I need some advice. I had the K3 on this afternoon and tuned to the low end of 20M (about 14.001x). I had been going into and out of the shack with the radio in receive mode. I went into the shack and heard a continuous string of dots. I tried to tune the signal, only to realize that it was my sidetone (the watt meter in the SB200 was bouncing). I had to turn off the power supply to stop it. When I powered it back on, the ERR KEY message was displayed. I looked it up and saw that the key line must be active at power on. I disconnected the Bencher paddle, and the ERR message went away. It appears that the dot contact on the Bencher had changed enough to make it touch. I adjusted the paddle, and that problem went away.
The problem now is that on 20M, keying the radio gives a HI SWR message and the SWR indicates 99.9:1. This is with either the 20M antenna or a dummy load. The other bands appear to be fine. I fear that I may have fried something in the 20M output circuit. Any suggestions? Help please! 73, Phil, NS7P ______________________________________________________________ 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
