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73,
David, W4SMT
On Friday, December 15, 2023 at 07:56:16 PM EST, Don Putnick
wrote:
I'm moving the K3 files from an old MacBook Pro to a new one. They were
easy to find in the ~/Library/Applications Support/Elecraft folder. But
what about the configuration
I'm moving the K3 files from an old MacBook Pro to a new one. They were
easy to find in the ~/Library/Applications Support/Elecraft folder. But
what about the configuration of the K3 UTILITY itself? In other words,
where are the utility terminal/macros stored? Thanks much and Happy
Holidays.
73 Don
Hi Mark,
The high current condition on the KPA3 (or KPA3A, if newer K3) PA module may
arise from a problem in one of the lowpass filter sections if it's not purely
an external fault condition.
If you have the internal KAT3 ATU, you could try putting a dummy load on the
2nd antenna port and occ
Sorry, Adrian - I hear you but I am not willing to accept that location
trumps everything. Sure it costs money to train new techs, and I'm sure
it's hard to recruit them, but what is the alternative? Continue to be
without a very expensive and essential piece of equipment for weeks/months?
73
Flex isn’t cheap either but the wait for non-warranty repair tells Elecrafters
waiting; hold my beer. A month minimum, often longer.
73,
Rick NK7I
> On Dec 15, 2023, at 12:25 PM, Pete Smith N4ZR wrote:
>
> That said, does anyone think it's acceptable to have even a 4-week hold
> between a
On 12/15/2023 12:41 PM, KJ7SOY wrote:
and the primary industry (about 80% of the business in the area) is
agriculture. People won’t move to small/medium sized agricultural
communities because there isn’t a lot there for them, so importing
skilled staff isn’t feasible.
That's a pretty limited de
Pete:
I can understand your frustrations. However I think your sentiment that “the
current situation needs to be addressed, either in Watsonville or otherwise”
doesn’t recognize current global business realities.
As background, I lived in Monterey, just down the road from Watsonville, for
thr
On 12/15/2023 3:09 PM, Bob McGraw wrote:
There were other reasons as well, but I agree with Joe, W4TV, the
expert knowledge base is in Watsonville.
My cost/benefit analysis did not even consider the knowledge base
that exists in Watsonville. Time to repair (TTR) would likely be
15 to 20% long
Since I'm the one who started this discussion, let me summarize what I
think I've learned. The most effective argument, for me, is the synergy
among techs and relatively low marginal cost of adding them in
Watsonville, versus working with even established, independent
technicians elsewhere. T
I disagree. There is the knowledge base which is likely missing. Not
to mention unique test fixtures and spare parts required. Spare parts
means inventory of replacement boards. One can not effectively or
economically do component level troubleshooting with these radios. It
is less expensi
I can totally agree with Joe, W4TV. At one time I was repairing radios
for various companies. I was doing warranty and non-warranty repairs.
The companies decided it was cost ineffective to maintain independent
repair services. Hence, I no longer repair radios, and no longer have
test equi
This is why Elecraft needs to get serious about having IPv6 support in the K4.
Because of stateless auto config, a minimal support would just be to enable
stateless auto config on the network interface and provide the ipv6 address on
the menu as readonly.
My K3, SN 3091 has popped the 12v circuit breaker. After resetting the breaker
everything works well, full power out with about 16A draw at 14Vdc.
It has done this twice in the last week. I have been working remotely so not
present
to see if any other indications of a fault. Has happened on 4
I was behind a *double* NAT until I got a static IP but in the meantime
I setup a reverse SSH tunnel It's been several years since that but it's
a real pain to setup and keep connected. Finding a host provider that
would permit a reverse tunnel is a challenge, few will do this.
John WB5THT
On
As (other) Rick says, port forwarding varies between routers; but the
two key points to research for your router are:
1) Assign (reserve) the K4 MAC(s) to specific IP addresses, so the
K4(s) is/are ALWAYS at the same LAN IP address (reboot the K4).
2) Port forward 9204 to the K4 (only one can
Simplicity is the keynote to K4 Remote. If you have an external IP address, you only have
to fill in a few fields to get going. You do have to set up a "port forward"
rule in your router in order to make YOUR K4 accessible to remote control ops. All the
routers have different web pages to do th
I’m not particularly networking savvy, in fact I’m at the opposite end of
networking familiarity. I’ve contacted Wayne a few times to ask that the K4
remote solution (whether K4/K4-0 or VK4 software) follow the KISS principle and
make connectivity simple enough for someone like me. I’m hoping I
* On 2023 15 Dec 11:47 -0600, KJ7SOY wrote:
> Rick:
>
> The problem is not dynamic IP addresses changing. That’s easy to fix.
> It’s CG-NAT (Carrier Grade Network Address Translation), which doesn’t
> give you an external world addressable IP address. You can’t assign a
> DDNS name because you don
Thanks, Adrian. I didn't realize how ubiquitous that technique is becoming.
I guess I live a sheltered life here in the mountains and, of course, in
Silicon Valley. I hope your solutions don't add unacceptable latency.
/Rick N6XI
On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 9:46 AM KJ7SOY wrote:
> Rick:
>
> The pro
AFAIK, ML&S have never officially repaired Elecraft products. You may be
confusing them with Waters & Stanton.
W&S were the main UK agents for Elecraft when the K4 was about to be launched,
but IMO their projected prices were far too high, especially for the internal
tuner. AFAIK W&S lost their
Rick:
The problem is not dynamic IP addresses changing. That’s easy to fix. It’s
CG-NAT (Carrier Grade Network Address Translation), which doesn’t give you an
external world addressable IP address. You can’t assign a DDNS name because you
don’t HAVE an IP address to map to. Many carriers (T-Mob
Hi, Dave. I don't think it will be much of an issue. With many ISPs,
external IP addresses change rarely. If your ISP is changing addresses
frequently, consider using a DDNS server like no-ip.com. I have tested K4
Remote using a DDNS string in lieu of a hard-coded WAN address and it works
fine.
/R
I thought ML&S serviced Elecraft in the UK. Sad that that's gone. My
experience with my KX3 was to send it to America. This was pre-Brexit, so...
It was sent to America for repair of a rotary encoder and addition of the
2m module back in 2019. This was a paperwork nightmare as I had to export
it a
This issue is real. A problem is also there is quite many port forward
configurations to setup as one setup a station.
There is methods to punch through NATs, and I hope one have chosen to
use an approach that does this. One is to operate over a VPN that have
these abilities. Another is to use
Very interesting Rick, thanks for sharing the info.
One issue that seems to be increasingly common is that some (many?) ISPs no
longer offer a fixed IP address, which K4 Remote currently needs. The
system many ISPs are changing to is carrier grade network address
translation, it first surfaced in
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