How about just telling the radio that KRX3 is Not Installed and remove the bad synth board until it is replaced?
Sent from my iPhone ...nr4c. bill > On Feb 21, 2016, at 8:23 AM, Bruce Osterberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > Good Morning: > > I called Elecraft Tech. support on Friday because my K3 2nd Receiver was not > Working. Howard gave me some great Advice on how to test it Using WWV and > sent me a small procedure to verify if I could get it working. Unfortunately > it did not work. I forgot to tell Howard that I had the New KSYN3A > SYNTHESIZER boards installed. I suspect one of these boards has now went bad > or was bad from the beginning. On page 16 of the KSYN3A SYNTHESIZER Manual > figure 13 shows how the Main and Auxiliary KSYN3A SYNTHESIZER boards are > interconnected. I had this correct, and all wiring was per figure 13. Now > main receiver is OK and working Fine. when I touched the DISP button on the > K3 I could scroll through the K3 parameters and it showed that KYS1 is OK and > KYS2 is OK. Current Draw per meter in K3 was 1.05A. > > Well Since I had two Boards, I figured I would swap them, so I changed > position of the two KSYN3A SYNTHESIZER boards, reconnected the cables. Main > Receiver is now dead with only white noise. Sub receiver dead also as > before. I pushed the DISP Button and noticed that the current draw was now > 1.4 amps, and the KYS1 and KYS2 were gone! No indication they were installed. > > Put boards back to original position, main receiver working OK, Sub receiver > still nothing. when DISP button Pushed KYS1 and KYS2 showed up again as OK, > and current draw back to 1.05 Amps. > > I believe the Auxiliary KSYN3A SYNTHESIZER board is bad. I could test > further and set the K3 back up as a single Transceiver with no Sub. But that > would mean taking out the Sub, Installing a Jumper on the input connector for > the Sub and removing one of the Synthesizer boards and setting the K3 up as a > single KSYN3A SYNTHESIZER as per figure 12 on Page 15 of the KSYN3A > SYNTHESIZER Manual. I hesitate to do this a removing the Sub and > reinstalling it is always a pain. I'll call Elecraft on Monday Morning and > see if they also think the auxiliary KSYN3A SYNTHESIZER Board is Bad. > > Sorry For long Post. Bruce N9BX 73 > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft ______________________________________________________________ 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]
