Hola, I was scheduled to operate my K3 as a remote for the WPX contest. Problems with VPN at remote site delayed that setup. As contest time approached, I decided to deploy my Buddipole out the apartment window and was gonna play around with 100w and dipole config.on 15m.
However, I could not hear any signals, at all. Nothing but white noise on all bands. The Buddipole ends in a BNC which I had connected to adaptor for PL259. Tried Ant 1 and Ant 2 with no luck. Thinking adaptor may be bad, I hook BNC to RX in but no sigs there. This morning, more troubleshooting, I discovered that there is no power out (although I was tricked as ATU was finding perfect SWR , HI). K3 has not been used for over a year and when I brought it to HP, it was inside my rollaboard so I had a watchful eye on it during the trip. The only thing I can think of, is perhaps one or more of the circuit boards was dislodged due to vibrations of rolling around the airport or within the airplane(s) themselves. 9 hours on B767 then 3 on a B737. Before I open up the K3 and start messing around inside. any suggestions or tips on where I should start? I am thinking of pulling circuit boards then resetting them, just in case one or more was 'jiggled' loose during transport. 73 Tom HP1/K6CT aka CX7TT -- ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
