Hi Fred and group, Well yes I suppose it could be called a disease Hi!
I actually started not long ago when an unbuilt K2 with SSB kit was up for sale and i felt I wanted to build something for a change, It is complete but have some kind of transmit problem where the power drops off 15W at 80M and progressively drops off to 10M. Strange ! Receiver side seems fine. Have Gone over the adjustments to no avail suspect the Transmit Mixer output may be low. Anyway later on I bought the following also second hand K3,P3 and KPA500 came up second hand on our VK classified site. I've owned a lot of tranceivers over the years but the Elecraft gear id different somehow, no small p[art to the support and enthusiasm of the owners and company. Also like the idea of standard type connectors not proprietory . Good old DB9's etc. 73 Cliff On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Fred Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Cliff and Group > > What is it about the Elecraft line that once you own one piece of their > gear > it seems that it becomes for lack of a better word a "Disease". One that > spreads to more and more of the Elecraft name on your desk like the > "Chicken > Pox" there are so thick 8>). > > There is some good news here though it is subsiding some as I have at least > one piece of all their gear from K2 forward, until several more options > come > out for the KX3 expected soon. > > The bad news on the other hand is that Eric seems to have a constant stream > of new products in devolvement or to introduce, ones that people want and > cause a backlog to get one of whatever. > > 73, > Fred/N0AZZ > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Clifford Hynds > Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2013 11:00 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Elecraft] K2 Repairs on hold while i fix my K3 12V ERR - now > Fixed > > Well, > > Yet another fault in my shack the K3 decided to stop putting out power over > 12W this last night and came up with the Error "12V ERR" so off to the > internet to see if it was an easy fix, well yes and no. > > Turns out i is a common problem in older K3 mine is 891 not ancient but > older and as the previous owner was a contester probably worked hard. The > fault was the discoloured pins on P67B on main board from high current, The > older units did not have gold plated pins. > > The entire rear end had to be disassembled but pretty easy. PA removed and > the PAIO board , anyway this is probably not new to the group but I must > say > the modular design simplifies the repair. After replacing the six blackened > pins from parts left over from my K2 build all good. Not to mention the > step > by step repair here > > http://www.elecraft.com/manual/KPA3%20Power%20Connector%20Replacement.pdf > > So now the K3 after reassembly back up and running. > > Now back to fixing my K2 which hasn't even been on air yet. > > 73 > Cliff > ______________________________________________________________ > 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
