Re: [Elecraft] [KX1] It's alive, sort of!

2009-10-31 Thread 4Z5TO
EMD wrote: ...on the air soon, so I can frustrate everyone with my poor morse. Another learning process. 73, Ed KE7HGA Don't worry about that. I am as rusty as the Titanic with my code. In all instances of my cw QSOs, I have had much better/faster ops slow down and work with me to

Re: [Elecraft] [KX1] It's alive, sort of!

2009-10-31 Thread Ron D'Eau Claire
That's great to hear. After more than 50 years of pounding brass, I enjoy setting the bug aside and using my J-38 'hand pump' from time to time whenever I run into a slow operator. I haven't tried it myself, but I understand NUMORSE is similar to Morse Mania but runs on a PC under Windows:

Re: [Elecraft] [KX1] It's alive, sort of!

2009-10-31 Thread EMD
Okay I'll be giving it a try. I have never sent cw or used the paddle style keyer so it should be fun. 73, Ed KE7HGA On Oct 31, 2009, at 6:38 PM, 4Z5TO [via Elecraft] wrote: EMD wrote: ...on the air soon, so I can frustrate everyone with my poor morse. Another learning process. 73,

Re: [Elecraft] [KX1] It's alive, sort of!

2009-10-16 Thread EMD
And now it's complete, KX1 #2140! I still have to figure out how to configure the Auto tuner but other than that it works. I had one small problem on the final build. I had trouble with the wires under the battery holders and so now I have 4 shiny new bolts with equally shiny nuts sticking out

[Elecraft] [KX1] It's alive, sort of!

2009-10-15 Thread EMD
Well after getting discouraged I decided to take some time off from my KX1 project. After about 3 months I decided to get back at at with a little encouragement from Gary. I was having trouble with the receiver alignment, no signal. I decided to go to the manual and review each step of the

Re: [Elecraft] [KX1] It's alive, sort of!

2009-10-15 Thread Mike Scott
Ed, welcome to Elecraft. I wish to relate my own experience. I had been off the air for 30 years. I got the bug to return to the community. I took the tests in November 2005 and for Christmas I asked for a KX1. I built it and in January 2006 I finished. I put up a 40M inverted vee (still up and my

Re: [Elecraft] [KX1] It's alive, sort of!

2009-10-15 Thread EMD
Hi Mike, That sounds great. I have never sent cw before, but I have been trying to prepare. Now I really need to get up to speed since my radio is nearing completion. Thanks Mike, Ed Doyle KE7HGA Colora MD On Oct 15, 2009, at 8:18 PM, Mike Scott-7 (via Nabble) wrote: Ed, welcome to