On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Rick Stealey <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks to all who offered helpful suggestions. They were all via email - you > notice there were no helpful postings on the reflector. Anyway, it's working > again and I'm a happy camper.
I note you did not post what the actual solution was. You are the only source for that information. Just a reminder that the Elecraft reflector is not an Elecraft technical support email address. While Elecraft employees may post here from time to time to answer email on the reflector, there is no guarantee that Elecraft employees or Elecraft owners will answer a particular question. For Elecraft help from Elecraft employees one should use [email protected] or [email protected] with issues. These emails are answered during normal business days and hours. Reflector readers are not under contract to Elecraft to answer posts, nor is there a requirement that someone who does answer a reflector post must do so on the reflector. Personally, I rarely offer help across this or any other reflector any more, because it is too hard to keep track of helping email threads. I set up a new folder with an intelligent name for a corresponder with filters to put new mail from him/her in that folder. Not putting that help conversation on the reflector also avoids trash talk (both on and off reflector) from a certain kind of reflector user which otherwise is a real and ugly disincentive. I will sometimes convert to telephone conversations if the writing becomes too complex. All that goes on without a clue on a reflector I was there. I would say that it's up to the person who asked for help to post the eventual solution on the reflector. This makes the answer compact and only relates the answer that actually worked. And it cuts down on noise when someone is later searching archives for a solution. Clearly those who answered you off-reflector saw the post on the reflector and so it would seem to me that the Elecraft reflector worked well. But email correspondence is no match for a technical buddy with test equipment working right there with you on the physical equipment. :>) As to the schematics, using the current Adobe Reader to display the schematic PDF's, the search function will find all the occurrences of a wire label very quickly. I have found Elecraft schematics **very easy** to navigate and use with Adobe Reader. I decidedly prefer Elecraft schems to the microscopic lines in the paper schematic of my FT1000MP, and having to pencil trace a wire as it snakes around the page. To find the KXV3, bring up the June, 2010 version of the K3 schematic PDF with a current Adobe Reader. Hit CTRL-F. This will bring up a blue "find" window at the upper right. Type in kxv3 and hit <enter>. You can repeat the search to see every instance of the characters kxv3 (case insensitive) anywhere in the PDF. Huge help in chasing stuff in PDF schematics. 73, and glad you found the trouble. Guy K2AV ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
