Joel Black <[email protected]> wrote: >I'm not sure if I'm hearing a spurious emission or not. As an example >(and I know this may sound weird to some folks - that's just the way I >am ;) ): > ><The following paragraph is *not* the problem - it's what the problem >sounds like to me.> >If I'm on a frequency and someone gets on a frequency pretty far away >(I >don't know how many kHz) I can hear them - I cannot figure out what >they're sending, but I know they're there. It's like I'm on the ragged > >edge of their transmit bandwidth. > >I'm beginning to hear that on my KX3 and it's me. I'm not sure if it's > >a spurious emission or what it is. Last night I heard it and it was >almost like an echo (not long path), but I could hear tones. I thought >someone was calling me. I'd stop and listen - nothing. I'd send ? - >nothing. > >This morning, that sound is different. It's more like someone is not >on >frequency but they're sending CW and I'm at the edge of their transmit >bandwidth or just past it. I can hear it and I know it's there, but I >cannot make it out. This happens with a key or my bug. After figuring > >out I was hearing myself, I had initially thought it was my sending on >the bug or something I had out of adjustment, but it doesn't appear to >be that. > >I tested on the vertical, inverted vee, and dummy load. I heard it on >both antennas, but not the dummy load. I tried it with the ATU in auto > >and bypass with the same results. I am not using CW in SSB - I am in >CW >mode. > >I tested with my K3 at the same power level using the vertical, >inverted >vee, and dummy load. I did not hear it on any of the three. > >The firmware I'm using is 1.54. > >I cannot tell you how long this has been going on. I just recently >took >the KX3 out of the Pelican box and started playing around with it in >the >shack some more. It may have been doing it a while, it may have just >started with 1.54, I have no idea. > >73, >Joel - W4JBB >______________________________________________________________ >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
Are you maybe using a remote antenna tuner? I hear its CPU clock for a second on some frequencies, after each of my tx. -- Pierfrancesco Caci ______________________________________________________________ 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
