One addition: The s-meter also shows S5-6 level without a signal source (in all cases: no antenna, dummyload or antenna connected), while all other bands are okay with no s-meter movement without a signal.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Oliver "Olli" Dröse" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 1:00 AM Subject: Strange behaviour of K144XV :-(( > Hi guys, > > after getting the missing cables today (thanks Elecraft) I immediately > started > installing the K144XV into my K3. Everything went together smoothly, no > problems, at least hardware-wise. > > But, I have hundreds of birdies throughout the whole 2 m band. :-(( It does > not matter if antenna connected or not, or connected to a dummyload, so I > suspect these are internally and some of them are really annoying. Already > checked all the TMP cable connections, everything seems okay. > > Furthermore when switching down to 28 MHz I now have strange noise when > tuning > the VFO between 28.002 and 28.007 sounding like synthesizer noise which was > definitely not there before. :-(( > > Any ideas what the reasons are and how to solve the problem(s)? > > As I do not have the KRX3 module I tried to put the 12 V wire going to the > other side of the mainboard to power the K144XV like shown in the manual but > as the wire is so long it is laying on the mainboard. Could that be the > reason, some pickup there? > > Thanks in advance! > > 73, Olli - DH8BQA > > > > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
