Hi, Nobody has responded to your post, so I'll hop in with what I know. Congratulations on your new k3.
I have that birdie, on USB it zero beats at 14,026.3, on LSB at 14,018.9 kHz. It's a fast tuning birdie, very weak and completely inaudible with a real antenna. But I am curious about your RF gain setting. When I back off the RF gain to 11 o'clock my S-meter reading rises to S9+30dB and the receiver is thoroughly deaf, birdie inaudible. Have you done your receiver gain calibration? AB2TC - Knut Kurt Bilinski wrote > I told the wife I would build my K3 for "an hour or so each night after > dinner." However, I forgot how much I love putting together a > well-engineered kit... it was done by the following day... > > After it was done I was messing around with the settings (with NO antenna > connected) and ran across a steady tone at 14.026770 MHz (audible in USB > only) and is only audible with RF gain set greater than the 11 o'clock > position. Has anyone else noticed a birdie at this frequency? Are there > known birdies that are audible only at higher RF gain (though I don't > really consider 11 o'clock (40%) high gain? > > Just curious, and I'm asking in order to get my bearings right. That is, > if >40% RF gain is pushing things, okay, that's good to know. At this > early stage, and after being out of ham radio for 35 years, it'll take > some relearning, both in general, and with the K3 in particular. > > Thanks! > > Kurt, KK6IPF > <snip> -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/My-first-birdie-tp7583583p7583638.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________ 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
