All RTTY issues noted, Dave -- thanks. Congratulations on your excellent showing!
Wayne N6KR On Jan 5, 2009, at 9:00 AM, Dave Hachadorian wrote: > My pair of K3's also worked well in the RTTY Roundup - 1800 > qso's. There are only a couple of issues that I saw: > > 1. On each transition between mark/space, there is a brief > upward power excursion. One of my amplifiers has an LED > wattmeter, and one of the LED's was blinking like crazy. > Also, the screen current on that amp was varying > significantly. I've complained about this in the past. > Elecraft is supposed to be working on it. > > 2. When you reduce the DSP bandwidth to 300 Hz, it is not > possible for me to get the audio output exactly centered > between the RTTY modem's mark and space detector. The SHIFT > control is too coarse. One click of the SHIFT control moves > the audio either slightly left of center, or slightly right > of center. It would be nice if there were a "fine mode" > setting for the SHIFT control. > > I can live with both of these issues, but fixing them would > make this rig absolutely perfect for RTTY, at least for me. > > Dave Hachadorian, K6LL > Yuma, AZ > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lee Buller" <[email protected]> > To: "Elecraft Reflector" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 2:56 PM > Subject: [Elecraft] K3: The ARRL RTTY Round UP > > > > Ladies and Gents.... > > I just about cleared a thousand Qs this weekend in the RU in > only 17 hours of on-the-air time. The K3 was spectacular in > performance. The RX is magnificent and copied signals that I > could not hear out of the speaker but printed on the screen. > This happened many times. From Kansas, I did get to work > some deep Europeans and even Israel called me. I did not > hear any Russian stations at all. The DX was weak but > workable. Magnificent RX. The TX was healthing and robust. I > was running my amp so I was only running about 60 watts or > less. The TX stayed cool and stable. > > The only issue I noticed was that between Dual PB on and > off...the power would drop about 200 watts. No big deal, but > interesting phenomonon. With the Dual PB on...the power > would drop...with it off...the power would return to normal. > Wayne and Eric already know about this issue. > > Thanks to all who worked me. Fun contest. > > Lee - K0WA > > > In our day and age it seems that Common Sense is in short > supply. If you don't have any Common Sense - get some > Common Sense and use it. If you can't find any Common > Sense, ask for help from somebody who has some Common Sense. > Is Common Sense divine? > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > --------- > > >> _______________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Post to: [email protected] >> You must be a subscriber to post to the list. >> Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): >> http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm >> Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com > > _______________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Post to: [email protected] > You must be a subscriber to post to the list. > Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm > Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com > > --- http://www.elecraft.com _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
