Yes, you are fine, Shane. Note that step says, "Your DMM may indicate the
value is so high it is out of the range of the instrument and as it does
when in ohms mode and the probes are not touching anything."
So it's reading what your Fluke reads when the leads are not touching
anything. All is go
It could be the crystal but that's really rare. The first thing I'd check is
the battery. If it's low the oscillator will stop working and it might be
marginal so the lowest-activity crystal stops first - in your case perhaps
the 40 meter crystal.
Ron AC7AC
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From: elecr
I have a functioning K3 here and also a Fluke 115, which is quite similar to
the 117.
On the ohms range the meter reads OL. On the Kohms range it reads about 4
Kohms.
I think Don is right and it is OK to proceed. If your reading was
substantially LESS than 4 K I would be concerned.
73
I didn't look into trying to interconnect the 9500 and the K3 to get band
data. All it takes is an RCA patch cord between the relay out and in plugs
on both units, and away you go. The RF sensing is very fast on the 9500 and
pretty painless.
73,
Lou, W0FK
Dick Hanson wrote:
>
> Hello
> I'
I was checking the fit of the shield on the KPA100 project that I'm building
for K2 #6997 and found that the shield holes are off by the thickness of the
back panel. If I match the back edge of the shield with the back edge of the
back panel, all 7 holes match exactly, but the back standoffs are
Title says most of what there is to say. I actually got the amp put
together over the weekend but had to wait until tonight (Wednesday) to
get it installed in the station and checked out. Everything works A-OK.
I built my own K3 ACC cable using the DE9/DE15 connector shells supplied
with my XV1
Shane,
Let me try to help. I have repeated part of the paragraph from page 44
of the manual:
"The resistance should be greater than 3K ohms. It may be much higher,
depending
upon which way you connect the leads. Your DMM may indicate the value is
so high it is out of the range of the instrume
Just got an XG2 of unknown provenance. Appears to have been carefully
assembled, and puts out a good signal on 80 and 20 meters, but 40 meters
output is nonexistent. The band-switch is fine, so I suspect either the
coupling capacitor before the crystal, or the crystal itself is bad.
Just for my ed
Hi,
I hope this is the right place for this post, although I'm sure it's
not because its kind of a dumb question.
I've been assembling a K3 and I'm up to the point for doing resistance
checks in the assembly manual on pg. 44. And yet I know nothing about
resistance checks (or electronics).
I'm w
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73 - Ken
On 7/19/11 11:38 PM, Ken Alexander wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
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> (1" x 1" x 3") paddle perfect for portable use. The Palm 817 is black
> to match a Yaesu FT-817 and come with
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maser handy?"
I do. Not at home of course, but at work. We actually manufacture them. If
you really want to test your GPS DO, let me know. This is the company that
made LPRO as well. Here are some numbers for you:
LPRO accuracy spec when it left the dock - better than 1e-11
Dave,
By setting the RF Gain as you did, you have maximized the dynamic range
of your receiver.
The lowest level signals that you will be able to hear (and understand)
will be at your local noise level - there is no sense (to me at least)
to use more than the amount of gain that will give you a
Jim,
This is a very good example where the user should understand his radio -
especially what is displayed for the frequency for each mode. For the
K2 in either SSB or RTTY mode, it will be the suppressed carrier
frequency - in CW it will be the carrier frequency of the signal
(provided that
On 20/07/2011 9:51, Phil Kane wrote:
> My e-mail client (Thunderbird) as does most if not every modern e-mail
> reader has such a tool - it's called a Message Filter. I tell it what to
> look for, and it routes it to a specified folder. That's how I sort postings
> from various groups, and within t
I found something interesting when I was working the CQ VHF contest this last
weekend.
I live in the city in which my noise level stays around S3.
while searching for weak signals, I started to reduce the rf gain. as I
reduced the gain I watched the S meter go down and as I contuned to reduce
it m
W0EM wrote:
> As I understand what you are saying is that the frequency displayed on K3 is
> actually the mark frequency rather than the suppressed carrier frequency.
>> From my observations of the K2, as compared to the K3 in on air test, it is
> the same. I have compared my transmitted and rece
Most likely another 1-2 weeks.
73, Eric WA6HHQ
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Ed Muns, W0YK wrote:
>
> What's "different" about the K3 is its outstanding usability. With a
> single
> front panel control, HI CUT, any SSB bandwidth can be quickly dialed in,
> maintaining optimum intelligibility. With the few prior generation radios
> I
> tried narrow SSB filtering on, ther
Elecraft Design Team!
The K3 is well documented in shematics up to june 2010 but there are some
new kits and options as K144XV PLL, K3XREF and KPA500 not yet shown to us.
Will these schematics be released ? I enjoy reading shematics of the
Elecraft kits and feel it is as an important part of the a
Hello
I've not found any hints in archives on this, so wondering if anyone here
has done this?
If so, cabling and any other handy hints would be appreciated.
I would much rather have the amp follow the radio thru commands and not via
RF sensing.
Thanks.
73
Dick, K5AND
Austin
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Hi Brian,
If you want to go straight to the top of the frequency measuring heap, I
have a GPS-disciplined Rubidium for sale ;-) It's a NIB Symmetricom StarLoc
II Plus, that gives you GPS accuracy when it's locked to the sats, and
Rubidium accuracy when it's in holdover.
I've been a ham long enou
Hi Brian,
Interesting post. I've read of others using GPS this way, but what does this
kind of accuracy buy you when maybe 1 in 100,000 other hams go to this kind of
trouble?
73,
Ken Alexander
VE3HLS
--- On Wed, 7/20/11, Brian Alsop wrote:
> From: Brian Alsop
> Subject: [Elecraft] Rb & G
On the K1, just run the rear-mount bolt through the hole for the tilt
stand. I used to use a pair of magnets (one inside, one glued into the
mount) for the front, but it proved unnecessary; the single bolt does a
fine job!
I used the magnets with a second mount and made myself a po
Guys,
This may be of some use to those interested in locking the K3 to an
external source. The issue of what kind of source to used has been the
subject of a number of postings.
Clifton labs did the above comparison. Jack's Rb standard came in at
about .0004 Hz relative to a GPS DO at 10MHz.
With the Mac OS PrevIew app you can just drag and drop the addendum/errata
pages into the PDF at the required spot.
73 - Steve WB6RSE
On Jul 18, 2011, at 3:21 PM, Bruce Beford wrote:
Thanks, Fred.
This begs the question- for those of us who purchased the PDF version, is
there any mechanism fo
Just reading the mail on what everyone expects from the KX3 and some
comments from those that have or had a K2 makes me thing that many
may decide that the KX3 does most of what the K2 did for them - in a
lighter version?
The more I am reading about the KX3 (especially if it will come with
2m)
On 7/19/2011 5:17 PM, george fritkin wrote:
> Gosh, there are many up-tight old timers on this reflector.
> And what does this subject have to do with Elecraft?
My personal opinion: Elecraft does radio right. It's up to
us operators to do operating right. How else are the newbies
going to lear
I "fiddled" with HI CUT a lot at first, to determine how narrow I could go
and still maintain excellent intelligibility. Once I settled on 1500 Hz, I
asked INRAD to make some 1500 Hz roofing filters (actually about 1600 Hz)
for contest work. Like you, my SSB bandwidth (DSP: 1500 Hz, crystal filte
Fred,
I bought the pdf version of your K3 book - very nice!
I have Adobe Acrobat-8 so figure it will let me merge files for
upgrading. I asked my wife to buy this a couple years ago as I
decided that it would be an advantage creating pdf documents for my
website (in place of .doc) and I find
Wow! They went up since I got mine! I paid $70.
I was VERY pleased with the Palm key! Great little thing!
I can't stick it to my K1 or the K1 base as nothing is magnetic! I used the
little strips of "Sticky putty" that is yellow or green or blue. Use that
stuff for all kinds of "temporary"
Personally, I leave mine set at 1800 width, 1050 shift (the net effect
of dialing the HI-cut down until the the width is 1800) all the time,
and SSB sounds fine to me. I haven't touched those controls in SSB
mode in a long time. I may be missing out on some benefit of fiddling
with it. I generally
What's "different" about the K3 is its outstanding usability. With a single
front panel control, HI CUT, any SSB bandwidth can be quickly dialed in,
maintaining optimum intelligibility. With the few prior generation radios I
tried narrow SSB filtering on, there were obscure menu settings and/or I
Rich and other interested parties,
As I understand what you are saying is that the frequency displayed on K3 is
actually the mark frequency rather than the suppressed carrier frequency.
>From my observations of the K2, as compared to the K3 in on air test, it is
the same. I have compared my tran
Ron wrote: " One recommendation - get the type with an adjustment knob on
the head band."
I have that magnifier also, and the adjustment knob comes in especially
handy after a fresh haircut!
Terry, W0FM
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From: Ron D'Eau Claire [mailto:r...@cobi.biz]
Sent: Tuesday,
Hey Alan.
You could always do what I am doing.
I am building the K2/10 with the internal tuner and other add-on's for
portable use and I am also building the external antenna tuner in a second
enclosure with the 100w amp. When I am not using it portable I just hook up
the tuner/amp to make it a K2/
Hi Alan,
I also operate mostly CW with just a little SSB. I have the KPA100 but, I
find that most of my operating is done at 10 watts or less. For me, operating
SSB at ten watts is a blast. In fact, I had a SSB contact with Aruba the
other night with just ten watts.
Ten watts is quite adequ
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Of course you'll make more contacts with 100 watts than with 10 watts, but
10 watts, or less, is plenty of power to make lots of QSO's much of the
time. How much power one feels is necessary is a very personal decision. We
often joke about it, but there are those who truly consider 100 watts, or
ev
I have a situation with the CMP and ALC bar graphs indicating and a
scratchy noise when I press the PPT switch on my MH2 mic. This is before I
speak
into the mic. If I tap or speak into the mic the graphs return to
normal, I have grounded pin
Hi Bruce,
The current plan is to post updates due to firmware changes and errata
on the ke7x.com website.
I'm going to do some research on what software is out there that will
allow you to edit a pdf file to include the updates and changes. If
anybody has suggestions for this, I'll collate it and
I saw the Receiver Audio Equalizer settings for CW in the KE7X K3 manual (p.
127) and was wondering what others were using for SSB.
Also, I'm interested in what anyone is using for the transmit EQ settings
when using the Elecraft MH2 Hand Microphone.
Thanks,
Dwayne / KE5EFY
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Ed Muns, W0YK wrote:
>
> The K3 is entirely different. I've been operating SSB with a 1.5 kHz
> bandwidth for three years now and it is perfectly intelligible. On prior
> radios, though, I couldn't even get a 2.1 kHz filter to sound intelligible
> enough to be useful. I think the difference is
Hi, Alan...
My history with these radios is as follows: (1) a few years back, I
bought a K2/10 CW only as a kit for therapy on manual dexterity (chemo
badly damaged my peripheral sensitivities). I put it together and used
it for a while, then added first the ATU, then the 100 watt amp and
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