Rob Lundahl wrote:
Any recommendations for a low cost Iambic cw key?
NV7F
I have 2 Benchers, I like them. I also have a Vibroplex single lever
and I like it, proving that I don't squeeze. But you said Iambic.
W4UAT, part of the N6A crew for Alpine County in the CQP that I'm on
brought his
Darwin, Keith wrote:
Yea, I think we have. Or at least the list has shifted and isn't the
same as it was.
Hmmm ... the list has changed some, but you're right, the K3 both upped
the volume of postings just a little :-) and the fact that no one is
building them yet may have led to a bit more
Brett gazdzinski wrote:
Are the big fires in California going to disrupt
K3 production?
As states go, and except for the Republic of Texas and State of Alaska,
the California Republic is huge N-S, and pretty big E-W. On I-5, the
exit numbers begin at the Mexican border and they are the numbe
Jeff Stai wrote:
Trying to grab a moment to post some first impressions - here goes:
That's all for tonight - any questions, fire away! 73 - jeff wk6i
Hey Jeff,
When the fermentation schedule allows, I'd sure like to hear about the
RX audio equalizer. I'm hoping I can use it to emulate wh
David Wilburn wrote:
My experience tends to be just the opposite. You tend to get a good
schedule from engineering as they often take their best estimate and
multiply it by 1.5 or 2. This gives a cushion for delays and oppsies.
Project managers and marketing, now that is another level. They te
Richard HIll wrote:
OK, I have to share two project truisms:
1. A project is a thing that starts slowly then moves too fast, reaches 95%
completion, and stays there forever.
2. The only accurate schedule is the one delivered with the final invoice.
Well, unless you're a DoD contractor. In
David Yarnes wrote:
I'm awfully wound up and in deepest distress
When I last talked to Lisa she said in a week, perhaps less
You'll be hearing from me, you are getting so close
But two weeks have now passed with no word from Aptos.
The wait is so painful, my gut's in a knot
I so wish I could see
Darwin, Keith wrote:
American style is done with the forearm on the desk and sending is done
by rocking the hand up & down, pivoting at the wrist.
European sending starts with the key at the front edge of the desk.
Your upper arm hangs at your side, elbow close to your rig cage.
I believe
Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-655-8604 wrote:
There are still people put there using DOS logging programs, too.
They wouldn't have USB support in that mode.
I'm one of them [486/33 our son used years ago in college + TRLog].
"Latest" isn't always "Greatest." All USB<==>RS232 adapters are not
crea
Vic K2VCO wrote:
hank k8dd wrote:
Let's say I am listening to 1830.000 to a DX station. VFO A
The DX station says QSX 1829 so I set VFO B to 1829.00
The RIT is on and is + 1 KHZ - so A reads 1830.100
Now I want to listen to the pile on the TX frequency, so I press REV.
Now my TX freq reads 182
Phil Kane wrote:
What is prohibited is adding a "/"
followed by a combination of letters or numbers representing
the prefix of a foreign country's ham licenses if the ham is in
US territory.
So all VHF/UHF repeaters that identify "W6XXX/R," and there are a lot of
them, are in violati
Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft wrote:
I see there has been some confusion regarding deposits in recent emails.
To clarify this, we just added the following to the shipping status web
page.
Just curious - other than placing an order early to get earlier
delivery, from whence cometh the obsessi
K9ZTV wrote:
Newer is not necessarily better, younger is not necessarily wiser, but
upgradable IS certainly an equalizer.
A huge life-lesson I learned in the military in combat is that having a
college degree and a commission did not automatically make me smarter or
wiser than my troops .
Christopher A. Kantarjiev wrote:
The sun may actually be coming back. I have been watching the smoothed
sunspot number climb from 0 to 29 over the past several days, and the
solar flux has finally crept up a bit (at 78 as I write this).
This has compelled me to get up early (1300-1400z) to hun
Ed Lambert wrote:
Does Elecraft have a position on sale of these delivery positions to third
parties?
You know you've arrived in the marketplace when positions in the queue
for the original product you sell become salable commodities themselves
-- "K3-backed Securities?"
Off to ARRL 10.
7
Craig D. Smith wrote:
Anyone having better luck?
No.
Or a similar tale of woe?
Yes.
73,
Fred K6DGW
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- CU in the 2008 Cal QSO Party 4-5 Oct 08
- www.cqp.org
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Don Wilhelm wrote:
We here in the US have taken many liberties over the years - beginning
with the thing about the Boston Tea event - however, I do believe that
saving a keystroke to modify "Don't" to "Dont" is a simplification that
we can all do without - I just wonder how many apostrophes we
I bought the Elecraft HexKey on Monday and it arrived on Wednesday
[yesterday]. I'm *really* impressed. Playing around with it some today
on my K2/100, it has a really great feel, is still set as it came out of
the box, and I didn't know it came with spell-check but I find that it
misspells s
Edward R. Breneiser wrote:
So I bent the Map Light LED straight up and drilled a hole in the top
cover of my KX1.
You DRILLED A HOLE IN YOUR KX1!!?? Either reckless abandon or extreme
courage :-) Pointy rotating machinery is not allowed within 5 meters of
any Elecraft product in my shack.
wayne burdick wrote:
A few of you have asked how to use and interpret the settings of the
receiver's DSP controls when in AM mode (SHIFT/WIDTH and HICUT/LOCUT
functions). I'll be improving the associated Owner's Manual section
soon, but I thought I'd try to get the word out more quickly.
It
DOUGLAS ZWIEBEL wrote:
So now we have "tiny" K3 serial numbers showing up as being just
received (those are the K3s ordered assembled?).
Any chance we could give this subject a rest for awhile?
My apologies to those who are sick of delivery and run size
speculation. I couldn't help myself.
Well ... it is a little known fact that the US of A is slowly converting
to metric ... inch by inch.
Fred K6DGW
David Toepfer wrote:
>
> Not that any of it really matters.
>
> dt
> .
>
> --- David Toepfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Everyone seems to be missing my point, which is, all of th
FWIW: Years ago, I used a transverter in satellite work that smoked
with more than about 2W input. I fed my 30S1 into the Heath Cantenna,
and tapped what I needed off a little RC voltage divider.
Trevor Day wrote:
>
> I don't have an 850S, but you could try an external negative dc supply
> (say
There used to be an elephant cage at Skaggs Is., northeast of the top of
San Pablo Bay in the N. SF Bay area. It's gone now. There was also one
at Clark AB in the Philippines in the mid-60's. Don't know what
happened to it, but if it lasted after the US left Vietnam, it likely
succumbed to M
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Modern DF arrays can fix a position from a single location. Modern
> DF arrays measure the phase differences very accurately and can use
> the phase difference to obtain directivity and azimuth.
One of the nice things about email reflectors like this one is that you
ca
I made it in thanks to N0SS, who unlike normal was whisper weak. Never
heard anyone else. No signals on 20m CW. I checked the usual
parameters -- X-Ray flux was low, SFI at 87m A=2, K=1 ... not sure what
is happening. Line noise was the normal S2, and visual check on the
tower revealed stil
Hmmm ... I've never used XIT except to test it. When working DX split,
I usually use both the VFO's in SPLIT mode. It takes me several moments
to get it right, but it usually takes me quite awhile to break a pileup
and once I have it set, the operation of the radio seems more natural to
me.
I'm setting up my K2/100 for RTTY, using a RigBlaster and MixW. I
recently had an unrelated KPA100 problem, and Gary fixed it for me, and
also totally aligned the radio [thanks Gary, that service was totally
worth it, my K2 is way better than I thought, and I was pretty impressed
before!]. I
OK, I really do have RTTY filters on my K2! Gotta dig down in the menus
a bit, but there they are. This will be a whole new RTTY Roundup for me.
Fred K6DGW
Auburn CA CM98lw
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They're going to be my RTTY filters, and I'm going to have a lot more
fun in RTTY contests!
Thanks for putting me onto this,
Fred K6DGW
Don Wilhelm wrote:
Fred,
Remember that the RTTY filters are just a set of 4 extra filters - you can
use them for whatever purpose you want - and it does not
Dale Kretzer wrote:
I'd never thought of the KX1, or any of the little Elecraft
> rigs, as an rf interference "sniffer," but they work ideally
> for that purpose. A properly designed, handheld loop antenna
> might be required in tougher cases, but give anything handy
> a try and see what surpris
Albers wrote:
Anyone see any major pitfalls with this approach??
Tom, N6BT (founder of Force 12) has been known to say, "Everything will
radiate." He often shows pictures of his "Illuminator" antennas to
prove it. One is a light bulb on a post fed with coax and a current
balun at the socke
John Buck wrote:
Perhaps my credibility is shot since I used to occasionally
> wash my hands with TCE.
As a teenage ham in the mid-50's, we all cleaned stuff with carbon
tetrachloride and just let it evaporate. Then I "discovered" MEK, which
would dissolve the anti-fungal coating on old WW2
Craig Rairdin wrote:
Therefore, the FCC, in today's action, afforded
Technician and Technician Plus licensees
identical operating privileges.
Yes, but which priviledges?
That's the last sentence in the press release. The first sentence says,
"Today's Order also revises the operating privil
Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
Kevin, VK3DAP/ZL2DAP wrote:
I believe the following is true (I got it third or fourth hand). Some
years ago, the authorities indicated that hams would not be so heavily
relied upon for emergency communications, "Because all of our officers
now have cell phones." The
Few QNI's (that I could hear). Tom, you were 5NN+20 when you first
turned the beam, but by 0030Z you, and everyone else, were gone. I
won't make 40, some friends have dropped by and we'll maybe do an egg
nog with them.
73
Fred K6DGW
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Joseph Szczubelek wrote:
I need the correct day, start time in GMT, and
frequencies for the 40 and 20 meter Elecraft net.
During standard time:
Mon Z 14050 KHz
Mon 0300Z 7045 KHz (I think that's the right time)
This works out to 1600 PST, 1700 MST, 1800 CST, and 1900 EST on *Sun*
aftern
Well, that was about as weak as it gets, nearly everyone. I was running
a KW, driven by the K2/100, to a 3el tribander pointed north. In fact,
turning the antenna has little effect on N. OR and S. WA stations, I
think the take-off angle is too low. Thanks to the K2 rx, Kevin was
running 319,
Randy Moore wrote:
I played around with PSK31 a few years ago but lost interest. Now I'd like
to try again. Is MixW still one of the best programs? I see Digipan is
still free, but apparently not updated for a while. I'd like to hear
recommendations from fellow Elecrafters.
I use MixW (neve
Edward R. Breneiser wrote:
Hello all,
Well my KX1 is all just about all pimped-out! I just finished installing
my internal Li-ion 11.8V 1.5AH Battery etc. Take a look my KX1 Battery
Trick!
Cool! However, and everyone's mileage will vary but, I've had one
Li-ion battery self-destruct ... a fa
Got a couple of direct replies to my "battery on fire" post, I don't
normally do this but folks on the reflector might like to see the
discussion:
W0RW asked:
What kind of LiIon battery did you have short?
It was a 3-cell pack I got at the local RC Model airplane store that
produced a nominal
Ken Kopp wrote:
Aren't these the same type batteries that recently received
considerable publicity due to fires/explosions in HP (and other)
laptops?
I don't know. I do know that there are several kinds of lithium-based
batteries. My little fireball was an "Li-Poly", I think the "poly"
stan
Kevin Luxford wrote:
The discussion on the RF Choke Question prompts me to observe that not
only are component body colours apparently at the whim of the
manufacturer, but that some of the body colours chosen seem to make it
very hard to read the bands. Is this band yellow or is it orange? Or
Bernie Gardner wrote:
First, what is the best way to pack the radio, and second, has anyone had
recent experience with airport security as far as carrying radios and
associated equipment? I would prefer to carry the K2 with me rather than
trusting it to the baggage system, but don't want get s
Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
> For you CW buffs who miss SWLing commercial CW stations, copying
> wx reports, etc., the announcement below came from Richard
> Dillman this afternoon. KSM is QSA5 here in N.W Oregon on 6477.0
> on my K2 and on 12993.0 on my KX1.
> Ron AC7AC
For What It's Worth:
The
Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
So the way to do FSK on a K2 is to develop audio tones within the normal
voice bandpass of 300 to about 2.1 KHz whose separation is equal to the
shift you need in frequency. Apply those to the K2's mic input and it'll
produce a shifting RF output or FSK. Today, those tones
George Cortez Jr wrote:
Hi
After much hemming an hawing I just ordered the pa for the K2
How hard is it to switch out tops for qrp and qro operation?
Thanks
George
NE2I K2#4801
Takes me about 5 mins ... 3 to find the phillips screwdriver, and 2 to
change the tops. Be careful of the two scre
dave wrote:
What is the point of IF shift? What purpose does it serve?
Can't you do the same thing (or nearly so) with RIT?
My understanding of IF shift is that it allows you to move an
interfering signal to the edge of the passband and attenuate it by doing
so. Seems that nearly the same
Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
That's were I use SPLIT. That lets me tune the receiver using the "big knob"
without changing the transmit frequency. Whenever I need to move my transmit
freq, I just tune to where I want it to be and tap A=B. Then I can go on
tuning the receiver using the main tuning knob
Mike Morrow wrote:
What these types of
antennas show is that, no matter how bad an antenna design is, it'll
work sometimes. TANSTAAFL!
Has anyone seen the "Illuminator" from Tom Schiller, N6BT, of Force 12 fame?
Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2007 CQP Oct 6-7
- www
Paul Rubin wrote:
Rick:
No need to apologize. Your comments are right on target for this reflector.
If some feel otherwise, there is always the delete key, or they can
unsubscribe.
Keep them coming.
Paul N8NOV
Houston
I second Paul. I'll read any post about antennas that make my Elecr
Ian Stirling wrote:
I was told, twenty seven years ago, that this puts
carcinogenic chemicals into the air.
So does soldering. You could assemble your K2 with glue, however that
too has toxic solvents. Best bet is a fan and hood to suck up the lead
fumes and deposit them somewhere outsid
Night vision goggles work quite well in some cases. I mentioned it to a
friend in the Guard and the 1st Sgt at the local armory decided to have
a short training session. The troops spotted the two perpetrator
insulators within 2 mins just by looking around. PG&E came out with
their IR device
Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
For CW signals the solution was easy. One added a "hard limiter" to the
audio channel. If a really strong signal was encountered without warning, it
was clipped of at some preset maximum volume (below the threshold of pain,
hopefully). Most operators used the limiter at a
Mike Geddes wrote:
When using a paddle key, I have naturally used left (thumb) for dahs
and right for dits, and set my gear up that way.
I know this may be a subjective question . . . but is there a
"standard" for this? Is it purely personal preference?
As at least one other have said, the
Kevin Rock wrote:
Good Evening,
Forty meters was much more RF friendly than 20 meters today. I
received a number of reports of prospective QNIs going begging since
there was either no one there or they could not hear the NCS.
Space weather or no, something was very strange yesterday at 23
Ken Kopp wrote:
Does anyone have a "feel" for the "safe" power level that may be used
when transmitting digital information
like PSK-31?
73! Ken Kopp - K0PP
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
FWIW [and for a K2/100]: I switched my RTTY station to my K2/100 late
last year to take advantage of the RTTY filter
suburban Palo Alto lot :-) No room for a beverage, and I think I'd
be lynched if I tried to put up a rotatable loop!
Hi Chris,
You can make a really neat and small rx loop out of copper pipe. I use
one for VLF [currently listening to the 600m tests]. Mine is made out
of `1/2" pipe, and is
Kevin wrote:
I made sure I chose a windy
day with a bit of rain so the antenna would be more effective.
Shedding a little blood also helps antennas and barbed wire fences stay up.
I'll be listening in 25 mins.
Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2007 CQP Oct 6-7
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20M: Heard N0SS at the start of the net but Tom faded in
mid-transmission. W3MC was 10 over 9, and did the QNP. Heard no one else.
40M: Kevin at about audibility but not really readable due to QSB. Tom
was 579 when I checked in and 15 over when I headed for the shower,
probably what would
Chris Kantarjiev wrote:
[warning thread drift]
The Linear Amp kits seem to need a fair amount of drive. I've been
idly thinking about a linear that would allow me to drive it with
my barefoot K2 and get 600-800 watts out for CW.
Didn't there used to be a Part 97 gain limit of 10dB for RF amps?
Bob Tellefsen wrote:
Hi Fred
Any antenna heavily loaded with coils will show a narrow bandwidth.
In effect, the coils and the capacitance of the antenna elements
across them form a tuned circuit. The higher the Q of the tuned
circuit (meaning the lower the coil losses) the narrower the
bandwidth
Ralph Tyrrell wrote:
7040 KHz is one place for me to find new states or rag
chews. Have noticed racket there sometimes. Tuned
across the band and found this racket about every
10.66 KHz across all I can tune of 40 M (6998 - 7084)
with my K1. 7040.6 KHz is the center of one signal.
Seems to be abo
Gary McKelvie wrote:
Hi to the List,
I'm thinking of buying the kit for the K2 with the 100 watt PA. I will
mainly be operating on Digital modes such as PSK 31 MFSK 16 RTTY and
Hellschreiber. I will be using a Tigertronics SL 1+ interface but was
wondering if there are any known problems with
David Wilburn wrote:
Do the kits come with everything to make a Y cable
Yes
Be sure to read [and understand] the warnings about the IO connector.
It is **NOT** a standard RS-232 serial port!
Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
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Don Wilhelm wrote:
Should your filters/BFOs need changed, I recommend you use Spectrogram
to give a visual display of your filter passbands.
FWIW: I've found that the waterfall display in MMTTY or MixW is easier
for me when doing the CAL FIL. No markers, but the display is much
crisper for
Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
> Living here in N.W. Oregon in a town of <20K people who owns its own
electric company, it's unusual for us to see an electric bill that tops
$25/month even though my XYL and I both work at home and we run an electric
hot water heater and A/C in the summer in addition to
I like the people on this list a great deal. Please be careful.
Someone said you could eat mercury. Don't. Don't even handle it. It
is a heavy metal like lead and as a vapor is extremely toxic. And
mercury vaporizes slowly at room temperatures. Like all heavy metals,
once it is inside you
Ken Kopp wrote:
The question of how to apply it to the inside of a K2 remains Maybe
put it in an infant's sock and put that inside a K2. There are some very
transparent, finely woven fabrics that could be sewn into an appropiately
sized "baggie" that would allow visual insprection to know t
2300Z 14050 nil ... no one heard. Checked and antenna seems to be
connected, heard some EU DX down low, but no ECN.
I'll try and make 40, don't hold your breath. Our #1 grandson is
marrying the love of his life on 5 May, she's a bit over the top at this
point, and we think they may be coming
I don't seem to be able to get to the main announcement page. I'd like
to know the cost range planned for the K3. [How about we let the
Elecraft folks answer me to keep the reflector BW down :-) ]
73,
Fred K6DGW
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Jozef Hand-Boniakowski wrote:
Here's my contribution:
"K3 by Elecraft: It's not your father's radio."
Jozef WB2MIC
Wells VT
I claim prior rights: see www.foothill.net/~andreaj/Ham41.htm 11/18/2004
... just in case a K3 is the prize in this contest :-)
Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Conte
John Harper wrote:
John, I wasn't happy with the compromise between having internal
batteries or having a decent RF output. 6 internal AA cells provide
*significantly* less than half the power the KX1 is capable of but I
liked not having to carry an external battery pack, so I installed two
Dave G4AON wrote:
Adam
a friend has a
well maintained Racal RA1792 military receiver which is hopeless
compared to even moderately good amateur gear such as his Kenwood
TS-850, I appreciate the 1792 wasn't one of the better Racal receivers
but they weren't cheap.
If things in the Mother Co
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Still, someday in some future rom upgrade it
would be nice to have Ultimatic keying on board in the K*
rigs.
If anyone would like to refresh my memory on Ultimatic keyers, I'd be
happy to read it. I remember a QST article at least 200 years ago about
it, I think it m
A long thread. As it moved on and sometimes morphed, I was hoping
someone would explain what an H-mode mixer was, how it differed from
other mixers [a diode? Product detector? Double balanced? Don't ask
me to name any more], and why I should care. Inquiring minds would like
to know. In th
Thanks to all for the URL's and descriptions, most of which were direct
and not on the reflector ... thanks for that too :-)
I now know way more than I understand about H-mode mixers [and A thru Z
mode too + names I've never heard of]. I believe I am going to leave
the mixer business to Wayne
I finished the W1 computing wattmeter, and put it in W8FGU's nifty
polycarbonate enclosure. It was an easy build, some tidbits and links
can be found at www.foothill.net/~andreaj/Ham45.htm
While fooling with the KX1 and BuddiPole on the deck on a balmy evening,
I discovered that if I remove t
Brian Lloyd wrote:
>
> CW remains a mainstay because it is an efficient mode. You can
communicate with very low power levels which makes QRP reasonable.
Don't know about others, but I get much more enjoyment from "listening"
to the guy I'm in QSO with rather than "looking" at the screen as he
Brian Lloyd wrote:
Yes, we are talking about the same thing. They take the voice and
digitize it and then put the data stream into multiple PSK carriers that
fill up the entire voice bandwidth (2.7KHz).
Ever see a digital TV signal on a spectrum analyzer? A UHF FM group I
belong to has a si
A big thanks to all who provided information and ideas on the "POW
Radio" project. FWIW, I learned a few things:
1. The razor blade radio was actually called the "Foxhole Radio." One
response explained that the "POW Radio" was really a 1-tube regen (that
may be the next class project if I c
Apparently I'm no longer a member of the TR-Log reflector although I
still get their postings (??) I'll try here:
What version of TR do I need to be on to get serial control of my K2? I
think I'm running 6.72 and have been for a long time. The manual I have
is for 6.52 and does not indicate
N2EY wrote:
> The NPRM also seems to me to be saying that FCC's vision of the
> future is that Techs will be all VHF/UHF, Generals will have most
> privileges, and Extras will have it all.
Life really is like a circle, no? In the very early 50's for HF we had
General, Advanced (if you wanted t
The "L" and "U" indicator is blinking in SSB modes on my K2. I don't
remember them ever doing that. Can someone tell me what the Elecraft
radio is trying to tell me?
Fred K6DGW
Auburn CA CM98lw
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Well out of my range, especially when my K2 RX (sort of all that really
counts in an xcvr as long as the TX produces the correct signal) beats
anything I have ever used or tried out. It may be good, but I think it
is aimed at a more upscale market.
Fred K6DGW
Auburn CA CM98lw
Vic K2VCO wrote
Ahh, come on, some of us males, (and most hams are male) are colorblind
-- really.
Fred K6DGW
Auburn CA CM98lw
Simon Brown (HB9DRV) wrote:
- Original Message - From: "Craig Rairdin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
All that said, I would love it if the K3 had a nice LCD color display...
---
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Kevin Rock wrote:
> Submit the results? Probably not since I haven't a clue how to figure
> out these fancy score thingies
Kevin, please submit your log. You don't need to know anything about
scoring, they do that for you. Try out the N1MM logger
It is free and it'll create a Cabrillo file
In contests, code speed is inversly proportional to how far you are
listening up from the bottom of the band.
Fred K6DGW
Auburn CA CM98lw
Hank Kohl K8DD wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am a newcomer to all of this, and I am wondering if there is any
place left in contesting for those of
Mike Morrow wrote:
> That would have been be too easy.
Or classified ... didn't "loose coax connectors sink ships?"
Oh yes, there are no stupid questions, unless you're a politician.
Fred K6DGW
Auburn CA CM98lw
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My only complaint with my KX1 in the Spartan Sprint (if I could ever get
parts of the rest of my life to be still for 2 hrs, I'd get into
another one) is that it is a 1.5 hour contest for me. In the last 30
mins, nearly everyone is on 80m, and I'm still on 40 working the few who
haven't QSY'd
One Ham's Experience: Good News: The LiPoly I got (local RC hobby
shop) was just great! I did not deplete it on our cruise thru the
Panama Canal, maybe 6 hours operating time (mostly listening and no
CQ's), but I did rag chew a bit with a number of SA stns. Ran a Spartan
Sprint after return
As the CQWW rolled to a halt (OK, suddenly crashed at Z), the band
became very quiet, as in no signals between 14000 and 14070. Never
heard a peep from anyone on 14050. Checked tower ... still vertical ...
checked SWR -- normal, checked rotator and it was at 350. SFI was in
the 80's, A=2
I find the KXPD1 to be just fine. For a lot of rag chewing, I prefer my
Benchers, but that really isn't what goes on (for me at least) with the
KX1. I tend to make QRP QSO's, maybe 3 or 4 exchanges, or do some QRP
contesting like the Spartan or FOBB. The KXPD1 doesn't offer much
tactile feed
FWIW: As a senior in HS in '56-'57, I got a job as a relief operator at
a coastal marine station. Everyone had their own bug with a wedge to
connect it to the company-provided straight key, and all but mine were
Vibroplex. I had acquired a very proletarian looking black-based bug
(J-36?) mad
Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
Egad! The ARRL did this a couple of years ago and I thought the firestorm it
kicked up would never stop! They finally took the poll off-line in the
middle of the run after it appeared that someone set up scripts to vote
automatically and "stuff the ballot box" endlessly!
I power my K2/100 with a Yaesu FP-1030A that also powers the FT-847.
Normally, it is on all the time. When leaving for an extended period a
week or so ago, I turned it off, forgetting that I had a 12V Gel Cell
floating on the output. When I got home, the voltmeter on the supply
was at about 6
Thanks for the inputs ... problem solved, and it turned out to be a
classic lesson in "correlation does not imply cause." I had assumed
that the only thing that happened was that I turned off the supply while
the battery was still floating on the output. When we returned home,
turning on the
A little off topic but this is the battery I power my K2 and KX1 from so...
Without intending to, I allowed the 12V sealed gel cell 12 Ah battery to
dischage to about 6.2V when I finally discovered it after coming home
from a trip. It was slowly being discharged, not open circuited.
I starte
Thanks to all for both the posted and direct responses. I have the open
circuit terminal voltage up to 12.8V right now, and it drops to 12.1
when I power the K2 with it. It is a PowerSonic 12Ah battery, but I
will have to do some checking to see if its capacity is still up there.
FWIW: I fi
ECN today?
Fred K6DGW
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