[Elecraft] A K3 Pileup Wrinkle with CW Skimmer

[barry whittemore]

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Today's Topics:
 
   1. Re: More Legendary Elecraft Service or "The Turning of the
      Screw" (brian)
   2. Re: A K3 Pileup Wrinkle with CW Skimmer (Larry Libsch)
   3. Testing email (Richard Fjeld)
   4. Re: A K3 Pileup Wrinkle with CW Skimmer (brian)
   5. Re: A K3 Pileup Wrinkle with CW Skimmer (George Dubovsky)
   6. Re: A K3 Pileup Wrinkle with CW Skimmer (Walter Underwood)
   7. Re: A K3 Pileup Wrinkle with CW Skimmer
      (Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft)
   8. Re: A K3 Pileup Wrinkle with CW Skimmer (Joe Subich, W4TV)
   9. Re: More Legendary Elecraft Service or "The Turning of the
      Screw" (Harry Yingst via Elecraft)
  10. CW for those with Poor Hearing (Chuck Smallhouse)
  11. Re: More Legendary Elecraft Service or "The Turning of the
      Screw" (WILLIS COOKE via Elecraft)
  12. Re: More Legendary Elecraft Service or "The Turning of the
      Screw" (Phil Kane)
  13. Re: More Legendary Elecraft Service or "The Turning of the
      Screw" (Dale Putnam)
  14. The Ultimate Legendary Elecraft Support Story (Eric Norris)
  15. WTB K160M (James Rodenkirch)
  16. Re: More Legendary Elecraft Service or "The Turning of the
      Screw" (briana)
  17. OT: CW Skimmer (GDR)
  18. Re: OT: CW Skimmer (Bob)
  19. KAT3 Reset? (Joe Subich, W4TV)
  20. K3-RTTY-No Diddles (paul ecker via Elecraft)
  21. Re: KAT3 Reset? (Wayne Burdick)
  22. Re: OT: CW Skimmer (Fred Jensen)
  23. Re: KAT3 Reset? (Joe Subich, W4TV)
  24. PX3 on rx/io output when PX3 is powered on. (John Lally)
  25. Re: K3-RTTY-No Diddles (Don Wilhelm)
  26. Re: OT: CW Skimmer (Bob)
  27. SSB net (Phil Shepard)
  28. Re: P3 Beta SVGA Inop (VE3GNO Daniel via Elecraft)
 
 
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2015 21:27:42 +0000
From: brian <alsopb at nc.rr.com>
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] More Legendary Elecraft Service or "The
	Turning of the Screw"
Message-ID: <54D531CE.7080208 at nc.rr.com>
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Makes you wonder how they know such seeming impossible-to-know things.
 
Are there also magic potions and incantations available?
 
73 de Brian/K3KO
 
 
On 2/6/2015 20:55 PM, Pete Smith N4ZR wrote:
> A couple of days ago I reported a fall-off in output from my K3 on 
> some bands. I wrote about this to Howard, K6IA, at Elecraft service, 
> who wrote back and suggested that one or more of the three screws that 
> attach the LPA board to the lower cover of the radio might have loosened.
>
> Sure enough - one of the three was 1/2 turn short of tight. Tightened 
> it up, tested, all normal again.  Ran auto TX calibration, all 
> successful. I happy camper am.  Thanks Howard!
>
 
 
 
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CW contesting is far from declining. it is increasing. here is the CQWW stats for past 10 years.
7442 in 2013 vs 4109 in 2004 shows a big increase.
Barry
NF1O

YearSSB EntriesCW EntriesTotal Entries20138,4827,44215,92420128,1907,22815,41820117,4746,70914,18320106,5496,16412,71320096,0595,85811,91720085,0175,32010,33720075,0084,8529,86020064,5394,5939,13220054,4464,0908,53620044,3684,0558,42320034,0494,1098,158


Message: 2
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2015 16:38:05 -0500
From: Larry Libsch <llibsch at bellsouth.net>
To: Elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] A K3 Pileup Wrinkle with CW Skimmer
Message-ID: <54D5343D.4050201 at bellsouth.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
 
> For those who are so disabled as to require an external "crutch" to
> copy their own call and 5NN, it is a simple matter to reverse channels
> in the sound card (at most it requires a "reversing cable") to decode
> audio on the sub Receiver.
 
         Ah, the old CW snobbery! When is the notion that paddle or key 
generated CW is superior to software and keyer generated code going to 
disappear? You decode RTTY with software, don't you? CW is just another 
digital mode. Software decoding has brought many new CW ops into CW 
DXing and contesting. Software encoding is more accurate and allows many 
ops to achieve speeds they could never otherwise achieve. Perhaps you 
use a keyer for contesting? Many (most?) contesters do. CW contest 
participation is declining. RTTY contest participation is increasing. 
Software is every where improving our lives. Time to give up on old ways 
and ideas and move into the future.