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We wound up with a wedding in an adjacent pavilion on Saturday afternoon. To be courteous we suspended our operation for the duration, probably 20m or so. On Saturday evening we setup for 6m with a loop duct-taped to a volleyball pole! The guys made 45 Qs on that setup before...

Morse may not be in your range of interests now, but no one knows about the future. There are still a fair number of amateurs in far off lands who appear only on the CW portions of the bands for various reasons. If you're interested in that aspect of amateur radio, some Morse proficiency will...

A voted a mixture, but in truth it's SSB, CW, PSK and other digi modes in that order. At FD I did more CW than SSB, though.

Does it put out a carrier in CW mode? Is it possibly a microphone problem?

Marshall County (Kansas) ARC as W0GCJ. Probably 1A again this year.

There was some discussion on the list from others who hit the same problem. It seemed most of them were from the UK, so I'm a bit surprised you got bit. Must be some IP filter in place by their ISP.

Here is the page: Elecraft KX3 Info Form

There is a video about 10 minutes in length accessible from QRP ARCI (actually on YouTube). As for the fixed display (mentioned in the other thread) the entire unit has retractable legs so it will sit at an angle on a picnic table and such. Wayne demonstrates the legs. Also a mobile bracket...

There is a video about 10 minutes in length accessible from QRP ARCI (actually on YouTube). As for the fixed display the entire unit has retractable legs so it will sit at an angle on a picnic table and such. Wayne demonstrates the legs. Also a mobile bracket is in the works that will mate to...

Hopefully someone will get some pics posted later today. I'm interested in seeing what it looks like even though I probably don't have the motivation at this time to own one.

As others have noted, getting your General amateur radio license will give both of you a big step toward maintaining more reliable communications. Perhaps among the better bands for a schedule over the next few years will be the 17m (18.068-18.168 MHz) band. Also, amateur radio allows legally...

Have fun! I was last there in '06 and really have not had a burning desire to go since. Perhaps I will again some day. Do let us know what you see.

If it's a Kenwood you want, then only a Kenwood will do. However, as you've noted the FT-900 is a small footprint radio. It was an evolution of the FT-890 and is essentially the same radio with a detachable control head. IMO, a good clean FT-890 is head and shoulders above a TS-440. The...

Methinks you ought to go back and research early wireless history. Marconi and others sought to monetize their new inventions from the very start. Soon after government got into the act as well. What the US federal government failed to do was sew up all use of wireless spectrum for itself and...

Is he aware that there are three possible antenna jacks on receive? When I had mine, it was a head scratcher the first time I bumped the button and had no receive on 75m only to discover it was on the B jack which was connected to the 6m loop. There is a separate RX jack but it has its own...

Well, LIDs have been around since the beginning. I'm guessing that what Marconi really heard was UP 5 LID on that fateful day. But I digress... I understand what people are trying to achieve when they say abolish the FCC. Frankly, I'd like to see a lot of other three and four letter...

I do plan to do that at some point as well. I'm undecided whether I want to take my K3 to Field Day and would probably spring for the tuner board before then and do the IF board later. Decisions, decisions!

As I recall, Tim, you got your K3 about two months earlier than I did. I know there was a change in the knobs sometime last summer so I wonder if I got the new ones. So far everything is staying tight.

I have yet to tire of my K3. The last couple months I've fallen back into the rut of staying on the low (75 and 160m) bands as I've attended to other things than operating. Updates from Elecraft have slowed as I suppose the push for the KPA-500 is on and the firmware of the P3 recently was...

I didn't bother to read TFA, but I guess I don't get why amateur radio should "die" in the face of online services. They are two completely different ways of communicating for different reasons. I also don't quite see why Twitter is considered amongst some as the "latest and greatest" means of...