Elecraft K3 presentation for a club?

[John Fritze]

BESIDES THE ONE LISTED on the Elecraft site does any one have a Power Point
presentation they have put together on "How to Operate a K3"?

I have been asked to put together a presentation (pre Field Day) on general
and BASIC operation of the K3 for my club.  For the past several years, I
have brought my K3 and more recently P3 to FD.  My club members are mostly
contesters and DXers intimately familiar with their  KenYaeCom rigs but for
some reason have a mental block when it comes to the K3.  While I realize,
once you have the K3 tweaked the way you want it, you really don't have to
touch a thing, but these guys love to play with buttons.  If anyone has put
together any kind of presentation helping explain the K3's operation please
forward it to me directly.  I will be happy to consolidate any information
and make it available to anyone else who finds themselves in the same
position.

Please reply directly to: k2qy (at) arrl (dot) net



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K2QY
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Albany County RACES Radio Officer
ARES ENY DEC Northern District
ARES Albany County EC
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[Tony McClenny]

If Elecraft or expert user(s) could arrange to teach a class on how to use
the K3, here is one individual, who would be so pleased to attend.  I have
had the rig for several years, read the manual more than once, followed the
e-mail reflector diligently, experimented and learned to use multiple
functions with a computer (psk & rtty for example) but realize there is so
much more it can do than yours truly understands...  

Although I would not want to travel to CA for the lesson(s), I would go as
far as Dayton or somewhere on the east coast.  I love my K3 and have taken
it many times to various locations in the Caribbean while on vacation.  I am
smart enough to realize that it is smarter than I - help in a tutored class
activity to learn more about "How to" would be appreciated.

- Tony, N3ME -

118 Ashwood Street
Bethany Beach, DE 19930-9699
[phone]
Grid:  FM28lm

http://www.n3me.net
Elecraft K3 # 2462
PVRC Member

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Sent: Friday, April 05, 2013 13:13 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: [Elecraft] Elecraft K3 presentation for a club?

BESIDES THE ONE LISTED on the Elecraft site does any one have a Power Point
presentation they have put together on "How to Operate a K3"?

I have been asked to put together a presentation (pre Field Day) on general
and BASIC operation of the K3 for my club.  For the past several years, I
have brought my K3 and more recently P3 to FD.  My club members are mostly
contesters and DXers intimately familiar with their  KenYaeCom rigs but for
some reason have a mental block when it comes to the K3.  While I realize,
once you have the K3 tweaked the way you want it, you really don't have to
touch a thing, but these guys love to play with buttons.  If anyone has put
together any kind of presentation helping explain the K3's operation please
forward it to me directly.  I will be happy to consolidate any information
and make it available to anyone else who finds themselves in the same
position.

Please reply directly to: k2qy (at) arrl (dot) net



--
John Fritze Jr
K2QY
AARA president 2013
ACACES secretary 2013
Albany County RACES Radio Officer
ARES ENY DEC Northern District
ARES Albany County EC
Hudson Div. Asst. Director
Twitter: @k2qy
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[Rick WA6NHC]

Doesn't a web based class or video make more sense?

Not a round table, but allowing for a Q&A session.  In the meantime get the book and scan the archives, it's helpful.

Rick wa6nhc

Tiny iPhone 5 keypad, typos are inevitable

On Apr 5, 2013, at 8:06 AM, "Tony McClenny" <[hidden email]> wrote:

> If Elecraft or expert user(s) could arrange to teach a class on how to use
> the K3, here is one individual, who would be so pleased to attend.
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[Fred Townsend-2]

John, as a former program director I can verify it is difficult to talk
about sounds without reproducing that sound. Yes you can add sound to Power
Point presentations but why reinvent the wheel? I have a substantial
collection (>70) of videos (with sound) downloaded mostly from Youtube. I
will be using these videos for my field day presentation on the K3. You can
search Youtube for them or I would be happy to share these videos with
anyone that wants them. I also have them for the KX3.

The question becomes how to share. I checked and they will fit on a 8 gig
thumb drive (16 gig if you want the KX3 too). If you (or anyone else) wants
to send me their thumb drive I can fill them. Stick a few stamps with the
drive and I will fill it up and return it the same day received. I'm good in
QRZ
73
Fred, AE6QL

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[mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of John Fritze
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2013 6:13 AM
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Subject: [Elecraft] Elecraft K3 presentation for a club?

BESIDES THE ONE LISTED on the Elecraft site does any one have a Power Point
presentation they have put together on "How to Operate a K3"?

I have been asked to put together a presentation (pre Field Day) on general
and BASIC operation of the K3 for my club.  For the past several years, I
have brought my K3 and more recently P3 to FD.  My club members are mostly
contesters and DXers intimately familiar with their  KenYaeCom rigs but for
some reason have a mental block when it comes to the K3.  While I realize,
once you have the K3 tweaked the way you want it, you really don't have to
touch a thing, but these guys love to play with buttons.  If anyone has put
together any kind of presentation helping explain the K3's operation please
forward it to me directly.  I will be happy to consolidate any information
and make it available to anyone else who finds themselves in the same
position.



--
John Fritze Jr
K2QY
AARA president 2013
ACACES secretary 2013
Albany County RACES Radio Officer
ARES ENY DEC Northern District
ARES Albany County EC
Hudson Div. Asst. Director
Twitter: @k2qy
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[Don Wilhelm-4]

Tony,

If your main concern is about the "knob and menu twiddling" folks at a
multi-operator situation, consider the locking function for mic gain,
compression and power that are available in the PWR SET menu. It will
not prevent total disaster, but can help with the basic settings for
those parameters.

Yes, you may still have to provide instruction for the Width/Shift or
HiCut/LoCut knobs, and the likes of split operation, but the K3 can be
operated with no guest operator problems just 'as-is'.

My K3 has been used as the CW station in the last 3 Field Day events,
and no problems were found.  In the middle of the night while the CW ops
were asleep, a couple operators used it on SSB and discovered what a
fabulous rig it was just using the default settings.  I don't think I
generated any orders for the K3 because most of the club members seem to
think that a transceiver costing over $500 is an extravagance.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 4/5/2013 11:06 AM, Tony McClenny wrote:

> If Elecraft or expert user(s) could arrange to teach a class on how to use
> the K3, here is one individual, who would be so pleased to attend.  I have
> had the rig for several years, read the manual more than once, followed the
> e-mail reflector diligently, experimented and learned to use multiple
> functions with a computer (psk & rtty for example) but realize there is so
> much more it can do than yours truly understands...
>
> Although I would not want to travel to CA for the lesson(s), I would go as
> far as Dayton or somewhere on the east coast.  I love my K3 and have taken
> it many times to various locations in the Caribbean while on vacation.  I am
> smart enough to realize that it is smarter than I - help in a tutored class
> activity to learn more about "How to" would be appreciated.
>
> - Tony, N3ME -
>
> 118 Ashwood Street
> Bethany Beach, DE 19930-9699
> [phone]
> Grid:  FM28lm
>
> http://www.n3me.net
> Elecraft K3 # 2462
> PVRC Member
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [hidden email]
> [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of John Fritze
> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2013 13:13 PM
> To: [hidden email]
> Subject: [Elecraft] Elecraft K3 presentation for a club?
>
> BESIDES THE ONE LISTED on the Elecraft site does any one have a Power Point
> presentation they have put together on "How to Operate a K3"?
>
> I have been asked to put together a presentation (pre Field Day) on general
> and BASIC operation of the K3 for my club.  For the past several years, I
> have brought my K3 and more recently P3 to FD.  My club members are mostly
> contesters and DXers intimately familiar with their  KenYaeCom rigs but for
> some reason have a mental block when it comes to the K3.  While I realize,
> once you have the K3 tweaked the way you want it, you really don't have to
> touch a thing, but these guys love to play with buttons.  If anyone has put
> together any kind of presentation helping explain the K3's operation please
> forward it to me directly.  I will be happy to consolidate any information
> and make it available to anyone else who finds themselves in the same
> position.
>
> Please reply directly to: k2qy (at) arrl (dot) net
>
>
>

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[Bill Frantz]

For events like Field Day, it's probably worth while saving the
configuration on a laptop which will be at the site. It will let
you recover from a bunch of menu/knob disasters.

Cheers - Bill, AE6JV

On 4/5/13 at 4:43 PM, [hidden email] (Don Wilhelm) wrote:

>If your main concern is about the "knob and menu twiddling"
>folks at a multi-operator situation, consider the locking
>function for mic gain, compression and power that are available
>in the PWR SET menu. It will not prevent total disaster, but
>can help with the basic settings for those parameters.

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