[Elecraft] re ON-OFF on K3

[Brett Howard]

Interesting I'll have to see how much difference this makes by trying it
this way.... I've got things working pretty good by playing with my
slope and threshold settings.  

I think that the thing works pretty good for me as a mostly CW op and
I've had quite a few other mostly CW ops feel the same way about it.  

~Brett

On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 10:48 -0700, WILLIS COOKE wrote:
> The answer to my problem is to leave the POWER button like it is.  I like the way it works.  I am not worried about the transient, I like that if the rig is battery powered and the battery goes low the rig turns off and stays off until you turn it back on.  I also like the feature that if a connection is too resistive when you transmit the rig will turn off and stay off until you turn it back on.  The main "feature" of the K3 that I don't like is that the "HI-FI" enthusiasts have prevailed and it is difficult to copy a CW signal through the background noise without turning off the AGC and using the RF Gain manually.  It seems that anything that pleases the HI-FI SWL crowd harms the ability of the K3 to serve the CW and SSB weak signal capabilities.  It seems that everything I find to like about the K3 over my TS-850 there is a group lobbying to change.
> 
> Willis 'Cookie' Cooke 
> K5EWJ
> 
> 
> --- On Wed, 8/20/08, Eric Scace K3NA <eric at k3na.org> wrote:
> 
> > From: Eric Scace K3NA <eric at k3na.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] re ON-OFF on K3
> > To: "WILLIS COOKE" <wrcooke at flash.net>
> > Cc: "Fern Rivard" <crc at cyberlink.bc.ca>, "Elecraft Reflector" <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
> > Date: Wednesday, August 20, 2008, 6:02 AM
> > The need to manually press the power button to turn on the
> > radio is a 
> > problem in remote-controlled stations.  If power fails, one
> > must visit 
> > the site to power up the radios.
> > 
> > That said, there are often many transients when power is
> > first restored.
> > 
> > An ideal solution would have these attributes:
> >    -- if the radio was powered up when the +13 Vdc supply
> > voltage 
> > disappeared, then...
> >    -- when +13 Vdc reappears, wait 3 seconds, and then
> > power-up the radio.
> > 
> > 73,
> >    -- Eric K3NA
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