Quote from: RadioRay on September 12, 2016, 06:43:44 PMThere is no advantage for me to use digital, because Morse is simpler and much more enjoyable for a conversation.

I can agree with this statement, if that's your fancy. Had the words "for me" been missing then that would have been a different story. While I completely agree that morse is useful in all aspects, for covert operations digital can outperform morse. Sending and/or receiving multiple SPOT reports from field ops over digital is much quicker and easier than morse.

Propagation tonight sucked. 40 was pretty much the only band open but the noise level was s6 or more. No contacts tonight, though I must admit, I didn't try too hard.

What is Gil's callsign?

Hmmmm.... You don't type in a French accent.

Gil... do you happen to have the KX3 companion app. I'd love to see a video of it running with the KX2. Because I don't have a KX3, I'm not sure if the program is working as it should, or what steps I might be missing. I'm unable to decode PSK 31 through the app. I can see the waterfall, but it just won't decode.

That is for the information Gil. I still don't understand fully antenna design and theory. That explanation helps out lots.

I haven't built the cable yet. I don't figure it will be too hard. I purchased a 3 pin mic/phone to 4pin splitter. Now all I have to do is sacrifice one of my 4pin cables and solder a 6 pin din on the end.

I was hoping that I could just run the split direct from the radio audio ports to the tablet, but forgot about the switching necessary to activate the mic function on the tablet.

I'll post pics of the process soon. Think I'm going to build one of those earchi 9:1 as well. Have you found it necessary to run the guanella inline with the earchi?

Nice pick. I wish I'd have gotten the signallink myself, but I bought the wholphi instead. Now its just a matter of building my own cable to work with my KX2 as well as the 857d.

Once you get the 857d up and running, take some time to really work the system out. You'll find that there are "issues" in how it operates that will annoy. The 857d is a good emcomm & first radio in my opinion, but make sure you pick a second radio based upon the features you want that the 857d is missing.

I'm a QRP guy and hiker so I wanted something smaller, lighter, and used less power. Naturally I bought a QRP radio as my second setup, only to sell it for a smaller but more feature packed QRP setup.

After 10 years of testing & reviewing backpacking and hiking gear, I'd love to get a chance to review the Chameleon system. Nice gig Gil. Have fun!

Thanks Gil. This works great.

I read on other forums that the cb band disable is likely a legal protection factor for elecraft. Since the mars mod is a software mod whereas other radios have it a hardware mod, enabling the cb portion keeps them part 97 compliant. Can you email me the fw version you have plz.

Was this a beta_test firmware?

Thanks gil. Pics look great¡

Pics of that small container choke balun when you get a chance please.

Seems to be good quality. Very tight braid, no sheath slippage, clean cooper strands. Apparently it was a GPS extension cable for an externally mounted sensor. All in all good price for the cable, I just wanted around 30 ft for endfed operations, not ~20.