
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From: Kevin Rock
Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2011 5:29 PM
To: Elecraft
Kevin,
If you would send a small piece of that 50 deg temperature this way, I
will trade it for the upper 80s that we will have next week, maybe we
can come to some sort of compromise and keep both of us in the 70 to 80
degree range :-) . That way you could save some of that firewood for
Hi David,
What a great idea. I wish I'd thought of that before I did my repair. I've
put your idea in my notebook and if/when this happens again, I'll install
your solution. I do worry about the longevity of the PCB holes and traces
should this repair become an ongoing maintenance issue
Greetings Elecrafters,
Maybe there is a better place or forum to post this that I'm not aware of (if
so, please let me know), but I thought I'd see if anyone had been there,
done that before I start reinventing the wheel.
Probably due to having hardcore homebrewing in the gene pool, I tend to
With a lot of help from Jamie WB4YDL we have it running. Just a few
hr.s I'm still amazed. Hard to believe that little package can do
all that. Only minor glitches. Mostly me. So far I love it.
K9IL
K3 2626
KPA 66
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On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 6:14 PM, K2MK k...@comcast.net wrote:
...I tried this with MixW and hitting a spot results in an instantaneous P3
update...
The main MixW guy is a true real-time and FFT software engineer. A lot of
his code is really superb. Still, even MixW suffers somewhat from the
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Subject: [Elecraft] FS: Elecraft KRC2 Band Data Decoder+ XG-2 and N-GEN kits
I'm selling my K3/100 (s/n 525, built by N6SF). Too much inventory
says the XYL!
K3/100
*KXV3A RX Ant., IF Out and Xverter Interface*
*KTCXO3-1TCXO * *(0.5 ppm typ) High Stability Reference Oscillator
**KFL3A-400400 Hz, 8-pole filter*
ALL current mods and updates (performed by Elecraft),
I sometimes use the A/B to switch between the CW and phone section of a band.
I like to set the P3 to FixMode and adjust the right edge to align with the
band edge, say 14.000.0. So if I set VFO A to 14.025 in CW mode and switch to
VFO B at 14.240 also in CW mode I can switch back and forth
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