Re: [Elecraft] Advice on selling K3s/10

2020-01-23 Thread W0FK
Also consider eHam and the swapmeet forum on qrz.com. Both of those also have older ads archived where you can search for prior sales of k3’s in their numerous configurations and figure out your asking price. If you post on qrz.com, pay attention to the posting guidelines. Other places to conside

Re: [Elecraft] KPA500 on AM...

2020-01-23 Thread Don Wilhelm
John, The KPA500 is rated for 500 watts PEP. With AM, that is 250 watts carrier, and 250 watts of sideband energy (125 watts for each sideband). So your "talk power" is 125 watts, compared to 500 watts SSB. Note that is for 10 minutes transmit with a 5 minute receive period. If you are "lo

Re: [Elecraft] KPA500 on AM...

2020-01-23 Thread K9MA
Isn't peak power for AM 4 times the average (carrier) power? 73, Scott K9MA On 1/23/2020 18:10, Don Wilhelm wrote: John, The KPA500 is rated for 500 watts PEP. With AM, that is 250 watts carrier, and 250 watts of sideband energy (125 watts for each sideband).  So your "talk power" is 125 wa

Re: [Elecraft] KPA500 on AM...

2020-01-23 Thread Grant Youngman
Yes. You wouldn’t want to run a KPA500 at any more than around 125W carrier output. Maybe a bit less to give you some headroom. At 250W carrier the KPA500 would be pushed way beyond ratings on AM. Grant NQ5T > On Jan 23, 2020, at 7:59 PM, K9MA wrote: > > Isn't peak power for AM 4 times the

[Elecraft] Winter Field Day this weekend -- brief introduction

2020-01-23 Thread Wayne Burdick
Time to break out the portable rigs and snow-shoes, everyone: it's Winter Field Day, 2020. I was reminded of this by Bonnie, KQ6XA. She forwarded some info from the WFDA (Winter Field Day Association), repeated below. I'm embarrassed to report that we've lost our Winter here in the Bay Area, w

[Elecraft] KX3 with KPA100/KAT100

2020-01-23 Thread Kev Schache
I'm confined to operating from home due to age restraints but I'm also the very proud builder/owner of a K2 and a separate EC2 cased KPA100 and KAT100 - along the lines of W3DVX 'twins'.   In addition to that combo, I'm also the proud owner of a KX3 which seems to be developing a yearning for 1

Re: [Elecraft] Winter Field Day this weekend -- brief introduction

2020-01-23 Thread Jim Brown
On 1/23/2020 6:38 PM, Wayne Burdick wrote: I'm embarrassed to report that we've lost our Winter here in the Bay Area As a refugee from Chicago, I can state with certainty that there is no such thing as "winter" in the Bay Area. What happens here from Dec to Mar would be described in the Midwe

Re: [Elecraft] Remote Operation of K4

2020-01-23 Thread W0MU Mike Fatchett
The keyer would be hooked into the keyer/paddle jack? On 1/22/2020 3:04 AM, Nr4c wrote: What to plug Winkeyer into at the radio end? The K4 is connected to Ethernet, no a computer. Sent from my iPhone ...nr4c. bill On Jan 20, 2020, at 7:52 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:  I’ve not seen a