[Elecraft] Revisiting the tuning indicator

[Bill Coleman]

On Feb 4, 2007, at 3:26 PM, Ron ZL1TW wrote:

> Explaining (a) a bit better; with my failing hearing (and I am not  
> alone with that problem in our Club) I find the upward facing  
> speaker on the K2 (and indeed most rigs) makes listening to CW  
> somewhat awkward. This is made even worse in FD situation when  
> under cover of tents, which don't reflect sound like walls do. The  
> answer to that problem was to make an exterior speaker enclosure,  
> which I did, using a 5" speaker in a box with 20mm MDF sides and  
> with a hardboard front and back. ......with of course a suitable  
> size hole for the speaker.

Pardon me if this doesn't sound like an obviously stupid question --  
but why are you using a speaker for Field Day? In every US Field Day  
that I have worked in recent memory, everyone used headphones.

If you want to add a speaker for passer's by, that's one thing, but  
the operators making the contacts ought to be using headphones --  
makes it much easier to hear, hearing impairments or not.

> Problem (b) was a bit different. In my K2 I had a K6XX tuning  
> indicator that worked on the last LED of the "S" meter display, and  
> it worked fine, but I also have a IC7000 which is pretty mean not  
> having a "Spot" tone ( you have to go into menu's and remover  
> "BREAK-IN" so the rig will run like a K2 with the VOX button  
> depressed.....and you have to listen to the tone and hope you  
> remember it!)

You could try calling CQ and then people would have to net to your  
frequency....

Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr at arrl.net
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