The CW pitch has a bottom limit of 300 Hz.  He probably had the MON
setting at ZERO, which would have the same effect as described.

73,
matt W6NIA

On Sat, 04 Jun 2011 07:40:11 -0400, you wrote:

>Ben,
>
>That would explain it. A pitch of zero would put the audio in the sub audible 
>range and probably put it below the bandpass of the audio amplifiers and 
>filters resulting in muffled or no audio in CW. If you set your IF bandwidth 
>high enough, you would have been able to hear stations that were quite far 
>away in frequency but not the ones you were tuned to. I'm curious as to how 
>the pitch got to zero, I thought the K3 had a lower limit around 400 Hz for 
>the CW pitch. Anyway glad you found the problem. 
>
>73,
>Chuck - AA3CS
>
>Sent from my iPhone
>
>On Jun 4, 2011, at 7:02 AM, SM6CKU <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I found the problem. For some reason the pitch of the sidetone was zero and 
>> was adjusted and sidetone OK. But how can that "mute" the receiver in CW 
>> mode?
>> Now everything is normal but these small things makes me nervous.....
>> 
>> 73 de Ben
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