On 12-05-23 10:25 PM, ~BG~ wrote: > Is yours a factory build or kit? #33 factory built > Mine's a kit and I while building it, the > full-turn spacing for the inside nut for the VFO encoder was a bit far for > mine to make contact. I noticed that while adjusting the VFO, that it > would sometime wander even though I hadn't touched it. In my case, I think > there was just a bit of play in the VFO and once I had it properly seated > and making clean contact the drifting disappeared.
funny you should mention that. i had to reseat the vfoa as the nut holding the vfo in place on the front panel was completely lose. i had hand tighten it and afterwards everything was ok. > > Also does it do it after the radio has been on for a while, or only after > freshly powered up? Even with a bit of play in my VFO, the wandering would > disappear after a few minutes of being powered on. (note my KX3 no longer > exhibits this behavior at all once I got my VFO issues sorted out). i would say just the opposite. i noticed it after it had been turned for awhile thanks for the advice though. i thought i was going crazy 73 > > > ./ben > W6MCM > > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Robert Galambos<[email protected]> wrote: > >> 1) i was trying to set up a dipole antenna to get my first QSO. i was on >> 40 m and as i was tinkering with my head ]phones >> i noticed that i had a 0.1 drift on the LCD readout VFOA. the readout >> had dropped by that much.. in fact it did more then once. i would tune >> to a freq, and then listen (not touching anything) and without any other >> change it would drift by itself??? >> >> 2) another item. i removed all wires etc from the radio, and found that >> there was a lot of noise. even my buddy, who has been a ham for many >> years wondered what was happening. and what is happening. >> >> thought i would ask the gurus here if they know what is going on? >> >> >> >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> 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 >> > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
