Thanks to all who have replied on- and off-list. I will start by cleaning the connector pins as best I can and reseating the front panel. This appears to be the most obvious place to start.
I’ll report back with the results. 73, Paul WW2PT On Jan 17, 2014, at 9:27 AM, Don Wilhelm <[email protected]> wrote: > Paul, > > Your low serial number K3 most likely does not have gold pins on the front > panel to RF board connectors. > You can probably fix it by removing and reseating the front panel assembly. > Some have reported that a small bit of DeOxit will help, but I cannot > personally vouch for that. > If that fixes it, know that you can change the connectors to the gold ones, > or have Elecraft do that for you - contact support for the part numbers. > > If you did not assemble that K3, you can find the front panel removal > instructions in several of the Elecraft documents - one of which is the K3 > Front Panel Modification > http://www.elecraft.com/K3/mods/K3%20Rev%20B%20FP%20Mod%20v1r6.pdf - you do > not have to do the mod, just skip to Section B which covers the front panel > removal and reassembly. > > 73, > Don W3FPR > > On 1/17/2014 9:43 AM, Paul Lannuier wrote: >> My six year old K3 (#217) has been behaving oddly the past few weeks. The NB >> button sometimes doesn't work at all, either short press or press-and-hold, >> and sometimes when I press and hold it to bring up the LEVEL settings it >> behaves as though I'm pressing SPEED/MIC knob -- i.e., the display will >> toggle between CW speed and Mic level. Also, the left side of the BAND and >> MODE buttons sometimes do nothing when pressed; the right side of these same >> buttons continue to work. There may be other similar problems with other >> buttons, I can't remember. These are the two that I notice repeatedly since >> I change band, mode and NB settings often. Nothing out of the ordinary >> triggers this; one minute it works fine, the next it doesn't. >> >> I can sometimes get the rig to behave normally by cycling the power, other >> times by pressing another button that does work. Other times nothing works, >> until it just starts acting normally by itself. I've reloaded the latest >> revision firmware as well as an older revision from 2010 that I had on my >> PC. I've also reloaded old and current configuration files. Goofiness >> persists. >> >> Could something on the front panel PCB have gone awry on me? I have a KPA500 >> and a PC connected to the rig, if that is relevant. I've not tried to >> duplicate the trouble with everything disconnected yet. >> ______________________________________________________________ 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
