I can understand your disappointment. Even 100% testing can have occurrences of random failure. Doesn't mean the factory or technician screwed up. I recently bought a custom-made (for me) transverter that cost me $600 and less than a week an IC shorted out and killed the receiver. I was able to troubleshoot it and wrote for a replacement of the IC. I got two of them within five days and with less than an hours work had it replaced. The manufacturer was clueless to why the component failed. A certain percentage of components do that. They can test perfectly and then give up and die.
I'm sure the staff at Elecraft will fix your radio and you will have back in perfect shape. In 1969 I bought a brand new Mustang Mach-I. Drove it from Michigan to California to start a new job straight out of college. A month later the 390 V8 threw a rod. Ford fixed it under warrantee doing a complete short block replacement. The dealership told me the factory had installed the wrong connecting rod in that cylinder. Stuff happens. It was a great car to be driving in 1969 at the age of 25 (to many 'vetts dismay). Those were the days my friend! 73, Ed ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:03:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Scott McDowell <[email protected]> Subject: [Elecraft] factory built k3/100/F To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hello Has anyone besides me recieved a factory built k3/100/F that?had no, (like in zero), output in the ssb mode.?Or am I just the lucky one. I worked on it for a while with support on the telephone, then they told me to send it back to the factory. That sounds like someone at the factory isn't doing the testing that should be done on the new rigs before they are shipped. Scott n5sm 73, Ed - KL7UW, WD2XSH/45 ====================================== BP40IQ 500 KHz - 10-GHz www.kl7uw.com EME: 144-1.4kw, 432-100w, 1296-testing*, 3400-winter? DUBUS Magazine USA Rep [email protected] ====================================== ______________________________________________________________ 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
