I replaced the LPA board and my K3 now passes the Low and High Power TX Gain Calibration tests.
We believe that there was a failure of one of the drivers which required much more gain to get the desired 5 watts out of the board. If your K3 has the transverter board and it passes the 1mw test then everything before the LPA board "should" be functioning properly. There is only a couple of parts between the transverter stage and the LPA. The radio was putting out 50 watts so we believed that the 100 watt unit was also working fine. As always the support from Elecraft was excellent. Gary and Rene were great and Rene tested the new LPA board in a K3 prior to shipping and made sure it got out the door. This is my main K3 that is heading to J6. Gary felt that we would be taking a big risk taking the rig with it failing the TX Gain tests. If that board had failed completely the radio would have been useless. Thanks again to all the Elecraft gang! -- Mike W0MU J6M CQ WW DX CW Contest 2011 J6/W0MU November 21 - December 1 2011 W0MU-1 CC Cluster w0mu.net ______________________________________________________________ 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
