Re: [Elecraft] KX2: Sub 100mw power setting?

Maybe a little over-engineered... those relays will handle 1kW! 73 from Ian GM3SEK >-Original Message- >From: Elecraft [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of >Robin Moseley >Sent: 24 September 2016 03:53 >To: Chip Stratton >Cc: Elecraft Reflector >Subject: Re: [Elecraft]

Re: [Elecraft] Flex SDR panadapter

Maybe, but consider that some SDR pan adapters exhibit false images if not properly 'set up'. I can't think of a better description for it. Dick, n0ce On 9/23/2016 9:51 PM, Gary wrote: > Listening to a Flex operator making assertions that the k3 exhibited USB > spurs, 3khz above the 7.120 fre

[Elecraft] RemoteRig Control with K3/100 and K-Pod

I searched for other threads covering this question, but I couldn't find anything based on my searching. (my 5 minute effort googling up to see if this has been covered many times) I received a shinny new K-Pod today and was excited to play around with it in the CQWW RTTY where I would be using my

Re: [Elecraft] KX2: Sub 100mw power setting?

at QRP levels, you can easily make a relay bypass, the relays used in the 2m DG8 pre-amp will suffice.. http://www.ifwtech.co.uk/g3sek/ Robin G1MHU __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help:

[Elecraft] Flex SDR panadapter

Listening to a Flex operator making assertions that the k3 exhibited USB spurs, 3khz above the 7.120 frequency being used. I am curious to hear from the learned group here. The k3 in question was using the upgraded synthesizer. Gary __ El

Re: [Elecraft] KX2: Sub 100mw power setting?

It is pretty easy to find inexpensive attenuators to step QRP power levels down to QRPp levels, including at least one I ran across that switches out of line in receive mode. Just a thought! 72 Chip AE5KA On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 7:21 AM, Hajo Dezelski wrote: > Hello, > > I second that! Beeing a

Re: [Elecraft] Lp.pan & k3s

I was hoping that was my problem, but not so easy. I can't seem to get signal from the P3 to appear on my NaP3 install. I'll post my settings and ask for some advice. Best regards, Bret aka Charles Jessee N4SRN -- Original Message -- From: Mark E. Musick [via Elecraft] To: Charles Bret J

Re: [Elecraft] Lp.pan & k3s

And don't forget to turn the IF OUT switch on the P3 from OFF to ON. Don't ask how I know. Mark, WB9CIF -Original Message- From: Elecraft [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Don Wilhelm Sent: Friday, September 23, 2016 11:08 PM To: MaverickNH ; elecraft@mailman.qth.net

Re: [Elecraft] Lp.pan & k3s

Bret and Paul, If you have the P3, connect the LP-Pan to the IF OUT on the P3. If you have only the K3 (K3S), connect LP-Pan directly to the IF output of the K3. The "rest of the story" is related to LP-Pan and your soundcard and your computer and the computer applications and is appropriate

Re: [Elecraft] How to get SWR

The commands are being sent too close together. Place a minimum 100ms delay between the SWH16 and following DS command. Do not send any other commands until after second SWH16. Four macros were setup to allow “manual” delay between commands. I don’t see a direct way to allow a command-comman

Re: [Elecraft] Lp.pan & k3s

Hi Paul, I was just getting around to asking the same question and wonder if we might merge efforts? I have a K3S and P3 with a new LP-PAN 2, hoping to get it working with a ASUS Xonar U7 external sound card and NaP3 software. From there, on to LP-Bridge and CW Skimmer. But if you have other hardw

[Elecraft] Lp.pan & k3s

Hi all I have just aquired an lp pan interface but with no cables which is no big deal as I should have plenty around the shack but I'm not sure how to connect it to the radio. I see plenty of info on the net for connection between k3. So hope someone can point me in the right direction as to what

Re: [Elecraft] Tracking Upgrades with the K3 Utility?

Unfortunately Bob, It's not feasible to have the K3 utility track and report all of the possible mods that may have been made to an earlier K3. Some of them involved simple component changes or additions that would not be visible to any firmware or software. To keep track of this on my early K3

Re: [Elecraft] How to get SWR

I think we’ve hit the limit of my knowledge on this. Sorry. wunder K6WRU Walter Underwood CM87wj http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog) > On Sep 23, 2016, at 1:14 PM, Holger Schurig wrote: > > Hi Walter, > > btw, thanks for all your input! > > > I tried the swr_sweep.py program from this

Re: [Elecraft] How to get SWR

Hi Walter, btw, thanks for all your input! I tried the swr_sweep.py program from this discussion and here I still get only the DS output that doesn't tell me anything: WRITE: MN023; WRITE: MN023;MP001; WRITE: SWH16; WRITE: FA0001400; WRITE: FA; READ: FA0001400; WRITE: FA0001400; WRI

Re: [Elecraft] Technology Change

I think you mean 1625... Chas -Original Message- From: Elecraft [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Morgan Bailey Sent: Friday, September 23, 2016 8:42 AM To: j...@audiosystemsgroup.com Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Technology Change Whats th

Re: [Elecraft] How to get SWR

I worked on some Python code to do this, but programming the KX3 was pretty flaky. It is easy to get out of sync with the commands and responses. Also, the radio needs varying and undocumented amounts of time to respond to different commands. The program you first linked to is a little more com

Re: [Elecraft] How to get SWR

Hi Walter, I'm not going to learn NodeJS, npm, gulp and JavaScript to get the SWR out of my KX3 :-) I'd rather learn in a generic way how to get the SWR. I however checked out the source, and in wizkers/oem/radio/www/js/app/instruments/elecraft/driver_frontend.js it does in this.tune = somethin

Re: [Elecraft] Technology Change (OT)

On Fri,9/23/2016 10:21 AM, WILLIE BABER wrote: I'd just like to know how an ADC works and produces some measurable form of dynamic range that I can associate with what I do know and learned about dynamic range. Hi Will, I think what people are saying is that an email reflector dedicated to a

Re: [Elecraft] Technology Change (OT)

>> >> I know you are all wonderful people, but I already get 400 emails a day >> related to ham radio forums. >> This is much like stepping into the path of a dozen speeding oncoming 18-wheelers, and then complaining that the drivers couldn’t stop in time to avoid turning you into a smudge on

Re: [Elecraft] Technology Change (OT)

I agree. The Elecraft one is important to me for my KRC2, W2's, KPA500 and KX2. 73 On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 1:33 PM, Ken G Kopp wrote: > Hi Mike? > > Sounds like you need to choose what forums are most interesting / > important to you and curtail those that aren't. > > 73! > > Ken - K0PP > > On

Re: [Elecraft] Technology Change (OT)

All OT threads get old after 5-10 answers. I'm with Mike. Go off list! Sent from my iPhone ...nr4c. bill > On Sep 23, 2016, at 1:33 PM, Ken G Kopp wrote: > > Hi Mike? > > Sounds like you need to choose what forums are most interesting / important > to you and curtail those that aren't. > > 7

Re: [Elecraft] Technology Change (OT)

Mike, Why not build a filter and have it move anything with OT in the title to trash? Such things work for me :-) But here I find the OT stuff often to be of interest. 73, Phil W7OX On 9/23/16 10:25 AM, Michael Walker wrote: Can we get an OT reflector for the Elecraft group? I know you a

Re: [Elecraft] Assembled K2 MAB boards available

On Fri, 23 Sep 2016 09:37:19 -0400 "Doug Shields" wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Months ago I took on assembling a small lot of the K2 MAB boards. > Life got in the way and it took a lot longer to complete the boards than > anticipated. I now have seven boards completed and available. > >

Re: [Elecraft] Technology Change (OT)

Hi Mike? Sounds like you need to choose what forums are most interesting / important to you and curtail those that aren't. 73! Ken - K0PP On Sep 23, 2016 11:25, "Michael Walker" wrote: > Can we get an OT reflector for the Elecraft group? > > I know you are all wonderful people, but I already

Re: [Elecraft] Technology Change (OT)

Can we get an OT reflector for the Elecraft group? I know you are all wonderful people, but I already get 400 emails a day related to ham radio forums. many 73, mike va3mw __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/lis

Re: [Elecraft] Technology Change (OT)

I'd just like to know how an ADC works and produces some measurable form of dynamic range that I can associate with what I do know and learned about dynamic range. I got started with Solid State Design for the Radio Amateur, published in 1977, where I learned about the concept of roofing filter

Re: [Elecraft] How to get SWR

I recommend the Wizkers app. It is portable across several kinds of computers. http://www.wizkers.io/ In the KX3, you get the SWR by fetching the display characters, then translating them to numbers. Kind of messy. wunder K6WRU Walter Underwood CM87wj http://observer.wu

[Elecraft] How to get SWR

Hi ho, I want to programmatically get the SWR, or at least an approximation of the SWR via the serial cable. I found an old application kx3swr.py (http://robert.butera.org/?p=380), but somehow this one returned always 0.0 as SWR back, which I didn't really believe. Basically the program does this

Re: [Elecraft] KX3 stopped answering to serial commands

Follow up: the KXUSB3 cable was faulty according to QRP Project. Got a new one, now everything works again. 2016-09-07 0:05 GMT+02:00 iain macdonnell - N6ML : > On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 9:25 AM, Holger Schurig > wrote: > > - yes, it echos back one character at a time, like I'm typing > > > > - yes

Re: [Elecraft] Looking For Rework Eliminator Option Bypass Headers

Hi Robert, in the reply's did you find more than one set ? I'm starting on a project to upgrade my original K2 (sn 096) and those might be real handy for that project ... Niel WA7SSA On Sep 22, 2016, at 9:33 PM, Robert Forster wrote: > I found a set. Thank you to everyone who responde

Re: [Elecraft] Technology Change (OT)

Morgan / NJ8M wrote: > I made a miss key ... 1625 not 1628. Yep...in fact there was never a 1628. The 1625 is a 12.6v 807, with different base. > ...then there was the magic EYE of the ARK 5 command transmitter. That's the 1629. The equipment nomenclature is AN/ARC-5 (or ARA/ATA or SCR-274-

Re: [Elecraft] OT: KXPA100 and KXPACBL For Sale

Folks, For whatever reason, I forgot to add that the KXPA100 *includes* the ATU. It is a factory-assembled unit and also includes the manuals. 73, Joel - W4JBB > On Sep 23, 2016, at 08:37, Joel Black wrote: > > Life changes. Interests wax and wane. I'm more interested in triathlons and > tra

Re: [Elecraft] XG2 not working on 3mhz or 14mhz

Don, Touched the xtal solder points, that did the trick. TNX Jack W4GRJ On Sep 23, 2016, at 10:18 AM, Don Wilhelm wrote: Jack, The only things that are changed between bands are the crystals and the switch position. If you do not have bad switch contacts (check with an ohmmeter), then you have

Re: [Elecraft] DATA-A tx freq offset with digital modes

I agree, Eric. I started in ham radio in 1962. I love tapping into the new technology but it's not as easy as you grow older. My son continues to beat me up over the fact that I still have my newspaper delivered every day. Tramping through the snow and rain to retrieve it. Sometimes it's we

Re: [Elecraft] Technology Change

Yes, now we can spend 30 min watching a video with info we could read in one or two minutes: Ugh! Phil W7OX On 9/23/16 6:46 AM, brian wrote: Ten lines of text in a news article is being displaced by megabytes of video. 73 de Brian/K3KO __

Re: [Elecraft] K3 Erratic VFO behaviour, Switching bands and freq's

Pete, This is very baffling, and is most likely firmware issue. I'll discuss it with customer support right away and will be getting back to you with some questions. 73, Wayne N6KR On Sep 23, 2016, at 12:32 AM, G0PNM wrote: > So, the USB/Serial cable arrived yesterday. Last night, I downlo

Re: [Elecraft] Tracking Upgrades with the K3 Utility?

It’s also a good way to check the mod status of a second hand rig before you buy it, if you know the serial number. Regards, Danny Higgins, G3XVR From: K5WA __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraf

Re: [Elecraft] Technology Change

Yes, most videos are great time wasting mechanisms. 73, Don W3FPR On 9/23/2016 9:46 AM, brian wrote: Ten lines of text in a news article is being displaced by megabytes of video. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.ne

Re: [Elecraft] XG2 not working on 3mhz or 14mhz

Jack, The only things that are changed between bands are the crystals and the switch position. If you do not have bad switch contacts (check with an ohmmeter), then you have bad crystals - try resoldering them. 73, Don W3FPR On 9/23/2016 9:51 AM, Jack Satterfield wrote: Just tried my XG2 on

[Elecraft] XG2 not working on 3mhz or 14mhz

Just tried my XG2 on a new radio, it's only working on 7.040 Tried on another radio to confirm it's the XG2, battery is good. Any suggestions to check why it's not working on all three freqs. Jack W4GRJ __ Elecraft mailing list H

Re: [Elecraft] Technology Change

I made a miss key, GiGo (for all you fortran non porgramers that means Garbage in Garbage out), 1625 not 1628arggg..then there was the trusty OA3 regular of purple phase noise generator of a mercury vapor tube...then there was the magic EYE of the ARK 5 command transmitter...with the flip up to

Re: [Elecraft] Technology Change

One unwelcome change is the proliferation of icons, emoji and other pictograms instead of words. We are headed back to the days of hieroglyphics--devolution. Ten lines of text in a news article is being displaced by megabytes of video. 73 de Brian/K3KO On 9/23/2016 12:42 PM, Morgan Bailey w

[Elecraft] OT: KXPA100 and KXPACBL For Sale

Life changes. Interests wax and wane. I'm more interested in triathlons and training than I am amateur radio. Been a ham since 1992 and decided at age 48 that, for me, there's more to life than sitting at a desk behind a computer or radio. I need to get outside more with my wife and youngest daught

[Elecraft] Assembled K2 MAB boards available

Hello everyone, Months ago I took on assembling a small lot of the K2 MAB boards. Life got in the way and it took a lot longer to complete the boards than anticipated. I now have seven boards completed and available. The K2 MAB is a small accessory circuit board for the K2. It combine

[Elecraft] Tracking Upgrades with the K3 Utility?

This is probably a feature request but there may also be a way to accomplish this request with the K3 Utility (or other diagnostic software) and I'm just unaware of it. I am not a disciplined inventory keeper of the changes I've made to my K3 rigs so I'm not absolutely sure where I stand on upgrad

Re: [Elecraft] Technology Change

Whats this 6146 stuff...what happened to the 1628 or the 807...and not to mention the trusty 813 and for the big power ...304TL...whoot bring on them big filament transformers... On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 10:45 PM, Jim Brown wrote: > On Thu,9/22/2016 8:24 PM, Dauer, Edward wrote: > >> Two thoughts

Re: [Elecraft] KX2: Sub 100mw power setting?

Hello, I second that! Beeing a 5 Watt Operator for nearly 20 years, I discovered in the last years the Joy of qrpp down to 0.5 mW . And I can tell you it works. So I consider 100 mW in CW nearly QRO. In Wspr 200 mW is definitly Qro and I tx most of the time with 10 mW with the help of a step atten

[Elecraft] KX2: Sub 100mw power setting?

Would it be possible to configure the KX2 through a firmware update to transmit at power levels below the 100mw low limit? If the PA is capable of being stepped down that low I'm interested in experimenting with very low power transmissions and it would be convenient if I could access levels som

Re: [Elecraft] K3 - am I locked into a specific microcode level

Why are we using the term microcode here? When I think of microcode, I think of the code within a cpu that takes the machine code from outside the processor and turns it into the signals that move and manipulate the data within the processor, turning on and off registers and paths. When I thi

Re: [Elecraft] K3 Erratic VFO behaviour, Switching bands and freq's

So, the USB/Serial cable arrived yesterday. Last night, I downloaded the Utility software and reinstalled the firmware 5.50. All was good, no issues. So I decided to try the Beta firmware 5.52 and again no problems and the radio behaved normally so I was overjoyed. I sent an email to Elecraft, expr