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Wilson Lamb

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"I never took a drafting class nor anything like it in high school, yet its
absence never hurt me professionally. Making a straight line is not a skill
required of a lawyer."

This cries out for several clever and potentially offensive responses, but it's a new day and I'm not going to post them.
Besides, the poster may be a nice guy, making them unfair.
Most everyone will know them anyway, so I'll just say
73,
WL

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Today's Topics:

1. K2 For Sale (Robie Elms)
2. Re: OT: High school drafting class, ~1975 (Dave Sublette)
3. Need a tuning knob for K2 (Frank Krozel)
4. XV432 (Ken Roberson)
5. OT: High school drafting class, ([hidden email])
6. Speaker upgrade (Bob McGraw)
7. Re: Need a tuning knob for K2 (Don Wilhelm)
8. Re: Need a tuning knob for K2 (Frank Krozel)
9. Re: Need a tuning knob for K2 (Don Wilhelm)
10. Re: Need a tuning knob for K2 (Frank Krozel)
11. Re: OT: High school drafting class, (Hank)
12. Re: OT: High school drafting class, (Louandzip)
13. Re: OT: High school drafting class, (Grant Youngman)
14. Re: K3/KPA500 question (Bob Wilson, N6TV)
15. MC-43S Mic for K2 (Aaron K5ATG)
16. Re: MC-43S Mic for K2 (Julia Tuttle)
17. FS - unbuilt KAF2 (Tom Ewing)
18. Re: OT: High school drafting class, ~1975 (Chris R. NW6V)
19. Re: OT: High school drafting class, (Jim Brown)
20. Kenwood MC - 43S mic for K2 (Aaron K5ATG)
21. Re: OT: High school drafting class, (Hal Massey)
22. K3/KPA500 question (Andy Durbin)
23. Re: K3/KPA500 question (Lou)
24. Re: OT: High school drafting class, (MIKE ZANE)

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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 06:43:00 -0500
From: Robie Elms <[hidden email]>
To: Elecraft Mail List <[hidden email]>
Subject: [Elecraft] K2 For Sale
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Here's the info on the K2

I built it in 2007, Serial No 61XX. It is the 15 w version and includes
the following:

- KSB2 SSB Adapter
<https://elecraftcom.myshopify.com/products/ksb2-ssb-option>
- KNB2 High Performance Noise Blanker
<https://elecraftcom.myshopify.com/products/knb2_noise-blanker>
- K160M 160M and 2nd RX Port
<https://elecraftcom.myshopify.com/products/k160rx_160m-option>
- KIO2 RS-232 Interface and Aux I/0
<https://elecraft.com/products/ki02-rs-232-serial-interface>
- KAT2 Automatic Antenna Tuner
<https://elecraftcom.myshopify.com/products/kat2_20w-internal-atu>
- KBT2 Battery
<https://elecraftcom.myshopify.com/products/kbt2_internal-battery-kit>

I have used it extensively for several years, but it is in good condition.
The K2's battery is a SLA unit and my battery became exhausted several
years ago so it is not included. A new battery can be purchased from
Elecraft or other sources and installed. I don't recommend replacing it as
a LiFePO is a much better choice today.

The K2 is wired for an Icom microphone.

I purchased a KX3 about 3 yrs ago and since then the K2 has not seen much
use.

I'm asking $850 for the package including all manuals, documentation &
tools.

Payment Via PayPal

Please contact me @ [hidden email] if interested.

Robie - AJ4F

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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 08:45:49 -0400
From: Dave Sublette <[hidden email]>
To: Elecraft Discussion List <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: High school drafting class, ~1975
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To clarify, my Dad was not a ham. But he did teach me and the rest of the
scouts the code. He was my first scoutmaster. When I joined the Navy at
age 19, he got interested and got his novice ticket as a surprise. I was
at K6NCG, going to ET'A' school on Treasure Island. He called me on the
phone, which was a big deal long distance from Indiana to California in
1962. We met on the 40M Novice band and I was his first QSO. He refused
to work anyone else until he worked me. When he died in 1999, I found the
QSL I had sent him from K6NCG, hanging on his bedroom wall. He never got
his general.

As I said before, memories are priceless.

73,

Dave, K4TO

On Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 8:29 AM Dave Sublette <[hidden email]> wrote:

> My relationship with drafting class goes back to before I was born. My
> Dad, born in 1918, took drafting class in 1936. After he died, I found a
> pen and ink drawing of his from that class. It was a schematic of two
> different crystal sets. As a teen, Dad was the neighborhood radio
> technician. He strung wire antennas and repaired headphones for folks.
>
> I had that schematic framed and built one of the sets. I entered it in
> the antiques section of the county fair(with a note that the radio was not
> the antique). I won a Blue Ribbon and was considered for the grand
> champion ribbon. I have the drawing and the set on my mantle.
>
> At almost 80 years of age, my memories are increasing in value.
>
> 73,
>
> Dave, K4TO
>
> On Sat, Apr 24, 2021, 4:00 AM Joe K2UF <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>> In 1955 we were the cool guys with a slide rule in a leather case hanging
>> from your belt and india ink stains on your hands.
>>
>> 73 Joe K2UF
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [hidden email]
>> [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Wayne Burdick
>> Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2021 1:09 AM
>> To: Elecraft Reflector
>> Subject: [Elecraft] OT: High school drafting class, ~1975
>>
>> OK, I've really dated myself now.
>>
>> Anyone remember "drafting"? A favorite class in high school: blueprints,
>> mechanical drawings, schematics, straight edges, hand lettering,
>> projections
>> and elevations. We invented things to draw that weren't real, but looked
>> like they should be. Did all the math by hand -- on a slide rule, if
>> necessary. Day-dreamed about what we might one day build.
>>
>> 45 years later, we're using tools we couldn't have imagined. Modeling
>> circuits and objects with millions of parameters and vectors, realizing
>> them
>> in virtual space, manipulating them in real time. Testing finished
>> products
>> before they're even assembled.
>>
>> The transformation is mind boggling. Yet the best part now, as it was
>> then,
>> is the occasional burst of creative energy that propels an idea forward.
>> The
>> feeling of pieces falling into place. Or forcing them into place out of
>> sheer necessity.
>>
>> Most of the time, we think of our new tools and techniques as advances in
>> the state of the art. Things we can't live without. But those same
>> defining
>> moments happened just as often in simpler times.
>>
>> Case in point -- my first real project, a rendition of W7ZOI's
>> Micro-mountaineer. Carefully documenting it took several sheets of
>> 4-squares-per-inch grid paper, which may still be in my cellar, beneath a
>> lifetime of such drawings. With the schematic, I took a lot of pride in
>> making the circuits look well-organized, as if that would somehow improve
>> my
>> odds. On the PC board, I drew large traces and pads with the etch-resist
>> pen, as if that would somehow appease the electrons.
>>
>> I etched the PCB, soldered two dozen parts, and connected a 12 V lantern
>> battery. Thanks to my paranoia about what would happen if I did it wrong,
>> I'd taken my time and done it right.
>>
>> I was rewarded with a hiss of band noise and a few CW signals on 40
>> meters.
>>
>> Here's to those moments, and to that timeless pursuit: turning
>> abstractions
>> into reality.
>>
>> 73,
>> Wayne
>> N6KR
>>
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 08:00:35 -0500
From: Frank Krozel <[hidden email]>
To: elecraft <[hidden email]>
Subject: [Elecraft] Need a tuning knob for K2
Message-ID: <[hidden email]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

I am looking for a tuning knob for a K2 SN 5630
If I recall there were two different sizes of shafts, this would be the second (maybe current) size.

This is SN
-73- Frank KG9H
[hidden email]

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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 13:08:00 +0000 (UTC)
From: Ken Roberson <[hidden email]>
To: Elecraft Elecraft <[hidden email]>
Subject: [Elecraft] XV432
Message-ID: <[hidden email]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

Hello all,

Is the XV432 stable enough for EME digi modes?

Thanks agn 73 Ken K5DNL

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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 07:27:13 -0600
From: <[hidden email]>
To: <[hidden email]>
Subject: [Elecraft] OT: High school drafting class,
Message-ID: <002001d739d6$b524a060$1f6de120$@aya.yale.edu>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

I never took a drafting class nor anything like it in high school, yet its
absence never hurt me professionally. Making a straight line is not a skill
required of a lawyer.

Ted, KN1CBR

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Message: 6
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 08:32:30 -0500
From: Bob McGraw <[hidden email]>
To: Elecraft Reflector <[hidden email]>
Subject: [Elecraft] Speaker upgrade
Message-ID: <[hidden email]>
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I have my headset with mike plugged into the rear PHONES and MIC, the
headphones plugged into the front PHONES jack, and my boom mike
connected to the MIC connector.? Plus my external speakers plugged into
the rear SPKRS jack.??? The manual explains how to do this so all works
as expected.??? See page 22, 55, and 64 of the manual.

73

Bob, K4TAX

On 4/24/2021 8:50 AM, NJMike wrote:

> Since I?m a new K3S owner and still learning the radio, can you also confirm
> that those speakers can be hooked up while keeping the headphones plugged
> into the rear jack?

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Message: 7
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 10:27:09 -0400
From: Don Wilhelm <[hidden email]>
To: Frank Krozel <[hidden email]>, elecraft
<[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Need a tuning knob for K2
Message-ID: <[hidden email]>
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Frank,

Do you have the new encoder?? I don't know which SN they were started.?
That is the key to which knob you need.? If the knob is off, lift the
fiber washers and check to see if there is a green tab in the hole to
the right of the encoder shaft.? If the hole is empty, you have the new
encoder.
Order the new knob from Elecraft - they no longer have the older knob.
With the new knob, you need 3 fiber washers stacked.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 4/25/2021 9:00 AM, Frank Krozel wrote:

> I am looking for a tuning knob for a K2 SN 5630
> If I recall there were two different sizes of shafts, this would be the second (maybe current) size.
>
> This is SN
> -73- Frank KG9H
> [hidden email]
>
>
>
>
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Message: 8
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 09:34:45 -0500
From: Frank Krozel <[hidden email]>
To: [hidden email]
Cc: elecraft <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Need a tuning knob for K2
Message-ID: <[hidden email]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

Thanks Don, will check today.

I also need to figure out which K2 need those small 3/8?x3/8? rubber spacers in-between the PC boards without taking the front panel off.

-73- Frank KG9H
[hidden email]

> On Apr 25, 2021, at 9:27 AM, Don Wilhelm <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> Frank,
>
> Do you have the new encoder? I don't know which SN they were started. That is the key to which knob you need. If the knob is off, lift the fiber washers and check to see if there is a green tab in the hole to the right of the encoder shaft. If the hole is empty, you have the new encoder.
> Order the new knob from Elecraft - they no longer have the older knob.
> With the new knob, you need 3 fiber washers stacked.
>
> 73,
> Don W3FPR
>
> On 4/25/2021 9:00 AM, Frank Krozel wrote:
>> I am looking for a tuning knob for a K2 SN 5630
>> If I recall there were two different sizes of shafts, this would be the second (maybe current) size.
>>
>> This is SN
>> -73- Frank KG9H
>> [hidden email]
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Message: 9
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 10:53:44 -0400
From: Don Wilhelm <[hidden email]>
To: Frank Krozel <[hidden email]>
Cc: elecraft <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Need a tuning knob for K2
Message-ID: <[hidden email]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed

Frank,

Just take the top cover off and look between the upper 2D connectors and
the Front Panel board.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 4/25/2021 10:34 AM, Frank Krozel wrote:

> Thanks Don, will check today.
>
> I also need to figure out which K2 need those small 3/8?x3/8? rubber
> spacers in-between the PC boards without taking the front panel off.
>
> -73- ?Frank ? ?KG9H
> [hidden email] <mailto:[hidden email]>
>
>
>
>

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Message: 10
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 09:54:45 -0500
From: Frank Krozel <[hidden email]>
To: [hidden email]
Cc: elecraft <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Need a tuning knob for K2
Message-ID: <[hidden email]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

As usual, Don you have the correct answers, thanks again.

Hope you are doing well!

-73- Frank KG9H
[hidden email]

> On Apr 25, 2021, at 9:53 AM, Don Wilhelm <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> Frank,
>
> Just take the top cover off and look between the upper 2D connectors and the Front Panel board.
>
> 73,
> Don W3FPR
>
>
> On 4/25/2021 10:34 AM, Frank Krozel wrote:
>> Thanks Don, will check today.
>>
>> I also need to figure out which K2 need those small 3/8?x3/8? rubber spacers in-between the PC boards without taking the front panel off.
>>
>> -73- Frank KG9H
>> [hidden email] <mailto:[hidden email]>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>

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Message: 11
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 11:13:48 -0400
From: Hank <[hidden email]>
To: [hidden email]
Cc: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: High school drafting class,
Message-ID: <[hidden email]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

There?s a joke there somewhere!!

Hank
K4HYJ

> On Apr 25, 2021, at 9:28 AM, [hidden email] wrote:
>
> ?I never took a drafting class nor anything like it in high school, yet its
> absence never hurt me professionally. Making a straight line is not a skill
> required of a lawyer.
>
> Ted, KN1CBR
>
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Message: 12
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 15:34:27 +0000 (UTC)
From: Louandzip <[hidden email]>
To: "[hidden email]" <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: High school drafting class,
Message-ID: <[hidden email]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

Maybe had you known drafting, you wouldn't have had to resort to becoming a lawyer.? HI HI

Lou W7HV

On Sunday, April 25, 2021, 7:28:59 AM MDT, [hidden email] <[hidden email]> wrote:

I never took a drafting class nor anything like it in high school, yet its
absence never hurt me professionally.? Making a straight line is not a skill
required of a lawyer.

Ted, KN1CBR

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Message: 13
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 12:00:48 -0400
From: Grant Youngman <[hidden email]>
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: High school drafting class,
Message-ID: <[hidden email]>
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I guess I missed out. Never had a formal course. No drafting in high school, and no drafting during undergraduate and graduate EE at Rice in the 60s. A straight edge and logic element templates in various sizes, were all the drafting skills needed. Board layout and a few other things were picked up as exercises for the the student.

Grant NQ5T

Sent from my iPhone

> On Apr 25, 2021, at 11:34 AM, Louandzip via Elecraft <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> ? Maybe had you known drafting, you wouldn't have had to resort to becoming a lawyer. HI HI
>
> Lou W7HV
>
>

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Message: 14
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 11:09:08 -0700
From: "Bob Wilson, N6TV" <[hidden email]>
To: Joe K2UF <[hidden email]>
Cc: Elecraft Reflector <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3/KPA500 question
Message-ID:
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"

Does your automatic antenna switch use the Unified Microsystems BCD-10 or
BCD-14 band decoders, or is your design similar to the 4O3A Antenna Genius?

These products all use opto-Isolators on the four Band Data lines in the
AUX cable. Wiring this type of decoder in parallel with the
K3/KAT500/KPA500 AUX cable via a 15-pin Y-cable or similar *will usually
cause automatic band changes on the KPA500 to stop working*, until you
disconnect the antenna switch's band decoder, or send some RF so that the
KPA500 frequency counter takes over. Not cool.

Opto-isolators draw too much current from the K3 ACC pins, leaving too
little voltage for the KPA500's band decoder to track properly. This is no
problem for the KPA1500, only the KPA500, with or without the KAT500.

The solution I discovered was to connect four 4.7K pull-up resistors to 12V
to each band data pin in the K3 ACC cable, assuming the band decoder in the
antenna switch can handle 12V instead of 5V (most can). The KAT500 and
KPA500 will have no problem with 12V on the band data lines.

The Y-BOX v3.0 (not pictured on my website because I have not had time to
update it) includes these four pull-up resistors. They can conveniently be
wired internally to the band data pins, and band switching should work
again when all the devices are connected in parallel to the K3 ACC via the
Y-BOX. This assumes your KPA500 "RADIO" menu is set to "K3" or to "BCD" so
it tracks properly when the automatic antenna switch is disconnected from
the ACC/AUX cables.

FYI, you can still tap the BAND buttons on the KPA500 to change bands on
the K3, because that uses the AUXBUS line (ACC Pin 2), not the BAND DATA
lines. Many folks may have never discovered this cool feature of the
KPA500 and KPA1500.

73,
Bob, N6TV
https://bit.ly/Y-BOX

On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 6:18 PM Joe K2UF <[hidden email]> wrote:

> I have my K3-KAT500-KPA500 working great. The amp is off to the left side
> and I can't see the display easily. while working on building an auto
> antenna switch I noticed that the band display on the amp does not synch
> with the K3. It seems to be random. If I hit one dit on the key the amp
> will synch the band with the K3. I am not sure if this has been working
> like this right along and just did not notice.
>
> Any ideas guys.
>
> 73 Joe K2UF
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Message: 15
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 13:24:15 -0500
From: Aaron K5ATG <[hidden email]>
To: "[hidden email]" <[hidden email]>
Subject: [Elecraft] MC-43S Mic for K2
Message-ID: <[hidden email]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

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Message: 16
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 14:29:47 -0400
From: Julia Tuttle <[hidden email]>
To: Aaron K5ATG <[hidden email]>
Cc: Elecraft <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] MC-43S Mic for K2
Message-ID:
<[hidden email]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"

What about it?

On Sun, Apr 25, 2021, 14:25 Aaron K5ATG <[hidden email]> wrote:

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Message: 17
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 13:40:46 -0500
From: Tom Ewing <[hidden email]>
To: [hidden email]
Subject: [Elecraft] FS - unbuilt KAF2
Message-ID: <[hidden email]>
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Bought it, didn?t need it.

$110 shipped CONUS or trade for a new Fluke 107 with matching case.

Tommy
W0XXX

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Message: 18
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 12:03:27 -0700
From: "Chris R. NW6V" <[hidden email]>
To: elecraft reflector <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: High school drafting class, ~1975
Message-ID:
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>
> Wayne Burdick n6kr at elecraft.com
> <elecraft%40mailman.qth.net?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BElecraft%5D%20OT%3A%20%20High%20school%20drafting%20class%2C%20%7E1975&In-Reply-To=%3C8E25CA35-49B9-46D8-9487-BC597E246425%40elecraft.com%3E>
> wrote:"Here's to those moments, and to that timeless pursuit: turning
> abstractions into reality."

Indeed. There is nothing so sublime as the moment of clarity when the last
pieces of a jigsaw puzzle align, and the vision in your mind's eye
crystalizes into reality.

Thanks for sharing your visions with us :-)

73 Chris NW6V

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Message: 19
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 12:58:29 -0700
From: Jim Brown <[hidden email]>
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: High school drafting class,
Message-ID:
<[hidden email]>
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On 4/25/2021 6:27 AM, [hidden email] wrote:
> I never took a drafting class nor anything like it in high school, yet its
> absence never hurt me professionally. Making a straight line is not a skill
> required of a lawyer.

But writing legibly is, and that was a VERY important contribution of my
technical drawing classes. My script has become pretty flaky with age,
but my printing is still pretty legible.

73, Jim K9YC

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Message: 20
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 15:05:30 -0500
From: Aaron K5ATG <[hidden email]>
To: [hidden email]
Subject: [Elecraft] Kenwood MC - 43S mic for K2
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I have been using a Kenwood MC-43S microphone for my K2 and the PTT button
broke. Since the mic is still in really good condition I contacted Kenwood
about a replacement PTT button and they said that I have to replace the
entire microphone. So I was just asking the Elecraft community if anyone
has a broken MC-43S mic for parts?

Aaron K5ATG

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Message: 21
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 14:07:37 -0600
From: Hal Massey <[hidden email]>
To: Hank <[hidden email]>
Cc: [hidden email], [hidden email]
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: High school drafting class,
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This turned out to be a popular subject line. Here goes...

I was too busy with AP classes to take drafting in high school. But I had to take it when I went off to the College of Engineering to be an Electrical Engineer. And I am glad I did take it. Of course, now it is all CAD systems?

Regards
-Hal WB6NNR

> On Apr 25, 2021, at 9:13 AM, Hank via Elecraft <[hidden email]> wrote:
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> There?s a joke there somewhere!!
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> Hank
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>> On Apr 25, 2021, at 9:28 AM, [hidden email] wrote:
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>> ?I never took a drafting class nor anything like it in high school, yet its
>> absence never hurt me professionally. Making a straight line is not a skill
>> required of a lawyer.
>>
>> Ted, KN1CBR
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Message: 22
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 20:08:55 +0000
From: Andy Durbin <[hidden email]>
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"FYI, you can still tap the BAND buttons on the KPA500 to change bands on the K3, because that uses the AUXBUS line (ACC Pin 2), not the BAND DATA lines. Many folks may have never discovered this cool feature of the KPA500 and KPA1500."

I had to write code to put the KPA500 back on the correct band if one of these band buttons was accidentally pressed. I wish there was a way to disable them completely. One person's cool feature is another's PITA.

Andy, k3wyc

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Message: 23
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 16:51:16 -0400
From: Lou <[hidden email]>
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3/KPA500 question
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That also controls the KAT500 when connected.

73, Lou KE1F

On 4/25/2021 4:08 PM, Andy Durbin wrote:

> "FYI, you can still tap the BAND buttons on the KPA500 to change bands on the K3, because that uses the AUXBUS line (ACC Pin 2), not the BAND DATA lines. Many folks may have never discovered this cool feature of the KPA500 and KPA1500."
>
> I had to write code to put the KPA500 back on the correct band if one of these band buttons was accidentally pressed. I wish there was a way to disable them completely. One person's cool feature is another's PITA.
>
> Andy, k3wyc
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Message: 24
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 14:20:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: MIKE ZANE <[hidden email]>
To: Hank <[hidden email]>, Hank via Elecraft
<[hidden email]>, [hidden email]
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: High school drafting class,
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You bet there is! from retired LE, Mike

> On 04/25/2021 8:13 AM Hank via Elecraft <[hidden email]> wrote:
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> There?s a joke there somewhere!!
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> Hank
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> > On Apr 25, 2021, at 9:28 AM, [hidden email] wrote:
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> > ?I never took a drafting class nor anything like it in high school, yet its
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> > required of a lawyer.
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