Great, Gerald. Glad it was an "easy" fix and many thanks for sharing the solution with all of us.
We certainly don't want any "bad audio" reports floating around that could be caused by this simple-to-fix problem. Good info to file away for reference. 73, Charlie k3ICH -----Original Message----- From: Elecraft [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of KC6CNN Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2015 1:29 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 Reports of intermit bad audio I keep getting private e-mail asking what were the symptoms and what fixed the problem. The radio was shipped back to me after a trip to the factory for an upgrade and repair. The radio came back and once it was hooked up, I joined a group of people that I talk to all the time. Everyone said that my audio did not sound right. The intermittently it would go from just okay to terrible. I had one of the guys I talk with watch me on his pan adaptor and it showed spikes and a very dirty signal. I contacted Elecraft by e-mail on the weekend and first thing Monday Morning Howard from Elecraft had called me and left message for me to return his call. I returned his call and he walked me though all of my settings. Then after everything checked out he said that he had see something similar to this and explained what he thought it might be. Howard told me that if I removed the fans and circuit breaker panel off of the back side I would be able to see where the amp connected in. Howard e-mailed me two pictures one the correct way and the other was one they had found the caused a similar problem. I pulled the plate off of my radio and sure enough the amplifier was not seated all the way down in the connector. I pushed down on the amp board and it seated completely with the connecting board. I then loosened all the screws on both the board and the amp and made sure they were seated and then retightened the screws. My K3 is now functioning great. I don't know how it came loose, but it did. It could have been loosened and moved during shipping, I do not know. I took a picture of the connector before I secured it, but I do not know how to post a picture of it here. Okay hope this answers everyone's questions and hopefully if someone ever has these symptoms and research the forum they will be helped by this too. Thanks Gerald - KC6CNN ----- KC6CNN - Gerald ______________________________________________________________ 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]
