Re: [Elecraft] Toroid Winding Question

2007-07-05 Thread Matthew Murphy Palmer
Not sure about hand sanding, but i know grinding ferrite is a tricky process, I haven been designing flyback transformers of late and grinding the gap in ferrite cores has resulted in many cracked and broken cores, i would assume if you are meticulous and careful hand sanding is probably ok.

Re: [Elecraft] Mobile K2/100? with detached control head??

2007-07-02 Thread Matthew Murphy Palmer
Typically in audio applications you don't worry about impedance matching, an aux input is typically a high Z (think input stage of op amps or similar) and they are expecting a low output impedance from whatever you are feeding it with. You should feed an aux input with line level audio. Matt

Re: [Elecraft] K2: attention builders - perfect for your K2 (or K1)

2007-06-24 Thread Matthew Murphy Palmer
fngercots are standard issue on a production floor. For hobby building i doubt it would be nessecery or even ecenomical, a good grounding strap and antistatic pad to work on is a better investment. Matt KD8DAO ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to:

Re: [Elecraft] Guidance

2007-06-19 Thread Matthew Murphy Palmer
I agree with using 40m Especially since they moved the 'novice' portion of the band down quite a bit it is possible to work some slow speed around 7040-7050 now (where the QRP action is) instead of hanging out above 7100 dodging shortwave stations es hoping someone will take pity es come work