[Elecraft] N0SS's CW Tuning Indcator

[Jack Nelson]

I have Tom's indicator as well, just haven't had time to build it yet. You
need to talk to Joe, W4JHR. He built it for his K1 and has been extremely
pleased. You can reach him at joe.roof at mindspring.com

73's Jack  K5FSE
Treas  QRP ARCI

jack.nelson at mindspring.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Hammond" <n0ss at earthlink.net>
To: "John" <digi2 at earthlink.net>; "Elecraft Mail List"
<elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 5:33 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] N0SS's CW Tuning Indcator


> Hi John:
>
> At 07:38 PM 11/19/04, John wrote:
> >I finally got the time to build one of Tom's SMT CW Tuning Indicators
> >today (retirement is hell) and I would like to report that it does a fine
> >job.  I was surprised at how much room there was for it.  I pictured a
> >real tight squeeze but I ended up with all kinds of room.  I attached
mine
> >with some double sided foam tape.  Tom did a fine job with this one.  I
am
> >planning to put the second one in my K1.  Can anyone who has already done
> >this pass along any helpful information?    I thought that I would use
the
> >Tuning Indicator to drive an LED hidden behind the front panel so that
the
> >light would shine between the front panel and the buttons.
>
> As of this writing, to my knowledge, at least one builder has installed
the
> CW Tuning Indicator in his K1.
>
> I'll be adding some K1 (and KX1) installation notes to my current set of
K2
> installation docs soon... but maybe not for a another few days.
>
> Here's the note I received from Steve:
>
>    Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 20:09:23 -0800
>    From: Steve Hostetler <jakezh1 at comcast.net>
>    To: Elecraft <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
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>    I've had Tom's SMD version in my K2 for a couple weeks and
>    it works great.  I just finished testing one in my K1.  It
>    also works great, and may be more useful to me than the one
>    in the K2.  All connections to the indicator are easily
>    picked off J1 (AF from P1, GND from P3 and 12V from P16).
>
>    I'm going to mount an SMD LED behind a 1/16 inch hole in the
>    front panel.
>
>    Thanks to Bob and Tom.
>
>    Steve, kx7r
>
> It appears that the easiest place to actually pick off the connections
> might be from the MAIN BOARD, instead of the FP BOARD, but I'm still
> cogitating on this,
>
> Will post something a little more solid soon... as soon as I can 'plunk'
> one into my K1 for testing.
>
> Above, Steve states that he picked his AF input from J1-1, but in further
> discussion, I think he actually used J1-2 (the high side of the AFin pot.
> You might try both and see which you prefer. In fact, you might use J1-1
> for alignment and J1-2 for the final (in use) installation, as J1-1
appears
> to provide a SIDETONE input for alignment, while J1-2 might not provide
> quite as high a level of SIDETONE during normal operation, which I think
> might be wise.
>
> 73,
>
> Tom   N0SS
>
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