I suppose you're right Vic. I've just never been too confident in my soldering skills when it comes to small surface-mount parts like this choke. Like I said earlier, my iron slipped and I even managed to slightly warp the plastic casing on the choke. Ugh. When it comes to larger, thru-hole stuff then it isn't a problem.
If I bypass the choke, what's the worst that could happen? Anyway, I'm still thinking about sending it back... Aptos agreed to swap out the filter and mic encoders for the newer, less-viscous feeling versions after my original encoders went kaput and they sent me an FP board with these stiff ones. So either way, I'd be out of a K3 for a few days. I could kill two birds with one stone and also have them do a complete check to make sure everything else is working before sending it back. I wouldn't be completely dead in the water anyway. I have an Icom 756 Pro III that I could use in the meantime. Tnx, James K2QI On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Vic K2VCO <[email protected]> wrote: > If you could get to it to reheat the terminals, you can replace it. > > And, as the previous poster indicated, it's just an RF filter for the > paddle. Chances are you can short it out and you won't have a problem. You > can get back on the air until Elecraft sends you a replacement part. > > You don't need to send your radio to the factory to fix this! > > > > -- > Vic, K2VCO > Fresno CA > http://www.qsl.net/k2vco/ > -- 73 de James K2QI President UNARC/4U1UN ______________________________________________________________ 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
