Re: [Elecraft] display scratches

2020-04-16 Thread Lyn Norstad
Tom & Barb Valosin Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] display scratches A wet finger and Ipana toothpaste was always my approach and solution. Bob, K4TAX Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 15, 2020, at 5:47 PM, Tom & Barb Valosin wrote: > > Back in the "

Re: [Elecraft] display scratches

2020-04-15 Thread Bob McGraw K4TAX
A wet finger and Ipana toothpaste was always my approach and solution. Bob, K4TAX Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 15, 2020, at 5:47 PM, Tom & Barb Valosin wrote: > > Back in the "olden days" of my Ham experience, licensed 1963, on a high > school students nearly non-existent budget, we used

[Elecraft] display scratches

2020-04-15 Thread Tom & Barb Valosin
Back in the "olden days" of my Ham experience, licensed 1963, on a high school students nearly non-existent budget, we used gentle pressure of a clean soft bristled tooth brush and Ipana toothpaste. Sometimes several applications were needed but it did work pretty well on the EICO, HeathKit, Ra

Re: [Elecraft] display PA temp?

2019-01-04 Thread ed
TAP the DISP button and rotate VFO-B to select what you want, in this case PA 36C. Ed W0YK/P49X -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net On Behalf Of Jamie WW3S Sent: Friday, 04 January, 2019 18:40 To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: [Elecraft] display PA temp? I

Re: [Elecraft] display PA temp?

2019-01-04 Thread WW3S
I’m sorry.this is for a K3 Sent from my iPad > On Jan 4, 2019, at 9:49 PM, Bob McGraw K4TAX wrote: > > What amp? > > With mine I just press TEMP on the front of the amp. > > 73 > > Bob, K4TAX > > >> On 1/4/2019 8:40 PM, Jamie WW3S wrote: >> I seem to recall there is a way to displa

Re: [Elecraft] display PA temp?

2019-01-04 Thread Bob McGraw K4TAX
What amp? With mine I just press TEMP on the front of the amp. 73 Bob, K4TAX On 1/4/2019 8:40 PM, Jamie WW3S wrote: I seem to recall there is a way to display the PA temp but cant find the setting to do that. __ Elecraft mailin

[Elecraft] display PA temp?

2019-01-04 Thread Jamie WW3S
I seem to recall there is a way to display the PA temp but cant find the setting to do that. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@

Re: [Elecraft] Display opinions

2017-05-31 Thread len
Don Berger Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2017 3:00 PM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: [Elecraft] Display opinions This is fundamentally a form over substance debate. There is nothing lacking in the current K3/K3S display other than it isn't fashionable. Fashion isn't why most of us bought thes

[Elecraft] Display opinions

2017-05-31 Thread Don Berger
This is fundamentally a form over substance debate. There is nothing lacking in the current K3/K3S display other than it isn't fashionable. Fashion isn't why most of us bought these transceivers. don K1VSK __ Elecraft mailing list Home: h

[Elecraft] Display Text Decoding on the screen

2016-08-25 Thread j...@kk9a.com
I think that would be a nice feature for the casual RTTY operator. John KK9A >From Wayne Burdick n6kr Wed Aug 24 20:23:22 EDT 2016 Small matter of programming. There's plenty of code space, but just one lonely guy--Paul--tackling the wish-list, working in the bleak silence of the after-hours, a

[Elecraft] Display Text Decoding on the screen

2016-08-24 Thread Dauer, Edward
And if the next question is whether you can use just one monitor toggled between the computer and the P3, the answer is yes. Many new monitors have built-in push-button source switching, or as I do you can use a small switchbox with SVGA/DB15 jacks. Switchboxes are available for very little mo

Re: [Elecraft] Display frequency calibration

2012-10-05 Thread Jack Berry
No, I'm set flat in rx eq. Was easy to zero beat using 20mHz WWV and the procedure. Thanks! On Oct 5, 2012, at 10:44 AM, Eric Swartz WA6HHQ - Elecraft wrote: > Is your RX EQ set to roll off lower freqs? The 1-5 Hz zero beat note is > easily heard when listening to the WWV carrier beating a

Re: [Elecraft] Display frequency calibration

2012-10-05 Thread Eric Swartz WA6HHQ - Elecraft
Is your RX EQ set to roll off lower freqs? The 1-5 Hz zero beat note is easily heard when listening to the WWV carrier beating against the CW spot tone on the K3. Eric www.elecraft.com _..._ On Oct 4, 2012, at 9:46 PM, K7WIA wrote: > Just another note:My K3 will not produce a audio ton

Re: [Elecraft] Display frequency calibration

2012-10-05 Thread Jack Berry
spot as in the manual. God Bless & Best 73! Jack - WE5ST From: Don Wilhelm To: K7WIA Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Friday, October 5, 2012 7:00 AM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Display frequency calibration Zero-beat is *not* zero frequency, so zero bea

Re: [Elecraft] Display frequency calibration

2012-10-05 Thread Don Wilhelm
Zero-beat is *not* zero frequency, so zero beat can be heard even when the audio response drops off in the lower range. When there are two tones closely spaced in frequency, they will produce a third tone which is teh difference frequency between the tones. That third tone will modulate the am

Re: [Elecraft] Display Frequency Calibration (k3)

2012-10-05 Thread Bill McDowell
This method by W5UXH may have previously posted and it works really well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SWRlTUG5RM Easy to get it really close. 73 Bill, K4CIA __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elec

Re: [Elecraft] Display frequency calibration

2012-10-05 Thread Nate Bargmann
I have used Fldigi and its WWV analysis mode to do the same thing by off-tuning the WWV carrier by 1 kHz. Of course, that presumes that the sound card is accurately calibrated. 73, de Nate, N0NB >> -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears

Re: [Elecraft] Display frequency calibration

2012-10-05 Thread MontyS
The easiest and most reliable way for me to calibrate my K3 using WWV is to switch between sidebands when a tone is being transmitted. When the two tones are equal in pitch, the rig is calibrated. Monty K2DLJ Just another note:My K3 will not produce a audio tone below 200 cycles in the sp

Re: [Elecraft] Display frequency calibration

2012-10-04 Thread K7WIA
Just another note:My K3 will not produce a audio tone below 200 cycles in the speaker.. ( could be my ears) so finding a zero beat is impossible as I could be off that much above or below WWV trying to callibrate that way. -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabbl

Re: [Elecraft] Display frequency calibration

2012-10-04 Thread K7WIA
I use a program called Spectran ( freeware ) which will display the audio frequency of the output of the K3 I set the Frequency of the K3 to .000 kc (usb) this will produce a 1kc tone to the sound card in the computer when tuned to WWV at 10 mhz Spectran will then display the frequency of

[Elecraft] Display frequency calibration

2012-10-04 Thread Jack Berry
I have s/n 3012, factory built. On a few occassions I have been told by a QSO partner that I am tuned a bit high. It has happened infrequently but I decided to check against WWV.   Three questions: 1) is comparing to WWV a good method to confirm display accuracy? I used my P3 display to center

[Elecraft] Display error

2010-07-28 Thread Larry Godek
In chasing my audio at the Line out jacks problem i noticed that when i turn on the Sub rx i get a "GF" error and then the frequency display shows the dialed frequency.  It's just there momentarily.  This has been happening for some time but i forgot about it. Today for some reason i noticed th

Re: [Elecraft] display off ?

2008-04-28 Thread David Ferrington, M0XDF
I don't want to get into whether a particular feature should or should not be included into the interface - if enough people want it, Elecraft might add it, the chances are they will if it looks like a good idea and enough people want it. However, I don't understand why you'd want the displ

Re: [Elecraft] display off ?

2008-04-28 Thread drewko1
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:09:09 -0500, "ken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >If there is a menu item to turn off the display, how will one then use the >display to turn the menu item back on? >___ Have it come back on the next time the unit is powered up?

Re: [Elecraft] display off ?

2008-04-28 Thread ab2tc
The request was to turn the backlight off. The display is still perfectly readable. The DAY setting does indeed turn the backlight off, but the LEDs instead light up really, really brightly. I would also like to see a setting where the backlight is turned off. Knut - AB2TC Ken-99 wrote: > > I

[Elecraft] display off ?

2008-04-28 Thread ken
I know everyone has some particular thing they do, but lets keep the use of precious memory to things that benefit the masses. If there is a menu item to turn off the display, how will one then use the display to turn the menu item back on? ___ Elecr

Re: [Elecraft] K2 fails to start - partial "Elecraft" display, no signal(was:Problems with my K2 --- can anyone help??)

2008-04-01 Thread David Woolley
Jim Miller wrote: Are there separate error codes for self test from those listed in the Owners manual - Appendix E Troubleshooting -Error codes with the problem defined and the troubleshooting steps? As I understand it, the Elecraft message is built up incrementally as the early intialisat

Re: [Elecraft] K2 fails to start - partial "Elecraft" display, no signal(was:Problems with my K2 --- can anyone help??)

2008-03-31 Thread Jim Miller
"Elecraft" Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 5:23 AM Subject: [Elecraft] K2 fails to start - partial "Elecraft" display, no signal(was:Problems with my K2 --- can anyone help??) > Norm Klieman wrote: > > > > When I power the K2 up, it is like it has no antenna >

[Elecraft] K2 fails to start - partial "Elecraft" display, no signal (was:Problems with my K2 --- can anyone help??)

2008-03-31 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
connection. use with the rig). When I also power up only a few of the letters for ELECRAFT appear on the LED Screen. Exactly what appears on the L*C*D screen is important, as one of the uses of the ELECRAFT display is to indicate exactly how far the rig got through the self test befo

[Elecraft] Display problem fixed... it was (surprise)...

2006-11-22 Thread Clark Ward
Poor solder joints! Imagine that. Thanks to everyone who chimed in, it took about an hour to get straightened out this morning with a fresh perspective. Have a great Thanksgiving, I hope to be transmitting by Christmas! Clark KI4GYT ps- it'd be sooner, but I still have 3 weeks of med school b

[Elecraft] For UK members only : Elecraft Display at UK Rally

2006-03-10 Thread Paul Webb
Hi all Just a line or two to tell any UK members that are in the Midlands that I will be running a stand this Sunday at The Wythall Rally. I will be Displaying the K2, K1 and the KX1, along with a few other bits and bobs like the KAT100 and hopefully the KPA100 I will also be taking the Elecr

Re: [Elecraft] display

2006-02-04 Thread Roland & Elvie Whitsitt
Another thing to look for and it took me months to find it, R15 & R16 was not soldered. Roland in Californ-i-a - Original Message - From: "Don Wilhelm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 5:35 PM Subje

RE: [Elecraft] display

2006-02-04 Thread Don Wilhelm
Chris, If you see nothing on the display, check to be certain you soldered pin 1 of the U1 socket. If you missed it (and several other folks have made that error) it is a bit tricky to solder since the LCD is now in place, but you can cut away a bit of the plastic from the socket and solder the p

[Elecraft] display

2006-02-04 Thread chris
Hi I have just got to the stage of testing my K2.when I switch on I hear the relays clicking but the display does not show anything it is blank the leds light the display.Has anyone had this problem ? I am going to take it apart and re solder the pins of the display as they were very short and